Paper

Paper is my friend
it comes to me without expectations
without criticism
it allows me the space and time
to create to dream
to speak my heart in total freedom
Paper is my love
it gives me unconditional acceptance
everything I think, feel, choose to print
it accepts me as I am freely
Paper is my life
it chronicles all the most intimate parts of me
I place my soul upon it
it allows my words to become my truth my mirror
perfect lines perfect characters
it allows me to be
every moment without judgment
Paper allows me to be perfect
thin beautiful loved cherished
even if not published
paper is part of me

Run

Run

a world full of places

days full of time

worries and troubles always follow

like shadows they chase me down

until I tire from the race

Is there really such a place

where I can rest my heavy heart

to trust it will be caught

in your strong and loving arms

it searches for your comfort

and longs to rest within

an open and  loving heart

Stay

Time has changed the look of love

to silver and grays I've come to know

a sign of time and gain

in glory of days spent in love

I cherish each and every one

a chance to discover new in you

the love I need just like the sun

to nourish my soul and feed my mind

in you I find my every joy

no need to look in other ways

blessed you too can see the beauty

in all my changing human ways

Found

I let myself be

I can feel your five 0'clock shadowed cheek against mine

breath and hands against my neck

as you whisper words unedited

in choreographed movements

we dance coming to know unbridled passion

we've met and we remember

our souls are branded to each other

like feathers on the wind lips

caress parting years of yearning

life begins as moans escape me

as my heart is opened to your love so deep

through time through eternity

you have found me

Illusion

Illusion

Janette Marie

When the moon is out and bright as this

illusions created in the wake of its light

the illusion of love is ever so clever

that I can't tell if your heart is near

or if mine is in its favor

do my smiles fill your heart with love

is your life connected to mine

will our harvest fall together

I long for winter in your arms

Echo

If you were once in my heart, you are still in my heart,

it's just you take up more space in it each day we are apart ~

you choose to walk away leaving me wanting you

an unanswered thought an unfinished sentence

hope calls me to leave you safe in my heart

it's natural pulse encourages its beat to continue

to increase with every word it hears every thought

no end in sight to the never ending cycle that is us

our life and the distance

do you feel it

Prism

written by:  Janette

Light splits into many colors

my life is like a prism

I shine in many colors

not just one defines me

I search and wait for a special one

to capture my light and value its shade

that today it may be blue 

but tomorrow it may be pink

Nowhere in my rainbow of colors

do I find black against the night

I see yellow speckels aross the sky

hoping you'll catch one and see

I sit to be judged by many kind

of which none is fair

my heart is open to all I see

and my love is given to all I pass

I search for you my special one

that Loves my array of colors

please don't put me into the dark

and judge me just the same

You Are There

You are there

written by Janette

I've always known all my life

you were there

somewhere

waiting

looking

longing

I'd see glimpses of you in a window

a mirror

or in the dark

I could see you best in the dark

alone

I knew you were there

somewhere

waiting

looking

longing

Where ever I go, I talk to you

 can almost hear your reply

I can feel you with me all through the day

I know you are there

somewhere

waiting

looking

longing

At night tears fall

you are there 

I know they tear at your heart

still you are there

somewhere

waiting

longing

crying

I love you

Closed Eyes

Eyes not needed to feel your soul

to touch your hand or touch your heart

the senses take me to where you are

a quite room by a fireplace

a smirk a snicker or frown can be found

emotions exploding inside your head

To discover to wonder to amuse my mind

I close my eyes and imagine you there

Silence

 Wishing it away
the silence

silence engulfing every sound
 as if hungry for dinner

feed the silence
with any sound
but it still wants more

It takes the chirps
 the wind and its chimes

buries them deep
in the hallows of loneliness

filling it up
to disguise loneliness as complete

Tick Tock the clock

dares to interrupt its greed

makes you miss the silence
that the Tick and the Tock
are no longer
Alone waiting
waiting for life
to make a noise
a heart beat
another alone
finding their comfort
in your silence
you are there
across time
somewhere
alone
in
your
silence

Love

Love

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It is a calm, a peace, a comfort. It rushes over like a wave of sunlight and captures your breath and gives it back again. It is the knowing and the unknowing it is the comfort of familiar and the excitement of the future. It is your hand in mine and your heart beside it. It is in hearing and it is in understanding. Accepting even without agreement. It is valuing one another as God values each. It is our most precious commodity and yet not valued in the market. It exists without you but calls you to it ~ it is in smiles and laughter as much as it is in arms and hearts. It is you and it is me if we choose to let it.