The Power Of Brown Eyes

The Power Of Dark Eyes

With just one look

Across a crowded room

A slight turn of the head

Away from her conversation

Reveals the face

Behind the long dark hair

Just one glance

Slightly sideways

And angled upwards

So the whites highlight

Those deep dark eyes

Held just one or two seconds

And you have me

Completely disarmed

Unable to think

Drowning in your gaze

Knees weakened

From your near fatal blow

If you take that second shot

I will surely fall

©Copyrighted by Colin Ryan (2010)

Hopeless Dreamer

Hopeless Dreamer

Hopeless hopeless dreamer

Always waiting for your happy ending

Don’t you know this world wasn’t made that way?

Where is the job that never feels like work?

The one that you get up with the sun to do

You swore it would find you some day

But you worked yourself into the ground

In a career that you always despised

And you paid for it with your health

Did you think this was supposed to be easy?

You hopeless hapless dreamer

Again with your head in the clouds

Wanting the world to be peaceful

With benevolent leaders and everyone free

You deride the ever more nonsensical rules

Until the weight of the establishment

Crushes your righteous stand

And all around you the hate boils over

But you keep on dreaming that it will change

Hopeless foolish dreamer

Still wanting and waiting for that woman

Yes the one you always dreamed of

The one who has everything you look for

How many times you almost found her

Just settle for what’s is around you

Stop reaching for something you can’t have

If it’s too hard to attain surely it’s not for you?

Dreams are supposed to be easy aren’t they?

Well you keep looking for her dreamer

Don’t blame me when you find yourself alone

Hopeless hopeless hopeless dreamer

What on earth are you saying now?

Without a dream there is nothing

They give us hope, goals and destiny

But still a dream my foolish boy

A dream given intention can become real

Foolish dreamer you live in your imagination

Oh yes yes yes so from that do come ideas

But not for you or would not your dreams be real?

I will not argue with you any longer

Waste your life hopelessly looking and waiting

Your nonsense is all in your head

©Copyrighted by Colin Ryan (2010)

A Time Of Failure

A Time Of Failure

We are at the bottom of a wave

In the undulations of the flow of time

In this trough where injustice prevails

This is a time when the good will fail

For no other reason than the time line

Where pure relationships crumble

And our best endeavours are fruitless

What is right and good will be resisted

Lost are the greatest opportunities to fear

I beg you do not let this darkness take you under

Lift up your eyes to see the white crested waves

Fight back and reach out your intention

For this future will carry us on high once again

©Copyrighted by Colin Ryan (2010)

My Balance

My Balance

This world I chose

Or did it choose me?

Is a dangerous one to enter

For the mind and soul are tested to their limits

If only to stay in balance with life

Dark are the clouds that roll over the horizon

I see the black smoke in the distance

Not turning away I must head towards it

Sometimes too single minded and blinkered

Only seeing ahead

My fixed stare reflects the black heart of the beast

Eyes piercing the darkness

A face of stone

And my heart likewise stills

To face the beast I become like it

As determined to destroy it as it is to destroy us

It feels lonely in the darkness

This quest can cloak me from my light

The brightness still surrounds me

But alone sometimes I cannot feel it

Yet I know I can fight in the light

She is love, she is my balance

Anchoring me back in life

And she opens my eyes wider

To see all around me

Showing me what I am fighting for

And what will be there when this battle is over

With her by my side I face this dark beast with a smile

From inside our world of light

We assail the creature’s deceitful plans

Then retreat to our fortress

Where life and light are untouched by its clawed hand

Keeping me from spiraling into the fire

Where dwells this evil

You are my armour, my light

And show me the way to defeat this beast and live

©Copyrighted by Colin Ryan (2010)

