Nervousness has stretched its trembling boughs
Across my heart
He is too good to be true
And too good for me
And certainness - Never remaining faithful
Yet his voice and words
Imply a strength
Is he shy or does he make me suffer?
For my mind hath lingered
A breadth away on his lips
And the kiss that never came to be
Alas though may somewhere I rejoice
For he took the long way home
Indeed....he took the long way home
-Kelly M. Kincaid � February 2001
Preserve your hatred
Blackening eyes
Canned stupidity - a narrow mind
A sigh in your soul
Will I someday find?
Hesitated fantasies
Phone pressed to your ear
You made your bed
Now you lie in fear
You have your fun
Taking a good person apart
But you'll know not love
With hate in your heart
Fragile existence we lead
Permanent seeds we sow
Time so short
Falling in love so slow
With every grain of sand
In the hourglass that falls
My time grows shorter
Something inside me calls
Formaldehyde - preserve the love
Preserve the compliments received
Banish the lies
So stupidly believed
Tell him I love him
Before it's too late
Lead me to the dreams
Shown to me once by fate
-Kelly M. Kincaid � December 2000
Cause thoughts are flammable
Like anything else
When all else has failed
Don't hesitate
To close your eyes
And open the blinds
And stand in the sunshine
Stand in the spotlight
Of my love
Don't sit alone by the moonlight
Loneliness is fatal
Be mine tonight
Be there tonight
And save us both from the cold illusion
In clever discourse you allude me
Out of Eden
Where do I go from here?
Touch me, leave the warmth on my pillow
To touch my cheek, my sleeping brow
Does the morning contain my sorrow?
Or is it the remnants of the night's wrath?
Lay me down in the garden
Kiss my lips as the dew
Kisses the roses
And let your love fall upon me
Like rain
-Kelly M. Kincaid � July 1995
And enters, then with night, discloses
Sometimes a need, not fulfilled
Cannot be comforted, only willed
But happy, then, in endless days
Of endless love in many ways
What caused my heart to be untrue
A broken promise settles like dew
Simple touch, beautiful kiss
Sadly awakens what I missed
And whispers down into the dawn
Youth a flower, then withered & gone
Pity baby, because I want so much more
Driving desire to swim right to the shore
But I'm in too deep now & sinking faster
One kiss wrecked security with disaster
Love is faded, sleepy haze
Tiring now, the endless days
With the law of springtime, my heart strays
A course to choose - so many ways
A road to you - too often travelled
Then him - as old dreams come unravelled
Security - constant as the stars
Ruined by change and emotional scars?
No, constant as the river flows
And winds down the only path it knows
Such is the road that I must choose
Rescuing love as Schindler saved the Jews
God, banish the tides of change away
May I find contentment in the day
May the only path I choose to pursue
Be the one that leads to you
- Kelly M. Kincaid � April 1995