Sometime

Sometime

By R.e. Taylor

Sometime

Everyone needs a space

Away from the world

Just to be themselves

To be alone

To think

To dream

And create new beauty

©2017 R.e. Taylor

A Long Time Gone

A Long Time Gone

I haven’t seen you in so long

An argument that shouldn’t have happened

Kept us from loving each other

A mistake that shook the universe

But after a half of a century

We found each other

Spoke to each other

Shared pictures

And planned to reunite

Now the time has finally come

Tomorrow will be that special moment

Just one flight

No more than three hours long

When we finally depart

My mind fills with thoughts of you

And my heart beats so fast

It beats out of my chest

When we see each other again for the first time

And our arms wrap around each other

Again, I will kiss the lips from my youth

And again, I will fall in love

Books Will Never Die

Books Will Never Die

Books are as human as we are

Starting with the stones

Engraved by the Sumerian scribes

Through the parchment scrolls

Written by the Greeks

Stored in a library in Alexandria

Monks copied books by hand

Then the printing press was invented

And the masses began reading

Learning and dreaming

Books have lasted centuries

Finally replaced by bits and bytes

Still people love the feel of the printed page

Whether old or new

The smell of a book is happiness

A bookmark between yellowing pages

The crack of a fresh binding

Real books will never die

They have been here for thousands of years

As long as someone loves the written word

And they will be alive for an eternity more

Mountain Boys

Mountain Boys

By R.e. Taylor

Mountain boys

Locked in a prison

One that once ruled their fathers

Grandfathers and everyone they knew

Never seeing the sun

They survive deep underground

Breathing poison gasses

And dust which kills them

But they know that is their life

When the day is done

Most return home to their families

Too tired to be with friends

Other become buried

Surrounded by tons of rock

They gasp for needed air

While their bosses worry about their money

Such is the life for mountain boys

Spending their lives in a dark coal mine

Never knowing if they will survive

To work another day

In their own dark, cold hell

© R.e. Taylor 2017

www.authorretaylor.com

Dirty Knees

Dirty Knees

You don’t know it yet

Your time is way too short

Play the way you want to

Run across the meadows

Jump in the summer sun

And let your knees get dirty

You are a little girl

A free spirit

Blessed with energy and excitement

And an innocence to see the world

So be who you are

Your time is short

The day will come when you are grown

With a job and a child

And, on the toughest days

You will remember when you ran and jumped

When you loved getting your knees dirty

And maybe you will smile

When your daughter comes home with dirty knees

Friduwulf

Friduwulf

Abandoned by his pack

Friduluf wander the forest alone

From cub to full-fledged wolf

He fought and scraped to survive

Many times he was nearly killed

And many times he killed

All because of who he was

His legend grew

As he became more vicious

Until he met a young child

Innocent and sweet

He knew nothing of Friduwulf

Nor did he care

He just saw a friend he had not met

Despite the growls and the fangs

The child stood and smiled

And Friduwulf learned something new

Not everyone wanted to hurt him

There were some who loved

And when the child reached out

Friduwulf smiled and moved closer

And he allowed himself to be hugged

And he found love in the arms of a little child

Temptation Of Eden

Temptation  Of Eden

Eve gave in

When the serpent in the tree

Treated her to the first temptation

She bit into the fruit of knowledge

And the apple took the rap

Releasing the sins of the world

And casting the couple out of Eden

Their story is still told

Over and over since the beginning of time

The first villains

Became the first heroes

For freeing us from eternal paradise

And allowing man to grow as it should

And, even know, there is an admiration

For those two people who surrendered

Used their free-will

And left Eden to give us our future

Morning Dew

Morning Dew

Breezes blow up the valley

Carrying a barely seen veil

Moisture from a distant sea

Falling on every living thing

Making them sparkle in the rising sun

Creating diamonds on every leaf

Tears dripping from every petal

Happiness and sadness

Both happening at the same time

Either way, the beauty is always there

Shining in the morning sun

© 2017 R.e. Taylor

The Way There

The Way There

A million people

Walk on asphalt and cement paths

Through valleys of glass and steel

They find corners to make a choice

And they only take them to other corners

And more choices

It is an endless circle

Some spend their whole lives

Walking and searching for a magical land

With fields of grass and flowers

Trees making shade in the Summer sun

And a lake surrounded by laughing children

To most it is just a story

A hopeful tale shared by parents

But, for those who search long enough

Persevere through time and space

The oasis in the concrete desert is real

A place of dreams and pleasure

And they will never forget the way there

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So many people have told me

Wisdom from ages ago

“When Hell freezes over!”

They said expecting us to know

Snow covering the burning rocks

Towers of ice and canyons through the snow

Mixing colours of white and blue

When the leaves die

And the snows fall in the north

Covering the world as it lies

The wisdom from long ago comes true

And Hell is frozen at least for a few months

Thorns And Blood

Thorns And Blood

I have known you all your life

You were so pretty when you were small

But, over time pretty turned into beauty

A beautiful face

A beautiful mind

And a beautiful heart

How could I not fall in love with you

Even though I didn’t look deep into you

I did truly love you

But, you beauty hid vicious thorns

Words created to do subtle harm

Actions meant to leave you soul bloody

No longer wanting to be with you

I do no one thing

You are worth evading the thorns

And my soul will survive

As long as I can be with you

A Few Moments

A Few Moments

In the few moments

I allow myself to relax

Not think of anything

My mind floats

Like a balloon on the breezes

Touching the beauty

And the calmness of the sky

While floating above the desolation

And the hopeless of the blank world below

Happily, I drift between the two realities

Experiencing both happiness and sadness

Creating memories I will always have

Memories made in just a few moments