Frames

Time goes on and people change.

Don't judge them on what's left them;

be kind to what remains.

We're just peering at the paintings:

captured moments in their frames.

Don't judge them on what's left them;

be kind to what remains.

Trips Around the Sun

I just turned 20 and my life's ahead of me.

I'm living for the moment I'm finally feeling free.

I'm chasing the horizon, gonna find what life's about;

20 trips around the sun and I'll never tire out.

 

30's now upon me and I'm feeling so refined.

I've reigned the restless spirit and I've quieted the mind.

I've done a lot of running, now it's time to settle down;

30 trips around the sun and I'm starting to feel found.

 

The big 4-0 is coming and it's hitting like a train,

the wrinkles started forming and my knee's all filled with pain.

I guess I'll pick up golfing, trade my favorite beer for wine;

40 trips around the sun, I guess I'm doing fine.

I just passed by 50 and I don't know where it went,

the time it seemed to fly on by no matter how it's spent.

All the joys and wonder and the troubles I've been through;

50 trips around the sun and there's so much left to do.

 

60 years I've walked this earth, what adventures I have had,

it wasn't always easy, but the worst days weren't that bad.

Looking back I only think of times so well and good;

60 trips around the sun and I'm living as I should.

 

70 came and went and I'm really slowing down.

I'm sitting now more peacefully, seeing beauty all around.

I have such great perspective, with all that I have seen.

70 trips around the sun and so much life between.

 

80's now approached me but my days aren't quite yet done.

Though my body is much older, my life's still filled with fun.

I can't say for certain now what's coming around the bend;

80 trips around the sun and I'd love to go again.

Sea of Holes

My feet were burned by roasting coal, 

a cryptic message there foretold.

I felt the heat and longed for cold 

and paid a price that wasn't sold.

 

The shell of that which used to be

turns unto fish and swims to sea.

I saw it all in morbid dreams

she passed beyond in front of me.

There set adrift a Sea of Holes:

a wayward grave of lofty goals.

The river flows o'er shores and shoals,

deposits one on banks of souls.

Cosmic Cowboy

Blasted off from Brownsville, Texas

one-way ticket to the stars.

Waved an adios to atmosphere,

Waved a howdy back from Mars. 

 

He's gonna rustle him up stardust;

he's gonna find himself a home.

He's gonna kick it in the cosmos,

but it's a long long way to go.

 

Shine on you Cosmic Cowboy,

but don't board your ship alone.

Shine on you Cosmic Cowboy,

but don't forget us here at home.

 

How's the view from Albireo?

counting asteroids one by one.

When you picnic at Polaris,

do you dream about our sun?

When you survive the supernova,

when you've tied up red Quasars,

How many light years will you travel?

When you come back from those stars?

 

Shine on you Cosmic Cowboy,

but don't board your ship alone.

Shine on you Cosmic Cowboy,

but don't forget us here at home.

 

Stellar sisters

cosmic brothers

stand together

love each other

 

Stellar sisters

cosmic brothers

stand together

love each other

 

Stellar sisters

cosmic brothers

stand together

love each other

 

Shine on y'all Cosmic Cowboys.

You'll never board your ships alone.

Shine on y'all Cosmic Cowboys.

In the cosmos we will roam.

In the cosmos we will roam.

and I feel like I am home.

 

Kaleidoscope

Twist and turn the kaleidoscope but all I see is blue,

shattered and refracted light in the memories of you.

The grass is always greener but there's never greener grass.

Green exists, just once, it feels, but only in the past.

Twist and turn the kaleidoscope but all see is red,

broken, battered pieces of a past that's long been dead.

Shorts #4

Two sit on a train,

each other they face.

One sees where they're going.

One sees where they went. 

Still they're beholden 

and even desire

to keep moving forward,

to keep moving onward.