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3-52. - 0-52.  (LOST SITUATIONAL ETHICS)
Something inside of me
Has gone away
I don't know what happened
It was here to stay.

 

A part of me
Has passed to sleep
Within myself
It's gone so deep.

 

To reemerge
I'll never know
My heart is strange
So where to go?

 

I had my chances
Now in the past
To meet again
Will be my last.

 

3-1.  Inspiration Remembered
For my inspiration
I give my love freely.
Now and forever.

So now is past
And forever is standing before us.
At once
So much love
Let us
Let time
Remember.

 

3-2.  Dream, My Love
Dream, my love
Of you, I do
I hold you in my arms and sleep.
Imagine us
The world is ours
Entrusting you my heart to keep.

 

3-3. -Untitled-
Miracles
They happen strangely
The tests of love
They cry within
With voices silent
Whisper secrets
To make the heart
Grow strong again.

 

3-4.  Saying Goodbye
Give me this
A moment's notice
To say goodbye
I know without
Your love to hold me
My heart would surely weep and die.

 

3-5. -Untitled-
You make me so happy.
If there were anything
I could do for you
To recapture your heart
I would not hesitate.

 

3-6.  Meadows Await
I admire your strength
Knowing before of pain
Yet, you must walk through the fire
To lay in the meadows.

I'm right behind you
And should you faint from the heat
I shall catch you
And carry you to the journey's end.

 

3-7.  Biding Time
Time
And I never thought I would survive
I know
Changes
Maybe
Tomorrow
One day
We'll meet again
But, for now
Bide my time.

 

3-8.  Homecoming
Refract
To become that
Which once I was.

Freedom
What is it?
To whom do I owe this dilemma?

For being needed
Grants that not.
And I need it not.

 

3-9.  On My Knees
I kneel
At the foot of love
And beg
To stand on my feet again.

 

3-10.  Depth of Heart
So, I see
I've been here before
And I know of the way out.
It's a long journey
But worth the trip.

 

3-11.  Quilt
Flower bloom
And sew your quilt
But, please
Do not forget
The patches
That are your cornerstone.

 

3-12.  Confidence
If you were mine
And I were yours
Where do I find myself?

In a world
Of false emotions
All that's real is what I've felt.

I only wished
Each passing day
You realize who you love.

But confused
You need your time
Still place you high above.

Just hear my plea
I want you back
Forever by my side.

My plans, my schemes
My hopes, my dreams
In love I will confide.

 

3-13.  The Way I Feel
The way I feel
Won't bring you back
The way I feel
Won't ease my pain
But time will bring
Happiness
Of two separate lives
Goodbye.

 

3-14.  Dreamkeeper
I am the dreamkeeper
For so many that confide
The mantra of my soul indeed
Is sparked by wishes deep inside.

Their tales of woe and agony
To stories of a secret pleasure.
Captured by my hearts envisioning
And kept within my chest of treasure.

Influenced by love so desired
A cascade so elegant to behold
To fall with grace from the top
So attempt again to be so bold.

 

3-15. -Untitled-
Please
I love her
And I place no other above
Or before her
I need her companionship
And I would do anything for her
Don't take her from me
She's all I've got
And all that I need
Like forgiveness
Trust me
To protect her
And give her love
For she is love.

 

3-16. -Untitled-
The door to the maze
That I sought for so long
After being released from it
Has reappeared
And offered me reentry.
So, I ponder
And ask of it time
And so it grants.

 

3-17.  I Need Her With Me
Often I stare into the sky
And wonder why, I wonder why.

If this is the world
Where is the care?
I've searched for love most everywhere.

Where is the love that I need?
Where, oh where can she be?
I need her with me.

I will search for the love to guide me
I will wait for the secrets to find me
I know as time goes on
I'll learn to stand the storm.

And I need her with me
I still need her with me
I'll always need her with me
She's the love, the love, I've been waiting for.

 

3-18. -Untitled-
I will dream of you
In my arms
I hold the wind that blows around me.

 

3-19.  All of the Smiles
So you had to say goodbye
Will you miss me when you're gone?

The love we had, it seemed so strong
I need your love to see me through
But life is such a lonely song.

The time we shared, it healed my past
Forgotten what I used to do.

It felt so good, it couldn't last
I knew that something would go wrong
It's probably because we fell too fast.

I will remember
All of the smiles.

 

3-20.  I Want Another Chance
Endless mistakes
I've made in my life
I'd like to go back
To just make them right.

