Dedications

me without you is like mournful lyrics without the music that makes them alive and beautifully haunting. no artistry courses through them but that of sonnet. no melody lifts them from mundane to dance in free airs of sound. lovely as they may be, they lack something. something of a fuller richer existence. they lack meat to speak it souls excepting those which frequent bookstores and coffee shops and lazily peruse for forgotten ballads. but join my words to your melody and suddenly from oblivion to fame the compilation flies. it stirs hearts; awakens emotions thought lost; moves mountians of earth the unbury loves forgotten or forgotten childhood memories. it comes alive. really alive, for the first time. dares to dream that it may change the world for generations to come. i am words and you are music. i need you or i will never be a song. and the song we make is beautiful. funny how the great Composer must have taught us our parts long before we knew we existed. before we had hope of becoming anything more than just prose, or anything more than just a pretty tune. already our hearts were made for each other. be my music. i'll be your lines. together our heart song will be heard.


how can i tell you in a few simple messages
the depths of how i love you
oh glorious decision to abandon fear
and choose instead the warmth of your embrace
as i feel your arms squeeze around me
drawing me close and tight
how can i regret the freedom of love
that has given me such a haven
from a cruel and misunderstanding world

and the lonely nights fly by in succession
with hope of a new days dawn
when no longer will i be a single soldier
facing the daunting universe
but my earthly sergeant here to lead me
in advance against the trials of life
leans sweetly on my side and whispers in my ear
"it will all be okay; i'm here"
and suddenly it is

so until that day i must remain faithful
to Him whom both of us serve
train readily, prepare vigilantly
so when He deems it, our two man platoon
will be unstoppable
and no force may take us down or disarm us
for besides our army at our back
we will have each other at our sides
ready to take on the world... together