I Can't

I Can’t

Together forever

One night the wrong word was said

You left our house

You left our bed

You left my heart broken and dying

Never to come back

Still I see you in my life

The waitress at the diner

The barmaid at the saloon

And every girl walking down the street

They all have your face

The same glint I remember in your eyes

The same perfume you wore to bed

I cannot see the real world

Only the one where you were with me

No matter what I do

How much my mind tries to wander

Even the songs on the old country channel

They remind me of my time with you

I can’t get you out of my head

The Story

The Story

I look at my keyboard

What could I possibly say?

How could I tell the story I see?

The characters are so strong

The lines maybe say too much

I want them to be believed

Yet, I know that they will not

It is a story of a world I see

One of pure good

One of the purest evil

How can I write it?

How could anyone see what I see?

What words could speak my words?

My thoughts are so different

Never the same as everyone’s reality

This is a story that needs to be told

My fingers have to move

The keys have to click as I touch them

The story will flow onto the screen

The words will come

The story will be told

If I could just move my fingers

They Don't Care

They Don’t Care

Don’t pledge allegiance to the flag

I don’t want to hear your prayers

God and the country have turned their backs on us

How could they allow people to die on the streets?

Why do children go to bed with nothing to eat?

Seniors are forced to survive on cat food

Our young are sent to kill and be killed

This is no way for our lives to be

They control our lives

They make the choices for us

It is time for them to think

It is time for them to care

If they don’t

If they can’t

We will never survive

Then who will they control?

The Hippie Girl

The Hippie Girl

Look at that girl walking down the street

So far out of time

A denim maxi skirt

Long straight hair

Bracelets on both arms

And necklaces covering her chest

She is an angel from a forgotten time

Even after so many years

Her appearance means so much to so many people

Remembering a movement for peace in a time of war

Does she know that she celebrates love?

Don’t tell her what she means

Just let her walk in peace

Let her be who she is

Let her spread the message of peace and love

Even if she doesn’t know she’s doing it

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