"Love Like Music"

Love-
Isn't it in itself,
The nature
Of the real thing?

Compare it to rock and roll-

Like the songs,
The really good love songs-

That come to you
Articulating the primacy
Of the whole:

The words and the music,
That can cycle down-
And spin around,
Right into
And through
Your very soul...

And you realize
All the things you know:

And you long
For somebody with you
To never go-

To always stay with you,
Stay with you...

So isn't it true-

That love-

Love-

Love-

Oh, isn't it true
That love in itself,
Is the nature
Of the real thing?

"Words Only"

Words only,
Can still leave me lonely:

For they can't always
Immediately be appraised
At their face value:

And sometimes,
As to what they mean-

I might not even have a clue...

So I say again:

Words only,
They can still leave me lonely:

Even if they spring
From the lyrics of this song-

Woman, you know,
You always seem
To want to make me
Wait so long...

But besides all that,
I also realize too-
How it's true:

That no matter...

Oh, no matter
What I do:

Woman,
I'm always lonely for you.

"Remember"

You must remember-

Remember-

With considerably more information:

That the thoughts verbalized-

Are open to misinterpretation...

And that,
Even more so-

Regardless of the nature of your spirit,
Or the state of your soul:

Though you may dream
About her beneath sunny skies:

And in your heart,
There's the childlike nights-
And fireflies:

When you're longing,
And lonely for her...

That may not at all be
What she believes
She sees in your eyes.

"Continued Emphasis"

The continued emphasis
On the importance of love-

Love!

And not indirectly...

Since I long for her
To think about me-

Me!

And to see-

How that she's
Waited all of her life...

And suddenly
It all seems to be:

Because of me...

Me!

Immediately.

"Not Sampling"

I'm not sampling music-

That may constitute a distribution:

I have my own interpretation:

With or without a revelation...

Though it does remain
My one great desire
Throughout it all,
That it becomes
Quite relevant-

Well, you know...

If I choose to use it.

"The Different Subject Matter"

Perhaps
Even for the different subject matter:

For it's true
That only they
That refuse to see-

Would say
It's random,
Rather than design:

The purposeful distortion...

Therefore-

If you're smart,
And deep down-

You do have a good heart:

Better beware:

Beware-

Better beware all those
Various vested interests:

That you've allowed
Over and over again:

To play so many
Of those
Toe-tapping games
With your mind.

"Dream State Sequence"

Even the dream state
Had an appropriate sequence:

Before my eyes
In what I saw-
The images:

Oh, the vision of it all!

And within my ears as well,
The sounds of words
Blending together:

Bringing forth a new song!

Which I began to sing-

And suddenly
It was as if,
Or like thousands of angels
Also came-

And they too,
Began to sing:

And I heard them
Call my name.