If my lips are sealed

I've had just enough time to...   have my lips sealed

Taken of the sealed lips in an exhibition in Kuala Lumpur

If my lips are sealed

I won’t be able to compare

Thee to a summer’s day

Or express in how many ways

I love you

If my lips are sealed

I can only love in silence

Like the undisturbed snow…

Pure and unadorned

Unadulterated by words

I was waiting for a charity event to begin and I wandered as I’m prone to do. I stumbled into a gallery and I liked this exhibit. The first thought was political – about how much we cannot say in this country. But when I draw out this photo to write, I find I did not want to go down that path. I want to write about love. And what can happen if one can’t express it. It is not necessarily bad.

I Will Give You Life

I've had just enough time to...   give life to...

Taken on the road north of Hanoi...

A block of marble

Cold and rigid

Shapeless, sterile

Elicit no emotion

Dead

Chiseled and hammered

Ground and polished

Brought to life

By imagination

And memory

If a block of stone

Can be given life

Imagine what…

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J.R. Richards – I Will Give You Life

And take all my love and hate

For I will give you life

How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?

I've had just enough time to...   try to mend a broken heart?

Taken of the sculpture in Bali that has a king size headache

I have a headache

That splits my head

And cuts my eye.

The doctor says “no cure”

That split in your head

Comes from that crack in your heart.

And no modern medicine

Can mend a broken heart

Since Humpty Dumpty had that great fall.

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And how can you mend a broken heart?
How can you stop the rain from falling down?
How can you stop the sun from shining?
What makes the world go round?
How can you mend a this broken man?
How can a loser ever win?
Please help me mend my broken heart and let me live again

Bee Gees - How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?