The Girl In The Shoes

The Girl In The Shoes

I didn’t even have to see her

Just the clicking of her heels

And the glint of red from her shoes

I saw her so many times, but I never met her

Her looks and her attitude always scare me

I am not sure by they did but they did

So, I sit and watch her walk by me

And up to the chair where she drinks her wine

She only drinks a glass i\or two before she leaves

And my heart leaves with her

She will never know how I feel

But I don’t care

I will love her forever

Even if I can never tell her

Don’t Believe The Mirror

Don’t Believe The Mirror

By R.e. Taylor

@ 2019 Shadowlight Publishing

Every day it’s the same thing

Stop at a mirror and stare

Looking for new grey hairs

Or a new wrinkle or two

If you don’t find any

You look closer and closer

Never quite sure if you see them or not

Then the make-up comes out

And your real face disappears

I just watch in amazement

Watching you change before me

Don’t you know that every wrinkle

Every grey hair on your head

And every little imperfection

They make you unique and so beautiful

It’s just too bad that you can’t see it

But, I can and so can everyone else

So, try one day just being you

Because you are beautiful beyond belief

Mates

Mates

Everyone learns one lesson

There will be times when you need to talk

Your Mom and Dad won’t do it

Neither will any of your friends

Even if you’ve known them forever

They are just not the ones to talk to

You need that one person

A brother from another mother

A sister from another mister

Someone who shares your soul

And has shared your fears and tears

They will always be your true mates

Watching your back and caring for you

Just as you would always do for them

Heroes Are Not Born Anymore

Heroes Are Not Born Anymore

By R.e. Taylor

© 2019 Shadowlight Publishing

You were a hero

Fighting for your country

Hopefully you made it home

And married the girl you loved

A house with a white fence

You had two children

Your dream was complete

Now your children are grown

They wear black masks

Attacking people and America

Searching for anyone to like them

Or a safe place to hide

When someone calls them a name

Or even disagrees with them

God forbid that America need your courage

It cannot be found in the new generation

They are way too busy crying in a corner

I guess you’ll have to fight for them

At least until the grow a pair

Bye, Bye Brain Cells

Bye, Bye Brain Cells

I do not know how many

Brain cells I had when I was born

I figure it was quite a few

I learned a lot and remembered it

But now, after so many years

Listening to so many stupid people

Watching way too much TV

And a lifetime of Dr. Pepper

I know I have some left

I had already forgotten your name

My address and phone number

And how to shave in the morning

Spread out through the universe

Making them harder to find

My last remaining few will keep me going

Reminding me to pull up my zipper

To eat my creamed spinach

And not fart too loudly in public

I won’t miss the ones who are long gone

Now, if I could just remember what I was saying

A Children’s World

A Children’s World 

Never look badly at a child

Even if they say something incredible

Like they can walk through doors

Or becoming invisible at dinner

They are not limited by physics

Nor by the rules which grown-ups live by

They see magic and ask why not

We look at magic and say impossible

Children are a new and amazing species

Gods and goddesses unlike any before

They see the world as it should be

Limited by only wishes, dreams and magic

It is so sad that we teach that out of them

But maybe they are right

We can walk through walls

All we have to do is believe

He Missed So Much

He Missed So Much

He was tired of waiting

His body hit the age before him

His eyes lost their shine

Now they were lifeless

Just ebony plates on a grey sea

The body he used to do everything

Arms and legs which were once steel band

Now he strains when he lifts them from the table

Staring, his eyes miss so much

The worse is that he will never see a child's smile

But when he realized what he was missing

A fast death so many years before

That could have the best thing

If only knew then what he knows now

Or at least had an idea of what was come