Words (For Norma Lynn)

I'm rarely at a loss for words

But it seems so hard to say

The way you changed my lonely life

In almost every way

I always feared the future

And was haunted by my past

Until that elusive Angel

Filled this heart with love at last

For love was just a fantasy

A glimpse in sleepless dreams

In quiet corners of my mind

Where nothing's as it seems

Until you walked into my life

And took my tired heart

And cradled it with your sweet love

Right from the very start

The depth of love you give to me

So few could comprehend

Sweet comforting companion

My lover and best friend

But still I struggle trying to put

These feelings down in rhyme

Know you're my one and only love

Until the end of time

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Unfinished Business

There's a fight that's still worth fighting

There is work left to be done

There's a distance to be traveled

Before our race is run

There's business to be finished

And mountains still to climb

With promises that must be kept
We're running out of time

Where every man and woman

Lives equal in this land

And wealth is something we all share

It's time to take a stand

If you're waiting on some sort of sign

Start looking all around

The tide has turned against us

And washed away the ground

Where brave souls stood before us

Who paid a heavy price

For the freedoms disappearing

Wasting all their sacrifice

So, come and stand beside me

Hand in hand and heart to heart
Our strength is in each other
As it has been from the start

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Tyrant

You laugh and you tell me

That I'm not a man

While lying and being

The worst person you can

A cowardly bully

Up there on your perch

While thinking you're holy

By going to church

But I know who you are

And the things that you do

And I'm grateful I can't be

A man just like you

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One More Time

One more time to see your face
To hear your laughter fill this space
One more chance to hear your voice
To try to change that fateful choice
A few more words to let you know
How all my life I loved you so
One more night to wonder why
The last time was our last goodbye

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Trumpty Dumpty

Trumpty Dumpty wanted a wall

Saying it was the best thing for us all

A thinly veiled ruse to cover his plan

To make rich folks richer as fast as he can

Trumpty Dumpty, the combover kid

A con man who lied about all that he did

He scorns all our allies, makes friends with our foes

Arrogantly lying where ever he goes

Ignoring subpoenas for crime after crime

Believing a leader could never do time

Paying off porn stars and hiding his taxes

While secretly building his own evil axis

But election day's coming and bringing its tolls

The guilty will pay if we all pack the polls

I hope that his sentence ranks up with the worst 

Unless Nancy Pelosi impeaches him first

Trumpty Dumpty, your time is at hand

To pay for the damage you've done to our land

And history will tell of your treasonous crimes

Recording the truth of these difficult times

For no one is bigger than the people, you see

No room for tyrants in the land of the free

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For Philip

Sweet little boy with those yellow-green eyes

Blonde hair and that cute dimpled chin

I've got a half-century of memories to share

But I'm not sure just where to begin

I didn't know what I was missing

Until I laid eyes on your face

Part son and part brother, a part of my soul

That nothing can ever replace

So, I'm looking for rhymes with some reasons

Not sure where to start or to end

Love never dies, but I know in this life

That I'll never see you again

All around me the world doesn't notice

That everything's been rearranged

But they can't see the pain or the hole in my heart

That my world is forever changed

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Babel

Things have never been better

Things have never been worse

In the land of the blessed

Being led by the cursed

Put your faith in yourself

And your trust in a few

Keep looking for light

And you'll find what is true

So many false idols

And fools on the hill

Driven by greed

And their own need to kill

Our ancestor's dreams

Where people live free

They're trading them in

For the profits they see
In ivory towers
Surrounded by gold
Selling their souls
As their bodies grow old
I will stand by their graves
On the day that they die
And nobody will mourn
Nobody will cry

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Metamorphosis

I was just a wanderer

A soul who'd lost his way

She was just a ray of light

That brightened every day

Wasn't looking for a lover

So afraid to make a friend

Afraid of starting over

Afraid to lose again

She gave me hours of her time

I shared with her my soul

Her smile healed all the pain inside

Her kindness made me whole

The more we met, the more I loved

The further my heart fell

Afraid that I might scare her

If my feelings I did tell

But over time I wore her down

She saw my heart was true

And realized no other love

Could love her as I do

So now my heart belongs to her

My love, my soul, my life

She is my world, my everything

My best friend and my wife.

The Road, Part Two

This road has led me places

I might wish I could forget

A million miles and sleepless nights

That left my pillow wet

Broken bones and broken hearts

Wrong turns along the way

Regrets and disappointments

That haunt me till today

But every time I stumbled

And each time I got burned

Was one more chapter in the book

Another lesson learned

A fool in foolish company

With nothing much to gain

Trying to find remedies

To somehow ease the pain

But then I came full circle

To a place lost in my past

And found what I’d been searching for

A love I know will last

 I’ll never walk alone again

 Beneath that heavy load

And I will treasure every step

Beside her on the road

Gratitude

Not a day goes by that I don't think

How much my life has changed

My clouds replaced by rainbows

My heart's been rearranged

The darkness I had known so long

Has given way to light

Your sweet love brightens every day

And comforts me at night

I'm not sure what you love in me

But grateful that you do

Your heart is like no other

And my heart belongs to you

If we make it to a hundred

The time would not allow

To repay all you have given me

But this I promise now

To love you like no other

Beside you every mile

To try to keep you happy

And always make you smile

The way each time you look at me

That takes my breath away

A love that fills my heart with joy

And strengthens me each day

Resist

Let's not make it great again

Let's not chase that lie

Singing songs of freedom

While letting children die

Proudly thumping on your chest

While putting others down

Doesn't make you great

You pathetic little clown

You're threatened by so many things

To me it's very clear

You're an angry little coward

And you live your life in fear

The bile you spew is putrid

Your words are filled with hate

We need to stop your evil ways 

Before it is too late
It's not enough to grumble
We have to share the truth
And get some friends to join you
In the nearest voting booth
For history will judge
If we all turn a blind eye
And we'll share in the blame
If we don't care enough to try
To be the voice of reason
When reason is so rare
And build a better nation
Where its people always care