Letting you go
The hardest of all
I realize the pain
When I relive the fall.

But I've come full circle
I'm back to dead ends
You're the on that I needed
With the love that can mend.

And after all this time apart
You hold a place in my heart.

I want another chance with you
After all we've done and we've been through
I want another chance
I want to hold your hand
And I want another chance, alone, with you.

 

3-21.  I Don't Know
I don't know why...
I can't believe
You plague my thoughts
I hunger for truth
I never see miracles
I need to cry
My feelings change
We entertain influences
So many things hold beauty
...Yet I find it so hard
To express my feelings
Of emotional desire.

 

3-22. -Untitled-
Curious?
Imagine that
I'll fall in deep
To depth of heart.

For after falling
And getting up
I'll plunge again
To play the part.

 

3-23.  Blank
This page was blank
At one time
But now, the ink fills the emptiness
My heart overflowed with joy
At one time
But now, the emptiness
Consumes my passion.

 

3-24.  Still My Friend
Dear best friend,
We've changed our ways
So push us on
To days of prosperity.

Your still my friend
But life dictates
That we know others
Along the road.

For we've another
Life to lead
But don't forget
That which we've had.

 

3-25.  Sea Witch
The sea witch
Although misunderstood
She had a childhood
And at one time
Her hopes and dreams
Were being fulfilled
By another.

 

3-26. -Untitled-
Just because
We told each other
We shouldn't be friends
Does that mean
We should take our own advice?

It takes strength
To admit defeat
To profess wrong
To proclaim weakness
And I've done it all.

I am all of these things
But I don't know what
The best thing to do
In this situation is.

This is only my first life
And the only way
I can find out
Is to attempt.

 

3-27.  But, Quietly
Did you ever
Think maybe never?
But, quietly
When love is familiarity.

How do you love the one you've hurt
When pride stands in the way?
But, quietly
When love is convenience.

Where do you shelter your heart
When love has been your only escape?
But, quietly
For love is everything and nothing,

It fills you up
And leaves you empty
But, quietly
When love is the tide of life's ocean.

 

3-28.  Anything
When I close my eyes
I become anything
I am a bird
I spread my wings
I touch the sky
I skim the sea
There's nothing
I'd rather be
Than me.

 

3-29. -Untitled-
Tell me about the madness
That lives with your dream
Show me the hideous visions
That make you want to scream.

Within it all
You tell yourself
To wake would be divine.

But tell me this
Of all you know
Who does your heart yearn to define?

 

3-30.  About Being Happy
If I could be so happy
Yet at once
Be so sad
So suited for mixed emotions
How do I feel?
About now my senses kick in
I've known this feeling
And I thing the worst
Being the worst
I will only hurt myself
In the end.

 

3-31.  Carin
Liar
Your eyes deceive you
And your thoughts
Send you places
You haven't visited
In memories.

 

3-32. -Untitled-
I held my heart in my hands
And looked upon it
Beaten and bruised
Yet it still beats
Pumping hope through tired veins
I know the feeling
It had come before
And I enjoyed its comfort
Love had played again on my emotions
It was my favorite song.

 

3-33. -Untitled-
So wonderful
Have I found my peace?
You fill me with love
Without knowing it
Thoughtlessly convincing
Carelessly thinking
Could you be mine?

 

3-34. -Untitled-
I know
And so do you
In the night
Dreams escape lovers
While they sleep
And enchant the lonely.

 

3-35. -Untitled-
Would I wait
For your love
Being the fool I am.

 

3-36. -Untitled-
We could glide
Upon the love
That slips away from me
And discover where it slips to.

But, I believe
That love that has slipped away
Is only the love that I send to you.

 

3-37. -Untitled-
Can you imagine
The love I feel?

For when you cross my mind
I hear your voice

A voice so soothing
I see your face

The smil of heaven
On lips of gentility

A kiss so soft
I fall in love

A fall of depth
To never escape

Now, can you love my imagination?

 

3-38. -Untitled-
My life
My winter
My frost
Never before
Did I long for the warmth.

 

3-39.  Heaven
An idea
Imagine
Such happiness
A place of wishes
Wish I was there
Away from the world
Away from the pain
My cowardliness
Takes me to sorrow
Sacrifice of my dreams
All I wished for myself
Has fallen.

 

3-40.  Future
I am nothing
Birth to death
Walked forever
To no avail
Passed so many windows
Glanced in so few
Walked on
When I died
The road
Still stretched before me.

 

3-41.  Epitaph
Nothing is more
Now I am nothing
Never was more
Nothing forever.

