All the air is slowly escaping

I am sealed away because you are no longer around
And the awful silence and white noise background
Are an ‘all the air is slowly escaping’ sound
So, I only wanna crawl into a deep hole in the ground

If found, please return to owner.

When I lose my wallet, it’s upsetting
Recently, after falling out of my gray sweats
A nice guy drove to my home to return it
Just as I realized the loss and began to fret

So, I bought some new sweat pants
With zippered pockets for assurance
But my loss would literally be as nothing
Compared to a 7.6 Trillion dollar disappearance

Forever After

Relaxing within the magical memory
Of her so close beside me

As we walked under the giant trees
While light was softly filtered by leaves

A gentle mist was thick in the sweet air
Yet sunlight shimmered around her hair

And the sound of her voice and laughter
Still stays with me, now and forever after

even in empty spaces

there’s an alcove that is now empty
and i know exactly how it feels
because my dearest love is gone
and I’ve been pushed back on my heels

physicists say that even in empty spaces
quantum particles pop in and out of existence
which doesn’t make me feel any less empty
or help me finish my next sentence

I know that you’re dead

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my god i know that you’re dead
but I can’t believe that you’re gone
and how can the world carry on
just going on and on and on

I think I’m in shock
I think I am lost
I feel I’ve been shot
and we can’t afford the cost

my god i know that you’re dead
but I can’t believe that you’re gone
and how can I carry on
just going on and on and on

I think there’s no hope
I think there’s no way
I think that we’ve lost
the light of the day

I think it’s the end
of all that I loved
it’s cold in my heart
and cold up above

now I’m alone
I can’t carry on
I can’t show the way
now that you’re gone

“I Know That You’re Dead” © 1981 Ronald K. House

Sideways

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You’re the one that I should be kissing
You’re what my life was always missing

I’ve always known that to be true
From the very first moment I saw you

But you didn’t wait for me to come along
We didn’t get the chance to sing our song

After that everything went sideways
When we should have been together for always

Continuing

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Alone in her back yard she continues
To feed the squirrels that peak in the windows

Just as they had all happily done
In remembered times before he was gone

Now, they share food and memories
And overhead the crows watch in silent reveries

I can’t go on

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shambles, my life is in a shamble
because I took a gamble
on your love (oh oh)

heartache, I feel nothing but heartache
but I knew my heart would break
when I met you

you’re the one thing in this world
that I wanted to count on
and now that you’re gone
I can’t go on, I can’t go on, I can’t go on

breakdown, now I’m in a breakdown
but I knew I’d go down
when I met you-ooo (boo hoo)

dying, now that I’m dying
I can’t stop crying
for you love

you’re the only one
that I ever counted on
and now that you’re gone
I can’t go on
I can’t go, can’t go on
I can’t go, can’t go on
I can’t go, can’t go on

you’re the only one
that I ever counted on
and now that you’re gone
I can’t go on

ooh ooh ooh …

I can’t go, can’t go on
I can’t go, can’t go on
I can’t go, can’t go on

“I Can’t Go On” © 1981 Ronald K. House

explosion of love

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Out of the blue, it all comes back to me
I again get electrical and alive and tingly

It’s like the years and distance were swept away
The sun came up from darkness to bring a new day

She was there all along
When I had thought she was gone

So that was where I forgot my heart
When we long ago had to part

Life and the sky explodes in a burst of color
And I am filled overflowing with love and wonder

magical moment that might have been

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My love, I fear I’m slowly running out of words
I know to you how that probably sounds just absurd

Life and love is full of infinite possibility
But that is all now far beyond my humble capability

Of course, I still have so much I wanted to say
But some things can never see the light of day

That magical moment that might have been never came to pass
Barred by a warning sign that said ‘do not trespass’

So my final words must be forgotten and forever unexpressed
Believe me, my love, that this is now all for the best