Paradox of Want

Bittersweet desire

Longs to be fulfilled

But when the void is void no more

The desire then is killed.

So then therefore it's bittersweet

This desire felt so needed

For even though it hungers so

We can never fully feed it.

Secret Wish

I press the Coke bottle to my lips

I raise my wrist, letting liquid slide

A thirst unquenched

For I wished for whiskey

A desire I choose to hide

Coffee Stranger

Unlike most, I hadn't noticed her as she walked in.  My nose was deep in a book as she ordered her drink.  She sat down as my eyes lifted from the pages, and we shared smirks from the corners of our lips.  We hurried away from awkwardness with the breaking of eye contact - I tried to escape with my book - but I wanted to see her ... so I glanced again.

Simple black shoes on crossed legs.  A knee length skirt showed only barely from beneath a long sophisticated khaki jacked - still buttoned - her purse still tucked under-arm.  She wasn't staying long.  Her long sandy hair half up, half down, ornately tied behind her head the same way the rest hung over the side of one shoulder.  Blue eyes, I remember, that now looked around the room, trying to seem busy as she waited.  She must've known that I had noticed her, more than just an object.

Her coffee came, was placed on the counter nearest me.  She took it, already leaving, walking off into the rain.  And I wondered who she was, and why she wasn't staying.

Granted

You took my heart for granted

Once, and then again

You snatched my heart right off my sleeve

With your slight of hand

At first you promised me love

But then you chose to neglect

Now you wonder why its broken

Well, what'd you expect?

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I write a love song to a question mark

To a girl named fill-in-the-blank

Multiple memories of success amidst failure

Paint the picture of the punctuation mark

That I have fallen in love with.

Finalitude

Either tell me you don't love me

Or convince me that you do

For if my mind is left to wonder

I'll fall out of love with you

The Sailor's Knot

Oh how I wish that I could run

That I could run away with you

But even though I love you so

There is nothing I can do

Day by day, plan by plan

I scheme a way to flee

We are so close to setting sail

So close to being free

But alas my love, we are tied down

And so our sails can't fly

Even though we have the wind

Time is not on our side