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Poetry

Well, everybody else has their stupid poetry online, so I figured

I may as well too! All is copyrighted by Karen Ruggero and can not

be used in whole or in part without express and sole consent

of such named.

The Heart's Whisper

Deny me not

For you are forever mine

Like a ship sunk in the sea

Engulfed in an ocean of my love

Deny me not

For you deny yourself.

Run not from me

For no matter where you go

Your heart will remain with mine

You will be empty without it

And I will miss the rest of you

Run not from me

For you run from yourself.

Bird of Prey

Never again

will I let you make me feel

so alone

Like a feather, fallen from your wings

that lays discarded

Solitaire.

For my beauty shines without you still

By itself, for I am magnificent

And you are merely selfish

Adding me to your collection of plumage

Where I am but one of many

Perhaps I cannot fly now

But the earth is more solid

Than the air within your heart.

Days of Grass

Then there were the days of grass

Now

There is only night

Chambers which were once my home

Are cold and stony tombs

Father, what is the sun?

How bright does it shine?

Mother, do you remember

the sea and the stars?

Can they ever be mine?

Long silent voices

Offer no answers.

I can no longer fear

What I have not seen

I escape

I dance

On a beach of salt and sand

And the skull smiles

Remembering life. . .

Capture comes quickly

I see and still do not fear

You

When you are done loving me

Will you set me free

So that I may dance again?

Resistance Fighter

It never mattered much. . . to me

At the time, I never knew why

Darkness seemed different once

But it was always strange

Back then. . .

Like fire caught within the rain.

Through those nights, there was always you

With your broken smile.

What were you thinking then?

What are you thinking now?

I'd travel across time for you

I'll help you find yourself

And when the world falls down in ashes

We will help it rise again.

What will it take to save you (my love)

I'm armed only with my heart

It's beating -- it's beating

It's beating louder than the storm

Raging closer. . .

Coming to take you away from me.

Our future is not set in stone

We can save your world

We can change it

We can set it free.

Affair of Honor

A falcon's wing

Outstretched

Feathers questing

For the slightest touch

of the wind.

Come alive,

Ride the air

to my heart

My bird of prey

My elegant, my master

So majestic, my slave

I am the Keeper of the Winds

But I am nothing

Without you.

Envy

She is like the sunlight

With that smile

and that hair

And I am like the shadows

Sometimes you barely know I'm there

She sparkles so, like diamonds

She is the spotlight

on the stage

But without me, she is nothing

When she leaves

I still remain

And I, I am the night

With one touch

I blanket all

But beside her

how I lessen,

I shatter then I fall.