I like you, I like you, I like you alot
Is it just me or is it getting hot?
Red boots, black jeans, black top, cat's meow
Give me that milk and I'll drink it right now
A smile that causes this man's heart to melt
Eyes that are piercing, your gaze can be felt
A trip out to Nashville, one afternoon there
Listening to music, in my mind a pair
Living my dream of enjoying a day
Out with you, how I so wanted to stay
But think and remember I do every night
What a pleasure it was, you were such a delight
Long before G P S,
we planned a trip out west.
Four hours later, you said,
“Is this all in my head?
First fill-up of the car
is right back where we are!"
With your words so sweet and promises ring true
I fell hard in love with you
But each night I am lonely, rumors your playing around
Searching the night thank God you I never found.
A sick mother, emergency trip out of town
All those rumors of you go round and round
Keeps me walking the floor each night over you
my heavy heart is broken in two.
I want to keep believing your pretty lying eyes
You look at me and with your kiss I realize
All those rumors even if true
I am never going to stop loving you.
Your touch persuades me, you hold me tight
Alone together all through the night
Morning breaks and your already gone
With you my life is another sad sad song.
I want to keep believing your pretty lying eyes
You look at me and with your kiss I realize
All those rumors even if true
I am never going to stop loving you
I am never going to stop loving you...
Sometimes I trip out when I think about the crazy stuff we did as kids. It makes me sad to know we won't ever be able to share new memories as adults and grow.
When I talk to you, it's like I am talking to a wall. Nothing penetrates your soul and that kills me to know. I feel as though I lost the only brother I had to an invisible monster. I sit and wonder who am I to ever feel defeated;when I know the old you is somewhere in your brain cell constantly taking a beating.
In micro moments you probably feel him, but that monster won't let the real you back in long enough to reveal him. To be locked out of your body and imprisoned in your brain. The things I bet you think, and to know you feel like nobody knows your pain.
I'm sad I can't be around this new you with much ease, and honestly it's because I know that monster laughs as the old you cowards at his knees. Taunting you while you are begging to be free, just to feel the way you once did with your friends and family.
Damn I wish we were kids, wish we could rewind and go back to the very day that monster started renting your time. I love you brother, you are always on my mind.
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A whirlwind of thoughts stir up silence
As uneven depths of despair
Paint bright yesterdays and pale tomorrows
A night filled with wandering addicts,
Their eyes speckled with the gloom of gray
Dreams colliding with reality
On fluffy clouds where they trip out
Love is as distant as a light year
As they drift off, lost in the stars
They have lost their garden of serenity
Time slips them wrinkled expressions
And if their slumber is too deep
They will not awaken from night's cocoon
when morning yawns....
2-16-19
Do all birds of a feather sing sweetly together,
Or do they like a pig take a plea deal, then squeal!
Praise God! Mercy's a choice that will not end their voice!
Oh! Is 'stacking the deck' not real sin? What the heck!?
There's no deadly intent to defraud, or conceal?
Lord! The sins of guilty just stink in all weather!
Fools abusing those under them pee on the free!
Think that bundles of cash will float barge (when in charge),
Do your criminal friends give a hoot how s**t ends?
"Glad it's his butt, not mine! Jail's a drab Valentine!"
But if you kiss then tell, concrete boots can get large,
Your next trip out to sea, keeping fish company!
There's no love between thieves; most have knives up their sleeves!
If you choose to embrace spoils of crime, it's your dime!
But it's Russian roulette, to chose judge on a bet
He will save your a** later, a known violator,
Well-known facts are you follow Fred's crime paradigm.
Only one who's insane's sure of what he believes!
Brian Johnston
4th of October 2018
summer trip out west
moment rockies lift their heads
~ jaws drop in tandem
AP: 3rd place 2025
Sofia’s love was like a viking as she tore apart
She grappled with her demons as she swept each basking heart
A gangster fairy tale betrothed upon her arm
A fleeting evening and a trip out of the dark
Four hundred dollar bills as token of your love
The glamour and the fame; the glitter and the game
If one could bear the grime and snare
Of the homestead that she came to bare
You would still pay for her charm
Dance?
