So beautiful and tragic.

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed reading. Ladywind and JulieABush.

You looked longingly into these eyes and found your something new
You took the hand that cared and held it close to you
You didn't see the monster and never felt the pain
You never saw the tears, while I hanged my head in shame.

Sometimes it's not your actions that touch the heart so deep
Sometimes it not the touch that's caused a heart to weep
Sometimes it's the tears caused by wanton greed
You never saw the flames, inside, causing someone's heart to bleed

Haunted by a kiss, tormented in the soul
You never gave to thought
Seeds you might have sown

Never saw the heart
Too deep in your own thought
Never gave your love
And left someone in the dark

You couldn't quench the thirst that dried what you called love
You couldn't stop the fade and could never get enough
You strolled on through emotions, just kept on pushing through
Left within your wake and you became something different... something new

Haunted by a love, you never felt it's depth
You suffered there in silence and sighed with heavy breath
Scared by your own emotion, it scarred you to the core
Leaving you alone, wanting something more

I'm haunted by the kiss, because you could never see
You never felt the care and the passion that once could be
Haunted by the kiss, because you were never free
You never gave your love because what you feared was me.

Fadedspirit 5/20/2021

The Hidden Within

The night so cold
Oh, how mine heart aches
A perfect storm rises
The tempest, it rages!

Confusion runs rampant
Like the twisting of fate,
A chaotic spark...
Burns brightly, then fades.

The eye, how it watches
Yet seems calmly unstirred
Bringing patience to commotion
A calamity deterred.

Baited in breath
While shivers abound...
How can this be?
The calm wears a shroud

An explosion of violence
Tearing the fabric of time
Forever seems never
Until destruction subsides.

The night! oh so dark!
No light is thus spared.
What's left is to be
Left alone... inside me.

Fadedspirit 5/11/2021

Aww, thanks LAMom.

Illusion By Moonlight

Through the blackened dark of night
Cuts a single blade of light,
Spilling upon a lone shadow
Whose gaze is downward cast.

Though so empty and cold,
Within the mortal confine,
Each breath is drawn in thinly,
As if barely containing life.

Soft wisps of strings
Cry their entrance firm
As a dainty voice
Breathes her essence
Upon this lone shadow of the night.

Frozen to the ground,
Feeling beauty's sting,
A trembling shadow views
An illusion, or so it seems.

Her breath is slowly drawn
As she slowly sips in life,
Her visage to him is splendor,
A lady of moonlight.

Feeling all too cautious,
Lest his vision break.
He spies a silver tear
Upon her porcelain face.

A moment wrapped in silence,
Yet provoking feelings lost,
He dares to bear his voice
And beaks the stillness at his cost.

"Thou lady clothed in moonlight,
Kissed by stars above,
Share with me thine sorrow
And cast thine heartache off."

Her silent form so downcast,
Bows her head toward earth,
She answers with a tongue of silence,
So profound, this pain from her.

The lone shadow takes her hand,
So cold is she like ice,
And pleads to him with softened "no"
As she disperses in the night.

"A vision may per hap."
He thinks in sorrowed thought,
"Such beauty from a mind
Of a vision never caught."

Fadedspirit 6/22/2010

Thanks teasingbrunette, glad you liked it.

Thanks red_lace. I'm glad you liked it.

Hey there KC. Been Taking care of mom since we found out she got kidney cancer. I never knew she did so much work around the house...lol. She'll be comming home next week from the hospital. We're hoping they got it all. Sorry I've been away so long. Hopefully I'll be back more often now. Good to see you again my friend.

Lost In Nocturne

The violin weeps
Through the stillness of night,
Sharing it's emotions,
Deeply Contrite.

Through this nocturne of sorts
A stained canvas is washed,
Black and gray feelings
Paint a picture to watch.

The tune floats on wind
Supported by it's cares cried so deep,
Touching the heartstrings
While feelings unleash.

The whisp of a cloud
Strung before the full moon,
Gives way to a figure
That waltzes alone
Within midnight's own noon.

A figure of care
Through a mist of deep thought,
Steadily forgetting
A life that was sought.

The silhouette, a person
Waltzing just what they feel,
Gives into the music,
Attracting a whisper's appeal.

So flowing and agile,
Both figure and tune,
Sharing a peace
Unlike so many things do.

Here is expression
Painted in solitude night,
Forgotten all hazards
Springing up in a life.

Here is found peace,
Though sad you may think,
Paint your own nocturne
And from it do drink.

Let go for a moment
And listen intent,
If only for moments
Life could be always like this.

Get lost in the movement
Speaking pains from the heart,
Waltz with the music,
Giving peace it's own start.

Let it flow through you
And paint what it may,
Though somtetimes not seen,
Wonderful pictures are made.

Fadedspirit 12/13/2009

Aww, thanks MisKim.

Aww, thanks DKW, I think I wrote this one too early in the am...me and thinking is a dangerous combination....lol

Thanks pkh.

Thanks pkd, I'm glad you liked it.

Thanks lurchs_sister.

Thanks 2KidsMom

Thanks brwnkimba, I'm honored that you liked it.

Aww, thanks pkh, nice to see you too.

Stolen Moment

Cast your weary eyes upon me
As I share with you my joy,
Sway with me in rhythm
For I'm just another boy

Your spirit speaks so softly
Oh yes, it's what I hear!
What's caught between our whispers
Aren't heard by any ear.

You baptize me in pools,
Within your beauty's grace,
You lift me with your soul,
I'm suspended by your gaze.

Look into these eyes
And tell me what you see,
Feel this love I dare
And darlin dance with me.

Get lost within this moment,
I'll keep you safe from harm,
Breate me deep within you,
As I submit to you my heart.

Fadedspirit 9/30/2009

Yeah, but what if nothing comes through the doorway and something on the other side slams the door in your face? hee hee

Nice write.

This ghost still reads poems. Nice write jimz. It's good to read your words again.

Wow, that's a lot smoother than most bears I know...hee hee
Great write (((MsTeddyBear)))!

The Price Of Silence

A giant is slowly falling
Brought down to it's knees,
They took away it's freedom
Amid it's silenced pleas.
They took away it's God
As they bound it thick with chain,
They tried to take it's will
But what they took won't be regained.

There are those who stand to watch
Among them children too,
Whose eyes are wrought in sadness
Upon this mournful view.
Most that are against it
Take a silent stand,
They never speak a word
For they'd be silenced by some hand.
Some are paid their duties
Some are forced to stay
Most are content with blindness
As they turn their heads in shame.

Fearful of the leaders,
The ones who pay to kill,
Who sit upon their thrones,
While the shaken beast is stilled.
Thinking not of what's to come
Or what is being done
Something is being lost
Inside of each and every one.

This giant once a leader
Once made the people proud
Once gave them health and happiness
Till this plot to take it down.
It's ways are called too ancient
Inefficient to say the least
Unsuccumbed to power,
A bribe now slays this beast.

Where silence comes to aid
All that's had will all be lost,
What's gone is gone forever...
In silence all is lost.

Fadedspirit 9/30/2009

Very nice write. *throwing a ray of sunshine your way*

Cute write and thanks for the smile Sharris.