swayed?

As it's nearly-but-not-quite-yet valentine's day (and i'll be far too busy doing such non-romantic things as working, supervising the builders and picking up my eldest daughter from the coach station) here's a themed offering.

I wrote this poem while courting (such a quaint word only usuually uttered by grannies) my future wife, and basically persuaded her that i wasn't one of the usual grunts who'd try it on, but was instead a sensitive soul with a soulful heart. or something like that...

Swayed?

Who'll put out the fire
When the fire's out of control?
Who'll wonder of guilt
When the guilt's locked up at home?
Who'll forgive our sins
When I can't see we've sinned at all?
Who knows what might happen
If we spent the night alone?


September 1995

this was followed up with many other outpourings of love and longing (some of which i wouldn't dare wish to be published here due to their over-simplified crapness, reading like some spotty love-struck teenager had recently bought his first thesaurus), but like a good percentage of my poems some were inspired (i.e. ripped off) from music i was listening to at the time. now i know that McAlmont and Butler were never cool, but i love their stuff (especially some of their more, er, camp offerings) and at the time listened a lot to their first album. I was drawn to it by the quite-frankly magnificent Yes, but then discovered a track i liked even more - You Do. It's this track that provided the 'inspiration' for the following...

I Want The World To Know Your Name

I want the world to know your name.
I want the world to feel the same way I do.

I want you to know that you're my chosen one
I want you to be my champion.

I want you to know how I feel
I want the world to feel the same way I do.


October 1995

it's a bit slushy admittedly, but we weren't together at the time (in fact we were with other people). by the way just in case you're wondering, yes we're still together. pretty much makes it a result then!