Most of these are meant to be from Gabrielle's pov, but some are from Xena's. And they are definately with the idea that X&G are a couple.

-My Friendship-
Fiery passions speak in chilled glances
You don't know what you ask
when you request my friendship
I'm only still capable of sadness, anger devotion and love
I don't trust and I don't believe
I didn't earn my title for nothing
I don't deal in emotion

Annoying there are those few
Friends and loves alike
That seem to earn my trust
And get inside my armour
Those few that can make me feel.
There are my closest friends
But they are few
And they leave all too soon.
And I slam up walls
Yet I still love them.

-Ice Princess-
She sits so still
Eyes unblinking
A mask of empty false emotion
Hiding the absence of something I can't seem to name

I see no fear in her eyes now
No fear of her own death.
Which creeps ever closer
From the shadows surrounding her throne of ice.

Diamond chips stream to freeze on her cheeks
But burning chains co-exist
Visibly constricting her heart.
Cold wisdom whispers morbid truths.

As I glance again to her eyes
I name whats fled from her eyes
And from her heart
Hope more aptly named as the life

My hand with a will of its own
drags my body ever forward to touch her face
I try to wipe away the tears
But my hand won't come away from her cheek.

A sharp pain shrills through my body
Bringing me to my knees
tearing my hand away.

With a slowness that seemed mere seconds
I become her
A statue in glorious ice
Crystalline light illuminating my new station

Emptiness in my staring gaze
A lesson in succulent seductions silent retribution
Passions flame burns ever lower in my eyes, with hope.
A cool wind blows and it extinguishes.

-Simply In Lust-
I don't love her
Just like she doesn't love me.
No, I still call another my love
Just as she does.
But we call each other friend
We've been the wall,
for the break with our faith.
Two in a minds suspicion.
Off the wall
We the stompers
The screamers
And the laughers
Twisted spirits
Battered souls
An undulation of rough torsion fills our bodies and our lives
We've a passion
When we scream to the world of young little paltry mortals
Who commit thier lives before they know what it even means
That they're aren't in love
THEY'RE SIMPLY IN LUST

She doesn't love me
As I don't her

I'm simply in lust
As does my love, as does she, as does hers, as do most of us all.

-I Wanna Know-
I wanna know
Gods can you tell me
When I'll stop
Finding it so easy to hurt
the ones I love.
The first I truly love
With all of me.
I know that right now
At this moment
It would be far to easy
For her to walk away
And never look back.
I can promise that I'll always be here
But I know that I'm an easy person
To turn away from
Because I'll make the deadest of hearts feel
And care.
Then I'll turn and betray that
And hurt them.
I rarely cry for my own pain.
But all too easily I cry for others.
So Gods why is it as easy as breathing
to hurt the ones I love?

-I Would Stay-
would give you all of me.
Anything you wished
I would give.
(But yet I can't say that can I?
Because I already endangered that.)
Command of my soul
Over my heart.
You already have that.
And you have for a while.
Command of my body
Any pleasure you wish to take
I would give.
So wrap me in chains
And bind me.
I won't leave.
Wrap me in the safe bindings of your love
I'll stay with you
Through everything
I love all of you
The good and the bad
The pain and the joy.
And if you hurt me
I'll still stay right through.
I couldn't bear to walk away.
So know that I want to give you everything
even when i can't give it to you.
And that I'll love you no matter what.

-Guns and Blades-
Look into my eye's do you see a soul there?
Or do you see someone dead inside?
I stand in front of the man with the gun
and hold my arms out.
Shoot me please
Because i don't care.
I kneel in front of the man with the blade raised above
and beg him to bring it down
Because i don't care.
I walk into traffic and stroll around during rush hour on a busy highway
And hold my arms out.
Hit me i ask
Because i can't care.
And when you've done it
kneel next to me
and hear me thank you and bless you.
Look into my eyes as you swerve, and when you sheathe your blade and when you put down the gun.
And see my dissapointment.
That once again death has found a way to deny my happiness.
So I went out racing today playing chicken
I told them that they had better be the one to jump because i never will
be the one to swerve narrowly killing my heart a little more.
Because i never will.
So look into my souless eyes as i beg you to help me
to end it all.
And know that death is the only way i can be happy,
because i stay and hurt people.
I deserve my death and my pain, but no one will give it to me
and i think that hurts worse.
To stand by and see the pain i cause and not be allowed reprieve somewhere i can go, and be away from it.
And to know that i only hurt the ones i love.

-Heal You-
I can't take back what they've done to you
But know that I would bean no weapon against you.
Visit me sometime in my cell.

I'm broken before you
And by your will command me.
I'm bound in chains of vines, roses and thorns.

I can't pull you from your hell
But I can join you
And offer you my hand, my heart and my life to walk beside you

I can't heal the pain
But I can care for you and help you bear it.
And I can share it.

