THE SECRET LOVE
It's the secret you told 
never young never old
to her eyes when she wanted to see
and the deepest of you 
was a thing that she knew
though you hid, it was all meant to be.

In the plan of all things 
for all beggers and kings
in a manner of speaking it's free
but the price is so high 
that you sell never buy
and she needs to know how it could be.

There's a song you have heard 
and she sings every word
you must sing them along in her key
and her voice soft and clear 
is the sound you will hear
through the rest of your life willingly.

If you touched her you'd die 
or melt into the sky
so you hide everything that you know
from her eyes that have seen 
all that it's ever been
when she looked then you let it all show.

She's the dream in the night 
and the dream in daylight
and the dream is where ever you go
like a mist in your mind 
and you never can find
any end to the dream that you know.

So you hide in your shell 
every word that you tell
every time that she looks there to see
and she wonders at you 
what you never can do
how you cling to what never can be.
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 THE SECRET PLACE
In this, the secret place we might have made,
except for light concealing it to shade;
if I had loved you somewhat less, you'd know,
love might have grown, but had no place to grow.

The forest breathes sunlight in streaks of dust,
awakening from night and in God's trust;
there on the leaf, refreshed by morning dew,
are lady bugs, their secret place, and you.

Had faeries danced to music in the vine,
we might have heard, perhaps they were to dear;
in this, the secret place of yours and mine,
we might have stayed a while to see it clear;
had not there been too much of light to shine,
had not there been too many songs to hear.
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