You Entered Sideways Laughing

You entered sideways laughing
Through a door that holds no key
To where you found all self belief
Now maybe you will see

No longer will you wallow
In self defeating modesty
It took so long, but now you know
Just who that you can be

No not alone, our hearts entwined
Let reach exceed your grasp
I own no goods, there’s nothing real
Watch ego slowly pass

For now your smile is distant
I hold it in my love
There is no more important gift
No brighter star above

So, just before I sleep
I seek your soul divine
The only joy in this sad place
An angel so refined

 - J James

Human Rights Of Passage

These human rights of passage
Defining who we are
Will they hold us in our darkest hour?
Or help us reach a star?

Watching old French movies
With a smile upon his face
A hollow slow uncouth affair
That falls so short on grace

There’s no tender understanding
Of all that we hold dear
It’s a desperate crawl to mind our own
And grab another beer

I say goodnight and close my eyes
Leaving all my faults behind
But who or what I wake to be
Depends on what I find

In my Dreams

 - J James

One Day We Will Find

When I need what’s real
I dream of you
What once was so distant
Came beautifully true

Ignoring their taunts
Those visions so vile
Your sounds they will save
Not a soul can defile

Aloof and inspired
Our search never ends
When the paper is gone
Then how will they spend

Advancing to cure
A condition divine
We transcend all the fixes
Our path undefined

What’s imagined is clay
If it’s held in our mind
What we seek, if to be
One day we will find

 - J James

Nothing More

(It may mean nothing to you, but it’s everything to me)

That voice will echo eternally
Your smile, it haunts my days
Those thoughts, how they stir my perceptions
Heating my cold distant ways

Change will arrive unannounced
Liberation from all that ensnares
So your fears will not always be molten
And the dark disappears with your cares

There are few things as sad as a clock
Memories lie ‘cos they can
Distance, it nurtures nostalgia
While stealing the child from the man

The chords fall apart into wishes
The words make you laugh, make you soar
All this love in my heart she created
By a whisper, a kiss, nothing more

Nothing more…

 - J James