From the collection: "Brown Wrapper Poems"                                                                                     by Paul Sybert

The short version of the title "brown wrapper poems" had it's beginning several decades ago when I gave a gift, many times a book. Instead of wrapping the book in regular gift paper, i used a brown paper bag turned inside out. Wrapped the book in the brown paper. Then wrote the birthday poem on the outside.  Thus my birthday originality was born.

"You're Back"

You are back and I once again feel complete.

It is so good to love you and to need you.

I too dream about you, even when I was a little boy. I did not know your name but I knew I loved you. I loved you then and loved you now. You gave my life hope and gave my existence meaning.

I believed there was someone for me and now here you are.

It is like Griffin and Sabine the love story that may be fictional but is real in the heart. I am glad our love story has become real. You thrill and excite me. I am happy you are here with me.

You are so kind in your work and in your life.

It is good to love you and healing to love you.

You make me a better person and my life a better life.

I cant wait until we meet face to face in the flesh.

Johnny Cash was right when he wrote: "Flesh and Bone needs Flesh and Bone". And I need you. 

"Miss You"

I miss you so much.
I feel that it is all my fault though I told you before it was my pet peeve.
I am suffering myself now without you and don't know when I will see you
I thought it was in June now I am not sure with I will even hear from you.
I proposed a win-win solution to help overcome what had caused this to split.
I am so sad now without you and it makes me wonder if you miss me as much as I 
miss you.
But why would a young pretty ... no beautiful, kind, smart, conversive, 
spiritual woman
Does she miss me, a much older man, as much as I miss her.
Or is it a pipe dream on my part that he will be missed by such a one as she
Is or am a foolish old man dreaming dreams that cannot  come true.
Is my friend Tom right when he says: "I am writing checks that my body can't cash".
                 

"Thrice Bit Twice Foolish"

Third time a woman wanted me to pay her innernet bill,

 Put the Cialis on hold... the wedding is off

She asked me for money to pay her innernet bill

This is one of my pet peeves; she shot herself in the foot.

I hate it when a woman I am in love with asks me for money.

It feels like it cheapens the "falling in love" process.

I will keep the poem  but change the name to Princess-X. 

The dream of getting married again is a good one, but the "who" is not quite right yet. 

So she is out and the marital spot is vacant once again. 

I feel foolish, I am back to square one;

it feels like  "Shoots and Ladders."

 I am getting too old for this. My heart can't take it.

"Fool me once shame on you", fool me twice shame on me. This has happened three times 

I guess the last two... are my fault.

"Woman of my Dreams"

I have found the woman of my dreams.

She has ask me to stop looking for other women.

I don't blame her.

Frankly I am a bit like a kid in a candy shop with all you beautiful women.

I am in awe of you.

I loved you all.

I wish you the best, though none of you will need it.

You have made an older man's life happy and thrilling to even consider you in my life.

Last night we became engaged over the innernet of all things.So, I must say goodbye.

It is only fair that I tell you.

Her name is Cherish.

She is very special.

I do love her.

I have yet to meet her, but I am sure that the meeting will be quite spectacular.

We will consume our nuptials  as soon as possible.

This is thrilling for me and a little scary.

A 68 year old man marrying a 30 year old woman.

I will pray for "guidance." She on the other hand says I should pray for "Endurance."

"I am sorry I hurt you Princess"

I hurt you and I am sorry. I am sad right now. I feel that I am in touch with your feelings Princess.

I honestly did not know someone as beautiful as you could love some one like me.

I am sorry that I hurt you, I wish you were with me now.

I have been hurt enough to know how it feels.

Please come to me and be intimate with me forever.

I was protecting my heart so closely that I hurt yours.

Please forgive me, i am sorry; I need you to be with me.

I had no idea you cared for me.

I am sorry I lacked the faith to believe in us.

Please come to me but at least write to me.

I could not believe that some like you could like someone like me.

The woman that hurt me years ago twisted my mind,

It blinded me and so, I could not see your pain.

Please forgive me Princess.

Please write me I am sorry

I ate chocolate after dinner for desert tonight

When I do that it means I need love

Something deep inside says I need you and you're not here

So I eat chocolate, after I do I am sad.