William Henry Kelley Jr.
February 10, 1974-

 

3-42. -Untitled-
What would you have me do?
I wish for a time of nothingness
Where my troubles were nothing.

 

3-43. -Untitled-
See how it relates
To the world?
Superficiality
Is the facade
So hard on the outside
Inside is the weakness
How I long to tear into
The depths
And make them cringe
To see what it is
They do.

 

3-44. -Untitled-
Here again
The quest at hand
To search for that
I feel I understand.

 

3-45. -Untitled-
Sometimes it's hard
For me to be strong
Not just for myself
But for everyone else also
As much as I try to
Be there for them
I need to support myself as well.

 

3-46. -Untitled-
I want to close myself up
Away from the world
I don't know why
Maybe self pity
But, for what?
Still, I don't know.

 

3-47. -Untitled-
Can you differentiate
Once hurt
One loves
I can see which.

 

3-48. -Untitled-
So I am
Alone at last
Where footsteps echo
Through halls of shadows
Where sunbeams stir dust
In empty walls.
So set the sun
On this darkest day
When every sound calling my name
Speaks with your voice
Turning tragedy
To mock my travesty
If I close my eyes
May I only close them
This final night.

 

3-49. -Untitled-
Hold me
For I need arms to call my own
Wrapping around me
Scaring away the winter's chill
In this touch
I feel the love
That has recessed
Into my heart
Yearning to reemerge
From that lonely cell.

 

3-50. -Untitled-
I'm so afraid
Of where this life is taking me
If only I could find the guidance
Some direction
Right or wrong
Something to live for
Beauty to behold.

 

3-51. -Untitled-
Your voice
Embraces me
Your eyes
Entrance me
As I succumb to your unfathomable beauty
To me, it is as I float to the center
Of my known universe.

 

3-52. -Untitled-
Set to pace
Seen where I stand
One day I will.

 

3-53.  Blind
Between my fingers
My paint
Tastes of oceanic salt
And sandy beaches
Where the air is damp
And breathing is easier
Sounds of children
In castles of glass
Are carried away
By the tides emotions
In my ears
Thunderous crash
That is a coolness
Surrounding my legs.

 

3-54. -Untitled-
So I kind of
Got carried away
By the idea
That I
Could create
Something
So vivid
To induce
Vision of ink on paper.

 

3-55. -Untitled-
I may never
For everytime I find
Always is there another
Who comes first.

 

3-56.  Fall
Let me go
If you don't
You'll lose your grip.

So, let me go
I am but a small sacrifice
To obtain happiness.

Please let me go
I carry with me
An ageless pain.

Just let me go
My grasp is slipping
The fall is before me
You cannot save us both
Let go.

 

3-57. -Untitled-
I'll never fall
I always thought
I learned my lesson.

The rain falls
Frequently water droplets
Find their home
In the earth
And the soil welcomes them.

The night falls
A marriage to the light
Balance and fairness
Taken in turn.

My tears fall
The well in my eye
Overflows
Streams form on my cheeks
And glide to my lips
The taste of love.

And I fell
Far too often
If only I could learn to soar
After falling just once.

 

3-58. -Untitled-
So, she made a wish
That all of her prayers
Could be answered
By just one person.

Thus, created a dream
An image that lived
When her eyes were closed
A world that held her captive.

When she awoke
She grew weak
And forever longed for a way
To escape her life.

 

3-59. -Untitled-
They are not beautiful words
Every day tossed around
We never stop to ponder
As those in poetry.

 

3-60. -Untitled-
Life budding
On the lips of a stranger
Reveals opportunity
Unthought before.

 

3-61. -Untitled-
I miss
The phone calls at night
You crying to me, to tell me
That the growing pains of life
Are just too much.

Driving two hours a day
Just to spend one alone with you
Though, most of that time was
Spent embraced in each other's arms.

Crying to you, so afraid
You would tire of me
And find someone better
Yet, you probably tired of hearing me crying.

Reading to you, all that I had written
Of you and the past and people who'd hurt me.
I release those feelings here on this page.

I miss mostly love and the idea of "happily ever after".
And I knew that I wanted to be in love.
I was so hopeful.

 

3-62. -Untitled-
Most of us
Go through this world
Hoping beyond hope
That somehow
We could just find
The one person
That would make it
So that life
Wasn't so lonely
Anymore.

 

3-63. -Untitled-
To take the pain away
And for what?
Imagine you could escape
The nightmares
For only a short time
And when you return
They're still there
Waiting for you
So why escape?

