Maybe

maybe, love saw me coming from afar

maybe, love thought I was too strong

and did not need to find her love

but love, she was waiting, kept me waiting

sleeping, dusty, sometimes hollow and grey

where the sand tells you his tale

covered with grain, covered with rain

maybe, she saw me coming from afar

maybe, but then I found her

and love's love was mine to take away

and maybe, maybe she will stay

maybe...

with love...who's to say

(c) JR. 2022

Outcome

a pain has come to haunt me

there being no escape 

and it feeling so wrong

when hate has become 

the love, you need

I don't know where to leave it

but then again, 

when hate is thrown 

into a pit of fire

it will be the only outcome 

love will ever need

to rise again

a pain has gone and left me

(c) JR. 2022

My Love

my love was a love for someone I could not have 

my love was a love for someone who didn't know

I did poses this love I had

and my love was a reality, my reality did reject

a realistic yet to me an unrealistic reason, causing a pain

I did not want to have

but then again reality kicked in and kept me in check

There's no tomorrow

no yesterday, no daybreak, no incoming night

there's only you

(c) JR. 2022

Chasing love

stop chasing dreams that will never satisfy

stop chasing the reasons and answers of a lie

stop chasing a love that has no truth to build on

and will never thrive or comply

(c) JR. 2022

My Rose

My Rose, my English Rose

showing me her love, her understanding

showing me her true colours, something 

I will live and die for

(c) JR. 2022

whisper

 

I'm falling in love again

will it be for the better

will I let my breath whisper its way

and blow its love into this heaven

let my soul find your spirit

where you are waiting

let my whisper break 

into your heaven

let me know when it does

(c) JR.

Double Bed

Single  days

single ways

single men

single women

single beds

double beds

Roots of understanding are sown by the love we feel

The tears of heaven embrace me in the depth of my emotions

come into my kingdom my powerfull suite

where I write , read where I sow my seeds

where I create fatasies let it amaze you

this is me

sitting in the dark, a cry of a Lark

deadly spreaded wings

superiorety wins

if you would ask me to explain

what love is, there would be no answer

Zand is de sneeuw van de hitte

a dying sun, a lost world and nature ends

See the houses of the well to do

they posess what will once shelter you

a book, a container of words

my lonly nights are yours

love is only a kiss away

One Liners (c) JR.  single days, houses, well to do, 

    

That Dream

 

I'm a writer, I write the dreams no one can see

so...I will write her into my poetry

she's that dream, a dream no one can see

coming down on the last train from London

coming to me promissing me the love I need

and I will live up to it, yes I will take her into my dreams

those dreams I write everyday, she's coming

she's one of those dreams that stays

and this poem sounds like an old familiar song

I somewhere lost long ago somewhere down

Calveston way

(c) JR.

Sometimes

 

sometimes we love, sometimes we don't

sometimes there's a clock, we don't look

it has rules, sometimes we accept

somtimes not

sometimes we just don't want to know

when controll knocks at your door

when your freedom hangs in the balance

without a word

when life holds you ransom, a new spirit arrives

with the word go

and ev'rybody has an agenda filled with reasons

yet a freedom must not result in a destruction

some think its the only way, they're not the ones

worried about a freedom where rules pave the way

though we're with our backs against the wall

we remain civil and abide the law

sometimes we love, sometimes we don't

sometimes we believe and sometimes we won't

(c) JR. 2021

Live or die

 

love's sometimes not new or never heard of

a final commitment with or without any reason

sometimes it stays or leaves with a lie

and yet it is always love that devines

if it will live or die

(c) JR. 2021

A slow pain

there's a slow pain
penetrating my heart
I think somehow
I'm almost certain
almost convinced
it has reached
each and every part
it must be love
there's a slow pain
penetrating my heart

strong talk of what you have
talk of what it is
to be on top of things
seems all so very important
I don't need it so much
only thing I can think of
is it in you to love
'cause a slow pain is
penetrating my heart

all the strong talk
cannot diguise
cannot even hide
what's going on inside
what's happening to you
I can only guess what I see
it must be love you need
something you could get
if you just don't let it be

now you've stopped
your eyes lock into mine
with a strange tempting look
and you feel a slow pain on the rise
it shows in your eyes
I read in it your thoughts
I know what you've got
a slow pain's penetrating
your heart

(c) JR. eightees-ninetees

Compromise

my body is a temple
where my soul reigns
filled up to the rim

with faith, truth, compromise
if need, when it reaches out for
the boundries of

infinite love

(c) JR. 2019

A Rose

it was a rose
that took away my love
and left her thorn in my heart

(c) JR. eightees photo JR.

