Tine, Martine
Marked with a chisel
As if cutting metal
Stings of needles
Could not compare
As carpenters slice wood
Hence occurred the separation
A baby’s abort
Slightly resembles it
The suction of life
Did not cease life
As veterans from war
A major limp lingers
The core of the bone
Flushed from the blow
The person no longer stood
Behold the frame!
Without image what use is frame?
The two make the whole!
What functions the incomplete?
AGONY!
Written between 1988-89
MBM-Tine Brice
I wake up in a cold hard sweat
To find that I’m alive, you’re not!
You’re the object of my every desire,
My inspiration, my essential twin.
What am I to do? With this love I am indebted
God’s fire in you had me got!
I yearn to intertwine with that fire!
No one could ever convince me you’re not kin.
E’en now as the wall separate us,
Our love bond somehow is stronger.
But to see, touch, and hold you is my fuss.
Oh, what am I to do? How much longer?
Written in 2010
MBM-Tine Brice
SHED a tear
CRY of fear
A heart did tear
Who couldn’t bare
Silence here
Adieu near
What tales to tell
When love did fell
Written in the 2000s
MBM-Tine Brice
Life’s a dream
A dream that has no beginning
A dream that has no ending
A dream where there’s no winning
For it is so demanding
At times I wish this dream would end
For there are times the heart can’t mend
When hearts get lonely
Slaughter’s dreary
Life is weary
Love is scary
Only then I will awake to see the dream goes on
And all that’s special in my life is gone
Then I’ll agree for it seems
All the people form a team
The thing that I have called a dream
Has somehow made this world a stream
Written between 1987-88
MBM-Tine Brice
Although the body you’ll never see
The soul my friend has been set free
You’ve lost a part of you that you will always love,
The reasons why he left, he had to go above
To tell our Master of the work he’s done on earth
And let Him know it isn’t easy working since birth
Although the body you’ll never see
The soul my friend has been set free
Even in death and in sorrow there’s a bright side
Just close your eyes and search your mind
It is not easy to say goodbye
But all we can do is only to try
Although the body you’ll never see
The soul my friend has been set free
He’s the only one you could really count on
When you needed him most, you found him gone
Don’t be too sad dear Mrs. D
For heaven’s the lap of luxury
Although the body you’ll never see
The soul my friend has been set free
Written in the mid 1980s
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(To all the Spinellis of this world today)
MBM-Tine Brice
Martine Brice 