How I Feel

What can I say
To make it okay
Your heart I want to mend
Let me be your lover friend
The others didn't prepare
Didn't stroll your garden with care
Didn't tend the rose that's you
Hello there
I've been listening
For you to feel the way I do
To love me too
Must I ask again
When
To be more than friend
Like a flame
You light my soul
Make me feel real
Make me whole
When
I can't ask again
I can't
Say how I really feel
I guess I wait

Fun Days

Stomping in rain puddles
Sledding on snowy streets
Cones from ice cream trucks
Catching crawfish in creeks
Fireflies in a jar
Dandelions blow afar
Riding Big Wheels around the block
Splashing friends in the pool
Soft kisses behind the school
Saturday at the movies
I remember when

Mixed Up Crazy Wonderful

The gifted are homeless
Pretty people too short to model
Nurturing women childless
Born leaders follow and waddle

Arab boys parlent francais
Chinese girls hablan espanol
Gelato shops in Athens
Many worship the playa del sol

We talk by typing
Listen to talk TV
We date by skyping
What a mixed up crazy
Wonderful world
This is for me

Crepes and kebabs
New York street fairs
Senegalese on the Champs
Sell their wares

Saudis into Oprah
Tunisians in sushi bars
Russian boxer mom
Lives German life
Portuguese guy in Auckland
Studies English far from Sao Paulo home
Ethiopian Canadian
Journeys Dubai on her own

Adventure across country
No one knows your name
In search of more or less the same
Atlanta to Los Angeles three days
Paris to Amsterdam cafes

Art on the body
Express love honor connection
Vanity is big mind business
Obsession with size and complexion
What is wrong with gray hair

Woman sees Christ in toast
Man guards train station with rifle
Why when I put forth current day thought
For you to hear me I have to cite the bible
The constitution, law or ancestral view
These geniuses had what when they wrote this stuff
Couldn't I be the future just a bright fellow too
Couldn't what I say just be enough

Imagine a world without difference
A place you did not belong
No color no fragrance no soft or hard
A heart silent without song

Imagine joy and laughter
From everyone you meet
Clean water from the pipe
Red cherries on the tree
Less concrete under your feet

What an amazing time
To be alive and live in truth
Where people are a quarter, half
Three-eights this and that
And a hundred percent
Embracing youth

Something In the Air

I hate to sit inside sad
But this is the space
I guess I should embrace

Almost two in the morning
A loved one has a scare
I rush to the hospital
To get him there

Mustering courage
Fooling fear
I try not to think
The stories they would tell
If he doesn't make it
I just have to get to where
White pills in a plastic cup
Quickly heal
Killer attacks in his chest

Stretched out on the bed
He writhes in pain
Between each bawl is a moan
My eyes switch and rest on her
His life partner
Is she feeling alone

She keeps repeating
If you weren't here
If you weren't here
I don't know what I'd do
I hope to ease the worry
I say you don't have to
I'm not going anywhere

Split seconds
But every minute seems an hour
I juggle tiredness aloneness
Calm concern duty and care

Needles in his arm
Tests run
No results up
Before the sun

Minutes after four
I drive her home
She needs to rest
I want to sleep
I never went to bed that night
I lie down and fight to stay awake
I wait for the sun and day to break

I frown about the road back
But I'm not the one in pain
So at the country hospital
Here I am again

Six twenty I'm bedside
He's better eyes more wide
Doctor comes to share
Angina has him here
A pill under the tongue
He will be okay

What was all that talk before
About death and dying
Is something in the air
Too much free open denying
Nothing but time stress despair

That was three days ago
Now first day of the year
More worrisome news I hear
Another loved one in the sick hotel
Many miles away
No one knows yet
If he'll be okay

I need to be held
Finish the race
Stay the course
Life is good
It gives you what it would
Lessons everyday
Time to love give pray

When my brain is dead
What will carry forth
When my heart stops singing
Do tunes still play

Slippers on the floor
No feet on the ground
I'm lying on the bed
Coughing
Telling myself
Hold on
Stay strong

K

Sad in this moment
But I will be okay
Not so for a friend
His body found at Maracas Bay
Death is a part of life
That is the way
But why murder
I don't know what to say
Tears want to fall
Limbs feel weak
A friend called to tell me
I could barely speak
Now I want to shout
Justice must be served
Find them, try them
Sentence them
Give them what's deserved
But that will not bring him back
He has left us for good
So now to live a grateful life
As I know he would

This Christmas

Oh there is no place like home for the holidays
The smell of bread and ham baking
Music wears me like a smile
Everybody knows a turkey and some mistletoe
Help to make the season bright
Sorrel boiling for celebration
A star a star dancing in the night
Wrapping pastelles in banana leaves
Tidings of comfort and joy comfort and joy
Holiday cookies sweet bread
Rum punch and poncha creme
Line the pantry shelves
Waiting for Santa
And his little elves
It's late it's almost here
Children tucked away asleep
Silent night holy night
All is calm all is bright
Home spick and span
In your palace warm mighty king
The town is quiet as a whisper
Shall I play for you
Pa rum pum pum pum
Ahh it's done
Last string of bright hung
A song a song high above the trees
Fall on your knees
Oh hear the angel voices
Sipping spiced tea
Dreaming wishing peace
Sitting in place
Enjoying my memory space
Through the years
We all will be together
If the fates allow
And heaven and nature sing
Santa knows
All I want for Christmas is you

I Smile Today

Too old to dance
Too young to die
Happy when I laugh
Sad when I sigh
Ask me why
I smile today
I lived well
I lived poor
Now I love
Like never before
Rose in bloom
Butterfly flitters
Swan in the puddle
Green fence glitters
Rainbow arches across the sky
Sunshine on the beaches
Earth so sweet
Nature teaches
Live in the moment
Work and play
Let bygones be
On its merry way

Eyes On Me

Suffocating world
Outside my door
Me on the inside
Wanting peace not war
Naked and alone
In my room
Music invites me home
I begin to dance
Soon a trance
I seduce you
You who looks back at me
From the mirror
My reflection my friend
Here we are again
Pose swagger pose
Sex allure
Give 'em more
Hold it
Click click click
Goes my camera phone
Three I took
One for Facebook
Eyes on me