Dancing In Heaven

Dear lord here I sit with pen in hand
Hoping you will understand
Lillian will be dancing with the stars
With mother nature
Old man winter
Integrated with the wind and rain
Dancing in heaven
With wild refrain
Holding hands with the angels
Who smile with bliss Whispering in the night wind
To loved ones on earth
Sending them a gentle kiss
So lord you are really blessed
To have Lillian
Your dancing guest

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Scope of life

Scope this out
I have no doubt
I see what's going on

My heart is blessed
With scope I guess
To see what's going on around me

The scope of my thoughts are manic at time
But survivors are greater than those who give up
To the thoughts that make our emotions erupt

We look beyond the bad and good
We live our lives like God says we should

So scope this out
I have no doubt
That heaven is what's going on.

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Now we duck for the muck that hurricanes blow
Now we cry again for the dead heroes.

Give me liberty or give me death
A yearning call in my American chest.

Leave us to truth and justice
Make my home and family safe.

Life is great in this country
So please block all illegal entry.

I see the evil and they usually write
Their intentions to destroy and to smite
The country who fights for honor and right.

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My Visitor

An English Sparrow flew in my kitchen,
A female because I know my birds.
She looked at me and said where are my treats.
I said the health inspector was here.
Go catch a fly and be indescreet
I heard you'll draw rats
with your dirty little feet.
Ijust gave you crumbs
from the fresh bread they baked,
You have one more year so go catch a bug
I know it's not as good,
As the killer food we make, here in the hood.

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Love never lost

We all have lovers of those that we love.
A cold nose then kisses
A warm carress.

From you Jackie, it sends,
A message to tell,
I am loved.

Through the trials and tribulations of my youth.
My play and pleasure that I brought you.

The comfort we gave each other in life.
Through teardrops and laughter.

These memories will last a lifetime.
Love Me.

We go to heaven too.
So with tail a wagging I'll wait on you.

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January

With numbing cold, biting at my brittle bones
I feel many years giving me a wake up shake
Gripping my coat through the more gripping cold
I feel the world has grown old.

January I cried for my Mom the first time
She probably cried and then smiled for my tears
She surely is yet smiling for my thoughts through these years

For the tears that she shed were at giving me birth
January is the warmest time on earth

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Doubt

I forgot love once
But never twice.
I forgot the exrta feelings
The happy,
And the strife.
Never forgot the love intended,
For the love of my life.
Where are the green fields we used to roam?
In my heart full of seeds,
Ready to be sewn.
Too late she asks and smiles,
I just use me simple ways,
My lonely smiles,
The road not taken,
Or, perhaps, a dream forsaken.
Never a doubt.
Love was the prize.
Never the doubt.

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Twilight

I loved a vampire once
She was the queen of pain.

She showed me a road not taken
With nothing to gain.

I was a fool to believe that she was that cool
The only problem was that I was a fool.

To fall in love with this blood sucking bitch
Was my downfall after the seven year itch.

So the moral of this story can be
Give it up for who you love
And do it with a smile
Watch out for the the fangs of women
Who love you for awhile.

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The Lonely Road

It was masked by massive tall oaks
The lonely road

Rivers of tears flanked its path
By each end a crying bath

The lonely road

The sharp and bumpy gravel
I used to travel

The lonely road

With frigid bones and bare feet
Not a scrap to eat

The lonely road

Reminded me of nothing
Nothing but sorrow

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Contract

Over my shoulder the keeper of my heart
Are you much bolder to quell my angry art

Love is dancing and romancing
Lest I leave you...standing

Standing in lust in a room full of dust
Standing in shame a woman with no name

Sitting in misery without a history
Left all alone like a spiritual clone

Do as I say not as I do

My love is forever
And I already flew

To your heart and your mind
To your mind and your heart

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