Long, Hot Summer – Ch. 9

"The good earth, the boundless sky..."

O, love and summer, you are in the dreams and in me.--Walt Whitman, The Sleepers Wednesday was the last day of my little lawn service business. It was like so many other days in that summer of 1979, hot and close, the...

Fabric Of My Soul

"The pain of someone breaking your heart ..."

Your tore atthe very fabric of my soulripping outmy heart from withinTossing itupon the floorlike a piece of rubbishbefore stomping on itCrushing all hopeof finding true loveby your crueltorment and liesLeft shakenin the corner of our rooma timid kittenshaken to...

Sleep Without You

"I can't sleep without you"

Can't sleep without you Need to sleep in your arms my love Can't sleep without seeing you before I log out for the night Even though the time difference is a painAnd we haven't touched in real life I feel your arms around me...

Are you ecstasy?I feel deep joyWhen I know he isSoon to be with me.Are you agony?I feel great miseryWhen I am desolateWondering when it will end.Are you love?I feel intense affectionHe completes meI would be empty without.Are you hate?I feel...

"What was it like?" We set the desert ablaze, I whisper to her now and squeeze her delicate hand, the rest of me seems to betrembling from within, yet I remain calm. I have to. Time was at a sudden standstill, universe contracted to a pinpoint, our breaths became...

We spent the rest of the day calling on old friends; it wasn't just emotional, it was heart wrenching. Many of my old mates hadn't made it and were buried in some foreign field, if they were lucky, others were...