Temptation

I am temptation
I am the apple, the serpent and eve all in one
I am everything you run away from
I am every desire 

I haunt you at every corner
I am your waking thoughts
I sneak in to your dreams
I am ever present  

I am the temptation that will be your downfall
I am the temptation that is your salvation
I am the grey that lies between your black and white
I am every desire 

Seek your temptation
Indulge your whims
For you live but once each lifetime
I am your temptress

This Black Hole

Written: Feb 12, 08 

 A black hole
Deep, dark
I look in
Trying, searching
For the cause, for the end

Why this darkness?
When will I reach the bottom of the well?
I am falling
Is it a bottomless pit?
It narrows, it suffocates
It is despair

I am blind when there is light
I am flailing when there is support
I am lost when there is hope

This hole will be the end of me
This hole will drown me
This black hole  

Still

You still make me cry
A thought brings tears to my eyes
I choke on the memory of the pain that wrenched my heart into place

You still make me long
For a smile to light your eyes and mine
For words exchanged
I stumble on conversations I want to have with you

You still make me smile
With memories of days gone
Moments of time stolen, now hidden in the crevices of my mind

You still move me
To fury
To confusion
To pain
But most of all to love

I try to deny it
I try to escape it
I run far away, in my mind, while my footsteps take me far afield

But you are still there
You are still everywhere
In every conversation
In every song
In every book, painting, and picture

You still penetrate
Deep into my life, my soul, my heart
You still are…