Lifer
It’s all for life
giving a life for life
circling the world
while spreading the word
we crave for the source
as we all live to die
Life I have known
While I have grown
Some memories grow hazy
But I have always embraced my crazy
Time I was to bold
I know this now that I am old
I try to keep my heart from growing cold.
Peace I always sought
Even the times I fought
My heart was free
So much I have yet to see
Hope
Sometimes at the end of my rope
Sometimes I had to take a knee
Collect myself and gather the strength to be
The man I call me
The man I hope to save
Before the grave
Life passes like a wave
I was who I wanted to be
In the mirror, not who I expected to see
But I accept it as me
Lifer
(For CSM Richard Webb)
David J Walker
He was a soldier
Who knew he beat the odds
Yet answering to the
gods of the Elysian Field
One day he would yield
His dog-tags and
Turn in his guns
And lay down to rest with
The rest of his brothers in arms
I like but do not love
I love but do not like
It seems I cannot stand but in the end I do stand an awful lot
I meet and then I smile
Explain then things I thought
But that I am happy with all these I have just written I (definitely absolutely dramatically) can say not
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© Jack Ellison 2013
The Lifer
Eye feel so sorry for someone that cares for only work and cannot have a little fun
it seems so sad to me they cannot use the world to live or love but robot only
seems to me a fate as worse as any death has come to those in work zones he
looked for all the world a sad sad man when he said there is only work related
things allowed on his bulletin board in the work zone land. He has helped me
many times but now he told me with his eyes that eye am just a cipher in his life
he died when he signed up for cash a lifer stuck upon the number given him
when job was given name a number in the zone a lifeless thing a lifer come to
stay how many gentle readers have the number or the name just like the lifer
man the game is god the thing is done now no new information in the lifer zone
allowed. No Soul.
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