And Roses And Thorns And Love

Ricardo Sal LaRosa

Soliloquy

And when I speak of life I know of what I am talking about This my incarnation number twenty-two on this earth As I write these words this very moment I am witness to life itself to wars to battles unending in the annuals of humanity And in my very heart For I too have battled in outer space and within my own being I too have experience the long dark night of the soul On many glorious occasions for better or for worse And when I speak of war I know of what I am talking about For I have commanded royal fleets into battles Celestial and terrestrial and spiritual I gave commands to destroy of cosmic proportions I gave the orders to annihilate many worlds With inhabitants innocent of any wrong doing Innocent of this war at hand; collateral damage; but I saw their faces ! I heard their voices pleading; begging me for mercy And I showed no mercy; I acted for the better good beyond the details; Committing atrocities for the bigger good; despite my better judgments Nobody accuses me of terror for war is war the victor is righteous I am proclaimed a hero across this galaxy, but, I know the truth !

The true heroes are those who died defending their lives and their loved ones ! And when I speak of roses I know of what I am talking about For these roses every single soft sweet petal embracing my very being With their sweetness with their joyfulness with their innocence upon me One as lovelier as the other and others even more As they come gently one by one Invading my world with their temptations As they come softly one by one With their glances with their smiles with their kisses As they come sweetly one by one Marching pounding enchanting my world ! And when I speak of thorns I know of what I am talking about For her love has brought me to my knees To the brink of self-destruction and annihilation Karma visits me ! I am lost without peace to the brink of death; To the point of no return Where mortals die and the angels dare not walk For this love and that love and another love has been my demise Both a blessing and a cruse O how wondrous were Cupids arrows piercing my heart a thousand times My heart bleeding my soul dying my spirit fleeing this madness ! And when I speak of love I know of what I am talking about !

For I cannot talk about love without tears flowing from my eyes Tears of hurt tears of happiness tears of feelings I have never known ! And when she is with me during those stolen sacred moments Those precious minutes when we have cheated Fate itself ! And I touch her I touch her where no one else can ever feel her Upon those lips; upon her heart ! The one who responds when I call her Princess; my Princess ! And she talks to me whispering sweet nothings in my ear And when she giggles when she laughs when she demands things of me And when she looks at me with those jadish shinning eyes of hers I am transformed into another realm; I am transformed into another world; Where no one can hurt us; Where no one can separate us; Where we are free to be in love with each other Where we are free to make our dreams come true ! And when I speak of love I know of what I am talking about ! For when Jadline and I are together Nothing else in this world; nothing else in this universe matters And we are together in this dream within a dream

In the slumbers of these nights we are together !

My love and I, forevermore ! ! !
Freeport, New York III IULIUS MMXII