ah how a word can bind and steal a mind
a moment will forclose a summers eve
and hopes to frequent piles are resigned
and one more grain shall sands again recieve
and fairly leave you as you always are
again youll mourn when nothing was mislaid
for what felt close was mockingly afar
and to traverse that range the heart has paid
but for consent the heart did not enquire
its compass points down paths we cannot go
and by the pools and greens that did transpire
with a mirage in sight, your strength did grow
    so sit as the remains of dawn come by
    and past to past adventures will reply

So one by one have travellers passed
to lay their golden tribute in old oak
that up its soothing trunk their dream is cast
and joins the wishes others made unspoke
as wayward stars are caught by joyful pleas
and many sailing coins decend in sea
so dandelions fly on hopeful breeze
and journey to the land of what could be
yet we return to flowered lonesome lanes
the beating of our steps a faded hum
to never have for what our heart refrains
and fortunate to know a different strum
    the world is much with me and civilly grew
    on every sun-lit lane, my wish was you

Is there a tithe that we must pay
To know a waving of gods hand
For what he does we cannot say
And often fail to understand

Let's try to stir and see the gifts
Of warming rains and hills that blend
To nudging mists and flights of swifts
And those we're blessed to call a friend

i wanna be your Steven Gerrard
play me in any role
i wanna be your Eden Hazard
i'll take on any goal
if you want your backline tight
i'll plan and make it right
no need to fight
i wanna be yours

i wanna be your Zidane
when your honour needs defending
i wanna be your Forlan
when you need a ball bending
let me be your special one
any team you want, i'll run
until we've won
i wanna be yours

i wanna be your starting striker
you'll score nought without
i wanna be your midfield fighter
you've no need to doubt
one two with you in quick succession
face any team with full aggression
each cup of ours a swift precession
that's how deep is my obsession

Beloved girl shall i speak your name aloud
I wince to hear it spoken one more time
As now but to a stranger it's endowed
Reformed by fate into a weary chime
And yet i must repeat it all the same
I may attend to wound my open heart
To keep forsaken answers in my frame
So that my love for you shall not depart
Refusing to forget the reason why
And relegate you as another act
As what you are no rhyme can quantify
And neither time nor distance can detract
    Yet who can tell what is and isnt cruel
    I am not just another lovesick fool

My friend please wake me up on saturday
For foggy sundays by cathedral lights
For when you take my hand I float away
On the untroden paths and winter nights
So walk beyond the river, where none go
No rush to join the crowd that travels west
A laugh and smile with the world in tow
This moonlit view with you is one thats blessed
And nothing may exist beyond this place
This wayside night forever starlight lit
For in unquiet darkness we embrace
And your damned name into my heart is slit
    By the unchanging stars that seem so near
    As they remain so does my love, my dear

I realise that I was just a guest
And lingered for a moment in your hue
One more to be embraced and loved and blessed
Before your oaths were made to someone new
Repeating tender speeches in repose
That once were spoken earnestly to me
And temper into paltry crushing flows
When knowing many heard that same decree.
But I declare with wounded heart laid bare
That no one else could ever fill your place
No other maiden knows my true love stare
For none can match your beauty or your grace
    Despite my anguish there has been no crime
    For all you did was be yourself when mine

Who cares about the ending of the world
For I the world has ended many times
And did begin again when day unfurled
There is no solace in the morning chimes
So let the sky turn gory shades of red
May boiling oceans split the earth in two
The falling heavens would not turn my head
When its another moment wanting you.
And don’t tell me we've seen this all before
As stone and steel dominions all renew
When unrelenting downfalls leak and pour
Remember, no one suffers like I do
    For though the stars may fall and time may end
    My heart does not abide, my love, my friend

With silent graceful charm you captured me
Then bled into the marrow of my bones
And drew and tore my will into debris
To make me witness novel blissful tones,
Condemning me to never feel the same
In any love or exploit life secures
My shoreless thoughts impossible to tame;
I can't forget a beauty such as yours.
Were it so easy to forsake this bond
Then long ago I'd have cast you aside;
But naught compels my being to respond,
Within my flesh and soul you still reside.
    What futile verse and carriageways to track,
    Write all you want she isn't coming back.

