Better By The Day…..Carl The Muse

Carl The Muse I want to be like a tree, I want to be better than I am today, tomorrow. I want to leave seeds of what I was when I am gone, and I want those seeds to give the kind of love that I got. I want to provide shelter when there is…

Don’t Underestimate The Value Of Words By: Carl The Muse

  The art of conversation has been lost A true connection of souls is the cost It is this way but it ought not The conversation is a seed that can blossom into love That is what I was taught Its often been a battle that I have often fought I always wanted to hear…

When A Man Wins, He Lives By: Carl The Muse

The best thing that I have ever done and the best thing I will ever do is the family that I have made that you see before you. I understand that as a man I am to help set the course to set the master plan.  I learned over time, I was lucky I had…

Better Because Of Love By: Carl The Muse

I am better because  I am better than I ever was  I am better now then I was then I am better because of love  From my mother My brother My friends I am better because of my wife  I am better because I understand the meaning of life I have lived through death  I…

The Greatest Kind Of Love By:Carl The Muse

The greatest love is not the kind that’s blind The greatest kind of love sees the small details the small print and the finest kinds of lines The greatest kind of love encompasses you all, The greatest kind of love needs no hearing to answer your call The greatest kind of love knows you better…

The Battle Between Left And Right By: Carl The Muse

Where does pain start and love end? Sometimes I can’t tell if my feelings are my enemy or my friend I go hot and cold as fast as a rocket goes My direction is like the water reacting to the wind I go forward to go back again I create all the love and then…

Love Comes To Those Who Believe By: Carl The Muse

I wrote this as I thought about someone who has become my brother. We have been blessings to each other in every way and one of the ways that I saw I could bless this man was to share with him my perspective on love and what it really means to be a man. I…

The Source Of My Smile By: Carl The Muse

You are my lady You are my everything The mother of my babies You send shock waves through me You drive me crazy Every day I am pushed to the brink And saved right before I sink Everyday I am swept away I go from the bottom of the ocean To somewhere in outer space…

What Will You Remember? By: Carl The Muse

  Memories are created, I have learned that over time. I used to get irritated as my mother snapped away with her camera recording every moment of my life that she could both big and small. I did not understand then what I understand now as a father and a married man. I thought my…

Love Is Everything By: Carl The Muse

Love is a beautiful thing Love gives a flightless creature wings  Love is everything Love is motivation  Love is life  Love is fuel to the the fire Love makes you stronger  Love makes you live longer  Love can bring you back home from the deep blue yonder  Love is sight  Love is right  Love is…

The Man With A Plan By: Carl The Muse

   I have been blessed in reality with the things I ask for in visions and dreams.My mom always told me how proud she was with me as a man. My mother let me know when I was a fool and when I had become one she called me a man. I had a reward…

Back For Round 4 By: Carl The Muse

I am a different kind of man, Insatiable that seems to be me, it seems I can never be pleased, I cannot get enough of this certain kind of stuff. No matter how much I get its never enough, I am addicted to mine, I am like a junkie every single night. I always need…

Vows Are Easily Broken Now By: Carl The Muse

I was thinking today about the vow of marriage and the fact that those words once were a link that people made that became unbreakable til death. There was a time when words were more powerful than any paper contract. The words shared between people were once like treaties signed by nations, no matter the…

A Love Far Above By: Carl The Muse

Ever loved so much that your heart could be shattered by the slightest touch, Ever loved so bad that every little thing made you mad, ever loved someone so bad that anything that includes them is simple math, they are always greater than, there is no need to ask who you would choose the answer…

Waiting Can Be The Mistake By: Carl The Muse

  Why wait She has already made you a feast And you ate Now you are hungry again And she puts another feast in your face She serves you the same way Everyday She just lets you be No matter what you say You have to push her out the door for her to run…

Ten Years Strong And Still Holding On By: Carl The Muse

Ten years strong and still at night the same shenanigans go on, with her I go real real long and for me she sings that song, it keeps me hanging on she is my one, I have no secrets from her, my #love is a verb, she is my fantasy and she allows me to be whomever…

A Woman Can Raise One By: Carl The Muse

I became a man  When I learned how to control my rage  I became a man When I knew not only what to say I knew how to say it  I became a man  When I stopped thinking of myself  I no longer cared about material things as much  I no longer cared as much…

A Lifetime Of Sunshine Is On My Mind By: Carl The Muse

  This summer has been a blast I lost things that I once had  But I didn’t lose the memories They still last Time for me has slowed down  I no longer want it to move fast  I like where I am  I remember where I have been  I look at my life  I see…

Like A Gentle Wave By: Carl The Muse

I have so many thoughts and so many feelings in my head, I often want to share them but I shut down or sometimes blow up instead. I do that thing I do, I get stuck in my head everything was moving but now the light is red. I stop, I do what I shouldn’t…