*~ Fear ~*

Fear can so defeat us.
It can rule all life.
Do we run and hide from it,
Stick our heads in the sand?

Can we ignore the things we fear
Hoping they might somehow go away,
Trying not to notice
That awful sick feeling deep inside?

Can we live in ignorant bliss
In a so not real dream world?

Some things even faced
Can not be changed.
So why should we face them?

Maybe we can just live in the dream
And never wake up
Or will one day
Our world comes crashing down around us?
I wish I knew.

*~*

~* Wicked Women *~

(Daughters of Eve)

Sazzy Oh and DanD Rau

Sometimes I wonder why men put up with women.
Somehow women trap men
In their wicked webs of desire and deceit.
Why do they let themselves fall into the sinful snare
That she has woven of sticky softness?

Is it the innate insidious need for something?
The quest for their lost half?
Maybe its the need to merge
Into another.
Or ... is it just stupidity?

Patently and pitifully he searches.
Only too late
Does he realize his mistake.

Clearly her mendacity
Blinds and binds him
To the abhorrent truth
That ... she ... could have been ... his ... captive.

~*~ Stardust ~*~

We are all stardust,
Brilliant sparkles of light,
Come from afar
Into this night.

Bundles of dust,
Hope and despair,
Wanting to find
A love that is rare.

Floating through time,
Floating through space,
Wanting so much
Just to find our place.

We search back and forth.
We search here and there
Till finally we learn
Love is everywhere.

~*~ Wants and Needs ~*~

The very wise of us
Say that there are only
Three things we really need:
Air to breath,
Water to quench our thirst,
And food to fill our bellies.

I guess they have never ever ever
Awakened one perfect day
With the sun shining happily
In a sky blue as a robin's egg,
With the leaves flittering and fluttering
In a breeze that softly dances here and there,
With the twittering and chirping of the
Birds singing their wake-up song,
All filling the world around us.

And they have never ever ever
Opened eyes dusted with the dreams of the night
To have memories wash over them
Like a freezing, cold rain on a winter's day.
To feel their hearts gripped in a vise of fear
Before it plummets to the depth of despair
Buried in the foulest of feelings.

If the very wise of us felt
This overpowering aching hunger,
This dryness in our throat that croaks
For something more than liquid,
This air that is gone from life,

Then maybe they could understand
Things can never be right
Until
Even a tiny moment of the love
That has fled somewhere in the night
Returns.

Sometimes Love Is a Need.

~*~ Dreams ~*~

Our brains are only computers
That believe what we say.
If we want to live our dreams
We have but to know them.

If we all really do
"Create our own reality,"
If we all really try to
"Follow our bliss,"

Then our life can be
a waking dream,
A walk thru times
of all our desires.

I always knew
I was in charge of
My sleeping dreams
Now I know
All life is a dream.

Life is but an illusion,
A dream that we dream.
Waking or sleeping
It is ours to create.
*~*

Lesson learned, lesson earned

~* written by DanD *~

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The best way of living,
The path we should take,
The path of least resistance,
The path of floating,
Floating through life.

Discard the trouble and stress;
Live the way,
The way of the universe;
Float day by day;
Glory in each minute;
Savor the vagaries;
Smell the roses.

Can you learn
To float your life,
To travel with circumstances
And stand tall
In difficulty?

~* The Happy Man *~

I always knew from the very, very first,
That I was not the first of choices,
Maybe second, maybe third,
But I tried so hard to not let it matter.
Time shared is time shared
And I was happy and I had the thought,
Just maybe, just maybe, you were too.

But she came back into your life
And there was no way it could be hidden.
Never before and probably never more,
I saw the happy joy that was yours again.

What were all the times we shared?
Just a way to pass the time until ...
She found a way to make you hers again?

Together forever really,
Tied in a way even more than before,
Before a Role,
Now entangled in the legality of it all.

I cannot say to you my feelings
For I know what you will say
But I watch through tear- stained eyes
A really happy man once more.