Red Collection
CONTENTS
- Beautiful View – Looking at someone who is a beautiful view
- Wave – Waving at someone special
- Smile – Smiling from someone important
- Manic World – Living in a manic world and taking a moment to reflect / take a break
- Comfortable – Being comfortable with someone
- Sky – Finding the answer to problems
- A Thousand Feelings – Feelings from a place / object
- Path – Religious thoughts
- On a day like today – Treating someone on a special day
- Light – Believing and hope
- These are my feelings laid bare – Feelings put out there and on the line for you to see
- Arms Wide Open – Being in love with someone and not letting go
- Light around the world – Believing and hope
- You are my star – A poem about my daughter
- Dreaming of you last night – Dreaming of someone special who dies
- Edge of the World – Deciding what the next decision to make, and sometimes falling along the way
- Every Eye – Each eye you see in life has a story to tell
- You are my heaven and my haven – Being comfortable with someone
1. BEAUTIFUL VIEW
You don’t have to travel far to see some special views
I could be sat on top of Coopers Hill
Looking out at the view
But sitting next to you
I need not look any further for a beautiful view.
2. WAVE
When I see you leave
I wave goodbye
But in my mind
I’m blowing you kisses
Wishing I could hug you goodbye
When I see you leave
I look into your eyes
Hoping you can see how sad I am to leave
When I see you leave
I wave goodbye for now
Holding onto the last view of you
Until I can wave hello the next time we shall meet.
3. SKY
When I look at the sky
I never know what I expect to see
Sometimes I think the answer to my problem will appear from above
I look deeply at the blue sky
The answer is there somewhere to be found
Perhaps a passing cloud might help
If a cloud can’t help
I’ll just have to keep on looking
The answer I crave may never be found
But when I look at the sky
I at least know you can look to the sky
Maybe one day we will find the answer together.
4. COMFORTABLE
When I’m around you
I never feel awkward
As I sit near you I feel so warm and close to you
I could talk to you for hours
Listen and share opinions of this world we live
I’m not even sure if the word ‘comfortable’ is the right word to use
But I don’t feel like this with anyone else.
5. MANIC WORLD
We live in a manic world
Never ending noise & movements
Just sometimes, sometimes
Peaceful moments come along:
– You Savour The Moment –
Closing your eyes
Inhale a deep breath
And at that moment you think to yourself
Clear your mind
Still with your eyes closed
You breathe out
Open your eyes wide open
You see the world in front of you once more
Now a little calmer
More focused
You’re ready to take on the manic world we live.
6. ON A DAY LIKE TODAY
On a day like today
I’d treat you like a princess
Shower you with gifts
Treat you and spoil you
On a day like today
I’d hug and kiss you
Hold your hand
Smile at you at every occasion I could
On a day like today
I might only get to smile at you
And to receive one back
Means the world to me
On a day like today
I can only think of you
Because today is all about you.
7. PATH
Oh Lord help us all
Through trials of life
One can never rely on you more
Guide me, show me the way
Guide me in the direction I am destined to go
Help me choose a path to follow
A path that will lead me to you.
8. A THOUSAND FEELINGS
A static picture can tell a thousand feelings
The look in your eyes gives me all I need to know
Even looking at a picture of you, My heart melts
A thousand feelings run through my body
Every time I see a picture of you
And everytime I see you for real
My heart grows a bit fonder of you.
9. ARMS WIDE OPEN
Standing here with my arms wide open
Waiting for you to get to me
I’ve fallen in [love] (and I need you here)
I scream and shout but no one can hear me
These thoughts need to be let out
Dreaming of holding my arms out wide
Waiting for you to get to me
Embracing in body & mind
I’ll never let you go
For as long as I shall live.
10. THESE ARE MY FEELINGS LAID BARE
Laying down all these feelings
Leaving them exposed to the world
I feel bare as these feelings are all I have to offer
I see all sorts of feelings in the world
I can relate to some
If not many feelings
But I struggle to say how I feel
(Sometimes because I’m not expected to feel this way about you
Nor am I expected to show the way I care for you so much)
I write for feelings I have for people
People I find close to my heart
These are my feelings laid bare
Please treat them with care.
11. LIGHT
You give me the light to shine
The energy to breathe
When all seems lost or far away
You were there to encourage me
Give me the inspiration to live
You see me in a different light
A better light I may add
The light I want to live my life by
I breathe much easier around you
And the light you give to me
Guides me in the right direction.
12. DREAMING OF YOU LAST NIGHT
I had a dream you died in my arms
I held you tight
Made sure you were in no pain
I never told you how I felt
There was never time
When I saw your eyes close for the final time
I knew I’d lost so much
The final breath
The final goodbye
I kept holding tight
Keeping you safe until the very last moment
When I knew you were gone
I knew you were in a better place with God
I never told you how I felt
I ran out of time
But until we meet again
Until we can hold each other
I’ll tell you every day that I love you.
13. YOU ARE MY STAR
Pointing at the star in the sky
Saying to you it’s the twinkle in your eyes
Seeing the smile appear upon your face
Telling you how beautiful you are
Looking up at the sky
The clear blue sunny sky
I saw the stars disappear from the sky
Then seeing the twinkle in your eyes
Reminds me I’ll never be far away from a twinkle of a star
You are my star
You’ll never be far away
I can look to the sky
I can look into your eyes
You are my star.
14. LIGHT AROUND THE WORLD
Dark days never remain dark
There is always light around the world
It may take it’s time to get to you
But the darkness will move
Making room for the light to shine and break open the day
A new day will come
It will be the start of something new
The light will shine
It will make you breathe easier
Looking back on the darker days will make you stronger
But do not dwell upon them
Let them remind you of the positive light you have been given in front of you
The light around the world will get to you
And when it does it will be worth the wait.
15. EDGE OF THE WORLD
Standing on the edge of the world
viewing as far as the eye can see
pondering the next move to make
contemplating the future that lay before me
As I stand on the edge of the world
the world becomes more in focus
knowing that there is a risk that I could fall
puts everything I have into perspective
Standing on the edge will not help me if I do not act
I must have the fear within me to make choices
As I may not make them in any other circumstance
but yet acting now may cause me to fall
Yet the risk of falling or the risk of staying on the edge
Will not deter my feelings from the choices I make
I may only reflect on what I have thought from afar
but until I fall I shall not know what is there to fall upon
To what I fall upon or what I find once landed
Is the unknown we all face in life
in each day of every year
Once fallen I have to stand again
To stand again and look back from where I fell
The edge of the world may now seem so far away
As I look up at the edge I feared for so long
I now look to climb to that edge again.
16. EVERY EYE
Every eye has a youthful side
they never look old nor bored of looking
The eye can see in many ways
some ways it wishes to see the world how they want to be
in other ways it sees the world as it is to be
Every eye has a beautiful side
even though the eye has no sides
the colour and the depth of each eye
is beauty captured in every ray of light
the light shining upon your eye sparkles to catch my eye,
Every eye has a story to tell
No matter where you look
I can see you have many thoughts through your eyes
Every eye tells your emotion
maybe emotions of sadness
maybe emotions of happiness
but every emotion runs through your eyes
Every time I look into your eyes
Every emotion runs through my eyes into yours
I see the wonderful you within your eyes.
17. YOU ARE MY HEAVEN AND MY HAVEN
You are the place, my muse where all my dreams congregate
my haven where I can relax and be me
You are the heaven I dream about every day
and the haven I wished so much for
for so long
You are my heaven and my haven
I need not say much more.