you were the only one

you were the
only one.
++++++++++

Yes
(Love)
I Do
remember...

how
Your
Eye-
Stars
(once)
did
Shine
For
Me...

but
left
My
Weary
Soul
Dismembered!!

(and
trapped
Within A
Memory.)

+

You
enlightened
The
Shadow
of My
Psyche...

(then
showed
Me Life
had Pretty
Things.)

so why
Love is
This Ghost
Inside
Me??!!!

(creating
only
Suffering.)

+++

yes
Love..
I do
recall..

That
Wondrous
Climb
Before
The Fall.

I Keep
It In My
Memories!

(and Wish
I could
Change It
All.)

+++

Forgive
Me
Love for
Everything..

I Have
(and
Have
Not)
Done...

and
please
Believe
Me when
I Say!

(you
WERE
The Only
OnE.)

j.s.h.

masks of love

masks of love.
+++++++++++++

Love wears 1,000 masks,..
and beneath those masks
1,000 more..

to some it seems a
laborous task...

for others a
Locked or Broken
Door!

+

It sees past the
pale gray curtain..

beyond an
Unfathomable
Sea of Sorrows..

into a Future Bright
and Certain!

(where Rainbows
Smile for each
Tomorrow.)

++

The Masks of
Love bear different
Names,

and with them
scores of Unique
Faces,

but beneath each
Love is All The
Same!!

(an expression
of Gods Shining
Graces.)

J.Stephen.H.

before true love was there.

before true love was there.
+++++++++++++++

I miss your Laugh...
it's nervous notes..

the way you smiled..
at morbid jokes!

told by me.

(your favorite
ghost.)

+++

Do you remember
spring..
and secrets shared?

to ease the winters
of suffering!

(before true love
was there.)

j.s.h.

daylight kills. (the midnight mood.)

Daylight Kills.
(The Midnight Mood.)
++++++++++++++

Last Night
you
Loved Me..
So
I was A
God...
I

but this
Morning
A Devil
Wears My
Face..

and
Smiles
like The
Greatest
Fraud!

(who
knows
He Fell
From
Grace.)

+++

Last
Night
I loved..

and..

it was
Perfect!


(Angel
Lips
became
My
Favorite
Food.)

yet this
morning
I feel like
I don't
deserve it!

(perhaps
Daylight
kills The
Midnight
Mood?)

+++

Presently..

I am
looking
Back In
Time..

While
drowning
in
an Ocean full
of
Alcohol and
Rhymes.

waiting...


and
wondering
Why
She makes
Me
Want
to
Scream!!!

(Perhaps Life
Kills Love's
Perfect Dream?)

j.stephen.h.

angel with the eyes of ice

oh, All of my
most recent words
they are intended
to entice!..

that Angel with
The Eyes of Ice.

(who melts my
Soul.)

j.s.h.

dear imaginary fan.

Dear Imaginary Fan.
____________________

Should I dream
how Emerson
Dreamt?

(for all the
world to see.)

Or weep as
Nietzsche
wept?!

(A Dead
Horse beaten
by The Fists
of Destiny.)

Oh, Heaven
and Hell have
Always Crept.

(throughout the
Pages of History.)

WIth Secret
Chapters written,
(and kept) by
Reclusive Men
Like Me!

_

If an Angel
trips upon it's
Pride and Falls
(again) to Earth,

will it tempt
(with Lust) The
Primitive Mind?

(and Steal Our
Second Birth.)

_

Should I keep
This Truth a
Mystery?

(buried in My
Heart.)

Though it
makes me
The Mate of
Misery!

(Perpetually
Hiding In The
Dark.)
___

Oh, if only
Heaven and
Hell did not
so often seem,
like interchangeable
Realities made!

(By a Reclusive
Gods' Imagining.)

J.Stephen.H.

such roses never last.

Roses Never Last.
___________________

I sit up
Eating Words
until I Shit
My Heart Out
for you.

(but the smell
of Roses
makes it all
seem worth
it.)
_

Did you
ever think
it would be
The End so
Quickly?

That I
would Rant
away The Hope
We Had
For Better
Things?

I Always
figured that I'd
talk myself
back into
The Lonely.

(and Perish
Due To The
Torment
Our Love
Brings.)
_

Still,..
I Wish
I could've
touched
your Heart
enough so that
you didn't Shit
Me Out This Fast,

but..I imagine
it's only Nature.

(Considering
such Roses Never
Last.)

j.stephen.h.