Again

Hello. My name, to answer your query, is Wally.
I was recently killed in a knife fight, in Calgary, through my own folly.
I am immortal, I will die again.
The interesting thing is that you and I, are exactly the same.
Gunner ©

Into the Light

Hold me baby, hold me tight!
Kiss me, kiss me hard and love me through the night.
Love me to the light.

We were seventeen on our first date,
Sledding on the hills next to the lake.
And that is what you said
soon after we rolled off that sled

The gown and veil had both been simple fabric
then you stepped into them and they became magic
the tear in my eye almost made me falter,  married at twenty two
When I said I do at the alter, to you

Hold me baby, hold me tight!
Kiss me, kiss me hard and love me through the night.
Love me to the light.

You gave us children to love
we had disagreements but it was never push or shove
we built a home and it was dandy
because we had become a loving family

I remember the morning I found your pillow moist with tears
We talked and soon I found us filled with fears
I held you so tight but the angel coaxed you from our bed
and in the night, this is what you said

Hold me baby, hold me tight!
Kiss me, kiss me hard and love me through the night.
Love me to the light.

The children have moved, they are grown
It seems they never have time to find a phone
This morning your scented pillow was moist with tears
It doesnt make sense, you're nowhere here or near

I've watered your roses darling
Pulled out that bag of seed you bought and served the starlings
I tossed your pillow on the seat beside me
We'll take that drive in the country, around that bend next to the sea

Hold me baby, hold me tight!
Kiss me, kiss me hard and love me through the night.
Love me to the light.

I remember how you used to laugh when I drove fast
The white lines are passing in a flash reminding me of the pearls on your neck when I struggled with the clasp
The steel barrier refects the sunlight when I  blast through
Remember how those bangles sparkled in the sun, the ones I bought you

The sea is a wonderful thing dont you think
I wonder if the car will float or sink
The rocks are dressed in waves as I fall toward them
All shiny and sparkly, like your wedding gown was at the hem

I'm not hurting all that much
Except if I consider the loss of your touch
So I clutch your pillow to my broken chest
In the darkness I remember you, I remember the best

And the last thing I whisper into the night

Hold me baby, hold me tight!
Kiss me, kiss me hard and love me through the night.
Love me to the light.
Gunner ©

Gifts From The Universe

The mighty oak tree gifted me
A released leaf set free
Fluttering and spiraling it's way down
Caught before it finds the ground

My tiny ship tossed and turned
The ocean a raging mighty churn
And from the wind with elegant ease
Descends a dove, a promise of peace and calm seas

A single blade of trembling grass
It's helped create a drop of dew as clear as glass
And when I fold myself down and into the ground
It's a larger reflection of heaven in it I've found

An accidental find is the blueberry patch in the wooded brush
When I enter, the birds and the bees become a welcome hush
An awkward step crushes a rotted sage
A thousand hornets erupt in a rage

I growl with pain and decide to flee
And at the lakes beach what do I see
My brother can't swim and he's taken his last gasp
It's a welcome gift when I feel him safely in my grasp

So I hope your vaults are full of arts and riches
May you find gold as you toil and dig in your ditches
For me I find that better gifts are near
Like the golden tones of Hart and Hedy that I hear
Or the silver in the sky, the emerald in the grass
and the perfumed memories of each minute as it goes past

And if you find a random token
Consider this, it's to you the universe has spoken
That those gifts missed or lightly taken
can often be the ones that leave you shaken

Gunner©