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A Bad Day
Some go out in a blaze of glory, some with a crazy, sad story. / I am not sure which I have chosen but it may get very gory. / I don’t care any longer about the skies I see
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Jan 26, 2014
A Bad Day
Don't we all sometimes stagger and fall, and taste the dirt / don't we all sometimes wake up to the morning sun and feel the hurt? / Perhaps we all have similar souls that somehow feel the same
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Aug 20, 2013
A Blind Ballad
As I lean against the windswept rock, a memory comes to me / of the days I spent on "The Courage Son" and the friends I lost at sea. / The Courage Son was a sturdy ship, built of solid oak,
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Feb 8, 2013
A Day
If I can’t quite see tomorrow and can’t deal well with today / Can I close these eyes that blind me and somehow find a way. / Will I fly up to the heavens, or will I drop down to the seas.
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Feb 7, 2013
Age
They say age is a number and its true until you reach a high one / then fear sets in and dreams become a terror up until sun. / You don't want to go but sometimes staying is not so good,
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Jan 28, 2014
A Love Story
I lean over her, resting on my elbow as I stare into her sleeping face. / I brush a wisp of hair away from her eyes so that I can kiss them lightly / as she dreams softly and gently of I don't know what.
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Aug 6, 2015
A Self Warning
A Self Warning / Anxiety pulls at my soul on a daily track / I try with all I have to stand and fight back.
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Jun 9, 2025
ASHES
Even though I cast a shadow and create an echo in the hills / I know I am no longer real, just dust on old window sills. / It is my ashes scattered hither and yon, near but far
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Oct 31, 2012
A Terrible End
It seems like an eternity since we last spoke a real word / something that didn't hurt and wasn't absurd. / I can't remember that real hard core feeling
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Jan 6, 2014
A Wife
Ah the single life, so very sweet, / as lively as dancing feet. / Always moving, learning, meeting
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Sep 26, 2012
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