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poetry by lou sid linesman - on life, love & politics
Monday, April 17, 2006
Hold The Dream
I slew a phantom last night,
The one that was lurking,
Monstering my mind...
Why am I respecting feelings
Where feelings never had respect for liberty?
Why respect a contract signed with a knife
Pressed to the heart of pregnant emotionality?
Why bow to tarnished gold
The unidentical twin
Unworn for years,
Just pure idolatry...
If drawn up in the ink of Love,
Then let the ideal divide...
And then run on...
But I want no strings,
No dealings with some notion I let hi-jack me,
If love must go slay falsity,
If love must be cruel,
Let it be cruel to all,
I know my responsibilities,
I hug them close to me,
I respect the mother
But the hood’s long banished...
Into eternity...
Public mistakes require the full admission,
So let paper cancel paper,
But let Love stay free
To choose its own dear Authority...
As maybe!...
’Cause this ring on my finger
Just became...
A fantasy...
They say there’s lots of fish out there
But I am a fish...and slippery...and just longing
To return to the smoothest sweetest touch of the mighty sea...
The age of Aquarius?
Overdue they say...
Whenever will it be?...
So there It is,
I have no silver
I have no gold...
It can’t be bought
It can’t be sold...
Our Dream’s
The One and Only thing
I Have...
For Us...
To Hold
© Lou Sid Linesman, 2006. All Rights Reserved.
Please Don’t Reject Me
I feel so low...
So cheap...
So empty...
What am I putting you through
So worried I’ll never make your dreams come true
So ashamed at how much I need you
You see, there’s times when I’ve got nothing to give too,
Except be with you
I so need to talk things through
I know my self-expression is so cruel to you
But I can’t face another
Angry rejection from you
Please
I need this recurring nightmare to end
Somehow I can never believe it when
You say you want me
When you say I’ve done right
I just seem to want to go deeper
And push you till you fail
And it hurts me too
I want us to accept each other
For what we are
But still say what’s true
We’re both too sensitive
To do this by remote control
I’m trying to do right
But sometimes everything just falls down
Unless we’re together I can never be sensitive enough
To make the path a bit more steady a bit more smooth
Please don’t reject me again
I don’t really want to fail
Even though it may look like I’m asking to
Even though I know we have to
But we need to do it in smaller ways
And more often
And the same will go for the success too
I know I keep pushing you over the edge
Because I always end up going over with you
Please let’s take some time out together
Celebrate what we’ve achieved
Instead of punishing each other each time we fail
There’s really nothing more I can do
Except put my arms round you
I’m so cut up over you
When I’m on the spot
You’ll be surprised at what I can do
Please don’t reject me again
It hurts me as much as it hurts you
If it’s got to hurt
Can’t we hurt together?
Please don’t reject me again Baby
I so need to be with you
© Lou Sid Linesman, 2006. All Rights Reserved.
