BECAUSE OF YOU

From the depth of my heart

I want to tell you

My heart and soul

Body and mind are

All for you

Forever, through

All of time

In the good

And in the bad

I am for you

Even when I’m thinking

About jumping

Off a bridge

Or walking into a

Gang-filled neighborhood

And getting shot-up

On the block

I wonder and I stop

[Because of you

I go on living my life

Because of you

Because you are here

Standing at my side

Giving me love

I go on with my life

I keep on fighting

Keep on striving

Because of you] R1

You are my strength

You are my heart

You are my soul

Even when i fall apart

And when this is through

When nothing is left

I’ll still have this

Love from you

And I still go on

R1

MY PERFECT, IMPERFECT MAN

My perfect, imperfect man

You’re sweet and wondrous

Your smile is so lustrous

And my heart can’t keep up

My pulse leaps up

When you’re here my man

My perfect, imperfect man

Your arrogance is stunning

It keeps my brain running

Your surety and security

Your love and its purity

All keep me on the run

My perfect, imperfect man

Your dark, gloomy moods

Your hollow laughs and

Your tearful cries echo painfully

In my head, in my heart

And I wonder what I can do

To make you laugh once more

My perfect, imperfect man

Ask me for my life

Ask me for my heart

Ask me for anything

I’ll give it to you

Just don’t be sad, love

Don’t be mad love

I love you so very much

My perfect, imperfect man

You have your shortcomings

And I have my own

Yet they all disappear

When you smile and speak

When you say my name

All my anguish ends

You’re beautiful in every way

I wish I was beautiful too

My perfect, imperfect man

MEANT FOR YOU

Sometimes on a hot summer day

When I have a glass of lemonade in my hands

And there’s a little summer breeze

I wonder if this is the life meant for me

Sometimes on a rainy day with a book

In my hands as I sit at the window

And look out at you walking away from me

I wonder if you were meant for me

Because life has its twists and turns

It’s full of lessons to have learned

And though it deceives in many ways

There are some things that always stay

So sometimes sitting on my porch

Rocking my chair and wondering where

Time has gone and left me there

I wonder if this life was meant for me

And sometimes as I’m sitting here

Watching television, waiting for you

To come home and eat with me

I wonder if your love was meant for me

And though we go through many days

Where there’s only darkness and dismay

You bring hope and reason to this insanity

And I know my love is meant for you

I WILT

 When you aren’t here with your arms wrapped around me

When you aren’t here with your lips brushing over mine

I wilt like a flower that was once in full bloom

I wilt and all my freshness and beauty fade away

I wilt and my smell and fragrance all vanish

I wilt and all my life and color leave me and

I wilt

When you are walking away, leaving me here

I feel as if my elixir of life is about to disappear

I wilt like the roses when the summer comes

I wilt like the leaves when winter’s here

I wilt even when the rain’s pouring down

I wilt and all my hopes recede and

I wilt.