The Gift
I hope you said your prayer tonight, Even though god cannot help you now. Ive been under here for sometime, Waiting for you to fall asleep. Like a trapped rabbit in a hole, Ill smoke you out, [...]
Archive for June, 2009
A Strange Wild Song
He thought he saw an Elephant That practised on a fife: He looked again, and found it was A letter from his wife. "At length I realize," he said, "The bitterness [...]
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, [...]
When I Get Old
I want everyone to know, To see my fat belly To help me stand And I want my grand children Playing with my arthritis I want to have skin, that Drips off me, [...]
Alone
From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My passions from a common spring. From the same source I have not taken [...]
Lost
I’m lost Can’t find myself Trying, failing over and over The world sees a different me My feeling, my true feelings, difficult to express, no one can see I’m drowning in my own dark, deep insides I [...]
A Mother’s Day
Mom sits thinking about her girls and her boys, reminiscing days the floor was covered with toys. Remembering the tiny bootees and the little shoes, remembering all the gurgles and the little coos. When you said your first word she was so proud, [...]
A Touch Of Love
I was six months old and full of fun, with a blink of your eye, I was suddenly one. There were so many things we were going to do, but when you turned your head, I turned two. [...]
Mother
When I was little and I cried You lovingly held me, and let the last tear fall, When I would scrape my knee You’d bandage it up and say "be careful". When my birthday was horrible, [...]
Grandma
I remember the green freeze pops, hugs that never stopped! The games of kickball, the light left on for me in the hall. The trips to the game farm, [...]