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Richard Smith Apr 2019
Social injustice
It is a fact
The rich get richer
The poor get jack
To tackle this problem
We need a plan
That will actually benefit
Each working man
Richard Smith Apr 2019
On the wind
The voices of the past
Remind us of our triumphs
Our failiures, loves and losses
Those choices made
That makes us, us

We all hear those whispers
Of what we could have been
And reminisce of time gone by
Of hopes endured, dreams come true
Or sorrows that forever live
For people lost friends gone

These guiding spirits of the past
Direct us onward down our paths
They tell us what is our best course
For happiness and contentment
To reside with us forever more
May be I’m hitting my mid life crisis but thinking a lot more about my past and friends alive and not.
I hope this melancholy lifts soon
Richard Smith Mar 2019
People come and people go
Though friendship is forever
Those special people in your life
Are in your mind whatever
We may lose them physically
But never from our minds
As long as you have memories
Their souls will stay alive
Richard Smith Mar 2019
If god is our father
Why won’t he answer
Does he just not care
He leaves us to choose
But offers no guidance
Just leaves us to blindly flounder
He takes us all eventually
But offers no solice
Just an eternity in paradise
To wonder if our lives
Were ever worth living at all
Richard Smith Mar 2019
Why do I feel so strange
When I look in a mirror is that me
Is this a borrowed vessel
Is my mind separate
This body someone else
When I sleep who uses it
If I forget something is that
The other waking
Taking over for a moment
If I die does he carry on
Richard Smith Mar 2019
I see their faces, crying
Though I’ll never know their names
Those images of heartbreak
Seared into my brain

They never had a chance to live
Before their innocence was taken
Casualties of conflict
Never knowing any peace

Waiting for the guns and bombs
To wipe out their families
Leaving them homeless
Living on the streets

After seeing with my own two eyes
The lives that they endure
My heart breaks every day
For all the children of war
Richard Smith Feb 2019
How my life has turned out
I never could have dreamed
The good and bad decisions
Have turned me into me
From growing up my choices
Have led me here right now
I can look at what I have
And you will not see me frown
My wife and children with me
There is no better thing
And from now until my last day
Only happiness they’ll bring
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