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Five Years Ago

I couldn’t see five years ago

Where I would be today

What little I could count on
 Had begun to slip away
One door closed behind me
And it tore my world apart
But then another opened
And she walked into my heart
How could I ever dream of love
Beyond a fantasy
Lost inside her loving eyes
Her smile all I could see
Much more than simply wonderful
This Angel made me whole
Mending this old broken heart
She soothed my aching soul
And now my love has given me
A joy that fills my life
She's all this man could ever want
My lover and my wife
Five years ago my world was dark
With hope nowhere in sight
But now her love's light guides me
Even in the darkest night

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Unexpected Angel

Thinking back to harder times

When hopelessness prevailed

Afraid that love had passed me by

So sure that ship had sailed

The saddest kind of loneliness

Is when you're not alone

In the company of those who try

To turn your heart to stone

I finally surrendered

So sure my lot was cast

Until an Angel from my dreams

Appeared from my own past

Someone, who in my darkest hour

Soothed my grieving soul

Her kindness eased the pain I felt

Her sweet smile made me whole

She asked for nothing in return

And from the very start

Her selfless acts of kindness

 Eased my pain and stole my heart

The love I'd only dreamed of

Had come my way at last

From this unexpected Angel

This acquaintance from the past

And now we share a sacred bond

A love so sweet and pure

With comfort and a lasting flame

That always will endure

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Metamorposis

I spent years in a dark chamber

Locked up inside my mind

So afraid to see the future

So unsure of what I'd find

Living without hope

And feeling sorry for myself

Leaving all my dreams to gather dust

On some forgotten shelf

Hiding in the shadows

And the safety of the night

Until you broke down all my walls

And filled my world with light

It's hard to even recognize

The man I used to be

Never dreaming life could be like this

Till your love set me free

From all those shackles of my past

Those days and nights alone

Replaced by all the love we share

And all the joy we've known

So, now I'm flying to new heights

And know this much is true

For all of my remaining years

This heart belongs to you.

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Love Bides Its Time

She was eighteen, I was twenty

The first time that we met

I was much too young and foolish

To recognize an Angel yet

For two years we walked common ground

So close, but far apart

No way of comprehending

She would one day own my heart

In time we went our separate ways

I wandered on my own

In the company of others

Always feeling so alone

I settled for some feelings

That were never as they seamed

I could never find the Angel

I saw only when I dreamed

And so the years just slipped away

The dream began to fade

Like lines in some forgotten script

The parts I never played

Until one day, to my surprise 

This Angel reappeared

She comforted my aching heart

The loneliness I feared

A friendship soon developed

That led to love so true

A dream of love I thought was gone

My tired heart, made new

And now I share my life with her

My heart, my love, my soul

This Angel is my everything

Her love has made me whole

Don't think that love won't find you

For it found a heart like mine

Love comes when you are ready

Until then, it bides its time

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Sacred Circle

There is a sacred circle

That is several centuries old

Where you'll find the greatest treasures

That cannot be bought or sold

Where everyone is welcome

And equal in this place

Inside walls of brick and mortar

It is love that fills this space

Here peace is more than just a dream

And justice is the light

That guides us to a better world

And through the darkest night

All differences are set aside

Defined by what we share

Acceptance without judgement

A love that is so rare

Each soul completes this circle

As it was always planned

 We pass the bread and share the wine

One people hand in hand

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The Man I Was

The man I was two years ago

Was lost and so alone

Thinking that this tired heart

Had finally turned to stone

Tired of always settling

And never satisfied

Tired of disappointment

And the emptiness inside

But in my darkest hour

She appeared, my brightest light

She brought me love and comfort

Making everything so right

The Angel I had dreamed of

A fantasy come true

Erased my painful memories 

And made my old heart new

And so, I pledge to cherish her

My lover and my friend

This heart belongs to her alone

A love that will not end

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Dreams Exceeded

Once I was adrift some place

Where nothing is as it seems

Afraid to see tomorrow

I'd given up on dreams

The future looked so cloudy

And darkness ruled the day

Haunted by my failures

With nothing left to say

Love was an illusion

A portrait in my mind

A painting of the Angel

I thought I'd never find

But when my heart had given up

You found your way inside

And swept away the shadows

Where once I used to hide

And where there was such darkness

Your love has brought new light

Bringing joy to all my days 

And comfort to my nights

So, I will pledge forever

That this heart belongs to you

The one who helped me dream again

And made them all come true.

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More Than a Dream

For years I had a fantasy 

Of what true love could be

Until I stopped believing 

That such love was meant for me

I wrote about an Angel

Who could make my darkness bright

But still I stumbled blindly

Always searching for that light

So, I gave up on those dreams

And learned to settle for much less

And tried to find a moment

With a glimpse of happiness

Until you walked back in my life

After all those years apart

You sparked a fire inside of me

And quickly owned my heart

So, once again I dared to dream

That love could come my way

And I could find a joy in you

That brightens every day

But dreams are only fantasies

And nothing can compare

To all that you have given me

And all the love we share

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