Smoke

It’s all just smoke and mirrors

The way you disguise your fears

What you keep hidden from yourself

Keeps love unattainable atop a shelf

Your mind recalls it’s photograph

Of every time you made her laugh

Can you see clearly through your daze

While hiding behind that blackened haze

She caught you peeking in her soul

Wondering if she could make you whole

Instead of fanning that smoldering flame

You choose to hide in billowy shame

Take the chance and build a fire

Make it known your secret desire

She has faith in what you do

Clear the smoke and believe it too

Motion

The tenderness you want to convey
Revealed itself in your words today
It beckons me to come out to play
But lingers for you to lead the way

Why don’t you put your plan in motion
And show me your secure devotion
Seduce my mind with romantic notion
Your signal is that magic potion

Emotional Rollercoaster

Backwards, sideways, and upside down
Should make me smile, instead I frown

Loops and corkscrews, gaining speed
One gives attention, the other I need

Rising high to spiral down
In my heart I slowly drown

Slowing now to catch a breath
Love is languid surly death

Drop again from fearful height
Which path of heart leads to right

Turn and twist a sudden course
Awaiting knight on gilded horse

Easing in to end the chase
Neither one will win the race