It comes to be an awful shock
always being the last to know...

The Magician
My friends call me Tim...

Tears may fall, but what do they mean
without love and hate thinly between...

Friends ask the question, sometimes twice
with a shrug I give the standard reply...

Words conveyed with tear drenched eyes
hearing true meaning without sound...

Thirty years have quickly passed
Remembering my favorite Halloween...

Forty two hours now and wide awake
Praying to the lord my soul to take...

You say I am hard to read
But all you have to do...

I saw your picture today, it`s in my mind`s eyes
A smile that could lighten any room...

.................Beauty
............sensual, erotic...

In a distant time when youth was your guide
You were the maiden of the ball...

I wish you wouldn`t laugh when we talk
I can see through your admirable disguise...