MY EYES NEVER LIED – REPRISE

By Charles Robert Lindholm 

How bold was I
to ask a Lady
with a broken heart
to trust me 

How brave was she

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AN UNNAMED MUSE – REPRISE

By Charles Robert Lindholm

She speaks to me
in the middle of the night
I wake to the silence
and hear, “You must write”

She tells me
of words
and makes them so clear
as She whispers

HAIKU: LET THE TRUTH BE TOLD – REPRISE

By Charles Robert Lindholm

Must we live with hate

NEXT TO ME – REPRISE

By Charles Robert Lindholm 

I see you with the children
your heart is filled with love
your voice is soft and tender
like the cooing of a dove 

your smile is like the sunshine

TIC TOC A LITTLE FASTER, CLOCK – REPRISE

By Charles Robert Lindholm and Linda Luna

Tic Toc-ing clock

please move faster

and stop torturing me

Tic Toc a little faster, clock

and bring my lover

CALL ME CRAZY – REPRISE

By Charles Robert Lindholm 

You think I’m crazy
and maybe I am to you
because I don’t believe the same
or do the things you do 

WEAPONS – REPISE

By Charles Robert Lindholm

 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

twenty six letters
weapons
funny shapes and angles
made into words
telling me things
I don’t want to know 

IN MY THOUGHTS – REPRISE

By Charles Robert Lindholm

I’ve been holding you
in my thoughts all day
like I used to do
with my girls
at the playground

my eyes were always
watching them
that’s where my heart was
they are part of me
family
loved ones

OF ALL THE POEMS, IN ALL THE WORLD – REPRISE

By Charles Robert Lindholm 

Of all the poems
in all the world
you found mine 

OUR LAST DANCE – REPRISE

By Charles Robert Lindholm

We started our Last Dance
five years ago
when we got the final diagnosis
we were dreading to hear