When I wake up…
Instinctively, I reach for you
and find the empty side of the bed.
A flood of anguish
in a raging sea of
perpetual loneliness.
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The Anomaly
Today’s Sunday Writing Prompt over at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie is Beautiful Mistake.
Did you choose the wrong partner, but developed boundaries and self-confidence that prepared you for the right one?
Did you accidently knock your coffee over your written manuscript, but when you re-wrote, it turned out even better?
Did you take a job you ended up hating, but made a new best friend?
You disrupted my life
from hello, and I let you.
Welcomed it even, all
the while knowing you
would turn out
to be one of my biggest
mistakes.
A mistake —
not a regret.
Never a regret.
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Q
It’s Song Lyric Sunday again with Jim Adams of A Unique Title for Me. This week we are to choose a song with the words Heaven/Hell in the title or lyrics. I chose If I Ever Lose This Heaven by Quincy Jones.
Lyrics
If you’re foolin’ only foolin’
All I ask is why
If you’re playin’ all I’m sayin’
Feelins’ sure can lieIf your lyin’ keep on lyin’
Don’t tell the truth don’t you dare (don’t you dare)
‘Cause you can’t drop me ’cause you still got me
After takin’ me way up thereOh oh oh oh oh oh
I f I ever lose this heaven
If I ever, ever ever lose this heaven
Oh oh oh oh oh
I’ll never be the same
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
I f I ever lose this heaven
If I ever, ever ever lose this heaven
Oh oh oh oh oh
I’ll never be the sameWhen you kind extra kind
Then suddenly you’re cross
You’re so moody you get to me
Still can’t turn you off
You’re fascinating, more fascinating
Than the dark side of the moon
You’re so exciting that I’m rewriting
The book of love called youOh oh oh oh oh oh
I f I ever lose this heaven
If I ever, ever ever lose this heaven
Oh oh oh oh oh
I’ll never be the same
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
I f I ever lose this heaven
If I ever, ever ever lose this heaven
Oh oh oh oh oh
I’ll never be the same
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
I f I ever lose this heaven
If I ever, ever ever lose this heaven
Oh oh oh oh oh
I’ll never be the same
(Fade)Songriters: Leon Ware, Pamela Joan Sawyer
The Story
I had a hard time finding out the particulars of this song, but a ton of info about Leon Ware who wrote it along with Pamela Joan Sawyer. And volumes about Quincy Jones, of course. If I Ever Lose This Heaven came off of the Body Heat album which was released in 1974. Since then it’s been covered by amny artists, including the Average White Band, Sergio Mendes, Nancy Wilson, and countless others.
Quincy Delight Jones (born March 14, 1933) is a Grammy Award-winning musician and record producer, perhaps best known for his work alongside the likes of Michael Jackson, Ray Charles and Frank Sinatra.
He is also a composer, conductor, arranger, film/television producer, and humanitarian whose astounding career spans over six decades of dedicated work.
As of 2019, he has a record 79 Grammy nominations and 28 Grammy awards altogether.
Leon Ware (February 16, 1940 – February 23, 2017) was an American music artist, songwriter and composer.
Besides a solo career as a performer, Ware was best known for producing hits for other artists including Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, Maxwell, Minnie Riperton and Marvin Gaye, co-producing the latter’s album, I Want You.
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With/Without
I
cannot imagine
a world without
your inescapable, reckless charm.
Without a doubt, my finest
hour was all about you and
being part of your life; a dangerous
secret — knowing all too well that we existed
only in my mind. If only “we” could have
had a chance before you fell in love with her
and without me. Until forever, my heart is yours.
I hold you close each night in my
sweetest (and wildest) dreams. When morning
comes and I awaken from
real life — our life —
my heart breaks
all over
again.
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Smooth Gravel
your old pick-up lines
flow velvet-warm like good scotch
from a cheap bottle.
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