Listen to your heart
Only it can hear your passion
Voracious in its appetite
Even in your parting hour
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Listen to your heart
Only it can hear your passion
Voracious in its appetite
Even in your parting hour
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Searching for true love
Can consume you like quick sand
Do not allow it
Take time…open yourself up
The risk is worth the reward
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Lonely souls drowning
Choking on beer and pretzels
At the local dive
Bartenders smile for tips
Acting like you are best friends
This is your charade
The fantasy that you play
Just for survival
While they’re in it for money
You’re in it for attention
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Long nights spent in quiet sitting
Hand-in-hand oh how fitting
With joyous smile upon your face
Soft and delicate like cotton lace
Your gentle touch by slender fingers
Whence we part the feeling lingers
These simple things forever endear
In every moment I have you hear
No more in life could ever I pray
In health and sickness still you stayed
With love and thanks I hold you close
My lover and friend I cherish most
Praising God daily you’re here with me
For without you so alone I’d be
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Footsteps travel on as far as the eye can see
Side-by-side in lockstep just as straight as straight could be
I followed for a time to see where they would go
After a while only one set remained in the sand it did show
I stopped in amazement as they up and disappeared
What must have happened, something tragic I feared
Turning in circles no steps did depart
They just seemed to stop never returning whence they start
The second set went on at a steady measured pace
Never picking up stride, never seeming to race
I followed for a time the solitary set of prints
Nothing about their direction offered any hints
Where they might be going I hadn’t had a clue
Walking straight and narrow they never veered from true
Feet tired and achy the end it seemed in sight
Time had passed so quickly as day gave in to night
Before the light had faded I saw a chapel up ahead
A tiny cemetery, some benches and a shed
Seated on the bench, a solitary elderly man
With a bouquet of red roses held tightly in his hand
Clearing my throat so not to startle or to scare
I took a seat on his bench and struggled not to stare
Mustering up the courage I asked if he was alone
He responded, no he wasn’t in the gentlest of tones
Looking round and round there was no one else in sight
The story that he told turned me a paler shade of white
He told me that he took this stroll nearly every day
Just he and his loving wife would walk, hold hands and pray
With a smile he continued in a soft and mild tone
That part way through their walk she couldn’t manage alone
He’d pick her up and carry her the rest of their way
Her arms around his neck begging him to stay
Home is where he’d take her and lay her down to rest
Pointing to a tiny grave, he frowned, “I know its not the best”
But I promised her I’d be with her each and every day
We’d been together 60 years I knew no other way
Tonight I told her I’d be home soon never again to leave
The pain was getting far too hard as each evening alone he’d grieve
Patting my hand with trembling legs, hunched over he did stand
Shuffling over to his darling’s grave he placed the roses from his hand
I sat and watched as he walked away ‘til he’d wandered out of sight
Never again did I see the man who endeared me on that night
He’d kept the promise never to leave that he made to his love
His tiny grave, right next to hers, they’re together up above.
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
This solitary tree,
Utterly alone amongst the brown grasses.
Nary a leaf can I see,
iIgnored by the traveling masses.
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No birds find cause to seek shelter,
No buds rise to show you love.
Dry and brittle in the noonday swelter,
Limbs raised to Heaven hoping for rain from above.
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What have you done to be shunned…an outcast,
Sentence too cruel for such an innocent one.
Punishment levied you’d hoped you’d outlast,
With each passing day a new days begun.
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I look on with sorrow and the shedding of tears,
As I see myself in you, one and the same.
With scarcely a friend after all of these years,
I’ve no one to place, except me with the blame.
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I too just as you have my soul laid out bare,
A wish for companionship to stay.
Broken and weak I expose to the air,
The longing for love I keep locked away.
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Your love calls my name
Soft and sweet like babies breath
All wrong dissipates
Euphoria takes over
Filled with the essence of you
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
By D. R. DiFrancesco
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Carnal excitement
Blood coursing through tender veins
Lost on one night stands
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Your blue eyes cut deep
Filling the hole in my soul
With abundant love
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We sit quietly
Lost in a tender embrace
Shutting out the world
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Unrequited love
Corrupts the delicate heart
Leaving it broken
By D. DiFrancesco
Fires burn,
They start out white hot
Then cool to a shimmering blue.
It’s not that the flame has diminished
The passion still glows, but its appearance changes with time.
We find comfort in one another, by being in each other’s presence.
A look,
Says more than words ever could.
Nothing can be said that you haven’t already heard.
Love, anger, sadness, all my feelings expressed in a glance
Sometimes I think you know me better than I know myself.
Maybe you do after all these years.
A caress,
Something tender and sweet
Your warmth, skin against skin, your beauty
Isn’t it fascinating how each of life’s seasons seems frozen in time?
My vision of you, still a twenty-something
So precious to me because of the spirit that is you.
Our lives,
The bond we share through adulation
Through friendship, endearment, and adoration
We have become one.
That nothing in heaven or earth can decimate.
My best friend, mate, and truelove for all eternity.