Relief

Loneliness is out the door
and insecurity is no more.

Ever since you came around
I no longer feel drowned

in my stress and agony
because you see the best in me.

I feel like I can love myself
because you want no one else.

Your nature is completely new to me—
compliments, support, and sensitivity.

You want to give me everything
but you’re love is all I’ll ever need.

Friends [revised]

Friends are people you have faith in—
ones who help when you’re in need.

Friends are giggles in a smile—
enlightenment in a dance.

Friends are as bright as the moon—
as playful as the stars.

Friends are your allies against life’s trials—
safe arms that hold you close.

Friends are unrelated kin—
missing holes in your soul.

Friends lend you their common sense—
inspiration from advice.

Friends are the best gift
because they don't have a price...

'Cause

Look me in the eye
prove to me you really care;
that everything wasn’t a lie;
that everything was really there.

‘Cause my heart is aching;
it’s breaking, twisting;
it’s screaming.
I just can’t take this beating.

Too long have I been strewn aside.
My feelings of pain can no longer hide.
You’ve left an empty space at my side.
Abandonment rips me apart from the inside.

‘Cause my body is aching;
I’m shaking, crying;
I’m screaming.
In this loneliness I’m dying.

But before all faded out—
before I drowned in my doubt,
someone pulled me out;
showed me what love is about.

‘Cause he felt me aching;
he watched you hurt me—
watched you desert me.
And he stole my love from you.

On That Day

On that date in December
it’s cold and gray
but not like any other winter day.

That day she sits to stare
off into space—
her mind off in another place.

All that one would ever see
is a motherless girl
experiencing a harsh, lonely world.

Her hair dark—her complexion
pale as beats of a lifeless air,
pale as mourning’s constant ail.

Memories form about the day
my mother left this existence.
How can I cope with this distance?