Love is a lot like a really bright diamond
With its many facets cut with such perfection
To bring forth its amazing inner beauty by light
That it turns into brilliance with its reflection

Where each facet in the base acts just like a mirror
Casting back to the viewer the un-escaping light
Like love that gives back more than what is given
The un-escaping feelings that burst into flight

And surge into the midst of those who may not be
Thinking that the love is even there for the taking
But surround the heart of the one who is loved
When they had no idea that steps were in the making

Like the diamond in the rough that really has nothing
But the power inside to be polished into a jewel
The gift of love gives power to the receiver then
It's given back in full unless the loved is just a fool

But like the diamond, though valued and precious too
It can also be cleaved away by changes in the heart
As the precious stone can be broken by carelessness
So can love be severed by one not true to cupids dart

So love really is like the diamond with value untold
When cut and polished into the wonder jewel of all
So love me true with each and every beat of your heart
Fill my mind with its glory and I will answer the call

I hear at times when with friends and others
Comments which are harmful if not full of spite

Things are said that you would think ill mannered
And you know instictively that they're not right

Insensitive words that cut deep into ones heart
That make you wonder what they could be feeling

You know what I mean when I speak of remarks
That would send your mind and senses reeling

Uncaring words I think a friend would never say
If they felt at all what or how you'd feel

But none the less the words come crashing forth
And can throw you off your normal even keel

Even though the hurt goes deep and you react
With shock and dismay from the words so terse

And they try to take back what they have said
To make amends the feelings can still be worse

Because you know that the unthinking words
Spring from subconscious thoughts usually true

You find out what the other person feels inside
Though you thought they really cared for you

So my friends, I would advise that you keep
The feelings of others in your heart and mind

And only choose to say to them on all occasions
The words that are always thoughtful and kind

Harmony comes from the careful choice of words
That makes others feel like such special friends

Words that fall so very gently on their minds
Words for which we will never have to make amends

Onto this shadow dot we're cast
On universe's finite speck of dust
To wake and sleep while all is passed
To give and grasp, to love and lust

To spend our time in new found joy
Or spend it all in baseless fear
Accepting life's amusing ploy
Or fighting all that's gone or here

Keeping time with the common beat
Join the sing along with the hummer
Or march through life on silent feet
List'ning for a different drummer

'Tis into riches some are born
And others into sorrow's plight
Where fortune falls upon the morn'
Or in the depths of pauper's night

Where matters not in light of life
Only if we spend in growing
The time we spend in joy or strife
For the making of our knowing

In growing hours as children play
To waste away the childhood time
In frolic through a sunlit day
They are acting out a pantomime

Out on the playground structures set
They're idle in the sunset's glow
O'er the sagging tennis court net
Only the empty fading shadows flow

Where we were with a future unknown
Thoughts of what we'll do tomorrow
What will grow from seeds we've sown
And what will come of dreams we borrow

As we look at daylights morning ebb
Or at the bright and sunny afternoon
The dew drop on a spiders web
mocks the light of the midnight moon

There's confusion in the lonely why
Why we be left only to ourself
Of time and love that passed us by
Like an untouched book on the shelf

How do we truly face the ugly time
With Gallant ease or not at all
With the bitter taste of the lime
Or softness like the leaves that fall

And how do we face our fearsome battles
All, with our unending courage or
With hate, fear and saber rattles
And what end have we fought them for.

Here we are on the precipice of
The mind's great chasm of life
With the thoughts of all the
Pressures that give us daly strife

Where words come into our minds
Through what we read and hear
Those that make us very happy
Or those that can cause a tear

The words of a poem or a song
That lingers in our thinking
And makes us feel great joy
Or like our life is sinking

Why would we then fill our selves
With the words that make us fall
Instead of filling up our mind
With the words that make us tall

We read and listen to the language
That fits our interpersonal script
Even though what we hear or read
May make is feel beat and whipped

Why do we then, torture ourselves
By listening to sad mournful songs
When if we listen not our mood will
Swing to the happiness that belongs

In its' truly rightful place
in the thoughts within our mind
We wallow in our guilt and keep
The horrid sadness there in kind

When we shed the past from our
doings and straighten out our being
Sad songs have no effect on us
For we've erased the bad we're seeing

And purity fills our new self image
Because the past is truly gone away
And cannot haunt us in our thinking
For we know that we will never stray

From our new paradigm of loving care
For the love of our life on going
For now we share our intimate time
With only one who's love is showing

So now we settle in our thoughts
And know that what is gone is past
And we can share the happy days
With our one love that will last

When Darkness fell
on October's last night

The black hatted witches
all took to their flight

The goblins and ghosts
all came 'round to haunt

While weird faced monsters
went out on their jaunt

Warlocks and ghouls were
rattling some chains

While werewolves scratched
on some window panes

It is fright that fills
my mind once more

When I hear those monsters
knocking on my door

When I opened the door
'twas to my surprise

It was just trick or treaters
in their scary disguise.