Amen

Amen

Nothing breaks my heart like seeing you in pain.
Lord, forgive me, so many blessings but I still complain.

Most of all, I hate the days you lose hope and come undone.
Darling, such little was lost, there's so much to be won.

I hope with all my heart that the home you seek, you find somewhere!
And wherever this place might be,
To God I pray there's peace and happiness there.
Oh look at the things your love does to me,
I begin to write a poem, it turns into a prayer.

~CC

❤

❤

All of the world's


treasures
are
trash


if you haven't got love
to go with 'em.

~CC

91 Days

91

They say there's a time and place
for everything.
It matters not, my love
that now isn't ours and
here is not to stay.

Because for 91 spins of the earth
and forever as a souvenir,
you were and will be
my favourite combination 
of space and time.

                                             ~CC  

Almost

Almost

The crescent moon.

Only two balmy weeks of June.

Half a magical day.

I-love-yous you don't have to say.

A half-eaten cookie

saved just for you.

Incomplete things 

can be beautiful too...

~CC

Hindsight's 20/20

Hindsight's 20/20

Reason lost when passion won.
Gather what you can salvage.
Rise from the wreckage.
You knew it all along.

Shed no more tears now
over the hurricane in your heart.
What else did you expect and how?
When you threw caution to the wind
right at the start.

                                                   ~CC

A Narcissist's Woes

A Narcissist's Woes

I am the one I think wisest,
I am the one I know best.
I have so much love for me,
I delight in my own company.
I never need another,
I am my grandest lover.

On cloudy days and moonlit nights,
when into the looking glass I see,
I'm overcome by such admiration,
that I kiss my winsome reflection.

The heartless mirror, however,
it doesn't kiss me back. No. Never.
Frozen cold against my lips,
the devil laughs as it quips.

~CC

If Only...

   If Only...

      

I poured my heart out to you,
on paper, of course.
Folded it and slipped it
into the envelope
of my deepest vulnerabilities.
Sealed it with a hundred kisses,
perhaps, a hundred wishes.
          
And you...
impatient you, ripped it open.
I would've lived, my darling,
lived through the gashes & tears,
if only you had read
more than words.
         
On paper, of course,
I poured my heart out to you.

~CC

To See and Be

To See and Be

There's this man I know,
He's walked the earth
Almost three decades' worth,
Just another year to go.

I'm sure he knows that his smiles
Are made of what poets live for.
The kind where you dive forth
And drown gladly in gleaming eyes.

Such a shame he can't help but frown when
He tells me of this awful gossip-ridden tale,
Of things and stories that people claim,
He said for me and I for him, and then...

Sitting together, shaking our heads over the crazy lies and times,
He puts his hand on my heart and I lay mine on his.
They beat to different rhythms, alright! Do you hear this?
Such a blessing it is to appreciate love and beauty in all their forms and kinds.

Oh dear innocent friend of mine, I love you for you,
Not for the stories that strangers concoct.
And I hope with all my heart
That you love me for me too.

For I will not believe what strangers tell me
And I will not do what they'd have me do.
The only ones that matter to me are me and you.
We've got lots left, together, to see and be.
For I will not believe what strangers tell me.

                                                                                                               ~CC