Why not -
Seems harmless
He's kinda tall
And strong as a bull
But soft as a kitten
What kind of a man is both
He must be one of those cowboys
Well, I must say this cowboy can dance
I think I'm gonna like this trip out west
July, 2016
For contest Etheree
there are days when fresh air and calgon just can't take you away
there are times when you just have to take it all like a grown up
there are days when you wanna be big ole baby and just clench yourself to the covers
there are instances when you wanna use the alarm as your punching bag
in a dream, the last day of your last day has come to fruition
in a dream, the new beginning that you have prayed for endlessly is now a reality
in a dream, the lottery has rung the doorbell of your life and set you free
in a dream, you finally get that class A and plan your road trip out
then you wake up, and the same scenery drives you crazy again
then you wake up, and you remember that you need to ride to work starting today
then you wake up, and little riley has ballet class and little joseph is in a play
then you wake up, and you remember to give God Thanks and Praise for another day of life to do it all
Sitting out on the veranda sipping chilled wine
Under the fading sun of another glorious day.
Making plans for another trip out into the
Mountains for a sumptuous meal with friends,
Excited by the prospect that we all will
Return again for another visit one day.
© Dave Timperley October 2014.
While your walking around the world
In your own world
Looking up to the clouds
Let them hypnotize you
Watching time move into different shapes and forms
Watching them
You become them
Your energy transfers into the clouds and vise versa
Slowly floating into space
Space is space
Is that really simple of a name for such a mind bending world?
It's another level for a world
People like to think they know it all
Their not going to know what hit them
I wonder how its all going to end?
Hundreds, thousands, millions of pennants and animals running in fear
Right at that moment nothing has any meaning anymore
But the realness trying to fight it's way from the terror
The questions always 'why'
Why can't the answer just be
'because it just is'
Technically its not lying
Humans have to be curious about every damn thing
Didn't curiosity kill the cat?
(What does that even mean? Why a cat? Can't it kill anything?)
Humans are still like children
Always on the go
Won't ever be satisfied with one answer
IS it actually written in stone that humans are the superior race?
Ego trip; out of whack
Will it ever stop?
No matter where I wander
Home is the other way.
Whoever pushes me
Always has a lot to say.
I am just a trolley, no brain, to resist
So why is it that I act as though !?!!
As I have been drinking.
Card around my handle says
Oil me please, for I have sinned.
Last trip out hit the litter bin.
Metamorph
Why is the word trolley
Such a detested word
Not my fault honestly
That I act like a nerd
I sit there calmly
Waiting for the coin to drop
Off I go with a whoosh
Nearly knocking down the lot
I blame the driver
Must be female and blonde
Hasn’t made her mind up
Looking this way and beyond
Me! Would I be the problem
Has my chip, fried and stuck
Maybe I have dreams of grandeur
Think I am an Ice Breaker truck
No matter where I wander
Home is the other way.
Whoever pushes me
Always has a lot to say.
I am just a trolley, no brain, to resist
So why is it that I act as though !?!!
As I have been drinking.
Card around my handle says
Oil me please, for I have sinned.
Last trip out hit the litter bin.
03/03/2013
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I took a trip out to the stars
one Astral leap, I landed on Mars
all those people living under glass jars
and driving clean biological cars.
Then Jupiter came a callin'
it did attempt fusion, but just kept stallin'
with an altered mass, I'm quickly fallin'.
Next I slungshot off to Titan
suspended when Jupiter's gravity did tighten
to pull away it tried a fightin'.
With another giant leap I arrived on Pluto
which as a planet is now a no go
it's been left out in the cold
with the solar systems debris of old
from Uranium to Ice and Gold
the Kuyper belt, with no trousers to hold.
Next up was Andromeda
lit up like Brighton Komedia
whizzing all about, near or far.
Epic jaunts through timeless space
meetin' and greetin' all kinds of race
from toes for tongues and hands for face
every feature had a different place
some were hideous, others truly shone grace
Velvet skin, with hair made of Lace
that really was a soft cushioned embrace.
The places I've been and the sights I've seen
like living a lifetime in one forever dream
the edge of infinity I touched it's seam
And saw the Universe cascade like a conscious stream!
©John-Ovan.P.Hull
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