Day 25 - Paris Was Not Meant to Be?

My darling you made promises to me

Years ago that we would visit that city

Where boulevards are made of the lovely and fine

Where we would find joie de vivre, yours and mine

The clock behind says it is not possible

The mighty ocean without you is uncross-able

So why did you leave me here so lonely

You will always be my one and only

This was your present, you said I was the gift

That in all the world, only I could lift

You, up and high into the skies above

Together we would discover the City of Love

But you have gone to the ground they say

And all my dreams have fallen away

Yet as I walk our quiet town and small places

There is nothing that is not yours in the faces

Our little flower shop where you bought the first bouquet

That is now the path leading me to places far away

That simple park bench where you caressed my hand

None in all the cities of the world could ever understand

Why that is the place I treasure more than all the rest

Anywhere we were, will forever be the best

But darling I do not know how with you gone

They swear the City of Love goes on

That the tower still pierces the night sky with light

That there are still dreams and hopes that are bright

It has gone away forever and ever

Now that we are not together

That is the fact that remains and lives on

The only one I think of, now that you are gone

So please come back and together we will be

The revivers of the joys of that beautiful city

It is unfair that a shot to your golden heart

Could be the last thing to tear us apart

Please my love, wake me from this nightmare

No one else knows just how you and I would care

Stop lying there and quickly come with me

To the place we always wanted, that beautiful city

Day 8 - The Key

The Key

You pull away to run and flee to freedom and peace

But not quite yet you still have more locks to turn

You think with a click is the ultimate release

But you silver one, have still much to learn

The methods of opening into the darkness

It keeps the young ones still wary and cautious

Dark brings about such vulnerability

And you only dare open the white door

The simple design of yours, suggests humility

We all know secretly though, you want to soar

Opening gates up in the heavens above

To places of calmness, quiet and love

Your brass chain it has some other plan

To go down to the depths far below ground

To discover the source of all plights of man

Where screaming and anguish in caves resound

And finally your tag is made of lighter things

It suggests mundane games and gentle swings

Not too much to hide from or censor

It is tugging just so lightly for the middle

Wanting gentle days and nothing much more

It finds no need to hungrily fiddle

In the affairs of all the rest

And perhaps it secretly knows it is the best

All together you suit one another well

Opening some places and locking others

There is not a single message you sell

Instead you combine as a band of brothers

To open the door into darkness or light

Always knowing that everything shall be alright