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I am just starting and can I say

It's hard to keep up with all that I see

The sights and sounds are quite a lot

And those scents and sounds I'll keep for a while

But your touch I'll never let go of if I can help it

I grow and grow in my own way

But some things I once had are gone

Oh well

No time to go back

I must always keep track

Of all the things that come to me

It's not long before I have a sturdy catalogue

I can look back now and recall what I need

But it's not always perfect, this book of mine

The pages warp and twist over time

Not to mention it happened all so quick

Perhaps I didn't interpret correct

I hold firm for a while

Running back and forth while writing new stuff

I organize it well for it's not just me

There is a whole team here dedicated to the task

So together we work, to keep this vault safe

Things get lost as we go, sure

There is only so much space

I ran out a while ago

Well kinda

It's back in storage somewhere deep

Could you remind me again what I need to see?

I've worked hard all the years long

I've been going back through all we've been through

I can't help but notice the wrinkles and stains

But that's okay

The information still somehow keeps

We near the end and I can't help much any more

I passed tired many years ago

I take my time now, going here and there

These things I've written I seem to leave about

My storage is full, but that's not all

I seem to have lost the key for much-- if not all

I'll keep trying as hard as I can

But I'm really tired now

I'm ready for bed

I lay my head down prepped for sleep

All this work I did

And I've left it incomplete

That's okay

I did my job

A life time of senses

Those sights and sounds

I kept them all here for future sight

Though now things are going dark

I guess it's time to close up shop

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Come Back all who Listen Hear

Her song was the most beautiful I had heard

My pretty mermaid

So beautiful was her hair

I walked to you and saw your form

The outlines of your curves

Oh did I yearn

Give me just a little taste of your bodacious lust

Be my first

Oh please, oh please you must!

I'd give you all I own

If only in my ear you would moan.

I can't help this strange and vibrant tickle

Should I really be doing this?

Normally I'm much too fickle

That doesn't matter to me

It's with her I need to be

Come hell or high water I'll be there

Falling even deeper while I get tangled in your hair

Don't try to stop me now or I swear

Upon you, my full wrath you will bear

It won't be long now, my lovely mermaid

Get away!

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Weren't you listening to what I said?

I am going over board to my wonderful lass

If you insist on stopping me, I'll kick your ass

So over the edge I dive right in

Into this watery grave

Deep in my loving sin

I swim so fast into your grip

So tight around me, you're breaking my hip

Your kiss so warm and slimy

Tastes like mud

No, wait, that coppery flavor

Must be blood

My senses return to me in this deadly dance

It appears I set off the trap

Falling for this shallow romance

Deeper we go in her clutching embrace

I can't move or breath

As I am falling into a haze

So I was wrong and so I shall die

Oh boy, what an epic fool am I?

This tale a warning I learned personally

You must hear and take this seriously

If into the ocean you dare to sail

Take note of my notable fail

If into the waves you dare brave

Remember my words

And your life they will save

If you desire to die in the worst way

Then open your ears

And listen to what the sirens say

But if you want to live your years happy and long

Then save yourself the tears

And leave behind the Siren's song

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Moonlit Midnight

The Moon cut though the ocean of void,

Leaving the stars in a rippling trail to follow

The dark mountains and hills were tides

Eternally washing away those old beaches of light

Each pool, a small star twinkling

As raindrops suspended in the sky

The canopy which envelopes the inky night

It rises now

It's illuminating glow

Dampening the sparkle of those angelic eyes

Reflecting below the subtle shades of grays and blues

That parted the heavens from the earth

This ribbon strewn through the lake of dots

Casts deep shadows about the rugged landscape

The light did sail across that starry stream

Over the horizon that light did run

For right behind it the abyss did flow

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An Autumn Breeze.

Your voice is like an autumn breeze

Cold and quite the relief

From summer's oppressive heat

You are the refreshing waterfall

At the end of a long journey

Cool and crisp

Just what I need

Like the falling dark

That brings the brisk night

You are a reprieve

From the sun's bright light

You shine like the harvest moon

The beautiful light

Unlike the blinding noon

So easy to watch

As you patrol that glimmering pool.

Your presence I long for

All the year round

And I'm so sorry to see you go

When winter comes around

But as sure as the spring

May bloom new

And summer brings life too

Your autumn vibe

My soul does coo

What I mean to say

With all these flowery words

Is that you are a breath of fresh air

In not so many cords

Any rhymes or rhythms may be clever

And I could write them all day

Maybe forever

It is important to say however

That nice as they may be

They can't compare to your voice

Like an autumn breeze

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I Am Pride.

I stand as a mountain, a great earthen wall

I remain immovable, a great pillar of stone

I am firm, a great bastion of power

I keep strong, a great beast of burden

The world moves around me as I travel through it

I can do no wrong and no one can wrong me

You can't touch me

You can't even fathom the greatness I wield

I look down on you and you dare to meet me?

You should know your place

And that it's beneath my feet

Like the dirt I walk on you mean nothing to me

No, a voice answered in return

You stand as a mound, a poor pile of ruin

You are tossed, like a skipping stone

You are soft, like a castle of sand

You are weak, simply a dead woman

This world moves on

Without you as you fade away

All of your wrongs now catch up to you

Your meager weakness is all we ever saw

We look down on your soon rotting form

Give back the lives you stole

To the trees and world

It's better that you are not here

As we leave you alone

We walk on

You mean nothing to us