Mary Jane

Mary Jane

A bad night to be alone

I don't feel like doing anything

No writing

No painting

Nothing at all

I can hear life outside my door

Mary Jane is an honored guest

I have been with her so many times

Sharing my life with her

She was the girl I could not live without

My mind feels better when she is around

I have never worried about being with her

She shared my life through high school and college

Helped me getting so many things done

I could always depend on Mary Jame to help

She is just outside my door

Smelling so sweet she is beyond imagination

Coming in my mind wanders

My senses rise to taste her

My thoughts travel to her sensuous touch

I take one small taste and the universe changes

Becomes more real and peaceful

How can anyone live with her

I will never know

I never want to know

Mary Jane is my one and only love

She will never know it

But she keeps coming around to my house

My door will always be open for her

She is always welcome

She is my muse.

Without her I am nothing

Nothing

Evolution

Evolution

Green slime

Alien creatures on an alien world

Did they know?

How could they know that they would mutate?

Change from their humble lives

Innocents effected by time and space

Made to breathe air

Walk on the newly emerging land

Reign as giant creatures

Cold blooded they look to the sun for life

Changing again they look to the skies

Looking for a god to worship

They look at each other and see only differences

All their sameness had been bred out of them

They struggle for life

Killing others for land, food or for glory

Glass, metal and guns become commonplace

Dead bodies are buried in mass grave

There is no one to mourn the dead

They are busy hunting more of their kind

They make bombs that destroy cities

Making each one more powerful than the last

More death

More dying

More illness

Still they do not give up making more

One day, one bomb

A bright light

A strong wind brings winter to their planet

Making life hard yet is still survives

Surviving even for a moment

It is a glimmer of hope that is so needed

Another bomb aimed at a target no one sees

The planet melts into a burning furnace

Burning off the air and all life with it

Billions of years pass by

A new planet grows out of the dust

Live finds it way back to the new waters

Green slime who don't know what is coming

And the cycle start over again

If Only

If Only

Time passes so fast

It leads us to an unknown future

While the past is lost in a flash

There is no chance to fix mistakes

Say the words that should have been said

Retrieve a love that was lost

Memories fade to dust

New ones take their place

Why can't we go back even for an hour?

Why can't we know then what we know now?

We suffer with choices that shouldn't have been made

Just one moment could change your life

One word said in the spur of the moment

One kiss that should have been shared

One love that would have lasted forever

If you could go back would you make the changes

Would you let the past stay the same?

If only time was like crossing the street

What a difference a second could be

If only...

Freedom

Freedom

Watch what you say

Don't ever say the wrong thing

Ignore the rights violations

They are for the good of the people

New ideas are crimes to be punished

They will never say that they are wrong

They will never say they are repressive

Fears of death for a criticism of them

Arrests for carrying the wrong sign

Their troops quell dissension

They never tell you what you can say

You are to figure that out for yourself

Books are censored and burned

Based on the religion of the area

Even news from another country is banned

It might tell you a truth they do not want you to know

Freedoms are an idea lost to a distant past

They were taken away to protect the people from enemies

Taken away to protect the government from the people

One thought, one word or one idea can get people thinking

Questioning the government they put in place

When did our freedoms leave?

When were they taken away?

We have to start thinking

To start to voice our opinion

Never caring what they say

Then we will have our freedoms

The ones the fathers gave to us

And they will all live in fear

I Keep Driving

I Keep Driving

Driving down a county road

No lights for miles

The darkness surrounds me

There are no trees or fields

Even the flowers hide from the moon

Animals step into my headlights

Then they flee off into nothing

The radio stations died miles back

There is nothing but static

There are no headlights behind me

No tail lights in front of me

I have seen a few stop sign and mile markers

The only proof that there is anyone else

I don't know why this road keeps going on

Maybe I died and an endless road is Satan's gift

I will keep driving ahead

Listening to the stones fly from my wheels

This is my own private hell

No music and no one to talk to

The clouds glow ahead of me

Lighted by the glow of a distant city

It is a mere glimmer of hope

So close but still so far away

For now I drive through the darkness

Straining my eyes to see one familiar landmark

More than just a glowing cloud

There is nothing

Still I keep driving on into the darkness

I just hope that soon there will be some light

I just keep driving

Floating On A Raft

Floating On A Raft

Floating on a rickety old raft

The water flows around me

Silently it creates small eddies

The water reflects the trees on the shore

Such peace only miles from the city

Could this be the Eden God promised?

If it is I never want to leave

Let the city go on its hectic way

Please allow them to die at their own pace

I just want to float here on my raft

Looking at the sky and dreaming

I don't want to go back

Without Hope

Without Hope

Floating just below the clouds

Look and you can see the heavens

All the stars and beauty of the universe

Below the rich live their easy lives

Others live on cat food

Not knowing where they will rest their heads

Yet they look into the heavens I see

While the wrap themselves in torn blankets

Crawling into a cardboard box they call home

They pray to a god who doesn't care

And they die without an answer

Without a decent meal

Shivering in a cold December night

Frozen in time without hope