If I Am

If I was a bee in search of your honey
Would you still wear the fragrance of jasmine to me
I know it be true
The smell of your nectar lodged deep within my senses

If I were a leaf on the face of an adult spring oak
I would search for you along the limbs of my life's blood
The days would pass softly as I await the fall, hoping
That perhaps this year when I fall, it be by your side

If I be the froth on the crest of an ocean wave
Endlessly I would brush the shores in hopes
That one day, your ankles would pass across my reach
That you may feel the cooling touch of my soul

If I am a man, drifting with the sands of time
I will place hope in the hands of belief
That when the hour comes that our hands meet
The hands of time will stand still for us

Author Paul Haldy

Restless Night

The battle raged on, silently wrote the soldier his dreams
The darkest hours seep down inside the fox hole, his nightly visitor,
Transgressing thoughts race for the peace he seeks, wincing...

Another lifetime, shall I perish again, without you
How might I walk in the clouds, if it be not with you

This day, I will fight, I will strike with the fury of
The love, which braves the temptation of defiance
Dare not rise up against the force which propels me
Lest thou be consumed by the awesome spectrum
You will cower before me should you choose

This day I will embrace as my weapon, my love
There lives no force great enough to repel my surge
I shall cover my body in the armor of your love, and walk
Fully protected, along paths lined with loneliness, impatience
I know they shall attack, but this day forward, I wear you

The battle raged on, and silently spoke the soldier his heart
The darkest hours are now bygone to me, I feel the victory
The love which carried me through, awakened me today
And there you were, as you were before, beside me again
Walk with me today she smiled, the battle is done

Author Paul Haldy