Cruel Joke
Love
Just a cruel joke
One wrought with depression and pain
Though it's a lie that we tell
Over and over again
Within our sight
But just out of reach
We speak of it's joy
A feeling to embrace
Never knowing that one
Just one to many mistakes
Will knock down the home
And the foundation will shake
The warmth, of love, will escape
While the ice cold rain, of reality
Comes rushing in
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My Dad
Do you remember me
On some silent night
Perhaps when the snow falls
In the middle of June
Where you are now
I just can't tell
Did you get my letter
Did I miss your call
Your birthday passed many times
Since you left
It's now fifteen years
I've seen the sun rise
I've seen the rain dry
By now your hearts healed
While mine has died
For the longest time
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Down I my knees
I continue the journey
Hypocrites still worry
Will wrong turns lead to mistakes
She fears it's my soul that I forsake
I'm blind
Though it's you who can't see
the pain within me
I'm deaf
Though it's you who can't hear
The tremble in my voice
the tear falling down
Down on my knees
Begging
God please
Bring her back
Show her I'm sorry
Tell her that I'm sincere
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Forgotten Dream
When tears have dried
after your heart has cried
the sun will rise on a new day
When you're left alone
with no one to hold
the sun will rise on a new day
When you reach the edge
and feel like breaking
The sun will rise
the rain will dry
you're heart will heal
even though I still cry
Now you've chosen
and I'm left outside
I'll find a place
shelter to hide
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An Ode to Crazy Cat Lady Cole
I just cannot recall
Why, we did not hook up
My, it's only been thirty or so years
Since that day, I've cried many tears
Gained a few pounds and a few new fears
For you, I can tell
You've seemed to go, through parts of hell
How can a woman of beauty, be treated so harsh?
I knew you then, I wish only I was with you
When you were married, to him
I long for the day
When I can visit you
Kiss your ears and heal them
Just for a blessed moment in time
So you can hear me, whisper
I still hold a place for you
In my strengthened soul
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My Promise
A nervous laugh
Then I see you smile
I wonder what your soul has seen
Has it felt love
A gentle hand
A tender kiss
I fear it's hapiness
That you miss
Inside your eyes
I see the tears
I feel the fear
So much pain
Through many years
Can I help
Please
For in you, I see me
I hear the smack,
I see the bruises
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A Diverse Rule
It does'nt matter to me
If your straight or gay
It does'nt matter to me
If your led astray
Who cares if your from Monterey
The frisco Bay
Carmel by the sea
Just believe in me
Can't you see that I'm in you
And you in me
Can't you see I won't change
So just let me, be me
People called me crazy
Because I drank to much
People called me insane
Never used my brain
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Lady Friend
Your beauty my trap
My better sense has snapped
Say you hate me
So I may leave
Am I your puppet
Or just a pawn
Playing this game
I'm just hanging on
You're sure to win
I'm bound to lose
I'm bound to the fact
That I'm a sucker
A loser
Your doormat
A nice guy
Need some cash
Take all that I have
Borrow my car
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Harry-The Madisons' Keeper
Over fourty years
In the biz
Tending and herding sheep
With a rod iron staff
Like vultures some
Perched for night love
The flock, patrons of his inn
Often stumble upon this relic
At the corner of Turner and Madison
A wiley ole' jock
Back in his day
Blue devil fan
A hoopsters way
A patron on probation gets tossed
For a day or a week
They're welcomed back, though, cause'
His heart does bleed for the
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Feelings of Gratitude
Gratitude
The lack thereof still roams
Why be rude, cruel and in a bad mood
Thank God and all his works
Not worrying about the negative jerks
Who lack the spirituality
Get rid of the negative calamity
We still upon this day
Reject the meek and poor
Window washers instill the need
For greed and the power to be on top
Never the less uncaring for the people
They hurt, step on and stop
Respect those, who struggle through the rough times
Bless them, who read a young child
Nursery ryhmes
Start praying to a higher power
Someone greater than you
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