TRUE LOVE

A boy who thinks he's become a man
Puts his life in God's mighty hand
He would fight for her as a bard or king
She gently caresses his last heart string

She is a princess in a dragons world
Oh how he loves this precious girl
About this girl is all he can think
And within her beauty he takes a drink

A shining knight rinding the wind
Does his love constitute a sin
To die in her arms or by her side
With her he would forever ride

She blows him a kiss on a cool summer   night
As he rides with a king to do what's right
As he lay dying on a lonely plain
He sees her dance in the cool summer rain

She holds his hand as his eyes do close
And upon his breast she places a rose
At deaths door she begins to cry
Knight and Lady rise up into the sky

Hand in hand they ride the wind
Until their time to live again

                                 ALLEN LADNER

Haunting

I can hear the echoes
In the walls
I can see the ghosts of the past
Flicker in and out of my vision
I can hear the footsteps approaching
But never arriving

They are all dead yet live on still
Telling me I failed in whispers
I cannot hear
They breathe my life with baited breath
I cannot feel

Allen Ladner