Missed out

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I think my mouth has been glued shut,
The things I want to say left unsaid,
I fear that I have failed to be bold,
Putting me in tight spots,
That could be fixed,
With my inner wit,
I must admit,
I'm a wimp.

So many arguments I would have won,
But all lost because I won't talk,
I'm like a clam,
And being a clam's no fun,
Because a clam is always so shut up,
I'm a bore,
Just because I won't speak my mind,
Think of all the rude things I could've said...
Too bad...I've missed out...no going back now.

"Damned If I Do"

I have wanted to tell you
What is inside my heart
But history has shown me
That wouldn't be so smart
Now the desire burns in me
To follow through
Though my intuition tells me
I'm damned if I do

All I need is love
To be all that I can be
With each rising Sun
The fondness grows inside of me
I want to make it stop
But I know it won't
Maybe I shouldn't tell you
But I'm damned if I don't

I'll do the safe thing
And pretend my heart is numb
I'll be torturing myself
For a long time to come
Logic dictates what I must
Keep hidden from you
I'd sooner break my own heart
But I'm damned if I do

I wonder how long
I will tango with this pain
How long will not knowing
Haunt the hallways of my brain?
I want to ask you out
But I fear you won't
There's no point in asking
Except I'm damned if I don't


(* 7/7/1991)
JJ

"Painfully Exciting"


I've got that empty feeling again
From wishing you were my girlfriend
But what a coward I am, I'm too afraid to ask
My heart has a way of expanding the task

You're so pretty it makes my heart pound
A painful yet exciting sound
Despite eight years difference, passions race within my heart
And I don't want age to keep us apart

I am charmed when you sit next to me
My eyes feel the beauty I see
I like going to concerts and doing lunch in the mall
I was content just to be with you at all

Content's not enough, I'm sure there is more
I'm more assured than I was before
If I don't say it soon you'll never be told
I must leap now while I'm on the threshold


(* 06/30/1987)
JJ

"The Best Girl I Can See"


I set sail for a New World to explore
What I found I've never seen before
If you say no, I guess that's just the breaks
It'll be another one of my mistakes
Don't get me wrong, you're no ones mistake to me
When I look around you're the best girl I can see

I've been hiding it ever since we met
Behind an undefined silhouette
Should poems reveal what I'm afraid to say?
If I never ask, you can't come out to play
But before I impart you with the truth
Let this not be a sayer of the sooth

I wonder how this is going to sound
How will you feel when the secret is unwound?
Will you become more than the girl I secretly admire?
I want you to experience my desire
To answer the question written on your face
I want us to occupy mutual space


(*06/28/1987)
jj

Poetryman said:"Damned If I Do"

I have wanted to tell you
What is inside my heart
But history has shown me
That wouldn't be so smart
Now the desire burns in me
To follow through
Though my intuition tells me
I'm damned if I do

All I need is love
To be all that I can be
With each rising Sun
The fondness grows inside of me
I want to make it stop
But I know it won't
Maybe I shouldn't tell you
But I'm damned if I don't

I'll do the safe thing
And pretend my heart is numb
I'll be torturing myself
For a long time to come
Logic dictates what I must
Keep hidden from you
I'd sooner break my own heart
But I'm damned if I do

I wonder how long
I will tango with this pain
How long will not knowing
Haunt the hallways of my brain?
I want to ask you out
But I fear you won't
There's no point in asking
Except I'm damned if I don't


(* 7/7/1991)
JJ

Well written Poetyman :)

Reoccurring Nightmare

An otherwise pristine scene
Turns into personal torment
I see it happen in a flash
He is taken under by a rouge wave
My pet, my companion
Struggles to keep his head right
Within inches of life he bobs beneath
But for him the end isn’t near
My husband leaps to his rescue
My son follows his father’s example
Both my love and my life dive in
The murky depths swallow them all
I am left abandoned upon the shore
Breathing in a nightmare that upends my heart
And pierces my reality with a torturous boom
While they sink into the abyss of lonesome death
I stand agape with toes clawing the sand
Unbelieving the seconds that have strangled me whole

As if God played a wicked game and they the prize
I see my pet, my companion suddenly rise
From the white washed depths of salt and sea
He swims to me, he swims to me
It is then I can’t believe my eyes
As my son, my husband, my everything dies
Against the furry wet comfort and a wagging tail I cry
How in an instant my world is gone
I’m all alone as they sink below
Without a goodbye I kneel and mourn

If only I had acted that day besides the waves
Rather than watch my life flash before my eyes
Frozen spell bound with cowardice
My future would cease to be meaningless
From a cliff overlooking that beach I fall
Utterly compelled to end it all

Was Only


Was out for a drive      
     
The one person      
on the highway that night      
     
So, wasn't long      
til I passed by the place      
where I ought to be      
sleeping in a bed      
with the woman      
who was dreaming of me      
     
Didn't stay long before heading back      
from where I came      
     
Only out for a drive

If's of my love


If only you're mine I'll be blissful forever...

If only you're near I will love you tender...

If only you will kiss me You will be my reason for breathing...

If eternally you will love me I will love you utterly...

If only I will be your everything you will be my anatomy...

If only you will share your life with me we will breathe our last breath holding each other...

If only you will achieve the 'ifs' of my love I will rephrase this with reality...

If only you will stir me up there will be no dreams just veracity...

If only I can expunge my 'ifs' I will do it at this instant and embark a new chapter...

If only I can unshackle the fact,

LOVE IS CRUEL,

I LOVE YOU BUT YOU WILL NEVER DO THE SAME THING...

A dream of you and me


As I lay my soul and close my eyes
I raise my hand as I trace your face
I stare at you with mounting hopes
Desire filmed my smoldering soul.

I wrap my arms around your waist
As we walk under the moonlit shore
Then I look at you while thinking haste
I could not ask anything more…

Endlessly we make love through the night
On shattered grains of prevailing affection
But then I woke up and you were gone
Everything was just my love’s delusion…

Persisting dream of you and me
My fear is still, I am shut and slur.
I can only wish that someday there will be
A reality of love for you and me.