His eyes
Create galaxies
Heavenly bodies
And earthquakes
In my bones
His eyes
Blue as a sky
For my mind
Shining diamonds
A favorite prize
His eyes an ocean
Deep depths to explore
Creating motion
Sinking evermore
My heart his shore
His eyes like waves
Crash into existence
Can they see
I was made for thee
Without permission
His eyes cast rays
Heating my skin
Warming my days
I can feel again
For him love always
© Delia Ross. 2019
I already knew I loved him
Though not the hour when
I already felt at home
In a place I’d never been
© Delia Ross. 2019
Baby, why do you hide?
Is there room for me inside?
Baby, why have you run?
Is it something that I’ve done?
Baby, why did you go?
Am I someone you don’t want to know?
Baby, why are we hurting?
Do you feel we’re not worth it?
Baby, why do you fear?
Everything we wanted is finally here.
Baby, I didn’t mean to push you away
Please tell me you’re coming back someday?
Baby, why do you haunt me like a ghost?
When I’m the person who misses you most
© Delia Ross. 2019
It doesn’t exist
Nothing is perfect
But we exist
And I can’t resist
My lips to kiss
All that’s hurt
To find a perfect fit
And to worship it
Just like magic
Until my love is felt
For it to bring you rest
Let it nest
Let it connect
For you to accept
I’m not done loving you yet
It’s time for you to resurrect
Remember I fell for this quest
To make your life blessed
To whisper sweet nothings on your neck
To rest my worries on your chest
And to have finally slept
Beside your very best
That’s all we have left
Love is the subject
For you it was meant
In my soul it is etched
In my spirit it is dreamt
Through my heart swept
Underneath my breast
With both hands prepped
Where both feet leapt
And both knees bent
To you who I can’t forget
Who put me to the test
Who made me wept
Where all my love crept
With all my patience spent
Crawling where you are sketched
Wanting your respect
Hoping my love you won’t neglect
© Delia Ross. 2019
How did it come to be?
Two strangers growing stranger
Rooting and growing under the same tree
Where both souls are endangered
What fruit did we eat?
That put our life in danger
Eyes that see and tongues that never speak
But love that tames our nature
Give me seed
Not a glacier
Walk with me
For the remainder
© Delia Ross. 2019
You’ll find you’ll hardly make it out alive
You’ll find you’ll hardly make it out in time
You’ll find him hidden inside my rhyme
You’ll find she’s rarely ever cross your mind
You’ll find you can see where you were blind
You’ll know where to find me if so inclined
You’ll find me in jail where my hearts been confined
Though uncoupled we are still aligned
Our souls in orbit just as designed
Cut the ropes to your past and leave all behind
© Delia Ross. 2019
I cross lines not made for me
He sails across my stormy sea
I break rules when he is not around
He has the strength to carry my frown
Where I see apocalypse
In his view is an eclipse
Though my cross is more than I can carry
He offers a hand so it is less heavy
My troubles are handled by the soul of a clown
Despite my flaws he continues to carry my crown
Distance befalls the soul as a crucifix
Navigating ghostly tides to find each other’s lips
© Delia Ross. 2019
Forget the riches, life is vicious, get out the ditches, pick up the pieces, keep on reaching, march on speaking, build new bridges, drop suspicion, clear your vision, trust the mission, life enriches, keep repeating!
