For You

I don't expect you
To erase everything you know,
But I do expect
Your respect
In everything I do,
Or would do,
For you, my friend.
Don't leave me here
Alone in this place.
Wondering.
Wishing.
Waiting.
Like I have no chance
Of seeing you shine
One day.
Let it be soon.
Let it be everything
I imagined it to be.

-LKS 2/17/12

Make It Last

Don't ask because you want to feel
Make it last like your love, make it real.
Begging lips that tremble still
Make it work like your love, make it heal.

Oh that train is coming
So we keep on running.
Make it last like your love, make it real.

On the road, out of steam
Everything is what it seems.
Make it work like your love, make it heal.

Sighing slow, breathing deep,
Cracks creep slowly up through the street.
Lying low, bound to sleep,
Dreams that hope for my knees to go weak.

So it's steady and slow
Troubles come and they go
Make it last like your love, make it real.

For the world's much to wide
To be stuck by your side
Make it work like your love, make it heal.

-LKS 2/7/12

The Joke's On Us

Stop motion fiction
Enigmatic friction
Heartbeats stiff with
Mild conviction

Rooted feet
Melt to the street
Comfortable junctions
Make life complete

Transparent nights
Give hope for new lights
Tragic but beautiful
Songs of our plights

This crumbling youth
Within holds the truth
Eloquent designs
Reveal hope for such minds
Who yearn for new proof

Hold on to it tight
Through struggle and fight
Time slips through the fingers
Blinded by sight

- LKS 2/6/12

Meetings With Strangers

Now I'm running backwards
Steering clear of lofty hazards
Sixty miles begs for freedom
But gravity will shift its standards

Conversations become butter
Bitter lovers run for cover
Silken lips that once did love
Seek out but never find another

Repeating softly, she says,
"How I always longed to dream"
With deception as a best friend
Broken hearts assure routine

- LKS, 2/2/2012