Nine One One.

A cold wind blows in downtown Manhattan,
A blue sky dawn has risen and past
But this day is different, it started but won't end
It will stay in minds and souls forever.

A million tears will fall, some wiped, some not,
A wave of sorrow casts a shadow high
Beneath the dust of hell on earth
Yet in this darkest hour a light is seen.

Stare into this light, be still and listen well,
For in such chaos and such terror
This light will bring you home.
Home unto the hearts that yearn your presence.

For land and sea may alter,
Paths may cross or even disappear,
Lives may lose the final battle bravely fought.
But the light stays eternal. Believe in the light.

Superman?

A mountain can be scaled
The sea there to be sailed
A tree climbed just for fun
No race that can't be won

Wars be over in a week
Or peace just what the soldiers seek
Smiles can be a welcome break
Or tears to say your heart will break

The sky is ours we conquered that
And outer space is just old hat
A trip to Mars is soon assured
No chance of ever getting bored

But take away the gift of love
And wave goodbye to all above
For man cant live by feats alone
He needs a girl to call his own.

So think of all the things you do
And just what love could mean to you
For as a race we're down and out
If love is something we're without.

Dreams.

In dreams I've won a million races

Fought with dragons slayed them dead

Played the game with all the aces

Taken all the praise as read

Dreams have seen me star in movies

Leading ladies swoon at will

Everything I touch seems groovy

Never had a dream off ill.

Hero, master, greatest leader 

Just you name it I am he

In my dreams no life is sweeter

All the cards are held by me

So why wake and spoil illusions?

Join in life's reality

All it's pain and sheer confusion

Always haunting you and me

Simple question, simple answer

Or at least thats how it seems

Life's a tune and we're the dancer

We can choose to live our dreams.

Olympic Dream.

A simple flame that bonds all nations
Fires a cauldron's burning embers 
Games to fight of man's creation
Be the one we all remember

World as one at just that moment
Differences all put asunder
Teams excited such involvement
Such spectacle of modern wonder

Heart and soul are not found wanting
Life's sweet dream in second's told
Lived again or always haunted
Bronze, a Silver, maybe Gold

Broken hearts and dreams abound
Someone always has to lose
Your anthem played the greatest sound
All pictures beamed as worldwide news

Raise your banner stand there proudly
Just one moment yours in time
Sing your anthem ever loudly
With your comrades in their prime

World in motion pulls together
Sporting history is made
If only it could stay forever
Dreams could last and never fade..

My Dragon and I.

I sat one night on hill top high
And hummed the saddest tune
The thoughts i had just made me cry
As i stared at the moon

I felt the earth begin to shake
Below my trembling feet
The hill such sounds began to make
I really was quite beat

I glanced below, let out a wail
For something there was heaving
I'd sat upon a dragon's tale
And he was fire breathing !

"Spare me! dragon I am small
I cannot be that tasty!"
He soon replied with dragon's roar
 "I'm really not that hasty"

"I wondered why your crying so
Your sobs woke me from sleeping,
I thought that you may share them so
Those saddest thoughts you're keeping"

So there i sat and spoke my mind
About the thoughts I kept
And how i stared up at the moon
And cried while he had slept

"Sadness is an awful thing"
He murmured as he thought
"At times like this i often sing!
though dragons didn't ought"

"Oh great!" cried I with impish grin
emblazoned on my face
"Let's hit some notes some low some high
and rock this lonely place!"

So there we were on hill top high
My Dragon friend and me
Just singing songs for all we're worth
We carried on 'till tea.

The moral of my little tale?
It's great to be enlightened
And should you hear a Dragons wail
Then don't be quite so frightened!

 

A time, A place.

For my Dad.


Tears you weep today will dry
I am with you still
I will wipe them by and by
As all those who love you will

I am without the taunt of pain
Without the taunt of fear
I am at peace with all my heart
But that peace will also keep me near

For the body may be broken
The words now silenced too
But the soul has been replenished
By the love that's shown you.

Don't hang your head in sorrow
Just heed my words so wise
I now tread a path divine
That reaches to the skies

Take comfort that I know such peace
Don't mourn a passing or a death
For I have eternal light for warmth
The breeze from angels wings my breath

Our time on earth so short yet don't regret
I have lived as only I would care
One day that light will shine so bright once more
And I will be waiting for you.... there.

Dusk

The silence broken, shrieks a far off hawk
As darkness starts to fall it leads alone to night
As cloudless dusk shows Venus first
In a dazzling display of early light

The orange sky spreads fingers
Heaven wide and stretched so long
Above the silent hills
Though nothing at this moment feels wrong

The silent grasses wear a heavy dew
They glisten in the stillest air
The last rays of the sun have painted them
Orange and yellow like crystals everywhere

The sheep lie still and cry a sorrowful
cry that breaks the dusky silence
As the quiet of the valley overwhelms
The senses that would shy away from violence

A mist is slowly gathering to follow river path
The coolness of late evening is felt
A rememberance of times so sadly past
Attacks your very senses makes you melt.

These are times of deepest thoughts and dreams
When youth made up such thoughts alone
And made such stories that you could believe
Nurture, care for and make your very own.

I am older now and to such views I aspire
To conjure up those thoughts for just a second
But in a fleeting moment they are gone
As if into a mortal reality they are so beckoned.

The test.

Ask me not for good advice pretend i dont exist
Reach out for all that's true to you alone
The feelings that you dwell upon then make you so
Not scribblings on some self appointed list

Dont set the bar so high that you are sure to fail
Remember that in life the losers have a place
The reason for competing is not to win alone
And life is not a senseless race upon a guided rail

Brightness in endeavour finds a way to every heart
From whence direction came it matters not
Like music soothes the tortured mind with just a song
And all that lies before in life right from the very start.

That life will treat you with respect upon your chosen path
A gamble that has odds of such proportions very true
Your strength will come in all those testing times that lie ahead
Your one and only weapon your ability to smile ...and laugh

Buzzin'

Head is always buzzing as the days are flying by
The world is just a blur today think i'm gonna cry
There aint no time for manners and the lies are guaranteed
All the people round me seem to have a different need

I ask a simple question and the answers never come
I think I need a holiday somewhere with loads of sun
Sitting down and drinking mean would be a worthy cause
No telephone like back at home no knocks on office doors

But I must sit amongst this shit and while my days away
Cos holidays are just a dream I never save my pay
So when I'm home i'll ditch the phone and kick back in the chair
And listen to some Marley tunes it's just like i am there

Now if your feeling down and blue and life is just a chore
Slam dunk the phone leave it alone it's just another bore
Party hard and party fast let music be your master
Enjoy your life forget the strife you won't die any faster

The devil wears red ..

The face of evil knows my creed
Sets a chair at my table of hate
Loud cheers at sight of my deadliest deed
Oh!.. lost souls can always just wait

Our source of believers is plentiful too
For accomplices we rarely seek
Just ordinary people like me and like you
With a penchant to pray on the weak

My evil is such that my foes simply wilt
My being offends a whole host
I feed on such people so riddled with guilt
On my plight to spread evil I boast.

A quantum of thoughts is all i require
No salesman's patter from me
I pander to those with a greedy desire
And hell is their true destiny

Believe in your God and shout out his name
I promise to give it some thought
To me it is all just a wonderful game
There's a price that you all can be bought

Prada was just a joke that i played
My fashion is anything red
My price is the ultimate one you will pay
So enjoy, you're mine when you're dead...

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