© Delia Ross. 2019
Too honest, too open, too spoken
Too loud, too proud, too broken
Too much, too soon, too potent
Deep inside one heart permanently frozen
Overlooked, overheard, never chosen
Shutting down, her door is closing
Laid to rest the energy of hoping
And though gone she’s still provoking
Heaven hears her storm approaching
© Delia Ross. 2019
BOOM…
Her noise crashed into existence
An adulterer of daylight
In the eyes of the night a mistress
Still the Sun would chase her with all of his might
Penetrating years to lessen the distance
Every sky diamond flickers white candle light
But ask him of commitment and he’s a terrible witness
He will disappear before the Moon is in sight
His energy expelled before the ink dries from words written
Feeding from his lies as a tiny parasite
Chewing on his poison never seeking his permission
Ignoring red flags as your soul fills with blight
Asking for truth only delivers misinformation
Dancing for love on the back of the night
Keep chasing light despite its resistance
© Delia Ross. 2019
Why can’t for once someone accept my love
Try it on like a pair of pants or gloves
Wear it a bit longer like a stylish cut
Or so many times as you would a favorite
Until it is covered in stains and cigarette burns
And smells of a favorite expensive perfume
It smells of dizzy lovers
Cheap whiskey
Heavy regrets
Well, hopefully not any of those yet
Tattered and torn but the pockets still work
It’s vintage (like the best stuff)
All the hours connected to skin
It wrapped you during any weather
It would do it again
You ponder trashing it in the bin
A gift to charity is less of a burden
Never contemplating sewing it at the hem
Fixing parts where it may be broken
© Delia Ross. 2019
Buried Sun, why do you run
Where do you hide
Your colors paint my town
When you come around
My pulse beats fast but my temper slows
My frown rises as my temperature grows
Love a rainbow clouding the view
It stretches beyond the ends horizon too
Buried Sun, you are no fun
When you travel to the dark side
© Delia Ross. 2019
Orbits caught in gravity
They form and make a galaxy
Hands that grasp the sands of time
Bonds that form and never die
Love which riddles lie with truth
Tongues which move like deja vu
Open doors and open arms
Ride the bull with a crown of thorns
Forgiveness flowing and still current
Forever his devoted servant
Names are roads rarely spoken
Trust are chains never broken
© Delia Ross. 2019
I can feel you longing
I long for you too
Everyday a new dawning
Distance can’t keep me from you
Every night another taunting
My love never withdrew
A feeling of belonging
I hope I’m one of the few
I don’t need to hear that you love me
I really hope that you do
© Delia Ross. 2019
You’ll never need anything better
Let me be your forever
I will carry you any weather
My body is your shelter
Your heart is my treasure
My love will always be your ember
Wrapped around you like a sweater
I’m here for you whenever
You’ll never find another love greater
© Delia Ross. 2019
Meet me out of the blue
I just want an hour with you
And then another two
And then another few
Let the hours accrue
Kiss me when they do
Let me love you through
It is overdue
So let’s rendezvous
I want you as my only view
© Delia Ross. 2019
I got to where I never cry
I can feel the hours passing by
I keep the blinds closed from any sunshine
It doesn’t cost me a dime
To waste all my time
It feels like the wrong design
I still tell them all that I’m fine
Suffocate on all the energy
Surrounded by negativity
Completely numb without sensory
Nothings ever bothering me
Nothing to ever do, no one to see
Married to my invisibility
My soul a wasteland filled with debris
© Delia Ross. 2019
Written words intended to sting
Written traps that would wound a king
Tied it tight to the back of my wing
Stuck around to feel him tugging
Held so tight he could feel me cutting
Cried so loud he could here me coming
Insert the spear while his heart is still pumping
Make sure he knows that I am not bluffing
Leave him broken so he can’t feel nothing
At least then I know he can feel something
And get a taste of the pain he is causing
Let him know how bad I am hurting
Teach him a lesson about deserting
Tie his feet so he can’t keep on running
Oh my love what are we becoming
This isn’t the love that I had summoned
© Delia Ross. 2019
Give me the knowledge to talk to you
Give me an hour to hear me through
Give me your eyes so I can see the view
Give me love where the spaces grew
Give me time to fill up her shoe
Pick me up when I fall as I do
Then one day you may love me too
The same way that I love you
© Delia Ross. 2019
His love is warm
Beware his chemical burn
He’ll make you yearn
It’s where fields of love are born
Beware his thorn
He’ll leave you alone to mourn
You’ll come to learn
How to love his horn
© Delia Ross. 2019
She and her but never me
But you and her aren’t destiny
The other one will never see
You and her just won’t agree
But you and I were meant to be
I love you unapologetically
We need to get in harmony
My heart is waiting patiently
But I won’t wait here infinitely
© Delia Ross. 2019
I shouldn’t have to speak to you in binary code
Even if ones and zeros are the only thing you know
You made it very clear you’re going down a different road
And that your cold shoulder is the only thing you’ll show
You made it very clear I’ll never be your afterglow
So I’ve turned around can you please lower your crossbow
© Delia Ross. 2019