Perfectly Imperfect

Perfectly Imperfect

If your face was a vision of sculpted perfection

Without freckles or lines nor those cute little dimples

My head wouldn’t turn seeing you in a crowd

My eyes not transfixed on your every expression

If your voice was the purest of notes on the ear

With eloquent words always calming and smooth

My ears wouldn’t notice the sound of you speaking

They are tuned to your quirky and spirited song

If your body stood carved in a statuesque form

A stereotype image of a faultless physique

My hands would not reach for that mannequin shape

But long for the unique warmth of your embrace

If you stood strong in the face of life’s problems

The world never challenged you till help you craved

I would not be there to share the burden you carry

If my arms weren’t needed to comfort and care for you

If your temperament always remained in control

Never showing your passion or true complex feelings

How could I connect with those parts of your soul

Forming deepening bonds that will last us a lifetime

If your smile were a permanent feature of you

Never angry or sad, never troubled or lonely

I wouldn’t be able to cheer up your mood

And bring you the rainbows on your rainy days

If you never need more than a simple hello

Or a smile or a quick call to sate your hearts needs

I’d overwhelm you with my desire to express

How I love to be with you each minute we share

If you never had times when you doubted our future

And inside your heart never heavy with questions

I would not be ready to reassure your feelings

And fix those small cracks in your delicate heart

If you were book perfect in every respect

I would not be happy and less would I love you

Yet with all these imperfections that you do possess

You’re my most perfect woman I shall ever know

For I am imperfect I humbly admit it

And I quite often fail with the best of intentions

But if my perfect girl will love me as I am

We shall perfectly fit in our imperfect world

©Copyrighted by Colin Ryan (2010)

Imperfect Love

 

Imperfect Love

If your looks were flawless

I would not see you

If you spoke only eloquence

I would not hear you

If your body was faultless

I would not feel you

If you were without frailties

I would not care for you

If you never had failures

I would not support you

If your mood was always serene

I would not connect with you

If you were constantly happy

I would not laugh with you

If your needs were too simple

I would not want you

If your heart never doubted

I would not pursue you

If you were just perfect

I would not love you

For I am imperfect

So could you love me?

If sometimes I fail you

Could you forgive me?

For I am only human

And you are like me

How perfectly matched

Imperfect love could be

©Copyrighted by Colin Ryan (2010)

Two Suns

Two Suns

The days are no longer brilliant

Only the sun rises in the east

And casts long shadows across my world

But what has happened to the sun that rose in the west?

My second dawn

Something has stolen her beauty

Her warm radiance that for the first time

Illuminated my world from both sides

Casting light on the shadow

So I could finally see my whole world

It is now extinguished forever

And the darkness covers the land

©Copyrighted by Colin Ryan (2010)

Big Sky

Big Sky

Today I have a big sky

Huge clouds rise up ahead

Lit by the low sun behind me

The blue-grey and the white

And the rich colours of dusk

Intertwined and layered

In beautiful steps and patterns

Reflecting islands of sunlight

Like distant mountains

Where beyond lie new lands

With mist filled valleys

And snow covered hill tops

Rolling down towards me

Onwards and upwards is goes

Higher than the sky

Like the earth turned inside out

This curve has no horizon

As I see the whole world from inside

The places I want to visit

Pinpointed like the stars outside

The world feels closer this way

And the people feel nearer

I can smile to you on the other side of the world

©Copyrighted by Colin Ryan (2010)

Keep Going

Keep Going

Don’t wait

There is no miracle

Only you

No perfect match

Or balance

Always imbalance

Steady yourself

Or fall

Take the road

Your road

Wait for none

There are always others

Let them try

Let them fail

One will succeed

Don’t fear

Only good will follow you

Find you

Keep you

Hold you

The path will be marked

Little arrows

If shared or alone

Keep going

©Copyrighted by Colin Ryan (2010)

Upstairs

Upstairs

Racing up the stairs

Trying to keep up

Two at a time laughing

Hot on your heals

You’re so hard to catch

As you really want to win

Then half way to the top

You suddenly turn

And I just about pass you

Looking back for you

A serious face, no smile

Just a hard pull on my arm

As you throw me down the stairs

Expressionless and quiet

You watch me fall over and over

One step after another

Into a heap near the bottom

Then you smile down

And tell me to hurry up

But I’m black and blue

And everything hurts

Shouldn’t you be up here?

You ask unperturbed

I’m too winded to move

Perhaps I’ll just stay down here

Afraid of what might happen

When I catch you up again

If you throw me from higher up

I’m going break something badly

I can’t climb fast now anyway

Unless your going to help me

Can I trust that helping hand

That is pulling me back?

I wish I could be sure

©Copyrighted by Colin Ryan (2010)