You left me and you did not turn Another row - we never learn No "sorry" words this time were spoken I just felt my heart was broken. All the many times of joy We were a happy girl and boy But the ring we bought was an empty token You never knew my heart was broken. All the places we have seen Mountains white and valleys green Moonlight kissing, holding hands Laughing as we made our plans. The things we did as a happy pair The future was coming and we didn't care Now alone I must go on And all the dreams I had are gone. So our book is ended, the cover torn Our children now will stay unborn Pleading words are what I choke on And you still don't know my heart is broken.
Tag: Dreams
Old Lady in a Hospital Ward
Suddenly the smile left her smooth face and fear turned the hospital pink skin grey. She knew what was to come soon and perhaps it would be today. She had a strong faith in the next life and hoped she had earned her right to sit at her god's table and have her meagre sins take flight. She had lived a life full of service and done it all on her own. Always there for needy relatives and rarely heard to moan. She never married, but came close but a torpedo sank the Africa plan she carried on with shattered dreams and never picked another man. As a child he had never dared kiss this lady, now with grey tinged brow but in these last quiet moments he bent and kissed her now. Soon, too soon, her old body failed and her spirit flew away but the smile was once more on her face as she went on her way. 1993
Old Time Dance
Getting older and slowing down pausing while the world spins round no longer planning super schemes I'm dancing slowly through my dreams. Looking back to times I've spent drinking down a whole week's rent memories flood in countless streams I'm dancing slowly through my dreams. No worries about my destiny now I know how it will be - no anxieties stored in reams I'm dancing slowly through my dreams. Getting older ain't so bad I've had a wife and been a dad life isn't always what it seems I'm dancing slowly through your dreams.
Summer
Dancing shadows, rushing streams Bring on, bring on, my summer dreams Muddy green seas only sometimes blue A red sky sunset for me and you. Harvested cornfields, shady trees Horse with flies and foxes with fleas A giggle of children running nigh bare Hazards abound but they don't care. Summer thoughts and summer highs Pull us through winter's pallid skies We who dwell in this hemisphere Need the summer every year. June 2004
In Praise of the Brave
To go forward without thinking To rush in where angels fear to tread To face danger without blinking Knowing you may live or perhaps lie dead. To take true love as your benchmark And use it well to define your life Treat all adversity as just a lark And build new dreams from strife Oh the many hopes and dreams Of courageous men and women Who don't falter in life's streams But doggedly keep on swimming. Who for the noble cause of right Subjugate the normal human yearning They bear to stand, cold, in the night And watch their bridges burning.
As I See Things 