All Songs are About Love

How can I look upon
The red morning
Or violet evening
And not remember
Rhythms too old, too familiar

Needful clouds come again
In hideous force
Leaving an immortal scar
A moment of understanding
Of love and worlds' colliding

I've been broken so many times
Woken by
Distant thunder at midnight
Reminds me
All songs are about love

There have ever been
Two paths, side to side,
Shielded one from the other
Never meeting
I walk through one unaware

The encroaching inferno
Bleeding flame
Into the darkness
Leaves me lacking
The comfort of melancholy grace

I've been broken so many times
Woken by
Distant thunder at midnight
Reminds me
All songs are about love

A wind-blown calm belies my
Strength of breath
Days begin as they end
Given to grey depths
My mystic realities, prosaic fantasies

Unstilled with care and caution
The caressing sea is
Testimony of the passage of time
I exist still, one and separate,
Despite the sacrament of dreams

I've been broken so many times
Woken by
Distant thunder at midnight
Reminds me
All songs are about love

I have endured long nights
Shivering in the moon's passing
The cold wind comforts
Whispering a silent denial
Of mere presence and revival

We tried our best to restore
The innocence long lost
And learned only
Love could not save us
From the world or from us

I've been broken so many times
Woken by
Distant thunder at midnight
Reminds me
All songs are about love

Jon McQuillan 3/18/2015