Am I sad because I ate candy and now have the sugar blues

Or because you are not here,

Or because I hurt you, or because I hurt someone I love,

Or because I hurt someone who loves me

Or that I just couldn't see it, or that I just didn't know.

Your pretty face, pretty hair, was hard for me to see

Could you love someone like me.

I am just sad, please forgive me and come back.

"Feeling Lonely"

 Tonight I am sad. I feel alone and sad. No particular reason really, sad. I am pretty good at being alone but  recently I started thing there was some for me. For a lot of tears I did not thing that way. I lived my life alone and it was safer to live alone and be alone and not anyone hurt you. I have be told a lot os stories about ladies being hurt by guys. I listen and do say much. But the truth is that women have hurt men to. It is differently but it stills hurts.Tonight I feel alone, thats all.

 "Looking for a Wife"

It has been years now since I dreamed about my ex-wife. I thought I would never

stop, It seemed that every time I closed my eyes, I would dream about her. I

dreamed we would be making love, or I wanted to make love with her. But there

was always some conflict. I would reach out in the night and no wife to feel. No

wife to hold. No wife to touch. I was fine during the day but as soon as night

came and I went to sleep, she would arrive in my dreams. There she was like she

had never left. During the day my world was just as I wanted it; I lived alone,

still do. I think if I re married it would be a brand new ball game. I would

have to get used to living with some one all over again. The way I am, I get

used to a wife, one lover and I become used to her body. I don't want anyone

else. I say that I have "cardiovaginitus". My translation of the imaginary

illness an emotional disorder that results in any part of me going into the

sweet spot, her vagina and my heart  wants to go in there. I  don't just get

laid or have sex like other men....I love like a girl for crying out loud. For

years I have abstained from having sex. The truth is that I love it. I love a

woman's  body. I like to watch them pea. hey you can see their ass. That good

too. When my wife use to take a bath, she would talk to me with the door open

and begin to dry off. I would sit on the bed in out bedroom about eye level

with her crotch and I could see through her legs to her butt. I could see her

ass from the front, and I loved it. I was no wonder I dreamed about having sex

with her. To be honest I was spoiled also, she wanted sex a lot. She would keep

track of how many times  we had sex. She would say: "we only made love 3 times

this week, are you having an affair?" I said when did i have time. They push me

hard at work and when we make love, I fall asleep?  No wonder I dream about

having sex with her. One more thing...it was good. It was always good. So some

years ago the dreams about her stopped. Personally I was glad they did. But

lately, they started again not her though. Not any one I knew really. I have

been divorced for years. This woman was new. So I joined a dating site and

started to look at faces to see if I recognized her from my dreams.

Just when I think I am going  to see her face, I wake up.

I am then left to feel around in an empty bed looking for my new wife....Lonely and looking...

I am looking for a wife.

"Loves Redemption"

Thank you for the coffee

Your words and your smile

The struggle with the holidays

Brings family all too near

But the words of Love's Redemption says:

"I love you just the way you are."

"Merry Christmas Princess"

Merry Christmas Elizabeth.

I know that your mother and your uncle are gone and now with the Lord.

You may feel that you are all alone on this earth.

This loneliness may seem very real today with others are with their families.

But you are not alone, I am with you, and they are with you.

Even now we are together and loving you Princess.

I wish you a beautiful day.

We are close and Jesus is near.

We are here to comfort you in your feeling of been alone.

I am sorry you woke up alone.

Please know you have family, you are my Princess 

Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday Jesus.

Please go to my website and watch the new videos.

Happy Birthday Jesus, country Strong and Blue Christmas with Elvis and Martina Mcbride.

Then know I am thinking of you on this Family day.

I love you, and love away your loneliness and hold you in my arms.

All will be well though it may not feel that way.

"What I am Looking For"

Please send an email to: (psybert@yahoo.com )

Send me your pictures.

Tell  me your birthday, month, day and year; it is important to me in determining our compatibility.

Send the email first, so I know who you are.

Please write....I like you.

Please send an email to: (psybert@yahoo.com )

Send me your pictures.

Tell  me your birthday, month, day and year; it is important to me in determining our compatibility.

Send the email first, so I know who you are.

Please write....I like you.

