John Geddes

“...what is the meaning of La Belle Dame Sans Merci? - have you never been enthralled? enchantment that is unrequited desolates the soul...”

“...when people oppose your view, you can become a lightning rod, but if I were you, I'd let them stew...”

“...loving a fairy lady with a magic song will leave you desolate on a cold hillside ... but from there you can see the stars...”

“...you are my Lady of Shalott lost in a dream of isolation - I care too much for you - I romanticize depression...”

“...I looked in the window, wanting to stay - it rained, yet I remained...because you were so lovely...”

“...you trace a finger over my scar and uncloak me like a timid star...”

“...today there are bars of light on the rug, but Muse Cat prefers his tomato box where he can dream in private...”

“...the bones of cirrus clouds stand out like ribs against the sky - an angel is stretching...”

“...A madeleine moment - a sound, a scent can incant her presence...”

“...Myths aren’t fairy tales or legends—they’re an honest attempt to explain mysteries...”

“...you were there when they trampled me - you picked me up, healed me and gave me back my feelings - is it any wonder I love you?...”

“...we live in the same city but don't see the same things - you see buildings and I see memories...”

“...impulses are flowing through my brain - primal sparks leaping gaps - all so I can put my arms around you...”

“...all winter the acorns and red Maple leaf moldered in silence - in the same way grief is gnawing at me - slowly, imperceptibly... consuming...”

“...I threw out all those Latin words - the ones that end in 'ion' - the ones that never quite describe you...”

“...with you, I'm always on the verge - feeling dizzy like looking at waves - and you, my Love, make me tipsy...”

“...I'm not in control and without a firm spot, like Archimedes I can't move the world - let alone your heart..”

“...that's the essence of me - I don't think, I feel - at best, I think-feel...”

“...I don't just wish you rain, Beloved - I wish you the beauty of storms...”

“...I look out at the world through your transparent face...”

“...you became lost in the maze of me - forgive me Love, for keeping you close...”

“...you are not what you seem - you're a Sylph - you leave and the air retains your image - you haunt me...”

“...you have changed everything for me- you rearranged the furniture and now you've changed the view from my window!...”

“...I learn about the sacred in the everyday - I look in your face...”

“...when everything changes, I need a bookmark - I need you...”

“...you need to travel to see the ocean - I don't need the ocean - I have the sky...”

“...you think so logically...like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically...like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth...”

“...so now you know my eyes are green - because of my shirt? You never looked into my soul to know how much in me is green...”

“...don't think love is just an emotion - I am dangerous and you know it because I will do anything you ask me to do...”

“...have you been waiting all this time, faithful as always, my Life?...”

“...I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists...”

“...I got to love solitude - to see the Moon rise and set - I had time to watch it trace the window square across the wall in silent grace...”

“...I'm the last person to ask about unrequited love - I've run away to the Moon and fled to its valleys...”

“...ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know...”

“...When people lose their way and lack a real purpose for living they often fall back on certain forms of escapism as a form of self-soothing...”

“...there's something magical about a mask, but I have never worn one - I want you to see my pain and know how your love affects me...”

“...you listen first with the ears - then, you wait and listen for what your heart feels - then you consider what they've said - then, you reply ...”

“...it took me a lifetime of glimpses, but now I see you completely - did I tell you you're beautiful? so kind to animals, children and me...”

“...the best way to forgive someone is to enter into their sufferings ...”

“...don't be self-conscious - other people are completely unaware of you and more concerned with how they appear ...”

“...consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective ...”

“...I need you to be a listener - you need me to hang word on. We're friends because neither has discovered a limit where the other ends...”

“...each heart is made of a different stone - no two feel alike nor break the same way ...”

“...the religion of the heart is as intimate as a wish breathed to the night sky...”

“...we've let go of so many things, but never each other's hand ...”

“... your heart is your soul twinkling in the black firmament inside you...”

“...when your heart is broken, don't go silent - speak to God in his own language...”

“...sorrow binds us - I will always cherish you - my only disillusionment is unspoken words ...”

“...the secret to writing is to get your own pain - shout it out till it hurts your throat - weep it into your pillow - then write it down ...”

“...the words I can't say are the holes I punch in the walls of my psyche...”