L’Chaim! Toasting 2017

My words like music, fill your ears

My lips, soft like rose petals touch your lips

Words fill you with sounds I don’t hear

Rhymes I spout fill your heart

Lonely, long for love, here, now

Too smart for my own good

If you only stood where I stand,

Maybe you’d understand

Where I’m coming from

Childhood to adulthood in barely an hour

Live till we’re dead under power

Of the IRS, government shadows & showers

Wonder if or when or can it be better

Our minds, thoughts controlled, fettered

Would a chain letter do, a scarlet letter

BE a trend setter or pacesetter

Move forward, be straightforward

Hold words close to our heart

As though words are people;

They’re not

Store words in our hearts

Know we can’t go back to yesterday

Must live with what we hear today

What we say & hear on sad days

Thoughts are transient

Words last longer

Can’t erase words you’ve spoken

Words escape your palate, are token

Leave me brokenhearted

Pretend to study a pie chart

Love is strange,

Life, a curse, a game played on my shame

Kick start my life into another movie frame

Soothe and feed flames

Love claims my blame

My name, my fame,

Life’s games, reclaim my stage & nick name

Disclaim strife – go on with life

CREATE A UNIVERSE OF PEACE# 2

CREATE A UNIVERSE OF PEACE 2

Have you ever felt the sunshine kiss you tenderly?

Feel sunshine abandon you at dusk for a bright white winter moon

Have you ever been as lonesome as a chained bear baited by dogs

A big black bear with teeth and nails removed, no longer a slayer

Thunder cries but alone you die slowly inside betrayed by bodies

Under bare tree branches, sinister things happen while we lie awake helpless

Is it any wonder I can’t lose these blues

Truth of who loves me is the answer to my unconscious question

Witness my decay, as I age no longer a number I can wave away

Words flow exponentially from a body I no longer recognize

Words witness my decay as I go more into my flow

A little faith goes a long way

The answer to who loves who on the same plate please

Flow more into my goals as easily as I lick an ice cream cone

Have you ever kissed the sunshine, sat there warm and tenderly,

Words precede me, darkness follows light, and my tongue flows flawlessly

Reveals tireless concealed appeals listening to the trombone wail

Bluetry giving life through a brand new litany –

Flowing effortlessly - giving revival to a unified force

Give me your hand, I’ll show you my goal

Push on to bring shit tighter

My tongue stays loose like a rapper in paradise

My body becomes harder for my mind to push through

My tongue more alive than the rest of me

Fear, anticipation and rage blend and fuel me

Speak through a corpse of someone I once knew - I try to make do

Silver dragon enters through these blues

Have you ever kissed the sunshine while walking between the raindrops?

Words flow through my veins as I pray for a universe of peace to delete abuse

Tired of seeing so many hurt animals and folk put through the food chain

World where all that exists are tasteless vegetables from depleted soil

Livestock have no rights; beef and pork render a new underclass

Humans like spoiled cider lacking circumspect

Tired of feeling chagrin 

Tired of being an underclass

Have you ever begged for sunshine while you survived the latest monsoon?

Alone heartbroken seeking love in someone’s smile

Wind whispers, voices set forth

The conglomeration for a powerful new nation

With all old abuses sent to damnation

Have you ever begged for sunshine and felt it slip through your fingertips

While you exclaim, proclaim and explain you’re waiting for the right time

Wait for a future, neglect the present, time is divine,

Resign to a lead line; the stars align in sunshine

Have you ever kissed the sunshine, walked between raindrops?
Sun streams through to touch you one last time