SWEET NOTHINGS

NOTHING'S AS SWEET AS THE NOTHINGS,
THAT ARE PASSED FROM MOUTH TO EAR
SUCH SIMPLE WORDS, SO TRUSTING
BUILT FROM LIES THAT HEART DOES FEAR.

NOTHING'S AS SWEET AS THE NOTHINGS,
THAT ARE WHISPERED THROUGHOUT THE AIR,
FROM THE SOFTEST OF LIPS AND MOST FRAGILE OF TONGUES
THAT UTTER THOUGHTS OF DESPAIR.

NOTHING'S AS SWEET AS THE NOTHINGS,
THAT ARE SAID TO WARM THE HEART
AND FOR THE MIND TO PONDER WHEN LONELY,
AS IF TO EVADE A FEELING APART.

NOTHING'S AS SWEET AS THE NOTHINGS,
THAT CREATE LOVE FROM WITHIN A LUST,
AS THE HEART THAT'S OPEN AND SEARCHING
DERIVES FULFILLMENT NOT OF THE SUCH.

NOTHING'S AS SWEET AS THE NOTHINGS,
NO NOTHING, NO, NO THING AT ALL,
OH THE NOTHINGS SEEM SWEETER THAN NOTHING,
FOR IN THEM,
LIFE BE RESOLVED.

-sid LITTLE

Betwixt the Magpie and Dove

The Magpie loves passionately,
with eyes of Red,
while the Dove, envies in its White
the Magpie thrills in the dark of the day,
as the Dove sidles in the night,
the Magpie drains every moment away,
while the dove seeks to fill its chasms,
the Magpie stays, lonely at bay,
while the Dove seeks what the heart fathoms.

Betwixt the Magpie and Dove
were no things alike,
a finding embraced by the both,
for the Magpie and Dove needed no thing alike,
to know their desires weren't opposed,
and with fate as itself,
with difference of heart,
as twain,
 they remain in their souls.

Together them never,
the Magpie and Dove,
for love blows like with wind of the old,
together them never,
the Magpie and Dove,
them and love,
flying alone.



-sid LITTLE