Stay a While

You of carefree smile,
Tips of small white teeth
Dividing plump blush lips,
Pause here, stay a while
With me, sit beneath
This evening sky that grips
Our hearts as though
We'd been laid bare,
Exposed for heav'n to see.
Stay here. Do not go.
This moment ever rare,
Dreamily vivid to me.

Love Pains

A mighty pain to love it is,
and 'tis a pain that pain to miss;
but of all the pains, the greatest pain
it is to love but love in vain.

Leisure of Mind

It's wistful,
the leisure of mind, to lean
on a fencepost and simply look,
and not feel the need to press
for a subtext,
being so rare.

Weary of Battle

Lionel shot himself,
Alvin did too.
Bryan is missing
For days none too few.

Cesar died
with needle in arm;
I pray , 'Dear God,
keep Richard from harm.'

Kenny's stroke,
John's cancer;
I demand to know,
'Where lies the answer?'

I've followed you Lord
as best I could;
so show me now,
just why I should.

You allowed me hope
and let me fall,
So hear me now,
Now! While I call!

If it's not
too much to ask,
Please, stop taking
me to task.