SLIGHTLY LONGER STUFF: from Aught Six

MARTIAL PLAN
Monster steals at me at night
Itching for reason to fight
I knew that Fate would yield a chance
But would I know the Monster Dance?

Now you're locked up good and tight
It looks like I was in the right
But I know to be a man
I'm going to need a Martial Plan.
March 3, 2006

IF I COULD TELL YOU
If I could tell you
  What it was like
    I sat in Dark
      I saw the Light.

I'd been so long
  In Wilderness
    Surely I must
      Have it all wrong.

Could this be
  Gift from Above
    Could this be . .
      Could this be Love?
April 22, 2006

RENEW THE LEASE
If in the morning
  I must release
You to your scorning
  Not yet at ease
New hope aborning
  Yours if you please
Old sads ashorning
  Renew the lease!
April 30, 2006

CLOSER TO THE LEGEND
Closer to the legend
    You falter
Like Isaac with son
    At altar
Play a song on
    Your psalter
Go hard like Rock
    of Gibraltar
Take a smoke like
    Sir Walter.
April 30, 2006

STICKY LOVE
There's still time
    for sticky love
To be blessed
    by God above
To make me
    your turtle dove
If that's what
    you're dreaming of.
May 6, 2006

WE SHARE A LOVE
We share a Love
  We celebrate
With God above
  On this our date.

The plans we laid
  The Love we've found
The home we made
  Good things abound.

We'll shed all care
  We'll be a team
I'll meet you there
  To live our Dream.
May 10, 2006
(written for somebody)

PRIDE
What purpose serve our Pride?
  Why must the peacock preen
What force burst from inside
  Radioed from every gene?

The answer's in the question
  The Force so integral
That drives our presentation
  Is primally essential.
May 31, 2006