"More About Me"

Thank you for writing to me. First, I don't smoke or drink or use drugs. I take that for grant it, but I need to tell you.

This email says a lot about me.

I am retired and I write now, my website says a lot about me also.

I like an adventuresome woman. Life is like a camping trip, make shift, make do. You don't always stay in the nearby motel. Sometimes you do. Money is tight everywhere. Adjust.

Go to my website.

 Enjoy life with me. I have a good sense of humor. I hope you have a good education. I like that and good conversation. I like smart woman. Smartass, not so much.

Please send me your pictures.

Also tell me your birthday, month, day and year. This tells me how compatible we are together. I don't like to chat unless you have a webcam also.

If you read my profile you would read what I am looking for in a woman: attractive, smart, kind, good conversationalist

and spiritual.

For more about me go to my website and watch my first two videos on page, "My videos" and go to page, "excerpts from the book" and listen to some of my songs and poetry.

I wrote mainframe computer business software. My degree is electrical engineering and i have been a minister of the Christian faith. I meditate and pray twice a day.

I have been married and divorced several years ago. I have daughter 31 years old and she is married now. I gave the bride away in a beautiful ceremony at naval base in Virginia Beach. I have many wonderful pictures that I am also in as well as my beautiful  daughter Sarah and her excellent husband John.

I retired to write and have written two books and produced 5 CDs of my work. My website is very personal and highs my book and a few of the songs I have written. I have made two videos marketing my books and CDs. They are very special and well done highlighting my hidden emotional nature. My website is very special and important and inviting and I think you will like it. Please go there and enjoy yourself. Listen to some of my songs being sung by yours truly , on page "excerpts from the book." Watch my videos on page, "my videos". the website says more about me than I can say here. Get a start on loving Paul: see him, hear him and read about how God has helped him. Experience his person journey of pain and joy, sorrow and love.

If you are interested in getting to know me please tell me your birthday, month, day and year; It is important to me in knowing how compatible we will be with each other. I don't like to chat unless you have a webcam also.

And yes, I am single and available. Don't tell me about your previous boy friends or husbands. Don't ask me about my previous relationships; I wont tell you. Make a new start.  

Once you're here in this country, I can help you get citizenship and get a job in the area you are trained in. I will help you become independent and self supporting, if you are not already, and love you. 

If I don't here back from you I'll know you're not interested.

"Equal Partner"

I want an equal partner. Some women don't even know what an equal partner is. Many women think that the man pays the bills and the woman does not. An equal partner pays their own airfare to the States, I don't. An equal partner has an education and a job. Do you get it yet? I won't pay you to have sex with me. That is not my idea of a wife. That is my idea of a prostitute. Call it what you will; you are rationalizing. You are the wrong woman for me.

"Promises"

To help you feel better about the move:

1. I Promise to be a loving husband to you.

2. I promise to be your family as much as I can be.

3. I promise to help you be as independent and successful here in the USA, and in this state.

4. I am retired but I promise to get a job to earn more money.

5. I promise to help you become a US citizen if you are not already.

6. I promise to help you feel at home in the new country of USA as I can.

7. Meet me half way and I promise to be a good partner.

8. I promise to help you get your job here.

9. I promise to relish your beauty in your body your mind and your spirit.

10. I promise to love you.

 "Sweet Dreams Princess"

Yes it was wonderful to talk with you.

Yes, sweet dreams to you Princess.

I thank God for you Sweet Mary.

I am happy I met you.

You refreshed my mind and my spirit and renewed me and gave me hope.

I saw your face and it gave me hope.

I want to meet you also.

I dont know how it will happen, but I think it will happen.

You are my Princess and I am glad I met you.

Hope you like my CDs and when you listen to them hear my voice and let me into your soul and mind and relax.

Until the day when meet let my CDs bring us closer.

I enjoyed you from the moment I saw your picture until the time we began to write, thank you Princess.

I am grateful to know you.

"The View From The Horizon"

The view from the horizon

Was the Sun in Sag

Luna was in Gemini

There was a full moon

The rising was almost Pisces

Scorpio was full of planets,

Venus, Neptune and Mercury

So much influence in a water sign

There was compassion for the soul

That the view from the horizon was Love from Sag.