Catch and Release

You're trying your best,
While doing what you please,
You get put to the test,
You're trying your best.
You spare the little pest,
Who's life you do seize.
You're trying your best,
While doing what you please.

They're caught in your action,
Building up your silly pride.
Reeled in to your satisfaction,
They're caught in your action,
But they are one subtraction,
That you will not easily hide.
They're caught in your action,
Building up your silly pride.

You think you're being kind,
Your thoughts have it wrong.
Games play over in your mind,
You think you're being kind,
By releasing your weary find.
And even though all along,
You think you're being kind,
Your thoughts have it wrong.

You always catch and release,
Freeing what's yours to free.
Your motivations keep peace,
You always catch and release,
But the hearts then do cease,
Shocked with what they see.
You always catch and release,
Freeing what's yours to free.

Twenty-Three Years

Together over twenty-three years,
Together for all the cheers,
Together shared tears.

Happy times come often,
When you marry wise.
I guess they got lucky,
To share views in each others eyes.

Futures are planned early,
But take spontaneous shifts.
I guess they got lucky,
To share in both these gifts.

Pressures come up quickly,
Causing situations that go amiss.
I guess they got lucky,
That they can get past this.

Growing together is both their goals,
Standing as trees, side by side,
Reaching through rooftops to extend souls.
Showing what they were once forced to hide,
By tree-tops up high in front of the sky,
Blocking the sun that's aspired to.
But you've seemed to make it by,
Despite tree-tops smothering you two.
I guess you two got lucky.

Stop it

I can see in your eyes,
That you view only flaws.
Plotting my demise,
Shredding me with your claws.

You never know everything,
You conceive it all on the spot.
You tell them anything,
It all adds to your fearsome plot.

I have to cover all in whit,
One flaw can determine it all.
If you see it, you'll expose it,
Pick it 'til it creates my fall.

Of all I'm ashamed you enhance,
It makes you laugh and smile.
But it also gives me no chance,
So maybe you can stop it for awhile.