Play with fire
You may get burned
But if you never touch fire
You may never know heat

I've visited heaven
And I know paradise
But into every secret garden locked away
A weed will grow.

-What's Become-
What's become of us?
We drifted apart
And wrought our destruction
A million miles of running in a day
And that wall is still there.
Nothing major, nothing actually ever happened
Nothing happened, we didn't talk, words were never spoken
Actions and emotions were never told
All in a moment
We learned to fight
without saying a word
I've lost you already
And in such a short time
But at least this time it took me only months
To kill a relationship versus five years
It took to end the last one.
I've learned my lesson,
I can't be loved
It just isn't possible
Everything I thought was love
was simply
the world humouring my fancies for the sake of
their own twisted fantasy
But conquests loss was sanity's keepsake

-Sapphire Pain and Emerald Salvation-
Shining emerald eyes silently watch as sweet sapphires stare into the fire.
Painful pasts remembered bombard the weary soul
A tortured beauty sheds her lonely tears in the night
Thinking no one hears, silent is the rain from the ice-blue eyes, as no one should hear.
Thinking none see or feel her pain, every excrutiating memory and horrid past.
The raven believes this bond with her fiery dragoness to send fire one way.
Together hearts and souls intertwine, apart two souls in one body.
The dragoness sees the tears and longs so to help.
But knows that right now she can't.
Eternity finds her love
Healing in empty lonely night.
But the dragoness knows when it has all gone too far
And only then she carries the raven.
Alone her love drowns in pain, guilt and tears.
In her dragoness's hands she is safe.
But images may decieve for the raven is the warriour
And the dragoness but her would be protector.

-I'm Coming Home-
I'm leaving looking back
I see you and in a few days I swear I'm coming home
Now a few years later I write to you
I swear I'm coming home.
Will you forget me when I'm here will you let me know
Just how you feel?
Because I need to know will you love me?
When I come home
Many lives and I'm still trying to get back to you.
Just can't wait to see you again
I'm always coming and never there
I haven't made it in all these years
I find myself falling
With you I'm always home
The other half of my soul of my heart and my peace of mind
Into my mind enter my soul and love me unconditionally
No strings attached
When I come home
I promise you
Someday I will come home.
I just don't know when or how.
Or even why I'm still here.

-Don't Tell Her-
Don't tell her
That the woman she's fallen for
Feeds on others
Evil pleasures gleam
Resides in my eyes.

Don't tell her
I revel in the feeling
The power I gain
From the waves of fear, of anger, and yes even need rolling off of them.
Yes mmmmm it flows through me.
Satiating my hunger
I play them like a harp

But she still sees me as an innocent angel
Innocence hah!
I left that behind a long time ago.

But don't tell her
Of the little hellion I really am
If she doesn't know it can't hurt her
Let her feel the gentle side of my love
Not the dark stain of my need.

Don't tell her
But I stand in a room many I hold in a trance on their
knees before me.
Some lie on the floor already drained
All for my dark need.
As my teeth sink into another willing neck and as I suckle sweet blood
filling my mouth, oh so sweet.
I close my eyes and groan in pleasure
But when I open them and lift them
She's standing in the door.
Oh hell she knows.

I start to speak.
Knowing she's going to leave
She barks an order for silence
My gentle lover
I drop the lifeless doll in my hands and stand fully
Naked in front of her.
She is my weakness
I drop to my knees at her feet
Expecting a blow, a scream, anything but what I got
I close my eyes anticipating pain of any kind.
But I feel her teeth on my neck.
I froze
She bit
Sinking her teeth in
Even this is pleasure
She feeds
When she withdrawls she laps up the last bead of blood
And whispers firmly in my ear.
"Lover you will take your pleasure none but I."

But don't tell her
I know
Don't whisper
That nothing was what it seemed
All just illusion
Don't whisper of my love for her
Or my devotion
My gentle love has a darker side
I knew she'd never share that darker side with me
But also that it needed to get out.
And she shall only take her pleasure from me.

-I Bare My Soul-
I bared my soul to you.
Gave you parts of me never seen before.
I see you turn to leave.
Without an explanation,
With no words of farewell spoken in my ear.

But honey you think you're the only one with a backbone and power in this relationship.
Think again.
Because you're not leaving me again.
I've been through it many, many times.
And i swore that wouldn't happen to me again.
You said you'd never put me through it.

As you walk down the hall of what i thought was our home
towards the door, I scream out to you
and I bare my soul.
Everything you needed to hear
falls from my lips
dripping like some sweet nectar
spoken in the form of venom.

Everytime you leave I say it'll be our last
But i really can't do this again.
I can't.
I lift my hand, and show you my heart bound in chains
For you.
All for you.
And I call you back.
Some strange impulse drags you back to me.
As I kiss you I whisper that I do love you.
But look me in the eye and tell me what you want.
But you are staying here with me.
You don't bind my heart, have me on my knees daily from
wanting to be with you, and hold all of me
then just walk away.

