Come On By (Song)

V1:

It seems I’ve found you in the strangest of places

Surrounded by so many familiar faces

It’s like you’ve been there all along

Waiting for me to come by

V2:

What can fill your empty spaces?

While you’re running one of life’s many races

Are you going to peter out?

I can see the finish line

Refrain:

You’re out here on your own

Trying to figure out this thing called life

you wander down this winding road

Waiting for Mr. Right to come on by

V3:

Maybe you and I can go on a date

Catch a film or grab a plate

Maybe I’m the right guy

Do you want to give it a try?

2011

Good Morning (Song)

Refrain:

Good morning, how did you sleep last night

Good morning, how did you sleep last night

Cause I was up all night just thinking about you my light

And I’m wondering if that’s alright?

V1:

Did you dream of me or am I the only one who feels it

Did you dream of me, or did nightmare’s fill your night

I will be your dream catcher, take away the fright

I want to  hold you tight, keep you safe throughout the night

Refrain: 

Good morning, how did you sleep last night

Good morning, how did you sleep last night

Cause I was up all night just thinking about you my light

And I’m wondering if that’s alright?

V2: 

I want to fall asleep with you waiting for the sun to rise

I want to fall asleep with you watching the stars in the skies

I wish I could be with you, I wish that I could stay

I know I can’t be with you, so my heart’s on its way!

(2010)

Drowned

I’ve been tired physically and now am tired mentally;

And there’s no one to talk to that will listen

No one to hear that might understand

Tired and wretched soul just yearning for a warm heart

To reach out and grasp so firmly as though it must last

One thousand, one million years

Sorrow and joy fill the sky but I cannot!

No, I must but I cannot hold on to something so inexplicable

So innate in its beauty that I must, I have to hold on

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Time wasted, love released onto a cold rock of a heart

It bounces back day by day, night after night

But then like a faucet turned open my cold heart pours forth

Water so pure, so tasteful that one who drinks of it might feel as though

They were just reborn

But it is in the death of my rock that I am reborn

The drowning of it that makes it anew

I have drowned back to life

(2006)

Grin and Bear It (Song)

Good things must come to an end

So you can pick up the pieces and begin again

And you can live life to its fullest potential

Knowing there’s something new around the bend

And you can smile

When you look back at all of the lessons you’ve learned

So why don’t you smile

And laugh and cry and live

A heartbeat goes up, up and down

And there’s nothing in life that cannot turn around

So be happy for the things that you’ve got

And don’t worry about the things you haven’t found

And you can smile

When you look back at all of the lessons you’ve learned

So why don’t you smile

And laugh and cry and live

(2011)

My Love Was a Dream (Song)

Alone in the wilderness

Far from the sea

It was dark to the eye

And scary for me

So I knelt down and prayed

I was so very afraid

Let God take away my fear

On that ground I stayed

Slept on through the night

Waked to a glittering light

It was the sun on the sea

I knew then I’d be alright

I was surrounded by angels galore

Yet my heart yearned for more

It was then I saw her watching me from the shore

She was someone I’d seen

Her eyes blue her dress green

Her hair was black as night

Face the brightest I’ve ever seen

I began to shake

And my heart began to ache

She was here in my dream

But then I awake

I wish I could slumber

From morning until night

Never feel alone

Or that awful fright

But in the morning I wake

And sooner or later I might be

Alone in the wilderness

I was far from the sea

It was dark to the eye

And scary for me

So I knelt down and prayed

I was so very afraid

Let God take away my fear

On that ground I stayed

(2006)

True Friendship

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 Friends will be friends forever

‘til the night ceases to dawn

They will hate each other never

Cannot bicker long

Today I tell you this

You must not forget

If someone you do miss

Be happy that you met

Sometimes it’s hard to say

Love isn’t clear as day

True friends will never leave

You have to believe

They may be half the world apart

But they will care for you from the start

Never will they go

Ask them. They will know

They know your deepest desires

They’ve seen your darkest fears

To them you are a fire

Your love, it sears

Scars you may have given them

But two things they won’t forget

The fact that you love them

And the day you met

(2004)

The Tiniest Bead

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Although in winter’s day we sit