The day I left you, how could I have known
no matter what I did, you'd never leave;
the longest winter of my life was sown,
in fields where Time did offer no reprieve.
Our salad days fly on with full career,
there are no days apart that can be saved,
the past will grow and life will disappear,
a tangled path between us lies unpaved.
Yet comes one summer less for us to share,
no understudy there is will beguile,
what lost adventures I dread to declare,
and one less moment to inspire your smile.
    An expedition carried all the same
    was heretofore with you, now in your name.

So many nights lost gazing at the stars,
in hope i'll feel you gazing at them too;
that sorrowful moon shines on what was ours,
and brightens lanes I wander far from you;
those jewelled stately nights enchant my heart
and winsome days display earths finest gifts,
but potencies their spells embue depart
when life and time between us further drifts.
Yet harmony of heart does time restore,
I know tomorrow you shall miss me less,
but stol'n half my life forevermore,
for I, no remedy does time possess.
    Of tales and spectacles I long to tell,
    from far green lands my love, I wish you well.

A climb, with bellies full and knapsacks light,
adventuring from alpine green to plain.
Those blueing alps ablaze did blur our sight,
yet climbing futher still, a sky to claim.
Peaks abrade planets in the firmament,
and sunshine prematurely will withdraw.
We stop to treasure his and our decent,
as dusk enfolds us in a peaceful awe.
But your eternal sunlight did not fade,
eclipsing nature's titans that surround.
the final brushstrokes that your beauty laid
now forever remain in me, unbound.
    The twilight of our days, tis sad yet true.
    How lucky I was being there with you.

We went to a cemetery garden
but there was no death to be found
a far green country with hills so lovely
with spires and lanes all around

amongst the graves stands a yew tree
a thousand years old maybe more
who knows what peasants and princes
didst within thou shadows restore

i care not for these wizards and kings,
that shelter thou didst supply
thou art most grand in all of the land,
as beneath you she and I did lie.

and although all my subjects were dead
in that small land i was king
she who id found, one touch i was crowned
and no trial nor traitor could sting

What was that place id claimed?
She had cast out life's wry disguise
what a walk down that garden path!
the scales didst fall from my eyes

they say summer is made for loving
and autumn decends too soon
and winter it seems crushes your dreams
and a heart into pieces is strewn

They were the happiest days of my life
now nothing beside remains
a shame now this tree has nothing for me
no amour dost ramble these lanes

I now wander alone through those graves
and read the verse that is there
"sit and think of, those that you love",
I did not prepare for despair

Yet no time nor decay can defile thee
O the change and eras thou spanned!
Just as this tree, my love for she,
will remain so long as I stand.

Whenever gazing at the stars and moon,
and then across the mountains and the sea,
and any sight in which beauty doth attune,
fails not to fill my mind with dreams of thee.
Each modest win that brightens common days,
and on the lips of every girl I kiss.
A half remembered melody decays,
but still the greatest gift you gave is this:
When blugeoned by doubt and pain and fear,
i'm shaking my fist in the face of fate.
As visions of thee once more do appear
there is a strength inside thou did create.
    Aside me you still are although you’ve flown
    I wonder when you will leave me alone

Once more, I tax my self with your visage,
it ruins any moment of content.
A burden of momentos I pillage,
It’s rare my eyes stay clear with that extent.
A tent, summer, I kiss you on the nose,
you smile then hum, i chase as you roll away.
I wonder how you think of times like those
I’m always there, I see them every day.
I watch you smile at our old photographs
and cherish tokens of a time gone by.
I fool myself, another chance perhaps?
But you dont share the same reply as I.
    A shame, a shame, that happy thoughts cause pain;
    they're from a life I'll never know again.