~Sadsong~

If the day should come
when you would leave me
with broken bits of love
to fill my mind-
My heart would not believe
you could deceive me
or leave the time we share
so far behind.

I can't remember when
you did not own me-
My mind, my heart, my life
are in your keep.
The emptiness- as if
you'd never known me-
would haunt my waking hours-
invade my sleep.

If the day should come
when you would leave me,
alone-without your love,
without my friend-
Just realizing you
no longer need me,
my journey, here on earth,
would find an end.

Kaitlyn Kiri~ 2000

~Quietly I Sing~

Quietly, I sing to thee
evening songs of shadows falling.
Fading hope of what might be
in the shadows, softly calling.

Patiently, I sing my song,
waiting for the dawn of promise.
Needing somewhere to belong,
and to share this feelings' newness.

Patience is a child of hope,
waiting, stilly, for the waking.
Giving me the strength to cope
with the pain of my heart aching.

Is the love worth all the pain,
all the wondering and endurance?
Or are all my dreams in vain?
I am a prisoner of your silence.

Kaitlyn Kiri ~1997

Where Have You Gone?

Where have you gone, my friend?
I live on hope of our becoming.
Have you tired of this pretend?
I hear a distant death-knell drumming.
Sadness slowly claims my senses,
spreading dread across the mind.
Trying to enslave emotions,
sorrow, surely, close behind.
Where have you gone, my friend?

Kaitlyn Kiri ~1998

~The Flame Will Die~

I know you are there,
I love you for trying.
I see that you care~
Not much sense denying.

Let's just say that I am sad.
There are so many dreams I had.
They are like candles in the wind,
The flame will die,
the dreams will end.

Kaitlyn Kiri ~1998

~No More Than A Memory~

Time and distance
will replace,
old dreams with new,
and can erase,
thoughts so present
and intense.
Dreams give way
to common-sense.
The day will come
when I will be
no more than
a memory~

Kaitlyn Kiri ~1998

~Endings~

I love you more than words can say.
You love me, too, this I believe.
I don't want to go away,
But someday, luv, I'll have to leave.

Right now, I just can't stand the thought
of never seeing you again.
Can't bear to lose the time we've bought
or have what we're becoming, end.

The truth and fantasy of you
has opened vistas in my mind.
I know that you can feel it, too~
How can we leave this love behind?

Kaitlyn Kiri ~1998

So Softly

You came so softly~

like shadows in the night.

You sang so sweetly~

you were a pure delight.

You'll leave so swiftly~

I'll never know your gone.

I'll hear so sadly~

the echo of your song.

Kaitlyn Kiri ~1998

Sleepless Souls

Sleepless souls in shadows, weeping,
for the dreams of days gone by.
For lost lovers, in their keeping,
for release of souls which die.

This, the death, though not eternal,
creates an agony of mind,
which ceaselessly awaits renewal
of the love they left behind.

Kaitlyn Kiri~ 1998

Friend

I don't think I can stay away.
I look at you and feel the pain.
Your pain or mine? Who is to say?
So I will talk with you again.
Perhaps, one day, the need will end,
and I will only call you friend.

Kaitlyn Kiri~ 1999

Beyond Weeping

Here beyond the feel of weeping
is a gentle, even plane~
where the feel of pain is sleeping,
lying dormant in the rain.
There is peace in sleeping sadness~
hearts erect a fragile wall,
when the pain beyond forgiveness~
threatens to destroy the soul.

Kaitlyn Kiri~ 1998

Only Strangers

Only strangers when they meet,
different paths and different tales.
Sharing something incomplete,
dreams they have and why life fails.

Looking into their tomorrow,
seeking answers mind to mind.
Finding love that's only borrowed.
Somehow, still, a special kind.

I'll remember meeting briefly,
all the caring things you said,
when my time is cold and lonely.
And the dreams I have are dead.

Kaitlyn Kiri ~1998

~A Different Story~

Desolated by my hearts' defection,
astoundingly miscast, by fates' design.
Simply, stilly, waiting for rejection,
the course unaltered, easy to define.

The harsh reality of my existence
in time, beyond the scope of your desire.
All accolades of this fantastic pretense
created only pictures, which inspire.

Emotions which, to my design, are glory,
may only be distractions to your mind.
My premises, to you, a different story.
To all the truths, I must defer, resigned.

Kaitlyn Kiri~ 1998

~You Are There~

I miss you, friend.
Your like a song
without an end.
It echoes long~

And never goes
out of my mind,
until I know
all of the lines.

So you are there,
eternally.
Your everywhere
inside of me.

Your like a song
without an end
and you belong.
I miss you friend.

Kaitlyn Kiri~ 1998

~Alone~

Ah, luv, when you are gone away,
I will look at death
and see a friend.

All joy will vanish from the day.
I will wait, bereft,
for life to end.

There will be nothing more for me,
just what we've known
and shared, we two.

With sorrow for my company,
I shall be alone
with thoughts of
you.

Kaitlyn Kiri ~1998

~I Will Regret~

When this dream of love is over,
and the fire gone from the heart,
regret the kiss we won't discover~
the touch, denied, before we part.

Regret the joy we could have taken,
in each others' company~
Regret a love, that was forsaken,
before it had a chance to be.

Kaitlyn Kiri ~1999

~Images~

Let me not know any kindness,
for the song of hope is easily inspired.
All this time I've lived in blindness,
believing only that which I've desired.

Still, the sound of hopes' survival
mediates each passing thought I have.
And the pain of loves' denial
seeks, unerringly, to hold me slave.

Give my soul no cause for dreaming.
Fantasy is just a lovers' lie.
And the light, so brightly gleaming,
just an image of the inner eye.

Kaitlyn Kiri ~1999

~Death~

Where did I lose the dreams of yesterday,
the joy in life and love that I once knew?
I guess, sometimes, the vision drifts away,
and the love that once I held as true.

Just how can one contain elusive thought,
or remember all the music heard?
So for the loss of something dreams had wrought,
I weep, without the song, nor any word.

You came into my mind with subterfuge,
a pretense which compelled my love and trust.
You sang a song my heart could not refuse,
until the truth turned every hope to dust.

Kaitlyn Kiri ~1999