GENTLEMAN OF PANACHE

Excuse me lady, if I may, take this thought and send it your way, if you don’t like it, then send it right back. I feel like I need a new girl in my life! Yes I do. I am under much pressure, three billion women in the world trying to fit in, It is a cruel world with your kind but I will take my chances, Water the grass so I may have my greener end you way, And approach, for a gatepass to your heart. There is no single day that goes by without thinking of you, I am feeling you girl, I really wanna get close to you, I really do, Allow me a gatepass to you. My thoughts have been stuck on you, like this feeling deep inside my soul, You've been on my mind; I grow fonder every day, Lose myself in time just thinking of you, God only knows why it's taken me so long to let my doubts go, You're the only one that I want, I don't know why I'm scared; I've been here before, Every feeling, every word, I've imagined it all, A pass to your lovely self is...

A few words from a lover, so he may rest in peace; write what his heart will and when the pen rests, he shall read these words and hopefully ease his way. Big wonder I struggle with words on this occasion, A madness of grief blocks my voice, a voice thick with pain, A queer thought this! Unsettling! Rivers of words have never dried up in me! PAIN! HEARTACHE! If I could protect myself from the sadness in my eyes, if only I could, Heartache has not been an item in short supply; I have splashed through lakes of it in recent times, Pain has gnawed at me like a toothless dog, Days have been grey, bitter cold days without a dawn, with no notion of the hour, My dreams have been red and savage, The world has been long dead to me! And when dawn finally broke; Titus understood all at once where this bile had come from. Cutting to the heart of the matter, am now convinced I know precious little of affection, if truth be told! I thought I did. The gods of love have always done m...

Picture perfect memories scattered all around the floor, Reaching for the phone because I can’t take it anymore, Said I wouldn’t call but I lost all control and I need you now. Still, can’t dial your number, Though missing your voice, better close my eyes and see you, Thinking of all the memories spent with you. I wish the hands of time would be a little slower, Thinking of those days you used to be with me, Remembering all the little things we used to do together. Somehow, I feel you by my side, Though time separates us, The evening graces be kind to let me feel your presence. Every breathe spells out your name, And I can’t go on without you, Impossible to go to bed tonight with this void filling me. It is cold tonight; would you send me a little of your warmth in my thoughts? A meal without you tonight; tasteless to imagine! Music on my stereo ain’t music without you to dance with. I wish I could call you tonight, In place, I write these words for you, Close...

Songs that make drums dance, Thoughts that speak of treasured moments, Words woven at the tip of fingers, Eternity that lasts now and then, Melodies too, sweet delicious melodies aged since ages past, Enlist them all, all spell doom to my world of peace this nightfall. Darkness engulfs the light shining in me, Chills, bitter cold chills mould my heart into fire, Shadows of loathe float in the deepest desires of my passion, Flowers of hope blossom amongst thorns of desperation, Walls betray my protection, bridges push safe haven far from my reach. The soils of battlefield sweet to lick, Imprisoned in cells of trust, trust that is exploited for weakness, Raindrops of sorrow nourish the hate sprouting within me, I hunger for a sword to tear open the nothingness filling my gut, Screams within loud enough to deafen the silence I desire. Lost in a wilderness of emotions, I can’t find the path leading to my lair. I am a bird that fell off its nest, Though I fancy not the...

Someone did caution me with talk of tides and gales that sail with love. Love! Tastes like poison on my tongue. PTTTTF! Suffice to say, I hoped the winds would be a kind sail. “It is the sword that slays the heart,” I often heard. So much for caution! A night like this… As the world holds its breath, growing ever still, The silence of a night sings to my betrayed soul, But all that danceth in my head are soured dreams, regretted dreams of a future never to come to fulfillment! Lying here as I hurt, a lonely tear falls as I try to fill in the blanks. Whatever did I not do! Staring at my typing screen, a blank expression reflects back, A black expression with eyes as open wounds beneath, Redness has since replaced the blueness in them. And that mouth… A mouth that has forgotten how to smile and has not known a laugh for a while now, ‘Tas only laid with yawns that tell of centuries past since appetite was last known! Great wrongs have been done me in love, wron...

Daughter of mine, The world is so dark without your laughter, The laughter of a child that lights up a house, Without you, darkness engulfs us whole, Your laughter can’t be heard, All because your father did not belong to your mother’s tribe! My daughter, Your father thinks of you every minute of the day, That’s all he can do, think of how you would have turned out to be, Dream of just how much he would have treasured swinging you in the air and catch you in his arms, While you scream in joy and call him ‘papa’ But then my daughter, it is just a dream, Because your father did not belong to your mother’s tribe! You, my angel without wings, my daughter, A pencil and a paper, claim the caresses of your father’s hands in your absence, As he tells the world tales that he should be telling you, Telling the world why you were never birthed, Telling the world why your mother fancies your father no more, Baby, your father did not belong to your mother’s tribe! May I ask my...

How good is a timely word? Dare I give a free rein to my thoughts and speak out from the softness of my soul? Pour out my heart like water? I treasure the very love of my life! To the world I claim. Tears are upon my cheeks, Streams of tears flow from my eyes and disappear into the doors of my mouth as water disappears from the sea or as a river bed becomes parched and dry. Out of the depths I hurt, My wound deep as the sea! Not of pain, but of a burning missing in my heart, A missing of whom I hold dearest! Tho’ts of you reign in my mind without cease! To me, you compare to the treasures that were hunted in days of old, To me, heavens are no more for my paradise be you. Darling, You bound me into a yoke of affection, By your hands, has my heart been woven, In your love, am I walled in and escape dare I not, For I am a content detainee! Baby, my heart longs for… Your speech smooth as butter, Your words more soothing than oil, The scent of your blissful perf...