The Last Wish

The Last Wish

Gravedigger do your job

Dig the hole deep and wide

I will be coming soon

You will need to be ready

There will be no mourners

You will be the only one

The only one to see me placed in the ground

Place a wooden cross at my head

No name or date

I do not want to be found

Please allow me to be alone

Let the demons of death have my soul

I want my body to fade into the earth

There is only one wish I wish to ask

Bury me face down

My face buried in the dirt

Leave me so I can tell the world

If they ever happen upon me

Long after my cross has turned to dust

I want to let them know when the dig me up

They can simply kiss my ass

Dead Man's Hand

Dead Man’s Hand

Should have never sat down

A backwoods country bar

Filled with redneck men

Beautiful country girls

And a Texas Hold’em game in the back

A few losing hands

Then came the black aces and black eights

The dead man’s hand

A stack of chips in the middle

Everyone went all in

Most lost and someone won

A Smith & Wesson came out

Bullets flew and a man fell dead

They learned that day that there is a time to fold

There is no winning with a dead man’s hand

Waves

Waves

Watching the water at the beach

Its glassy surface shines under the sun

Waves dance it a rhythm that only nature could write

Some small and so graceful and so petite

Others destroy ages old coastlines

They all live as Earth’s beauty

Where were they born?

How far have they traveled to reach this land?

Looking at a wave is to see grace, power and splendor

Yet it also has a sense of sadness as it reaches the land

Knowing that it traversed thousands of miles

Wandering half way around the world

Just to die before my eyes

Giving its life as it fades into the sand

So sad…so sad