Complications

Emotions running high

Confusion fills my veins

My heart

My mind

You're so sweet

We feel so right

But complications pull on me;

Why does he appear

With you my heart starts beating 

I know that you are true

But when the indecisive one

Comes to show his face

He tries to pull me away from you

Which is something that I hate.

Yet every time he's close to me

it feels so out of place

I think how I want you instead

avoiding my pushing fate.

Battle of the Elements

red and orange light glows

the hot flames lick the trees

by the command of the fire god

who wants to destroy everything new and green

and cover the world in corrupted flame.

goddess of water must protect

purity and innocence of the young mind;

she commands water to parch the flames.

water wants to keep them green,

leave the child young and free.

fire wishes to disagree

thinking youthful minds need charring debris.

in this battle of opposing elements,

who will prevail?

will the world end in flame

or will water reign?

will the children be forced to lose all innocence?

come of age before their time?

or will the new growth survive to live another day?

Band of the Ages

“She Loves You”
“Love Me Do”

“Please Please Me”

“From Me Too.”

reaching the top

of national charts

didn’t keep the band

from falling apart.

After ten years,

the band collapsed,
realizing their concerts were not as before,
not about the music anymore.

1970 the band was done

and the members began solo runs.

Part of the band was tragically lost

when in 1980,

John Lennon was shot .

2001 lung cancer attacked

and guitarist Harrison died from that.

Today we still have

McCartney and Starr,

who are trying to save

the band’s last memoirs.

The Soldier's Wife

Each week she received letters

from a man who left in leather

a man who left his wife for war.

He wrote to her and her heart began to soar,

he was returning home from war.

Eventually, the doorbell rang

and she rushed to the door to hang

on the man she had missed for so many years

and share in many happy tears.

She flung open the door to find,

two dreaded men with faces too kind

to be bringing her good news.

They handed her a folded up flag and

she fell to the ground, his dog tags in hand.