Don't tear me down

where is all the love
does it lie in the past
tell me you once cared
tell me once you shared

don't tear me down
leave something for me
bring me back my dawn
leave some future in me

you wanted to dance
you had your chance
you didn't take it
you just wanted to dance

so don't tear me down
leave this sad ol' house
leave me in one piece
leave me the air I breathe

leavin' doesn't mean
you've put out the light
a flame might falter but
never ceases to shine

(c) JR. eightees

My share

it's tearing at me 

a lot of hurt inside

all the love I miss 

sensation you find

I don't have much 

not much to give

just the life I live 

it ain't much

it's all I got

it takes time 

I calm down 

take my drink

down it 

love I just can't find 

out there
somewhere in a nowhere

somethin's got to give

somethin's got to excist 

somethin's got to be 

way down deep

it takes time to find 

but it's out  there somewhere 

my soul's searchin' there 

searchin' for my share 

(c) JR. 1985

Lifted me up high

there's nothin' in this world
that can bring me down only
love can

and yes, I fought my battles
with love it did bring me down
it did not make me win

it brought me unto my knees
but in the end lifted me up high
so again I could touch the sky

(c) JR. 2018

Lost in my words

a strange sensation ran through me
I was at the station I was knocked
out, he had me beat

lost in my words I tried to explain
wasn't it all a mistake, tried to plead
he wouldn't give in didn't he love me

we had somethin' goin' goin' down
well, but he was leavin' goin' out
of town

throwin' my life to pieces leavin'
me hell, lost in my words I felt the
hurt comin' on strong

my screams rang out almost blew
my mind for all the lies that wasted
my life

caught my breath he finally went
to that prety girl an' all to the one
he loved best

leavin' me here sheddin' my tears
my love was dyin' the ashes were
blown away

words came back to me again

(c) JR. eightees

Maybe now I can care or even love

coming from the past reaching
into my dreams, you've come to
me into the shadow of my thoughts

maybe now I can care or even
love

as long as you stay don't leave
me again, as you did when we
were kids took of an' you were
gone

you came into my thoughts
when I least expected it, in
my dreams you were caught

maybe now I can care or even
love

I do try to make you stay I want to
know where I can find you again
but my dreams are fading

not much time left now, so tell me
where are you 'cause I really care
I want you about

once you were in my world, something
I can't shake I shuffle my deck of cards
up comes the queen of hearts

you belong in my heart maybe now
I can care or even love, many do say
a dream's no fake

come back to me tonight and tell me
exactly where you hide 'cause I can
feel something's not right

once I know I'll come and take you
away from whatever it is that keeps
you caged

into the shade where we met and
laughed never realising what we
had after so much we shared

I think somehow now I can care
or even love

(c) JR. 1985 

So tender so cruel

as the dream of my youth, where I found love
so real, yet never knew, is fadin', it leads me into
a new mornin'

where my heart's achin' as I'm wakin', bringin' me
back the only realty it ever knew, somethin' there
in my mind

chose to be tender, yet so cruel, as it brought  up
all my yesterdays with you, where I was full of
the tenderness and love

the ones, you never knew of, it then comes to my mind,
how tender, yet so cruel, a dream can be when it is
overruled by all those yesterdays

in an attempt to please, but leaves you behind in its
wake, so tender, so cruel, an dreams, ...
do they ever come true

(c) JR. 2018

Water on the rocks

water on the rocks is comin' down to us
through the splendour of the grass as our
love is where we rest

heaven never was that steel blue joining
us at natures special tune silent as a summer
breeze in the mornin' dew never, never was
the earth so pure

our love is, as water on the carved rocks
comin' down over the rich land, cuttin'
corners, cuttin' stones and sand through
the splendour of the grass

creatin' its own road to travel to where we
rest as the love is we both share, killin' our
fears below us way down in the sand

water on the rocks just don't seem to end
water on the rocks, comin' down as the love
is we found, water's comin' down comin' down

givin' food to what we found, givin' it reason
to survive, keepin' it alive in shimmering lights,
lettin' it grow into the daylight, see it setllin' down
in our hearts where... it is like water on the rocks