“Love’s Tricks”

Love is a sweet little thing

That all of us hide

But sometimes its guise

Is as a widow

Or broken guitar

That’s string hurt to strum

And snap back when we

Try so hard to fix it

That’s when all of us give up

On cracking the mask

We wear around our hearts

Heidi Holzbauer
© March 2005

Midi: "The Rose Adagio"
Composer: Piotr Tschaikowsky
Sequencer: Eric Halstead
(music for pianos.com)

Art: "Iridescence"
Artist: Robin Street-Morris
(www.streetmorrisart.com)