The Fifth Commandment

The wrong way is the easy choice

For those who just don't care

To speak for those who have no voice

Pretend you're unaware

Of how their world is changing

Their minds just slip away

You just aren't rearranging

Any hours in your day

You care too much about yourself

To face the painful truth

And so you place them on a shelf

Like you can't see the proof

That one who sacrificed for you

Now needs your helping hand

Ignoring what you know is true

Too weak to make a stand

So, they will fade, then disappear

You'll try hard to forget

How you abandoned one so dear

You'll live with that regret 

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My Valentine

I could buy a million roses

And write poems every day

I could talk until I lose my voice

And still have more to say

No card could ever quite describe

This joy I’ve found with you

The love I see in your brown eyes

The dreams you’ve made come true

My comfort, my companion

My lover, my best friend

I will always be beside you

From this day until the end

For all the love you’ve given me

The tears you’ve wiped away

For all the laughter we have shared

For every wondrous day

You see, I owe my life to you

I don’t know where to start

To pay for all you’ve given me

I simply give my heart

So, slip your hand inside of mine

And let me see that smile

And walk with me in love’s sweet light

Each day and every mile

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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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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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