Oh, I would scale back to the start
Of our failed recipe
I’d crack an egg and break my heart
And serve with Q.R.V.
Affairs of the Heart
J. Barnes
Jake Barnes, I know your name
But his affliction suffered same
The will to love, the want to lust
He surely might, he shouldn’t must
And now a spine on my bookshelf
You blame the war? You shot yourself
Quiet Moments (2)
In these quiet moments,
You and I are home at sea
We’ve surrendered to the rhythm
Of a tidal reverie
And yet we still swim forward
In the pulse between each crest
For in each of life’s contractions
You and I are doubly blessed
This Time
This time, someone else’s night
Won’t keep me from my moon
This time, the sun will sing me songs
Each day she’ll give me June
This time, when I’m falling
I’m only rising up
This time, when I’m pouring
I’ll drink from both our cups
This time, I won’t be paying
No matter what the cost
This time, when I find it
I’m never getting lost
This time, I’ve got a place to land
Before I take the leap
This time, when I roll the die
It’ll be for keeps
Halfway
Meet me halfway, darling
Come at your leisure
Halfway is a point
That we needn’t measure
It may change in time,
Or under life’s pressures
Wherever it lies,
Halfway is my pleasure
Something New
You, You
Always you
My old-fashioned
Something new
Maze
Let’s begin at the end and then switch back
These seven years of days
Trace our steps between green walls
Till we’re outside the maze
‘Cause we know all we needed now
To twist our former fates
Time unwinds at every turn
It’s never not too late
Q.R.V.
At the end of the day, should your whimsy foray
To a place of indignity
You may step in direction of rousing affection
But it’s only Q.R.V.
Sundays
Sundays, he still gives me
Does he think that I don’t know?
For each one feels the first one
When I had to let him go
Where They Broke
The moon told me that he and she
Were never ideal company
She said the years, they needn’t yoke
And they’d be stronger where they broke
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