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