It hurts more than my feelings
It hurts more than my pride
It hurts more than my ego
It hurts more than your lies
It cost more than your freedom
It cost more than my cries
It cost more than your window
It cost more of my time
I live in limbo
While you agonize
I see a hero
You’d never recognize
This is an intro
To a better life
The cost is zero
If you drop the guise
© Delia Ross. 2019
Caught a glimpse
Of his horizon
Headed toward
To enlighten
Instead
I only frighten
I’m not the one
He has the light on
I’ve landed on
An unwanted island
I’m simply tired
Of trying
Sitting around
Only crying
Nobody cares
That I’m dying
© Delia Ross. 2019
Love is the lesson
Love is the mirage
He’ll never keep you guessing
Or keep it camouflaged
Love is the message
Love is the law
Love is the one
Who gets my applause
Love when you can’t
Love just because
Love is his fever
Love is his palms
© Delia Ross. 2019
He’s coming down this road again
With offerings of despair
Wrapped in tears like acid rain
With prayers prayed in vain
Dragging love by a chain
His every action inhumane
His only prize is your pain
His only hope for you to disobey
So he can claim you another day
Purgatory is the way
He’ll keep you bound so you can’t stray
Fill you with doubt so you remain
Enclosed in darkness so you can’t escape
Never asleep but fully awake
Your soul weighed down from the ache
Your every step a mistake
It’ll wrap around you like a snake
Swallow you whole while you decay
© Delia Ross. 2019
Don’t let your mistakes go down with the sun
Don’t let your fears keep you on the run
Don’t put your anger into a gun
Don’t let the devil keep you from having fun
Don’t let his absence from you stun
There’s nothing you could have done
You don’t need love from anyone
It’s over for you but his pain has begun
Don’t let your heart go numb
Don’t let these doubts overcome
Pick up the pace and move on
Move on with the sun
Tell God you want a refund
Bury your frown with the sun
Bury your tears in the red sun
You are a mess son
Or maybe you’re just dumb
Here is your sentence
I gift you your distance
It makes no difference
I’m already on the run
© Delia Ross. 2019
It’s not terribly hard to see you’re always chasing after young silver
Spend your days shinning every dime by the muddy river
Try to hide reflections of a liar in its mirror
If the devil bit you in the head it wouldn’t make it that much clearer
But I’m going to cover you in truth until you shine like glitter
I doubt anything I write can make you more bitter
You’ll probably claim you’re a victim and call me a killer
But neither of us are walking out of here a winner
My heart lost its color and settled for winter
I told you to shoot but you failed to pull the trigger
And now my love for you will always just kind of linger
If you ever want a friend you’re invited for dinner
If you ever need a rare element that’s where I can deliver
I hope one day you will warm my heart from this shiver
Until then my soul will just tremble and quiver
(He always wants the young silver – she’ll never want what he can give her)
© Delia Ross. 2019
I will always love you from afar
The same way I love a distant star
And cast wishes under its light
Where I pray for you every night
I will always wonder where you are
What catastrophic event pushed you so far
Your heart a celestial sphere
But you never let anyone near
And on nights when the sky is clear
I cry into the atmosphere
I couldn’t tell you the hour dear
Every moment I wish you were here
You and I live under the same sky
The winds blow west and carry my cry
With raining tears and a heavy sigh
I lie and promise this is not goodbye
© Delia Ross. 2019
I’m still calling can you listen
I’m still learning from this lesson
I’m still crawling despite our distance
I still see you despite my blurry vision
I’m still moving like I have a mission
I still love him despite his own suspicion
I keep leading when I should be in submission
My feet keep moving in any ole condition
My heart keeps ticking despite this damn addiction
My fire keeps burning with or without his ignition
© Delia Ross. 2019
I need your starlight
The dreams the same every night
I fall asleep in your skies
I wake up to your kind eyes
And with a kiss the Sun will rise
And by your breath the wind chimes
And with your touch my eyes will dry
You are my favorite sky
Your lips are the best prize
Your eyes hypnotize
You are my favorite high
Your mind is a sunrise
Your love is a paradise
© Delia Ross. 2019
He said you are not the reason
And it nearly stopped me dreaming
Now my soul’s in winter season
And I cannot stop it bleeding
Now my heart is barely beating
And for you it’s always weeping
Now I don’t want to go on breathing
And my life has lost its meaning
© Delia Ross. 2019
I’ve made wrong choices, let the wrong friends in my life
One beat me so badly he nearly took my life
I’ve taken many lovers but I’ve never been a wife
Everyone thinks I’m paranoid cuz I’m married to my knife
I’m not giving up, I’m still holding on though I’m losing height
My steps are slowly faltering and I’ve lost my will to fight
Every time I turn around someone has taken another bite
It’s almost like the demons know my soul is filled with blight
I’ve been down this road searching for you for sometime now
I should finally take a rest and give Lu a proper bow
I only care about you, I too avoid the crowd
I am utterly devoted to you and to this I avow
Now you know these terrible truths do you even want me around
