Well, I'm surprised every day
What this mind of mine will come up with
One would think I would know eh?
Nope! It's a total surprise
Sometimes think I should charge myself an admission fee
For the show, my brain puts on
Today, for instance, seems I'm back on the track
But it's real early, no telling what's round the bend
Could be some great new invention
To help the world finally find peace and all get along
Probably go down in history as the greatest human ever known
Just think, you could say you knew me when
I was just a simple loving man
Writing delightful poetry to help you through the day
No applause please, it embarrasses me
And please no bowing!!!
When I die dont cry cause now my soul is like a bird and it can fly... finally im being set
free... im flying to a place where there is never an admission fee. Im flying beyond the
deep blue seas and higher than the black walnut trees. I will be living in a golden mansion
where I wont even need a key... this will be the time when you start to regret that you
never had time to spend with me.... but I just have one last request.... when you all get
together that I will be remembered on your family tree.
Dreams, an entryway to celestial exploration
Out of body we penetrate through meditation
The subconscious rises to visit lost loved ones
With star smiles that through seams of heaven run
Ladies squander lifetimes hoping for a ring
Travel to Saturn, who’ll share at our bidding
Deposit feelings of anger at the red planet
Mars absorbs them like a powerful magnet
Come dance with me through the galaxies
Hover far above Earth’s narrow balconies
We’ll tip our hats to the life-giving suns
Leave star-kissed blessings where the Milky Way runs
Let us soar through the Horsehead Nebula
Stare, bright lights can’t scar a dreamer’s retina
Are you prepared to journey with me
To worlds that charge no admission fee
The universe opens doors as we leave Earth’s land
But only the subconscious can explore first-hand
Until the day we can exceed the speed of light
We behold all these wonders in the mystery of night
And if we are lucky to enter heaven’s gate
With loves of the past we may conjugate
*For Barbara's "For Heaven's Sake" challenge
It's the nature of the experiment
To be peeling off my autumn skin
In a gasoline waterlogged romance.
You can stay
If you want to.
We're pulling figures out of the way.
A fire in the hills
Is luring a crowd in
And the admission fee starts
Somewhere in the infinite.
The new years Tokyo Alliance
Has brought a bouquet
Of pharmaceutical pleasures
And I'm handing out
Needles and narcotics
In the opium den.
This brave new world
Sells sex for a dollar and
A penniless teenager
For even less.
And fast from the ground
Stands a Brazilian girl,
Fastening her garter belt
And smoothing her skirt
As she casts a virgin's suicide stone
Into the sounds of the sunrise.
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