Moments of reckoning
Hearts lost with time
Choices still beckoning
Haunting our minds
To all those we’ve lost
And paid bitter cost
Life gives no excuse
Yet it’s pain that we caused
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Those moments of silence
Moments of bliss
Moments where time seemed
To grant all our wish
I wish we remembered
as much brighter days
For those moments are gone
Yet we still remain
‘Tis true we sit alone
All through the lonely hour
While all we’ve ever known
Taunts and claims that our
Hearts have grown so old
And strength that once would tower
Has withered and turned cold
Yes, ‘tis a lonely hour
The trees that dwell around me hold an old familiar sight
Though I can’t recall the reason for their memories in my mind
I walk along this path towards a past I hope to find
Uncertain if once found it will bring hope or tears to eyes
The wind whispers a melody that I alone can hear
while the rivers flows a gentle hum that’s music to my ears
thoughts of yesterday arise and dance into the air
while visions of what once was mine sing as they disappear
Then as the forest breaks away and my path begins to climb
I see an old familiar face of a home in a mountainside
with voice of laughter and a heart of joy I press towards that place
dancing all the while to the rhythm of my dreams
Yet something still resides amiss in this archaic abode
for what, if anything, is left of all I used to know?
There’s trembling as my hands begin to shake beneath the glow
of a single candle burning giving light outside the door
Then gently pressing inward the aged entrance creaks and folds
revealing naught but dust and broken dreams within the cold.
With somber recognition I realize what’s happened here
’tis true one can’t go home again… For home is lost with years.
Once forgotten, words are often, naught but empty shades
of thoughts once caught but then swift lost upon eternal stage
For what in life or lot or pain when placed within the grave
Springs anew like morning dew to see the light of day?
Life’s a cruel thing
It takes you and breaks you
And makes you new again
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Life’s a funny thing
It tease and pleases
Then leaves all the same
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Life is what we say
and where we go
It’s how we live and all we know
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It’s pain and it’s pleasure
Heartache and disaster…
our greatest highs and greatest lows
What hurts the most is how we hope
That someday we could see
A future where your arms hold
Forever on to me
If today you’ve got to leave know
My love is where you’ll be
Till the end of this world I’ll hold
On to a perfect dream
That however far your life goes
There happy you will be
Even if today you’ve got to leave
And tomorrow you’re not with me
~JS
Faces in mirrors
Hearts left in pictures
While people all their lives try to gain
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Someone to hear as
The years disappear
Wasting as they do all the same
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Thus as eyes shed their tears
While lives lived in fear
Are forgotten at the end of their days
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Time forever moves onward
To the tune of a song where
Life and love will forever remain
How can I find what has not been lost?
How can I gain what life has not brought?
How can I save what the future has bought
How can I love what my soul has not caught?
How can I miss what never was mine?
Whose lips will I kiss when my lips wish for thine?
What will I do when tomorrow has dawned
and thoughts of forever at last are long gone?
How can love escape when it has not been caught?
What have I gained by my soul’s jealous thoughts?
What can I pay for all the future has bought?
What comfort is there for a heart that has lost?
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If I could change the things I cannot change
If I could tempt the fates to take my pain
If I could find one in a million ways
to build what time seeks to decay
If I could hold the stars above at bay
and tell the sun to stop and stay
I’d do them all one and the same
if then love would ever remain
If it’s going to rain
Then let it rain
If it’s got to pour
Well I’ve been there before
If it’s going to hurt
Baby, let it burn
Cause with you I’ve never been more sure
If there’s a chance I’ll wait
For seeing your face
Smiling with such grace
I’ll never be the same
Even if I knew that
In the end we’d break
Darling, loving you is worth the pain
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To a heart truly beautiful ~JS
Edward Landers 