Homesick Sonnets Songtext / Lyric

Sonnet I

In times of warmth

When love and comfort dear

Have cast their blindless light upon my star

How is it

That I wish to disappear

And find myself again

Back where you are?

Is it that home is only home with you?

And how then did you earn your house that name

When judged by years it's relatively new?

My home is not my home here just the same

And so I will be happy as I must

Although without you

Sugar tastes as dust






Sonnet II

What sweetened torture I endure each day

When hour after hour passes by

And still I feel so very far away

From that which I desire

Yes, thee and I

Yet rosy is my sadness

For ere now

I never had pined after someone's touch

Nor eyes

Nor lips

Nor hands

Nor raven brow

And here I am

Missing almost too much

My paradox is that I weep at this

While being glad I have a love to miss



Sonnet III

Heartsick have I been

This long, long day

Heavy is my disposition

Yet, I smile

And try my best to hide away

The pain

The life

The love I can't forget

Sorry am I

For the ones I fool

They ask for nothing save my company

And yet I cannot seem to break the rule

That sayeth once I love

Twice bound I'll be

Alas, I often slip

And to them show

That far away

My heart desires to go



Sonnet IV

It seems only a moment past

I listened to the dulcet tone

Of thy too far off voice at last

But now I find myself alone

Yet, my eyes closed

I am not so

For underneath my fingertips

I feel your flesh

Caressing slow

And hold thy tongue between my lips

Past caring how forlorn it seems

I'll sleep to meet you in my dreams



Sonnet V

A cold wind ravages my mind

As though I were

A blade of grass

Which, rained upon

Has been made blind

And waits now for the storm to pass

But, strange

The closer cometh I

To travel's end and your embrace

The darker seems to go the sky

The further off seemeth your face

'Tis trying

When in pain, to rhyme

'Tis harder still to measure time