Poems

You are everything I ever wanted
You are everything I ever wanted.
On you my future happiness depends.

Will you be my Valentine?
Will you be my Valentine?
I know that I am yours.

When you sleep you are not with me
When you sleep you are not with me.
But I am with you.

When we say I love you
When we say I love you we say
1-4-3 instead.

When love is an affliction
When love is an affliction,
There's not much one can do.

We started out as friends and now it's love
We started out as friends and now it's love.
How beautiful to move so easily

We first met at a party
We first met at a party.
You first kissed me at my door.

To say you are my world means
To say you are my world means:
That when I look at the sky

There's a certain joy that enters me
There's a certain joy that enters me,
However agitated my surreal day.

There is no way
There is no way
That I can say

Many ways in which I love you
There are many, many ways in which I love you,
As many ways as there are me's and you's:

The words that are simplest
The words that are simplest
And easiest to understand

The time for love is now fast disappearing
The time for love is now fast disappearing
As years tick on and flesh descends towards dust.

Thank you for staying in my life
Thank you for staying in my life.
How could I have ushered you away?

Thank you for being the love of my life
Thank you for being the love of my life,
Half of the child asleep in my womb

Tell me more, my love, how much you love me
Tell me more, my love, how much you love me;
When I am hungry, chill me with a kiss.

I still love you
No matter what our troubles, I still love you,
As though a part of me were also you.

My love for you is something I'm afraid of
My love for you is something I'm afraid of.
You're all grown up, and I am still a kid.

I want to help you fly
I want to help you fly,
But not away from me.

I used to doubt you cared for me
I used to doubt you cared for me
When love was bright and blue.

Thank you for being the heart of my life
Thank you for being the heart of my life,
Harboring me in the arms of your love

Talk to me as lovers do
Talk to me as lovers do,
Regardless what you have to say

Take it as a given that I love you
Take it as a given that I love you,
And let the conversation go from there.

Love's a very generous reward
Sometimes a sacrifice or two comes easy:
Love's a very generous reward.

So I have found my melody
So I have found my melody,
And I have found my poem.

Sing me a love song
Sing me a love song for my Irish boy;
Take from me my heart, my head, my home;

Simple things about you catch my heart
Simple things about you catch my heart:
Clean lines along the chin, your low, smooth voice

I will bring you peace
Rest here, my love, and I will bring you peace;
Only I, your love, can be your bower.

Please don't mind if I make love to you
Please don't mind if I make love to you
Imagining another in my arms.

Our love has slowly gone downhill
Our love has slowly gone downhill,
Heavy with unwanted needs

Never think that I don't love you
Never think that I don't love you, though
It may be hard at times for you to know.

May you have a warm and gentle spring
May you have a warm and gentle spring,
A youth that winds through rainbow fields of flowers

Loving you is something that comes easy
Loving you is something that comes easy,
Like walking in the sunshine to a song

Love returns on Saturdays
Love returns on Saturdays,
Having been away

Love needs its hour in the sun
Love needs its hour in the sun
Or like a flower it will fade.

Love me in the circle of your evening
Love me in the circle of your evening,
And in the morning quiet of your dreams.

I've thought of you
Last night, today, tonight I've thought of you,
Your fear of loving me, your fear of pain

Just loving you has been a revelation
Just loving you has been a revelation,
Even if you hadn't loved me back.

It's as if we were riding in a sealed railroad car
It's as if we were riding in a sealed railroad car.
Life passes by unseen.

I wish I were a cliff
I wish I were a cliff
Rather than a gentle hill

I thought I must give up on life
I thought I must give up on life
And turn into a stone;

I promise you my innocence
I promise you my innocence
When fire fills the sky

I never wanted to invade
I never wanted to invade
The forest of a friend.

I love your cool green eyes
I love your cool green eyes and light brown hair.
I love the way my fear faints at your touch.

I love you & etc
I love you & etc.
As I have never loved.

I cannot live without you
I look at you and think: I cannot live
Without you; you're the person of my dreams.

I don't know how we get into these fights
I don't know how we get into these fights.
After them I look back at the ashes

I know you now so many ways
I know you now so many ways,
And yet I don't know you at all

I am of the desert, you of cultivation
I am of the desert, you of cultivation:
Simplicity to me, to you is desolation.

No right to love you
I know well I have no right to love you:
I gave you up, and now you're with my friend.