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Dignity In Humanity

Humanity took the last boat
The last one way ticket 
On the last wooden ship with sails
Yes
Humanity left in style
If it was today
But that boat now
Sails the seabed

Humanity is like the
Boogeyman or Davy Jones locker
Bedtime stories to your children
A world full of magical creatures
And fairytale endings 
Humanity is but a story

Copyright © Owen Van Der Schyf | Year Posted 2017



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Walk Together

Let's go back
To a time
Where love ruled
And flowers were in guns
Let's go back
To a place
Where opinions were free
And man was still man

Love the beauty that life can give
All of us as one
Say no more just come together
And live in peace once more

The love you give 
Is what you receive
Take this time
To reach each other 
And show the strength of love

Take my hand 
Let's walk together
Through the dark aged woods
The sun will rise and so will we
We'll rise and stand with the stars

Let's go back
To a time
Where flowers were alive

Copyright © Owen Van Der Schyf | Year Posted 2015

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The Darkness Inside

As the dark creeps in
I sly away
To the valley of the unknown
Where darkness never sleeps
snakes and skeletons are the floor
to the unknown

I try to feel my way 
to the despair of of a hissing breath 
I become the darkness 
and it becomes me

afraid am I not
for the darkness is one with my soul
and I am it's master

Nor do I shiver
nor look down 
for the darkness give me the strength 
to wonder alone

The fire becomes the night
and the creatures walk among the ash
dripping with envy
the sleeplessness wants free
to the leaves they give cold
but nothing can be seen
for the only ones that see
are the ones walking among the night

The darkness chooses your soul
and you can't ever escape the valley
the more you run the deeper inside you become

Copyright © Owen Van Der Schyf | Year Posted 2016

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Love Keeps Me Young

A love I never felt is the love I 
have for you
This feeling deep inside
Brightens my life around

Stories I have heard
From this love I now feel
Stronger than it was told
This love now is real

I will die young
Even a hundred years from now
Love keeps me young
Beauty will not fade
Sharing this love
I can't keep it in any longer

Free as I can be
With you next to me
Unstoppable I'll be 
You standing next to me

A thousand miles each day
Worth the smile that you have
Each second without you 
Feels longer than my life
Holding you near
Takes me some place far away

I will die young
Even a hundred years from now
Love keeps me young
Beauty will not fade
Sharing this love
I can't keep it in any longer

Copyright © Owen Van Der Schyf | Year Posted 2013

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The Devil Roams At Night

A faint light in the air
Moon arises on a smiling corpse
A warm heart with blood 
running, still

Ash inside its mouth
Blowing to the closest ear
The devil roams at night
Waking up in pain
The seed blooming deep
No way to end this night
For the devil roams at night

The night drags for days
The words for months
Shelter burning down
By the smiling corpse
Shelter that was your shield
Blackened by the flames
Words last but a moment
But the devil's still burns

Coming out seems vague
Rebuilding seems less
Your will can be done
But the corspe you must leave
For the devil roams at night

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So Close, Yet So Far

Never saw the moon in love before
Looking at it now, has it always been
So far away you see the same…….. moon
Breath-taking view from the edge
Only because I see you there
I’ve come undone
Now that you are so far away

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So close yet so far away from me
You are so far away from me
The time and distance that’s between
Could never take away what I feel
I will always feel you next to me

Your smile will stand time
Break down the walls that I built
I only cry because of you
And the flowers that grow
Comes from you
But yet you are so far away

Chorus:

I’ll travel the seas in search of you
For a thousand year till I find you
Together we will be for eternity

Chorus:

Copyright © Owen Van Der Schyf | Year Posted 2016

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Love, I Never Had

In Love
I've never been
Dying little by little
Each time the thought appears
The charade I made
Everytime it came in

The variegation of love
Changes all the time
Love isn't physical
That I know
Everytime you think
It takes your breath away
You take a moment each moment
to be breathless

Opening your eyes
Just to not fall asleep
so you can relive

Living a moment 
over and over
till a new one comes to mind
Affraid I haven't had........
A moment like that before

Copyright © Owen Van Der Schyf | Year Posted 2011

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Love Is Only a Moment

You rolled your eyes and turned your back
Together we stood, separately
You looked at me and said

There’s nothing you can do
Nothing you can say to take this pain away
I forgot how it felt to feel this way
Now you brought it back again
And this time it’s here to stay

you made me feel safe
Sheltered me from the bad 
Took to my heart like Cupid’s arrow
And there you stayed
What went wrong

Copyright © Owen Van Der Schyf | Year Posted 2016

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Outlaw Love

Stuck in these four walls
And a trashy black fence
No one could see what I have 
done
What I have become

The secret garden
Touched by heavens wings
Sunlight falling on leaves to 
perfection
Colours dreaming bright
Like no other can imagine
Every heart beat is missed
To take in the sight

Walking in this dream
The sun plays your face
The wind your voice
Flowers your scent

Nothing makes sense
But everything is clear

Dawn breaks
The dream awakes
Thunder arises and quakes the 
garden
The sun fading
Wind screaming
Flower stepped on and burnt

All lost and forgotten
Until the setting sun
Removed from heaven
To open the garden once more
The dream that I'll live forever

Copyright © Owen Van Der Schyf | Year Posted 2012

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A Blind Man

A Blind man,
Smiling walking down the road
Made me wonder bout Happiness
He can't see the beauty in life,
yet he smiles for all to see
What a beautiful sight

The real blind man is me
For I do not see
Color is but an extra
An extra I do not want
The blind man needs no color
For love has no color
Not red nor yellow nor blue
Love is a feeling
Feelings the blind man can see

See in vain
Love in vain
The blind man needs but a touch
A touch that ignites love
Love will let him see
The blind man is not blind
Are you?

Copyright © Owen Van Der Schyf | Year Posted 2011

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