Everyone disappoints

Everyone disappoints you sometime 

You learn to move on 

Sometimes you’re loved too much

Then at times it’s just not enough

Everyone disappoints you sometime

Sometimes you’re up against a wall

Only to realise that the wall

Was the only thing holding you up 

Then the cracks and the falling over

Hitting rock bottom

And still falling further

Everyone disappoints you sometime 

Sometimes in unbridled joy

Ecstasy in a moment 

Carries you to the edge of climax

Still turns to hurt in an instant 

Everyone disappoints you sometime

Sometimes a friendship in fire born

When two minds speak as one

Or in contrast provide balance to love

But scales can tip turning love to hate

Everyone disappoints you sometime 

Then again I’m not perfect

No expectations but my own

Over extending self 

This hunger to have it all

I disappoint me sometimes

Memory of a smile

A light that shines a little brighter

A song that stays in your brain

A touch that lingers even in solitude

And a memory of a smile

A little bit of you in me

A little in my child

A little bit of me for you

And a memory of a smile

Years fly past, but hours move slow

And sleep was long lost my friend

Tiny fragments of joy and grief

And a memory of a smile

Tied through chromosomes 

Through blood and guts

Taken for granted for sure

But there it is again 

The memory of a smile

Heart and soul and DNA

Not enough but will have to do

Holding onto to old pictures and stories 

And yes, the memory of the smile too