Star Crossed Dreams

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A Lone Red Rose

I saw a lone red rose today
Lying crushed on trodden snow
As the big black hearse drove away
And all the mourners made to go.

Perhaps it was just me who saw
And felt the sharp pain of it’s fall,
The dead rose in the snowy thaw,
Me thinking of you most of all.

As they put you into the ground,
The mourners did not seem to see
The solitary rose I had found,
It’s dead petals crushed like me.

I saw a lone red rose today
Lying crushed on trodden snow,
And just about all I can say
Is yet in death, I love you so.

Starlight In Your Eyes

After nearly a lifetime with you,
Years and years of such deceit and lies,
I know there is little I can do
But gaze into the starlight in your eyes.

It wasn’t this way so long ago,
That day when we said our wedding vows.
We lived in lust and didn’t know
Very much of life, the whys and hows.

We had our good times, that much is true,
And raised our kids with love and care.
Yet, we were empty and hollow, too,
We each had an unhappy affair.

We gave our sad hearts way quite cheap,
Both of us deceiving each other.
Too jaded then to lament or weep,
Seeking to find love with another.

Despite all the twists and turns of then,
Our long wedded life is a surprise.
And I know I do love you so when
I gaze at the starlight in your eyes.

The Stalker

She lay slumped by a tree
Her legs splayed to prop her up,
The handle of an ice pick
Protruding from her left ear.

The killer stood over her
Admiring his handiwork,
Recalling how good it felt,
Smiled and walked away.

He dropped her pantyhose,
Skirt and blouse in a trash can.
Her not wearing a bra
Is what lured him to her.

Now, as he padded along,
A black cat crossed his path.
Oops, bad luck, he smirked,
And kept walking away.

A drop of blood, like a tear,
Fell from her unmoving eye
And dropped on her bare breast,
Came to a stop, like her life.