Table of contents:
1- …the rising tide
2- …into the abyss
3- …should we let go
4-…in a mirror
5- …no voice
6-…a ray of hope
7-…if just for one more day
8-…my girls
9-…one true Love
10-…To Ani
11-…Until your voice speaks
12-…one word
13-…peaceful protest
14-…your words
15-…the epitaph of the tyrant
16-…equality
17-…every Day to Come
18-…from my heart
19-…From the truth
20-The day to come…
…the rising tide
Forgive my ignorance
The inability to see
The truths that always elude
Yet right in front of me
An endless tide of doubt
Washes away every print
Till the ebb returns
Leaving just a hint
Retracing every step
Over and over so it seems
To find the path again
Somehow lost within dreams
I look into your eyes
Only love can this be
Then I see you with him
Waves return to swallow me
Blinded by love
Again I find a way
For just a moment of happiness
To return to that day
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…into the abyss
If only I could find the words
For the pain locked inside
You could understand a bit
The reason why they hide
If only I could say the words
Jumbled as I try to speak
I can see them so clearly now
Yet hide the moment I seek
Even on this wrinkled sheet
The thoughts get lost in ink
What started as an explanation
In an ocean does it sink
Into the abyss
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…should we let go
For you to want only me
Selfish so am I
To watch you with others
I can only try
I am not that strong
Not able to let go
Of the hurt once felt
So many years ago
When friendship turned to love
Everything so changed
Should we let go of Love
Could the friendship then remain
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…in a mirror
Born into this place
Forever am I bound
By the hope of love
Nowhere to be found
I try to trust everyone
An optimist some say
Been used so many times
With so much naiveté
Once I said I like to give
With complete sincerity
She replied I like to take
Took a year to see the imparity
Not a sad story
A tragedy none the less
Just the words that flow sometimes
As thoughts coalesce
As I look in the mirror
Just a reflection of me
But the truth I won’t hide
To always give myself,
As I hope you can see
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…no voice
Allow me once again
To try to explain
The madness of the words
Though given a chance
Will sound quite sane
I think like everyone
Yet hindered by my brain
It takes a roundabout
The words of happenstance
To form into this frame
I struggle with each day
Relationships amiss
Treading every wave and swell
The complexity of Love
For me a dark abyss
The answer is a simple one
Trust the only choice
To live in the alternative
A life with no integrity
Is a life with no voice
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…a ray of hope
The rain goes on for days
Streams swell to their brink
A torrent without restraint
A glimpse to how I think
To have thoughts like others
Peaceful days and restful nights
A dream of which I often dream
Always out of sight
One drop is all it takes
As a storm quickly follows
Thoughts build upon themselves
As clouds release their bellows
Endless has this fate been
Till the day I saw her eyes
The day the rays of sunshine
Looked upon me from the skies
The sky still cries for all of us
Every sister and every brother
It’s under the wings of love
We find comfort of each other
Alone we can be it seems
Look to the eyes that look back at you
You will find what you so need
The comfort you somehow knew
Was always there for you
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…if just for one more day
So many words I try
To arrange from left to right
To impart the way my brain works
To explain, try as I might
All but had given up on love
Conceded with regret
When she entered this cluttered life
A day I can’t forget
Damage to my brain you see
Has left me a bit confused
I can’t conceive subtleties
A notion lost when used
I fear my inabilities
Have caused her to much pain
Never my intentions
From which I can’t refrain
Seems fate lacks not irony
As I have searched all my life
For someone who could love me
Yet all I bring her is pain and strife
So I try to live without knowing
The minutia that haunts my day
Focused only on her love
Hoping she might stay
…if just for one more day
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…my girls
As I go to and fro
Within this space of time
It’s moments that take control
I rush to find my pen
Lest lose my very soul
A father of my two girls, granddaughters there are two
Raised only to be true
To themselves they never faltered
This I always knew
Resolute they are, I’m so very proud
Never compromised are they
To end male servitude
An epitaph so long to convey
To see “man’s” pretense
An ethos of long ago
Meant to subjugate any woman
The wrath of sanity
They will know
Just a metaphor
You know I like to use
To point out the errs of men
I choose to use this medium Of truth
With only ink and pen
A woman’s body is hers alone
I loave the minds who dare
To put their own ideals
As truth without fact so beware
I pretend not to know
Nor understand all of life
But I won’t watch a woman, girl or child
Be vilified for life
Yes, Life is just that
My little girl at my side
Holding my hand
A piggy back ride
But you are not the judge,
Jury , god nor the law
Should you look to the extreme
As an example of how we fall
I speak to you as a son, father and grandfather
Do you think my ideals are evil
Can you quantify my sins
While you sit alone in solitude
With images kept within
I can only quote one man
Who said it so eloquently
Pick up the first stone
And throw your guilt at me
If from sin you are free
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…one true Love
Today I had a feeling
From deep within It found its way
So comfortably familiar
Seems never felt till this day
As if a weight had been lifted
And peace did overwhelm
At sea on a moon lit night
Ethereal figure at the helm
No destination on the horizon
Time’s hand has come to rest
Only the sway of the ocean
Cool breeze upon my chest
Here I shall forever stay
In the arms of the angel above
See, I was thinking of my Ani
My one and only Love
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…To Ani
You fill my heart
With happiness
I am a blessed so many ways
If I could give you
Only Happiness, I’ll try
The rest of my days
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…Until your voice speaks