And talk of stories yet untold

Of friends and foes we have not met

Of life and future to unfold

When waiting storm begins attack

And sitting there we are afraid

Of howling winds upon our back

We pay a debt that’s yet unpaid

Of house and home and family naught

The sea has claimed all these to it

Without a chance we stood and fought

But win the sea would not permit

But now that all of us are gone

And you were not completely right

To say that what we did was wrong

To stand pig-headed and to fight

Now with the generations past

So that our children won’t forget

While growing up so strong, so fast

The ancestors they never met

We always dream of what’s to come

And with this dream we become hooked

Although we think that we have none

These simple pleasures overlooked

Of life and love we have a lot

But to this we have no regard

What we need is not sold or bought

Its only found if we look hard

Just live the life that you have now

The future will be what it wants

Just remember to take your bow

And to make your dreams more than thoughts

From deep within ourselves we need

To find the peace the world can give

As small as the tiniest bead

It is all we need to live

(2004)

On Rhyme

I have heard many a time

That poetry should be in rhyme

But how can this be, the words you see

Must be selected one at a time

But of this I do not fret

For I do now make this bet

That free verse when used instead of rhyme

Will not be a crime

Although the first I prefer

Your style of writing do not deter

For what comes from the heart, must be a part

Of any poem I refer

(2005)

The Race

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The water is cold

A mighty clamp

To you it holds

Wet and damp

Adrenaline surge!

The mighty chase

You have the urge

To make the race

Flip! And Push!

You’re out of the flags

Your legs and tush

Feel like heavy bags

You’re almost there

The wall’s in sight

He won’t dare

Come up on the right

Slap! The wall

Grip it tight

You hope that all

Has ended right

Point of View

Terrorist or Patriot?

Point of view makes a difference

Euthanasia or putting an end to misery?

Think about it.

Human life is short

A minute in the life of the Earth

Don’t always be a judge rather

Live, live YOUR life, not theirs

You may still disagree with some things

But never jump to conclusions

Capital punishment or torture?

It’s not easy is it?

(2005)

Waiting (Song)

V1:
I can't hold on anymore.
It's all in or fold and
I can't read your face,
what cards do you hold?

Refrain:
'Cause I'm waiting,
waiting for you
to give up your fear,
and I'm ready, ready for your love.
So take me by the hand
and I'll show you
how wonderful love can be.

V2:
I can't hold on anymore
It's too much to hold on to.
You make me feel, what I cannot feel
what I cannot feel on my own

Refrain:
And I'm waiting,
waiting for you
to give up your fear,
and I'm ready, ready for your love.
So take me by the hand
and I'll show you
how wonderful love can be.

(2009)

Innocence (song)

V1:
I'm lost in a foreign world
solitude but no peace.
I've ventured past my youth
the world's a scary place.

V2:
Death is everywhere
there is no hiding here.
Bombs falling from the air
no one without a tear.

Refrain:
I want to go back to when
my Daddy was a hero and
I want to go back to when
My mommy was a god.
Everybody was my friend
I was never wrong.
Back before my tragedy
Reality.

V3:
Lifting, growing, aging, trying
social security, medicare
slowly losing, quickly dying
Jesus, Mary almost there

Refrain:
But I want to to back to when
my Daddy was a hero and
I want to go back to when
my Mommy was a god.
Everybody knew just where
I had ever been.
Back before my tragedy
Senility.

V4:
Now I've made it home
I'm not alone anymore
there's nothing missing in my life
And I want you to know... I want you to know

Refrain:
I've made it back to when
my Daddy is my hero
I've made it back to when
my Mommy is my god.
Nothing to fear now
I won't shed a tear now.

(2005)

Second Chances (song)

What are you thinking?
What do you know?
Why are you looking,
like you've someplace to go?
Where are you going?
Who will you see?
Please promise me,
you'll let me know when you're gone.

Some people don't have the chance
to have what we've got.
Those people don't have a chance
to love.
You've given me a second chance
for love.

(2010)

War

I detest war the mighty beast
upon innocent lives it does feast
with a solid arm beats its foes
how much harm no one knows

Wretched death, brutal life
out of breath, stuck in strife
Alas Babylon, On the Beach
with this war, all life in reach
end of man, the world is gone
write no more I can, this life is done.

(2006)

I Am There (song)

When life's too hard and you feel all alone

Sadness gives you a chill to the bone

Happiness is a thing of the past

And love it seems just will never last

Mouths can't fight gravity's pull

Nothing is experienced in full

Shame becomes a game

Everything turns a little lame

People say that life's not fair

No one really seems to care

And when you feel like you can't go on

When life's like this, no that I am there

Joy is a fleeting image from above

Hope is just a symbol just a dove

Peace is seen now and then

War comes and goes, gone and back again

Nothing is here for long

Emotion is needed in song

People don't live to long

Life is here, and then it's gone.


(2006)

The Politician

There was a knight in times of old

who said of his mistress bold

that she should stand before a crowd

speaking in a voice so strong and loud

But at days end they all agreed

that she could surely be

a politician in the States

but never have too many dates

(2004)