Day 285 - Then You Came Along

Honestly I stopped looking, long ago

For that bright piece of my day, that glow

But lying next to you I begin to see

Just how wondrous the small things can be.

That strand of pink in your hair

Causes me, daily, to stop and stare

At the golden partners surrounding it

My heart comes more alive in my chest, pounding it

In a smooth rhythm you would adore

So I sit down at your piano once more.

Your piano keys play the strings of my heart

My fingers find the right ones and start

To lay down all the wonders there

Of how you and I became a pair

Notes are expressing it just right today

And so louder and louder I begin to play

To awaken you gently from sleep, sunshine

How blessed I am to call you mine.

Day 258 - Piano City Keys

I weep I cry

Searching for the inside

No more blue sky

Just one more way to be denied

Don't play me like I'm ivory trust

To pour your fingers across

I am not silver, only iron prone to rust

Any tune within I, is a loss

The black keys of this city can't save me

They only echo my anguished plea

Let us try to light up the sky

From this low and dark place

Perhaps we will do more than try

And astonish this city square into grace

From the simplicity of parking lots

We have the hope of our generation

Tied into a thousand digital knots

Without any hope of explanation

We play an unfamiliar melody

Across the photographed piano city key