Let The Night Come

Paradise

Paradise

Too much concrete

Too much glass

Too much steel

Holding too many people

There's no space to be alone

No place for me to be me

Awake or asleep

All I can do is dream

Praying for a moment

When I can do the impossible

Finding a place man has never been

With grasses, trees and mosses

The veil of a fog blown by a gentle breeze

Making the distance fade into mystery

Broken only by the immortal songs

Sung by a million birds

I will dream of a moment or a forever

When I can stand alone in paradise

And my songs will also flow with the breeze

The Old Photograph

The Old Photograph

I love searching

Looking for things

Trying to find that something

Something that makes me think

There was an old picture

Damaged beyond repair

Sitting in the bottom of an old trunk

Forgotten for years

It was so fragile when I touched it

I was a little scared

Afraid it would turn to powder

Yet, I saw you standing there

Two people in love

I wonder who you were

What kind of life did you live

What did you talk about

Did you have children you loved

Did the love you as much

You may just be an old photograph

But you were real people

With real stories

It is too bad I can’t hear them

But I can see a lot of your life

Hidden in that old torn photograph

That no one remembers

We Never Met You

We Never Met You

We never met you

Maybe we never would

You were the good girl

Never hurting anyone

But you could not stand the evil

You knew you had to do something

Something to help all mankind

You traded your skirts for fatigues

Your make up for a rifle

And you fought for your flag

Bullets flew past your head

And bombs blew up next you

But you never gave up

You kept fighting the fight

Until the one bullet you didn’t hear

Now you come home to an honor guard

Covered by the flag you loved so much

We never met you

Maybe we never would

But we will cry for you

And for all those who came back with you

Under the flag they loved

None of you will ever be forgotten

Beauty Of Nature

Beauty Of Nature 

Nature has such beauty

Only some of it we see

The flowers in the garden

The waves crashing on the beach

The bright colors of the birds and butterflies

And the clouds drifting in endless breezes

However, there is another canvas

Hidden under its own blue sky

So much color we rarely see

Corals stretching out for miles

Shining in reds, blues, greens and violets

Matching the fish who swim above them

Nature’s brush has touched every living thing

Even a lonely turtle swimming deep in the seas

It has its own beauty

Brush strokes unworthy of any artist’s skill

It is a masterpiece beyond words

The Man He Is

The Man He Is

He has walked so far

Holes in his shoes

His toes scrape the pavement

His pants are ripped

No knees

And just strings holding his ass

Still, no matter how he has suffered

How many people think of him

Look down on him

As less than human

He always says hello

And gives everyone a smile

That is just the kind of man he is

If I Had Only Said Hello

If I  Had Only Said Hello

I’ve been playing with my beer bottle

Shredding the label with my fingernails

So scared that you would glance over at me

And notice that I have been looking at you

Such an angel sitting alone at the bar

I know that you are so far above me

Out of my class

Still, I look at you

Wondering what your name is

And why you are all alone

There is something about you

Something I cannot understand

Too bad it is so late at night

The bartender called last call

And I still have not worked up the nerve

To say hello to someone as beautiful as you

My friends Jack, Jim, and Captian Morgan

They all left me with a lack of courage

I watch you leave as the clock strike two

Somehow I know I will never see you again

But that is alright

I have my memories

Of that beautiful girl sitting on a barstool

And the dreams of what might have been

If I had only said hello