I was caught between
The fire and a liar Father and son Flame took the truth Reached the sun and Burned us all down Turned this house around Took its heel and ground This family to dirt To dust Took away trust Where do we go When dirt and dust settle Hear the lies prattle Clang in the place Where love lived Where do we go now Where did it go
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No need for sad songs
I knew you were going Now you've gone We cried Delayed Before long It was time We knew all along You had to leave It feels all wrong But we fell On and on Headfirst in love Forgot to be strong Threw away all for A chance to belong To each other Well Maybe we need that sad song No we Can't stay strong We sing the song Sing the song The song You were so brave
I was your slave I wanted to go but I needed to stay This love this life We're riding this wave Of love and ambition Bring to fruition The fruit that I crave That's you my mission To have to be to celebrate All the wonder we save For ourselves on this way We pave with Life this love this Bravery slavery Crave every minute With you That's it It's love It's life It's you And me We're in it This music transports me back
Long ago times of Stoned groove Surpassing delight Ride the decibel wave Surging peaks Sway Pulse Song pulls me on the journey Sweet energy bubble Trails of light Back then Beauty of youth Of all of us Spiderwebbed us to The music To love To live To life What is joy
Where does it come from How should I describe it Quiet or loud Exploding or contained Can I find it in a moment When a child Puts words to her anger and confusion When I can let go of Hated tasks When I bury my face In the cat's belly Surely when I am with my children again I know that is joy Pain and all That is joy Last night I dreamt fantastical dreams
Of loss and yearning Reaching never grasping Strange sickness whose Only symptom was A foulness of breath That could drive everyone away Of work never completed Thwarted and wasted Of long passed friends Crippled and strange Meanings elude me Loss striving failure Sent nocturnal greetings As I slept Pushed along by traffic to work
Pushed by others to work to produce Pushed by the desire to understand To see the connection a way out Pushed from my home by The rising wave of consciousness Pushed by freaks and weed to Turn on tune in drop out Pushed by attitudes to marry To be accepted Pushed by expectations to study more Achieve more strive to the peak As the desert pushed us to the sea Storm pushes us to shelter Cold pushed us to warmth You push me to break the mold I push you to listen and love me We push We strive We love What do we teach our children
What do we fill their heads with Fairy tales made up stories Tall tales lies About happy ever after And one true love expectations For romance that never ends In dirty diapers and Sleepless nights fighting over bills cheating Those truths are not what we tell death come too soon Wasted lives Overdose or addiction Not those stories certainly Not for tiny ears back to Big bad wolves A better choice by far I may not have elephants
But elephant grass waves As I pass by I've got no lions or tigers Whose colors shout danger Yet Ivy blazes red And creeps toward me Through the grass I have no stairway to heaven Still the poplar mounts Green to gold to russet Reaching skyward And I don't have Bombs bursting in air Nevertheless a forest of Stars and Stripes Hangs solemnly In the town square Melancholia
Shade over sight Tears for no reason Bubbling up of past Comes unannounced unforeseen At the end of a long day Too much heart taxing Caregiving Now heal by sitcom rom com Food and ice packs Regular as the cuckoo clock Find me on the couch Escape again Make do with harmless distraction From melancholy No need for worry |