Though we’re both wanderers in hell love is still allowed
I wear my favorite sin and I want to make you proud
But if you ghost me in hell I will never make it out
© Delia Ross. 2019
His absence begs me to go
His disinterest tells me so
His eyes I long to know
Feels like I already though
His existence set me aglow
His silence so loud I woke
His sorrow so heavy he broke
His darkness so thick I choke
Our souls twisted together like oak
I am doing my best to climb up
His words like incantations evoke
For who these pages I devote
Into these rhymes which are wrote
My love for him is the most
© Delia Ross. 2019
All these highs, all these lows
Learn to love him, where he goes
Give him patience, room to grow
Love him as he leaves the show
Love the pain that he bestows
Love him while you watch love decompose
Love him as you would the blackest rose
© Delia Ross. 2019
I know not what drives him
How deep his senses swim
Which fear can make him cower
What eats away his hour
From which tear his pain will flower
Who tells him that he matters
How tall I’ll need a ladder
What brings him to his laughter
Who helps him when he’s sadder
Why his eyes pierce deeper than a dagger
How his words can make me stagger
Or why he wears such heavy armor
© Delia Ross. 2019
Feeling less alive on a daily basis
My soul desperately searching for an oasis
Going through life cycles with the moon phases
Constantly seeing strangers in all the worst places
Always disappearing without any traces
Having difficulty remembering some of my lovers faces
Moving around the world living on different bases
Placing all my bets without any aces
© Delia Ross. 2019
Bang bang bang bang
Knocking at your door
Rang rang rang rang
To tell you I want more
Sprang sprang sprang sprang
To bring you peace not war
Sang sang sang sang
Love is our mentor
© Delia Ross. 2019
Why does his love for another hurt me
Why does my heart desert me
It’s such an awful discovery
Why am I so unlovely
To everyone unworthy
© Delia Ross. 2019
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If you look inside – your words instead of hers – it is there that I lie – I’ve been hiding there this whole time
Long are the days, lost are the words
Vast is the maze, lines all were blurred
Heavy this price pays, mistakes have occurred
Blind was my gaze, faltered and uncured
Hot is my blaze, lessons still are learned
Wishing for sunray’s, or confession preferred
Longing for praise, but only silence is heard
© Delia Ross. 2019
It’s half-past heartbreak
The pain grips like a snake
There’s nothing to stop the ache
Once upon a better time
Wasting youth was such a crime
Pride it only cost a dime
It’s long past sorrow
There’s no joy here to borrow
I still pray he calls tomorrow
Third times a charm or so we learn
In slavery until we are adjourned
And so the same ole pages turn
These forty years I only yearn
© Delia Ross. 2019
I don’t belong here
Where I was abandoned
I don’t understand
Why I’m left stranded
I have no ransom
That I’ve demanded
I don’t know
What he’s imagined
It’s such a hard landing
I am enchanted
It’s deep like the Grand Canyon
For that I am reprimanded
The moment taken for granted
And now I am saddened
© Delia Ross. 2019
The consequences were dire
Invitations would expire
There was no will to inquire
Or maybe I just don’t inspire
Take my soul out of the mire
Place it back into the fire
Had I known what would transpire
I would have climbed a bit much higher
I would have found a different buyer
I would have worn different attire
There are goods that I aquire
I need a shelter for my desire
© Delia Ross. 2019
There’s a place that I keep him, safe off the shore
In between my broken heartbeats
Where my mind can reach for more
For a moment felt in sync
Like I’ve never been before
Familiar yet still strange
Like my soul had washed ashore
Finally found a break
For peace instead of war
© Delia Ross. 2019
Caught between a web and a lie
Choice between poison or a bite
Struggle if you must with all your might
Either way you choose you still will die
The spider lets you know that he will fight
The liar advances you just like a knight
Inserts the steel and asks if you’re alright
Wounded by the blade of the words you smite
© Delia Ross. 2019
He appeared, blue eyes to match his mood
Words delayed but mostly understood
Darkness his dagger and his hood
Carrying a cross longer than one should
And then I followed him, into his alleyway
Despite my better judgment, I followed anyway
Plunged into a world of darkness, it’s been my darkest day
A pool of doubt seems to be the only way
It’s warmer where he does appear, I feel him like a sunray
© Delia Ross. 2019
Is this another conversation we’re never having
Say you’re making changes but you’re always found rewinding
The silence that we share is just another kind of binding
We have the will to search but not the will for ever finding
Everywhere we look there’s just another lie we’re winding
But I don’t need a book to know his words are so spellbinding
© Delia Ross. 2019
In truth, I’d rather cut out my tongue
Remove any curses from within my lung
Be the Earth from which he sprung
The sweet melodies in his afternoon sun
The kisses which make one feel eternally young
The breath for which these words are sung
© Delia Ross. 2019
Treading lightly as a feather
Spiraling any kind of weather
By chance we found a treasure
The love we cannot measure
The Alpha and Omega of pleasure
© Delia Ross. 2019
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