When the momentum shifts
You’ve no one to blame
Take stock in yourself
And try to refrain
From saying words
You’ll surely regret
The clock keeps on ticking
On this, you can bet
Kill them with kindness
Or just smile and nod
Keep your distance from meanness
Don’t be a fraud
For when this time passes
Again, as it will
You can look in the mirror
And smile at God’s will
Spinning, spinning, spinning
Day in and day out
Just when you think your work is finished
Something blows it out
For you, there is no respect
Most try to get away
But sometimes when you’re lucky
Some stick around and stay
To them you are so grateful
Though they too make a mess
But acids in your tummy
Help a spider to digest
Inveigle deception
Coaxes me along
Into a leisurely rising mist
Such, that I was unaware
Whispers echo
While in the distance
A halo of hope
Is slowly slipping away
Over the horizon
Where is mercy
Alas, hidden like a jewel
Salvation
Here to satiate my thirst
On wings like angels
Subservient to no one
Lest shadows
A beacon
As bright as the noon-day sun
Now, I can breathe easy again
Ahh…
My hopes are dashed
As the shadows deepen
Into the amber depths of bliss
What juxtaposition
Dark and light
Despair and elation
Long shadows traverse my path
Causing hesitation in my walk
Step by step
I climb the hill
Hoping and praying
The shadows disappear
Subsequent to dying
I took a little tour
And discovered
All that I’d missed
And just a little more
The beauty within colors
That paint the morning sky
A field of flowers
All in bloom
Upon a mountainside
Precious little children
So dependent
And so sweet
Coo and smile
All the while
They play at momma’s feet
Fish within the ocean
Varieties – every kind
Birds so small
I’d have missed them all
If I hadn’t died
Creatures hiding in the bush
Some up in the trees
If only I had seen them
Before I sprouted wings
And while you do not hear me
My words are in the wind
Always say I love you
For we all come to an end
You know what I mean
Without me saying a word
I know what that look says
To all others, unheard
A brush of your skin
Excites me to my core
And we long for each other
Always wanting more
I sing this dirge to my long-lost best friend
The times that we had were grand
The womens and boozes
And afternoon snoozes
Were a hell of a life for this man
—
But you left before me
Though you said you’d not go
And you’d wait for your friend of many years
Now I toast to your grave
Oh, the mess that you made
Now, I’m left with these memories and tears
As I lay here drowning in my sorrows
And I wonder why my dreams did not come true
I reflect upon my yesterdays – not tomorrows
Because the greatest gift I had in life – was you
Oh, the cliff that I was on was so much higher
So much higher than I had ever dreamed
And this fall from grace has shattered me to pieces
Now I lie here in a broken hearted stream
