Heartstrings: January 2017

Friday, January 27, 2017

Afraid

Been looking at the telephone

and wondering should I call

So much I want to say to her

afraid I'll lose it all...

I think about her day and night

I speak of her in rhyme

Is there a chance for both of us

or am I out of line?...

Is all of this a fantasy

created in my mind?

A teetering relationship

that soon will all unwind?...

I've got to know for sure right now
I'll dial her up and see
I hear her voice within my ear
hello my love, it's me...

All Rights Reserved Jon Arno 2017

Music by Stephan Moccio

Saturday, January 21, 2017

Tired of Hurting

Why did you let me fall in love?
You could have walked away
When I began to reach for you
you asked that I would stay...

But now your silent and removed
the days pass on their way
And just when I began to live
you find more words to say...

You keep me hanging on a rope
can't take another blow
You reel me me in from time to time
and then you let me go...

I wont pick up the telephone
the next time that you call
I'm tired of playing make-believe
and hurting from the fall...

Friday, January 20, 2017

I Have No Wings

Standing on a mountain top

the world before my view

Everywhere I look right now

my thoughts come back to you...

From deep within my very soul

I cry out loud your name

An echo soon encircles me

and tears pour out like rain

My darling how I miss you so

I'm here under the sky

I can't get closer now my love

I have no wings to fly...

Music by Stephan Moccio

These Words

I know one day you'll read these words

they'll wait until that time

A message from my heart to yours

I penned for you in rhyme...

I think we could have made it Babe

I wish we would have tried

So many nights I laid awake

sometimes I even cried...

Your precious name,I won't write down

I'll seal this with a kiss

Will love you till the end of time

the one who's reading this...

Music by Paul Cardall

Sunday, January 15, 2017

To Love Another Day

Sifting through the memories

the aftermath of life

Ashes now are all that's left

the pain cuts like a knife...

Devastation everywhere

no matter where I turn

Subtle streams of smoke arise

from embers that still burn...

Lovers who exchanged their vows

when both had come of age

Somehow got tangled in a web

and bliss turned into rage...

How I wish the rain would fall

and wash it all away

Heal my heart so I can hope

to love another day...

Sunday, January 8, 2017

Friends

Memories knocking at the door

we visit in my mind

Replaying all the glory days

and those I left behind...

I still remember each of you

you're all still in your prime

Forever living in my heart

until the end of time...

Gardens

They sleep in gardens filled with tears
a marker with their name
From time to time a visitor
who helped them through their pain...

The silence there so deafening
a peace that one can feel
The moments now become profound
it all seems so surreal...

Memories come like ocean waves
they splash upon the mind
And when at last a terse goodbye
a flower left behind...

Saturday, January 7, 2017

Reeling

Oh how much I miss you babe

it's never been the same

My heart went silent on the day

I whispered last your name...

My world is just a fraction of

what life was all about

Sometimes I go and find a place

where I can scream and shout...

How is it that we still survive

and wake another day?

When reeling from what we have lost

it's hard to even pray...

The Best Thing

I should have kept you in my arms

and never let you go

I've spent a lifetime looking back

at what I didn't know...

You were the best thing in my life

I thought you'd always stay

You waited till you had to go

and then you walked away...

I've seen your face so many times

inside a crowded place

And every time I'd look again

my heart would always race...

I guess I'll never know again

the sweetness of your kiss

The way you looked when we went out

the many nights of bliss...

Thursday, January 5, 2017

Sweet Slumber

You're far away from me tonight

I wish that you were here

Sometimes emotions touch my heart

and bring a little tear...

I get these feelings deep inside

they beg me run to you

I know that I can't go right now

it's not what I should do...

Oh come sweet slumber don't delay

please take me to a place

Where I can kiss my lovers lips

and fall in his embrace...

Journey

Sailing on the winds of time
the journey of my soul
Who am I within this world
and what should be my role...

I know we're part of something great
one day we'll understand
Until my eyes can truly see
I'll search to know the plan...

We're tied together in a web
a mastermind conceived
You and I were meant to be
much more than we believed...

All Rights Reserved Jon Arno 2017

Music by

Anthony Greninger