Long Living on borrowed time Poems

3/4/25
"Time 2"
Don't be full of it with such a selfish side
It'll be one hell of a ride
I can't tell you where heaven lies
Too many fell in line
Never got much needed help then died
Soon after they...

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ORIGINAL SONG:

Shine Your Light
Robbie Robertson 
Ladder 49 Soundtrack

The cry of the city like a siren's song
Wailing over the rooftops the whole night long
Saw a shooting star like a diamond in the sky
Must be someone's soul...

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Your sands sieve through my fingers
The luxury is mine
You watch me around the clock
A perfect circle
Your all seeing eye.
I exist in your omnipresence
Hypnotised by your chime
You pave my thoughts
I trail your steps.
Suspended in time
I’m but...

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An unbearable pain awaits her;
	For my beloved who is to bear.
A man cannot know this
	Even when Daddy is there.

Hope may spring eternal
	But it cannot quench the fire
Of the fruit of the labor
	Spawned from our heart’s...

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this is really just some of my beliefs more than anything else. i hope you find it as an 
inspirational tool and that it helps you if you are going through any personal conflicts or...

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Looking back, I tell myself that you’re the one that got away, it’s not like you were a victim and I kidnapped you, not in a criminal kind of way
But as I recollect, I’m glad...

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I am one of Many
                              ...

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Ray was always up for a fun time
Earned his name by wearing solid black
Not quite Johnny Cash but as revered

Never heard a complaint from his lips
Life was good, life was a gift
No matter what

Down and...

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My name is Miriam, the prophetess
I have spent my whole lifetime in slavery 
Moses my brother was saved from the river 
and grew up in the palace of Pharaoh the king.
But now I see that...

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I arrived at my dad's flat
to be greeted by my auntie
who was in a state of shock
she had found my dad
sitting on his bed staring into space
she had tried to engage my dad in conversation
but...

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According to Doctor Google, I am actually dying.
With the symptoms I have, surely it can't be lying.
I'm living on borrowed time, I really should be dead.
My head is so dense, I look like Mr Potato...

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Find The Cost Of Freedom

we are living on borrowed time
 can you hear the path calling from Armegeddon's side
 look to the native Indian my friend
 hard pressed to ever notice the silence
 day light...

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The sun is shining, the sky bright cerulean sea
And I am writing a letter…a letter to my future me.
The pandemic is over, so it’s time to pack up for a trip
Hey, Milt, no time to...

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Flying on forever


I’m flying on the edge forever,
Searching for a brighter future.
I can see the picture of an angel inside my mind
And now I have to find a way to meet her.


Burning out, fading away;...

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The last leaf
Clinging to hopes of times past
Summers warm breezes
Humid days and cool nights
Summer time recollections
Rain or shine
The last leaf
Living on borrowed time

The tree is barren
The autumn wars have ended
The winds of winter have won...

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He was a friend of mine
Was living on borrowed time
He had nothing left to give alas
Had nothing left to do but pass
And he was a friend of mine 

He never had use for a wife
Craved...

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I hear my name being called in the night
Stephan, Stephan, Stephan
I wake in a sweat, knowing I belong here
Dead bodies trample upon me
As I begin to lose my mind
I hear my name being called
Stephan, Stephan
The...

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Borrowed Time
Tom
5/17/2018

November 15th 2016, spinal stenosis surgery left me not at my best,
On December 27th, during Open Heart Surgery, they cracked my chest.
And three days later on January 1st I experienced Sudden Cardiac Arrest, 
God...

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Time has no wings
But it flies faster than bald eagles and fast jets
Time has no rings
But it is engaged or bound to ‘no safety nets’
And married with death.

We are all migrants in the depth
Of the...

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When you take your life and die
It is everyone you love who has to ask why
Your story is over
But they'll keep seeking closure

Here today but gone tomorrow
It's truly tragic and life's great sorrow
Tomorrow is not...

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Too sudden....."

Born today ,gone tomorrow!
Its life's everyday hym,
For time is never ours to keep,
Yet we hope for the sun to shine tomorrow,
As we shut our eyes,we die in faith,
Life moves at a swift pace.
You can...

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Forever in youth, Last
But with time forever soon pass
One day you wake up without reason or rhyme
And realize your living on Borrowed Time

Days zoom by and night is for sleep
Suddenly it's important for promises to...

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Many will claim  to be your friend .
Speak greatly about when your around.
Tell your the best just to get what they need.

And you in return will  will become a shadow of who you...

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Got the news today, from the doctor, my love
It's much worse than you or I could ever dream of
Never thought that I could be leaving, you, so soon
It's too hard to take, looks like we...

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Living on Tulsa Time 
Oops Borrowed Time
Written: by Tom Wright
4/25/2018

As my body infrastructure has begun to crumble,
Time has slowed my steps and I’ve began to stumble.

Body parts have become worn and some were replaced,
And I...

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