Today's Song

 (Matt laughs at me as I pause in the middle of things to quickly type before I forget) Today it was this song that did it:)

Love bleeds and pleads and longs and needs

There’s not one living soul

Who can become permanently

Another being’s Whole

Want taunts and flaunts in endless vaunts

Weaving a grieving mesh

Evoking, stoking discontent

In ineptness of flesh

Words cleave and weave a hollow hurt

When uttered by mere lips

The heart hungers for more than noise

In fumbling fingertips

Oh, I have bled the broken brogue

Of lonely bittersweet

Like flower-petals ‘neath the snow

Or font of flip-flop feet

Penned poetry is naught but thought

Vexatious twist of mist

We brave life’s wave for what we crave

To be loved once and kissed

...ah, to be loved just once and kissed
It is enough, my sweet
To be caught in the twist of mist
Where love and longing meet

© Janet Martin