My '67 VW

My '67 VW

I remember the moment I saw you

Sitting in the sun

I fell in love and swept you away

We travelled the world together

Places I never thought I'd ever see

We went to see Woodstock

Rockets launch from Cape Kennedy

You were there when I met my first love

And my second and third

My kids played with you in the front yard

Took you on road trips to God knows where

And even learned about life with you by their sides

But all good things leave

It is just part of nature

You were in my life for so long

My good times and the times I wanted to die

You were there.

The night you died I slept with a shot glass in my hand

A half empty bottle of Jack resting in my lap

And I cried

The Goddess

The Goddess

How could anyone ever meet you

Such a beauty to behold

Are you an angel from Heaven

A queen from a lost ago time

A goddess who fell to Earth

Your eyes do show your soul

Just enough to tease anyone who looks at you

But not enough for anyone to know you

All we have is your beauty

The  mystery in your face

Please give us a chance to meet you

Your heart and your soul

Give us a chance to see the real you

So we can get to know you

And have a chance to love you

Looking Down

Looking Down

Why are you standing there

Looking down on us

The creatures your God created

The creatures you left here alone

Are you judging us

How we took the world God gave us

We destroyed the air and he water

We raped the precious soil

We did everything we could to hurt each other

We fucked up the paradise God had given us

I can understand if we have gone too far to be helped

Has it gotten to where God just doesn’t care

Why won’t you answer this question

You just stand there looking down on us

Looking down to watch what we do

How we do it

And why we do it

But, your job is just to be our judge

Watch and decide the fate of the people God created

And maybe decide how He will start again

Once we are gone

Imagination

Imagination

Somewhere there is a world

A place where anything can happen

There can be wars and peace where everyone lives

Animals long extinct roaming with modern man

Islands with only one inhabitant

Foods with flavors never tasted before

Kisses that never end from women who don’t exist

And couples who never argue

Clean air and always sunny skies

And never, ever a flake of snow

Such a world is only in my mind

Not in a dream

It is somewhere every person has within them

A magical land called imagination

Where everyone can see what they want to see

Where they can be who they want to be

All you have to do is open the door

And you will be welcome

One Tree

One Tree

You came across the water

Taking land that did not belong to you

Chased the natives from their homes

Killing some for no reason

Locking some away in dark cells

You put the rest on compounds

Places where you could control them

Then you hunted the animals

So many we are down to the last few

They were both here long before you

Man and animal settled this land

While you and yours lived in caves

Now the land is yours

My home has been taken from me

So I, like so may wander the land

Looking for a chance to live in peace

Now, I have only one question

Just for me

In your haste to kill and control this land

Couldn’t you just leave one tree standing

One tree where I could sleep, eat and live

I guess not

Looking For Sleep

Looking For Sleep

God, just let me sleep

I have counted a million sheep

Stared at the ceiling

Listened to the crickets chirping

Even went and got warm milk

Still sleep avoids me

My mind will not shut down for the night

What will Sharion do with Michael

How will the people go on

What word rhymes with pompous

So many stories running through my mind

Poems that need to be written

But, not at that moment

Not when my eyes should be closed

It is so bad I started taking notes on toilet paper

My little pad ran out hours ago

Another night gone

One sunbeam hitting me from the dawn

I just want to forget the world and sleep

Maybe I will just delete my book

Stop writing poems and stop thinking

Then my eyes will close and I will fall to sleep

At least until my baby starts crying

I Am An Alien

I Am An Alien

I am an alien to this world

Born of atoms created billions of years ago

Atoms which drifted through time

Across millions of light years of space

Not connecting until they came upon a blue green planet

Random events brought them together

Giving them the breath of life

The freedom to exist together yet on their own

Combining into chains and molecules

Until two one celled inhabitants of human bodies combined

That random event mixed just perfectly

And that spark of life once  again ignited

I was born not long after

A member of the human species

Still an alien whose life began in the darkness of space

In the millionth of a second when nothing became everything

And I was created.