Let The Night Come

Paradise

Paradise

Too much concrete

Too much glass

Too much steel

Holding too many people

There's no space to be alone

No place for me to be me

Awake or asleep

All I can do is dream

Praying for a moment

When I can do the impossible

Finding a place man has never been

With grasses, trees and mosses

The veil of a fog blown by a gentle breeze

Making the distance fade into mystery

Broken only by the immortal songs

Sung by a million birds

I will dream of a moment or a forever

When I can stand alone in paradise

And my songs will also flow with the breeze

The Old Photograph

The Old Photograph

I love searching

Looking for things

Trying to find that something

Something that makes me think

There was an old picture

Damaged beyond repair

Sitting in the bottom of an old trunk

Forgotten for years

It was so fragile when I touched it

I was a little scared

Afraid it would turn to powder

Yet, I saw you standing there

Two people in love

I wonder who you were

What kind of life did you live

What did you talk about

Did you have children you loved

Did the love you as much

You may just be an old photograph

But you were real people

With real stories

It is too bad I can’t hear them

But I can see a lot of your life

Hidden in that old torn photograph

That no one remembers

We Never Met You

We Never Met You

We never met you

Maybe we never would

You were the good girl

Never hurting anyone

But you could not stand the evil

You knew you had to do something

Something to help all mankind

You traded your skirts for fatigues

Your make up for a rifle

And you fought for your flag

Bullets flew past your head

And bombs blew up next you

But you never gave up

You kept fighting the fight

Until the one bullet you didn’t hear

Now you come home to an honor guard

Covered by the flag you loved so much

We never met you

Maybe we never would

But we will cry for you

And for all those who came back with you

Under the flag they loved

None of you will ever be forgotten

Beauty Of Nature

Beauty Of Nature 

Nature has such beauty

Only some of it we see

The flowers in the garden

The waves crashing on the beach

The bright colors of the birds and butterflies

And the clouds drifting in endless breezes

However, there is another canvas

Hidden under its own blue sky

So much color we rarely see

Corals stretching out for miles

Shining in reds, blues, greens and violets

Matching the fish who swim above them

Nature’s brush has touched every living thing

Even a lonely turtle swimming deep in the seas

It has its own beauty

Brush strokes unworthy of any artist’s skill

It is a masterpiece beyond words

The Man He Is

The Man He Is

He has walked so far

Holes in his shoes

His toes scrape the pavement

His pants are ripped

No knees

And just strings holding his ass

Still, no matter how he has suffered

How many people think of him

Look down on him

As less than human

He always says hello

And gives everyone a smile

That is just the kind of man he is

If I Had Only Said Hello

If I  Had Only Said Hello

I’ve been playing with my beer bottle

Shredding the label with my fingernails

So scared that you would glance over at me

And notice that I have been looking at you

Such an angel sitting alone at the bar

I know that you are so far above me

Out of my class

Still, I look at you

Wondering what your name is

And why you are all alone

There is something about you

Something I cannot understand

Too bad it is so late at night

The bartender called last call

And I still have not worked up the nerve

To say hello to someone as beautiful as you

My friends Jack, Jim, and Captian Morgan

They all left me with a lack of courage

I watch you leave as the clock strike two

Somehow I know I will never see you again

But that is alright

I have my memories

Of that beautiful girl sitting on a barstool

And the dreams of what might have been

If I had only said hello

Rebirth

Rebirth

The time has come

Humans are no longer in control

Mother Nature has been raped

She has been abused

She has been assaulted

And she waits for humans

For the time when humans make a mistake

Then she will rise up

She will shake her fists

And destroy the temples humans have built

The roofs will collapse

Water will flood the footsteps of the human

Erasing them from history

They will be replaced with grass and trees

Animals will walk past rusting cars

Birds will nest in the empty buildings

Humans will have long since gone

Taken from the land they considered theirs

The world will change

It will return to a place before humans

Mother Nature will take in a deep breath

And she will smile

Her treasure has been reborn

And maybe this time it will survive

Woman Of My Dreams

Woman Of My Dreams

I have known you for so long

You come to me when the sun goes down

And the light of the stars shines on me

You are an angel in my dreams

And a demon in my nightmares

Still, your eyes haunt me

Your lips will not let me sleep

Your flaming hair has burned into my soul

I do not know how I could ever love you

Someone so evil and yet so good

And still someone I love to see

Every night I wait until the darkness to come

So I can close my eyes and fall to sleep

Maybe I will dream

Maybe I will have a nightmare

And I will see you once again

The Polar Bear’s Home

The Polar Bear’s Home

It was not long ago

I lived in a world I loved

I could walk for miles

In any direction

No walls of boundaries

I hunted through holes in the ice

Slept in the cold arctic air

My cubs learned to hide in the snow

And how to play between the drifts

We were a family and we were happy

Playing and hunting in the wild

The world was our yard

A place to run and live our lives

Now, it is all gone

The snows are just a distant memory

The ice no longer comes

So we will just sit and wait

Hoping the coldness will return

Hoping that someday we may have our home back

Walking The Wall

Walking The Wall

I hate it

I can see both sides

The endless rules of Heaven

The endless punishment of Hell

Someone made a decision

Set down laws about how to live

And then just sat back and watched

They took the joys God gave us

And turned them into sins

But, man cannot live strictly by the rules

God gave us free will to live our own way

So it is a hard line to follow

Watching each step

On a wall no wider that a word

It is so hard not to stumble

Not to fall into the wrong side

Still, we tread carefully

Being careful of everything we say or do

Careful not to hurt someone

In the hope that we will not fall

That we will walk the righteous path

And we will be redeemed