I was with my grandson today
Children at their best
A dinosaur exhibit
Field trip for the class
Watched the awe in their eyes
Absorbing every detail
A room full of smiles
Knowledge so entailed
Then With guilt I fell silent
At the end of the day
My grandson so happy
Yet a child dead in the rubble
By the Tyrants of this day
Should I elaborate the names
Of the sycophant’s who blindly follow
No, too many they are
Just watch the news tomorrow
On a leash they are led
By the tyrants of war
Enticed by greed
Need not look very far
A politcian like a coin
Two sides do they wield
With only a toss
A dead child in a field
On a ride children of war are bound
They can not escape
Their world only fear
As only death and hate await
The absence of humanity
We all should fear
As you watch world leaders
Bend a knee to the authoritarian ethos
…now here
Until your voice speaks
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.,.one word
I knew this word
From just a boy
I longed for years to say
To give my myself
To only one
And with one word I’d say
As time has passed
This word remains
Never did it fade
To say this word
A gift you see
A gift to me you made
I thank you so
A bit in awe
I really must admit
My gift to you
The words I write
To show that I commit
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…peaceful protest
A voice can be a weapon
Powerful when in chorus
A beautiful ensemble
When guided by respect
On a peaceful course
Silence, the result of hate
When violence turns a crowd
Disrespect of others views
Fans the flames that quell the loud
History does show
Peaceful protest gains results
Embrace each others views with
Communication not insults
Don’t fear the darkness
Of uncertainty
As Alice found that day
The glow of self discovery
Will always light your way
To see the possibilities
Born from Love
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…your words
Time does have a path
Guided by our choices
The steps we take
Not set in stone
But guided by our voices
The light is hear
Make no mistake
As you walk down every street
So much we have
In common
Just talk to someone you meet
From most every land
We can communicate
The fear of every despot
A common thread
That binds us all
Never let them forget it
As Herod took the lives
Of every boy 2000 years ago
So do the purveyors of war today
As children’s lives forgo
To the machine of warmongers
Stand as one,
with peaceful resolve
Remove the evil from power
Allow the common one
Who speaks for you
Above hatred then we can tower
With only your words
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…the epitaph
Billions are spent
on the hate of the day
To fund wars of greed
With your coins do you pay
authoritarians and tyrants
Are but only the tar
That binds the wheels of change
True relics they are
I’m sorry if I get a bit cryptic
In my passion against war
The passion to covet
A plague gone too far
On the graves of the innocent
Pockets are lined
And so, the epitaph of the tyrant
So be it defined
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…equality
Now you have heard my rants
On the atrocities committed
A human virus now spread
Throughout the world by the tyrants
Much closer to home this epidemic
Dictated by the example’s leaders flaunt
Spread to city streets
Now has become endemic
I started with the obvious
The purveyors of present wars
Not forgetting those of the past
So artful at being devious
Only to infect the lives
Of hard-working men and women
The goal is only to degrade
And suppress that to be give
This is the tyrant’s playbook
Obvious for you and me
When backed by the simple coin
The lethality unveiled to now see
There is a break in the cloud of hate
As sunshine’s rays break free
Take solace in knowing there is hope
As their fears have come to be
Our children hold the power
One thing I’m certain to say
Let the tyrants of today
Only look to yesterday
Their fear is just one word,
Seen in the eyes of a child
Equality
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…every Day to Come
You found me in the dark
Lost forever in servitude
Behind the bars of this birdcage
Against the cold walls of solitude
So be this simple poem
A conduit of my thoughts
To say the words so dear to me
Feelings I long since sought
The Love for you I can’t explain
Grows stronger every dare I say
How can this even be
But that endless is our love each day
I love you Ani My Love
With all my soul and heart
The words that flow so easily
Begin in each poems start
Paper and pen my early friends
Allowing me to say
The Love I will always have
For you My Love Each Day
And every Day to Come
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…from my heart
As letters fly by
As on the wing of a bird
In haste do I try
Onto paper put the words
Sometimes out of reach
Clouded from view
As I look in a mirror
From the past I see through
The words are always there
Some fade to the grey
Others emerge
With the thoughts meant to say
To sit and write
A therapy on the verge
Calming the confusion
As left and right brain merge
What I meant to write
Though far from the start
I love you, just three words
That come from my heart
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…From the truth
To see the parallels
Of the past that can’t lie
With the political unrest
Now again gone awry
Barry Goldwater an example
Back in 1964
The sky is falling
Now the ethos in today’s campaign, I abhor
Rhetoric the only tool
Simple minds tend to use
Only to misdirect
Only to confuse
Conversation with respect
The tools of true leaders
Hatred and distain
Used only to mislead…
us from the truth
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The day to come…
Crimes against humanity
A most basic crime to commit
That is Killing civilians
In the name of war to wit
As Putin, BB and their sycophants
Use the power of their veto
A power play used by nations at war
Though some pretend to be incognito
Let every nation shed their shield
I propose a new dawn to this day
Stand hand in hand with open minds
An end to Murder by they..
A Common Law you see
For the human race to make
To sign, commits the integrity
One new step to take
Beware of those to veto
Always poised to amend
An agenda for a means
But selfish for the end
Under the guise of “leaders”
Always with a smile
They hide in plain site
But a Jackal all the while
Till the day of their trial
Just follow your moral compass
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