The Next Love The First Love

I thought you were the one

The times we spent laughing and having fun

The way you held me in the night

When confusion and fear fought hard with an inner fight

We walked along the hot sandy beaches

Tasting lips like fresh summer peaches

Two different shades we walked as one

The blue of your eyes unseen outshined the sun

My heart was fixed and my mind made up

Agreeing to stick it out no matter how tough

Across the street, across the state, or around the world

I set my heart on us, winning the odds dismissing others doubtful words

As blind as my sight my heart must have been

Thinking it would work, but can love float on the wind?

Through the chest and out the back

I swore it was worse than a fatal heart attack

The words I heard went through me like a bolt of lightening

Worse then the most horrifying movie, they were both sickening and frightening

In a flash it was gone, love to be, life to live together, now I’m all alone

The feeling of lost could not be compared

To the emptiness I felt while crying on my bed

In the dark twice deep, I felt as dead

Then, a warm feeling like from a light shone around me

“You are not alone though its what you now feel

Don’t doubt what you now hear and have no fear

Love has no boundaries and can not be chained

It’s always present even in the midst of rejection, hurt and pain

Love is free to all without a price

Many misuse and abuse it leaving it to wander in the night

It’s the beauty of the heart that provides a home for love

Like a pair of mating eagles that fly above”

The stars shine forth its beauty at night

The sun shines brightly at day with all its splendor and might

One in the dark, one in the day,

yet they yield to one another, nor block each other’s beautiful display

Like the after effects of a nuclear war

The gloom doom brothers shut the heart’s door

Shattered into dust and gone with the wind

The heart alone, abandoned, unable to feel again

In the dark of the night

When all felt lost I notice a distant light

Friend or foe I did not know

Approaching me in quiet but gently slow

The warmth like the day sun shone around

Releasing the grip I held on to my frown

With a firm but gentle voice I was told

“Let love have its way as it was meant to be,

       flowing from one to another roaming free

Be still for now and let things be,

       don’t let bitterness and pain enclose what’s free

Another will come filled with love and fun,

       who will shine out like the stars at night,

       shining with beauty as the noon day sun

Regain yourself and stand up tall,

       love will not fail you, there’s plenty for all

Trust in it and you will see,

       just how amazingly wonderful true love can be.”