shades of gray

the starkest shades of
black and white
when seen through youthful eyes ...
turn gently gray - their lines erased
when seen with love’s
great gift of time.

© Debbie Finlay



sleeper



as the day turned into night
and darkness filled the sky
i watched as you quickly fell
into a world of lies

into the land of peaceful sleep
with your dead reality
where nothing is quite what it seems
and your ghosts sing harmony

when shadows fall across your face
i'm looking for a clue
but you're blanketed with dreams
that i'm not privy to

in the morning when you wake
you start it all again
is this the day i see you
or will you still pretend ...

are you just a sleeper
on the road to nowhere fast
you can't have a present
while you're caught up in the past.

© Debbie Finlay

another player


i took a lot of chances
maybe they were wrong
maybe i am paying now
as you have been all along

isn't that what it’s about
what we call real life
and when the circus ended
we both turned out the lights

took a chance and placed a bet
on a thing that made us blind
left our own reality
to create a piece of time ...

our castle crumbled slowly round me
but was it really there
had it all been built on dreams
pretty lies whispered to the air

if i fell hard, don't let it wake you
this thing, too, shall pass
another lover, with clever lines
will also break this heart of glass.

taking chances - sometimes wrong ones
placing bets and stealing hearts
bodies hot, at midnight burning ...
and ending things that shouldn't start ~

play on ....

© Debbie Finlay

08-07-10 dhf.