with care and respect ( july 19 , 2012 ) im gratefully humble for living today although you are so gone from my life in any way i took you for granted perhaps years ago but appreciate you now more than youll ever know i didnt understand then the gift that was you but now all these years later i finally do with care and respect i will always love you a lifetime of struggle you come and you go you were always inside me i just want you to know and when she tells you its over that shes not yours to protect dissect and disassemble with care and respect lonely dance step ( 1980 ) she took my synonyms eating peanut m & ms a backrub for my favorite dancer i guess im just a strange romancer im just a lonely dance step you can pick me up in two or three steps you performed me before you should know me by heart when shall we start again there are many fine fronts in dusseldorf ( nov 7 , 2012 ) its such a long long way to wickford today the promenade of the river rhine loretto hall when she was mine bidding time drinking blue nun wine but as long as we are both alive we will share the sky there are many fine fronts in dusseldorf today wickford cove and the gardners wharf tailor-wibbel-lane the gaslights flicker the same today having coffee in the twisted tower of schlosstusum just before the sunset colors come but as long as we are both alive we will share the sky down pleasant street st. lambertus church young cemetery old narragansette church gas lights flicker on the streets to greet the evening incomplete but as long as we are both alive its such a long long way in life we shall share the sky we will share the sky my love speaks from the sky ( dec 3 , 2012 ) my love speaks from day to day reciting silent poetry i see her eyes what no one sees casting spectrums of academy what words just can not own and whistling through the bus lined streets an image slowly matching me in spite of all the energy their faces stand alone in bluish traces from a thread the clothes give image to the head despite the novelty , theyre dead what the needle pricked it has not sewn the passing clouds envision things and tumble slowly over me the wise man looks but doesnt see the prophecies above his head and home the world spins like a penny escaping more than many deflecting love and pitty like the money passing through your bones my love speaks from the sky on cold nights when trash blows by she stays too busy to ask me why never knowing what the clouds may bring despite life ( jan 15 , 2013 ) you wake up in the morning pour yourself a cup of coffee get on with daily glory the grind and push of business boring and years repeat themselves ever engaging numbers changing when you are alone you are still by yourself and love and childhood seems like someone else despite life you are someone else because of life you are someone else than when you began and you never understand despite life about the author steven thomas attended webster college and graduated from lindenwood college with a ba in journalism .