-Remember Love-
Whenever your heart feels
and your gut speaks
Listen.
Remember love and the power it holds
Hold on if its the last thing you have
If your heart bids you stay.
Because times come when clouds hover
And the light refuses to shine
Only because its hidden
But it may never have faded.
Words that come out of any mortal mouth
Rarely speak the language of the heart.
Oft times, all to often
circumstances bear that true emotion cannot
make itself known for sanity's sake.
But sometimes you have to break
and just speak what you feel
go back to "just friends" in the morning.
But tonight say you love me.
Because i never stopped loving you.
I need to hear it.
And from the sound of your breath you needed to hear it too.
In the darkness of night
when she is free to hold me
she must needs be to let me go.
But remember love.
When you cry in your bed alone
remember love and that it doesn't fade in one moment

-Tu Avez Mon Coeur-
Tu avez tout mon coeur(you have all of my heart)
y(and)
Я не могу жить без Вас (i can't live without you)
All that i am is yours.
Everything i do is for you.
No distance could keep me away from you.
Nothing that happens could make me love you less
And if it is in my power nothing ever will seperate us.
Yet i know there are things i cannot control but i will always bend it all to my will as much as i can and if i can i will move heaven and hell, to walk beside you.
Where you go i will follow.
My fingers dance over keys to write of my love to you
I think for hours trying to put into words what seems like a feeling that sustains my life.
But the truth is the only thing i can write
The truth is that you are my soul, my heart, my world.
I call you warriour because that is what you are to me.
You are my everything.
If i woke up in the morning and the rest of the world were gone
But you were here.
I would cry but i would be able to live
But if you were gone and the rest of the world were here i wouldn't be able to live
My heart would disappear
Falling from my chest
My world would die
My soul would vanish
My life would come to an end simply for wanting you
Adn missing you with all that i am.
I say to you that you own me
All of me apart from a small part of my will
the very slight part that can oppose you
I sing the days through and dream the nights out
about you.
I don't know how much longer i can stand not being able to touch you
But i know that once i do there really is no going back
Not that there could be right now
Nor would I want to go back
Except maybe to times when it was simple to love you
Just a fact of my life
Uncomplicated by the world
Yet it now consumes me
My love for you lights a fire that won't stop
Until all that I am has you, and burns quickly for you.

-Warriour of The Ages-
Warrior of the ages you will no longer fight alone.
Bow to me.
Submit to my will
Give me your soul
Give to me your heart
I command of you to give me control
Surrender in the night.

Only when you have may you truly be fulfilled.
I want you to be mine completely and utterly without question.
For all eternity.
I want to spend my life with you.
For if i would move heaven and hell for you
control the fates, and oppose everything and everyone solely for you
You had better be ready to give it all to me.


I can give it all to you
and will come to you with almost nothing
to start a new life.
Will you hold me in the night
stand by me when i cry
share my joy and guard my heart?
When you give me all of you as i give you everything

I walk onto the battlefield to stand back to back with you.
You may never lose now.
I am here.
I will guard you
In the darkness of the night
I will listen when you speak words
you could never voice to another.
When you let those tears fall that no other may see
I will kiss them all away.

And i will hold you high like the holiest of water
I will guard all you have given me
with the fierceness of the greatest warriour.
My warriour of the ages I bow to you.
I surrender my will to you
I give you my heart
My soul
I submit to your will


My heart beats at your command
My body lives at your will.
My breaths come at your pleasure.
I will show everyone our love
I have such pride in you
and in having you love me

That I shout it out.
Every action that i make through the day is solely for you.
This proud amazon queen bows only to you,
submits only to you.
For all time.

You will take all that you need only from me
and from no other.
I love you with all that I am

-Why I Love You-
You send the most beautiful wonderful thrills through my heart
speaking words I never thought to hear in conjunction with me.
I trust you and believe in you, and if you believe in me it is enough.
But I still can't help wondering and questioning in the darkness of my mind,
in the recesses of my soul how you could say that to me and mean it.
I want to give you the world, give you all of me.
My eternity, my soul, my heart, and and everything that i am belongs to you.
Freely given in love. I love you beyond life, beyond death, beyond eternity,
beyond doubt, beyond question. You would fight against me for my own heart,
to keep it safe.
And that makes you my choice and the right choice.
And that is only part of the reason why i love you.

HelAryn, there are some beautiful poems in there. "Ice Princess" in particular was very striking in images... but others (after reading so many, titles fail to come back to me lol) are emotionally striking too. Really nice, thanks for sharing them.

~Gabber

You like it? You really like it?
Lol. Thanks.

LOL are you fishing for compliments?

But yes, I liked it a lot. Some more than others, but I can't remember which ones, lol. Your talent shows through in the visualizations you give, as well as just some great lines in there that stand out. Keep hacking away at that talent you have.

~Gabber