 

3-64. -Untitled-
I must admit
I was shocked
Never did I imagine
So beautiful...
So beautiful.

 

3-65. -Untitled-
Can I hold you?
Would my arms comfort you?
Rest easy
The cradle in which I rock you
Is real
No sudden falls
No bough breaks
Never would your heart break.

 

3-66. -Untitled-
I feel like
When we talk
Your voice so distant
As if
A friendship
Just for society
So to say
That we said we were.

 

3-67. -Untitled-
I still don't understand
Cannot grasp
Yet I am not without
I know of it
Lust?
Familiarity.
It is the best I can conjure.

 

3-68. -Untitled-
I need to know
Where we are, baby
I need to know
Where do we stand?
I know
What it is like
Without someone to love.

 

3-69. -Untitled-
Someone once told me
"Your shirt is wrinkled".
To which, I replied,
"No.  I'm a wrinkled man.
My shirt is just very form fitting".

 

3-70. -Untitled-
As time passes
I grow anew
My heart tells me
I'm over you.

My mind reminds me
That which we've done
Is not forgotten
The war I've won.

 

3-71. -Untitled-
My thoughts cascade
Down a staircase
Leads to a darkness
I find myself
Within an echo
My former self
But I am blind
I cannot hear
I feel emotions
A softness through my tears
Memories of happiness
Too real to exist
Too perfect to last
I smile
And a trickle on my cheek.

 

3-72.  Black-eyed Susan
How many times must a flower bloom
Before a stranger deftly plucks her from her home?
Before she wilts from the stem she blooms?
None.

But each time she opens up
And reveals herself
An opportunity presents itself
To be taken into
The watchful eye of a passer-by.

Beneath the petals of brilliance
That are her plumage
Is a cone of darkness
That is her heart.

And what is a person without a soul
But a flower without a seed
Welcome to my garden
Forever may you bloom.

 

3-73.  Dawn
Tears
Yes, they do
Shred
I am left in pieces.

 

3-74. -Untitled-
What have I done?
The past bears upon me
Upon my heart
So like paper
Am I torn apart
Reminisce.

 

3-76. -Untitled-
It is all I desire
To be my inner self
To live for what exists
Serenity is my sanction
Tranquility is my retreat.

 

3-77. -Untitled-
Artistry is an alternate view or expression

 

3-78. -Untitled-
So much shit is life
As we scurry about
To build a better life and home
And for what?
Will not what is constant
And stable outlast
That which is artificial?
It most certainly will survive us
We will not remember.

 

3-79. -Untitled-
It is all about you
You that I speak of
Have no name
But a voice so loud
Deaf can hear
Be no one
But a multitude of souls
The blind can see
You are love
The emotion described in so many ways
Each description incomplete
No past or future
Only now.

 

3-80. -Untitled-
What do I feel
When I look into silent eyes?
Deep emotions
Waiting to be explored
Divulged to the listener.

 

3-81. -Untitled-
Stand firm.
As the weeping willow
That cries to the world
Sings inside.

 

3-82. -Untitled-
If there was pain
Then know there was love
I could learn to push past the image
Reflect to the soul underneath.

Within myself I touch the glass
And watch the dreamers
Catch their inspirations
From the falling star dust.

I know that when I'm not looking
They run to the window
And witness the actions
That bring me to my knees.

 

3-83. -Untitled-
Wrinkled paper
Used and discarded
Like so many
Of life's misunderstood treasures.

How many times
Do we look upon
That which is downtrodden?
Can we overlook what seems a flaw?

 

3-84. -Untitled-
To feel exposed
An open book
Revelation of all my secrets
But to have secrets
To never tell
What is it to find freedom?
I have told all
And heard all
So, what is left?
I have nothing hidden
Nothing sacred
Can I hold my own?
So many questions
So few answers.

 

3-85. -Untitled-
Too fifty perfection.
Consumed by passion
Like to be swallowed by love
Is it so bad
To have so much attention
To be wanted
Or needed?

 

3-86. -Untitled-
Sleep, dream, escape
And know that when you return
When you've rested enough
I will still be here
Faithful to wait for you.

 

3-87. -Untitled-
Ownership of characteristics
But a lustre so bold
To reflect the form
Or the one to observe.

 

3-88. -Untitled-
I enjoy the company of innocence
And folley at the innocence of company.

 

3-89. -Untitled-
This is your page
My dedication to you
You took your piece
And a piece of me.