New Poems for 2018 - Randy Halprin
Randy Halprin
"We tend to see a person in the moment, not as the journey they travelled to get here." Kat Lehmann
Poems/Lyrics
YOU CAN SEE THINGS BETTER FROM FURTHER AWAY
(by Randy E. Halprin)
Looking back
What do I see
Those same sad eyes
I saw at 17
Holding on
So desperately
While fingers pry
To set me free.
(Where do I fall?
Where do I run?
Who do I call when I can't be
Your prodigal son?)
It's hard to see
When you're right on top of it
Things get blurry
Tell you I'm staying,
but run away in a hurry
I don't want to be who you think I am
I'm better than that -
became a changed man
But stepping back
Can you see things clearer?
Will you look at yourself
In the very same mirror?
I'm holding on
So desperately
Holding on -
to hope I cling
(Where do I fall?
Where do I run?
Who do I call when I can't be
Your prodigal son?)
GRACEFULLY
(by Randy E. Halprin)
Some days I'm out of steam
Some days I don't know what it means
I'm a swan on the surface
But underneath, kicking furiously
Just trying to find hope
Trying to dream
Some days it's easier -
easier than it seems
Some days are harder
And tears apart at the seams
But still I float, gracefully
Wherever the stream may take me.
THERE'S NOTHING MUCH
(by Randy E. Halprin)
There's nothing much
I can say to you
But...
I want you
I need you
You haunt me
I love you
Distance makes the heat grow fonder
But alone I sit
Alone I ponder
How much I...
Want you
I need you
I love you
You are my muse
My heart is breaking
My body aching
And it might not sound like much
But I'm here for the taking
I don't have a lot to give
But that's not a reason for our love not
to live
There's nothing much
I can say to you
But...
You're everything
I will always need
You.
THIS SILENCE
(by Randy E. Halprin)
Staring at the ceiling
I was daydreaming
Of a time that I wish could be.
Holding you close
Watching you sleep
Listening to the cool autumn breeze.
Hold me, just hold me...
I want to hear the stories you once told of
Children playing, trees swaying
To and fro.
And you, my love -
not perfect, but perfect for me
For you, my love -
I'll crawl on hands and knees.
Hold me, just hold me...
In this silence let's be
Hold me, just hold me,
In silence
In eternity...
NOT ANOTHER FICTION
(by Randy E. Halprin)
Swimming in an endless sea of blue
The wind whisps around my body
As I dream of you
Counting the endless stars at night
Swallowed by the moon
Aching to my very bones
Yeah, I am aching for you
So many times I've fallen
So many times I've died
And lay awake in another fiction
Waiting for my tears to dry
(And I'll pray to the heavens
I'll pray to all the Gods
If it brings you here to me
If it puts you in my arms)
You don't know the power you have
The power over me
I've fallen at just one kiss
I've fallen to my knees
The sky has ripped wide open
Poured its pain on me
But cleansed my heart and soul with love
Bathed me in your beauty
(And I'll pray to the heavens
I'll pray to all the Gods
If it means you stay with me
I promise – we'll beat the odds)
I don't want another fiction -
I don't want a fairy tale
Don't need another addiction -
or a story to tell
I just want you here with me
Asleep in my loving arms
I'll pray to all the heavens
I swear, we'll beat the odds
MISERABLE
(by Randy E. Halprin)
It's a miserable day
And that's okay,
the sun will shine again.
It's a miserable day
But hey,
I say let us embrace the grey...
The barren trees
The cold dark sky
The magic in our breath
As we cling tightly together
Tonight.
Because if being miserable means
Being closer to you
I'll take that over
Sunshine
Any day.