When you are here with me

You see the girl you long for me to be

My love of life

My lustful needs

You refuse to see me fully in any light

You cannot understand what is consuming me

You cannot see through your fear and pain

You feel me slipping through your fingers

You hold on so tightly

Can't you see your love is only breaking me?

Can't you see you have to let me go?

Your wounded heart

Your love-lost soul

Your pain will last as long as you hold it

But you won't die

Unfinished 09/21/1998

She remains indifferent

When spring brings in the bloom

Prone to random pondering

Inside her dismal room

She does not bask in sunshine

But revels in her dust

Thinks she knows of love's sweet scent

But has never tasted lust

A prisoner of her own design

And contented with there in

She wonders of the human need

To tangled web we spin

Unnoticing when summer

Fades to autumn chill

Profound in thought, she takes the task

To question mortal will

Untitled 12/7/98

I fixed my obsession

On twisted perfection

A mutated reflection

Of what you are

My silent confession

A fear of rejection

I build my protection

And worship from afar

I need the possession

Of loves sweet confection

Add to my collection

A rapturous scar

Untitled 7/20/02

Delude yourself with false affection

A perverse attraction to fallacious companionship

Love's lies never heal the contemptuous hearts of disaffected lovers