Empty rooms
It’s all packed up
The old house
Cold and emotionless
Sad forlorn
Needs a heart
Sweet sorrow
That we have to part


The new house
In comes life and love
Rooms filled
With stuff
The heart beats
Once again
The home comes alive

Will they ever just be silent
The voices in my brain
They talk so much of violence
Look what you’ve done they say
It was in our defence
Is always my reply
Although another question
In my mind is always
WHY?

Mothers and daughters
Fathers and sons
Brothers and sisters
People each one
Died by the thousands
Killed for a cause
A madness for power
A sick holocaust

The whole world fighting
With guns and with bombs
To stop the destruction
Yet causing their own
And returning from battles
Fought ******* the field
Find they are isolated
Can’t express how they feel

The hunger for power
Is what fuels war
Will forever enshroud us
Keep us on our knees
As a man and a soldier
One thing I would plead
Fight no more with weapons
Use words and treaties

If I said that I was crazy
Cause my friend you cannot see
Does that mean I am enlightened
Not as crazy as I seem
For my friend is wholly real
Not a figment as you think
As he keeps on the right path
Far from standing on the brink
He is my voice of reason
In this god forsaken world
My forgiveness in my turmoil
My leading hand to hold

Lying here without you
On a lonely single bed
The only thoughts I have
Are of you running through my head
You’re not there when I reach out
I cannot hear you breathe
This time away from your side
Is a hell that doesn’t cease
My wish to be beside you
Even just to watch you sleep
And etch your image into my mind
Another perfect memory to keep

Words can convey
Hopes, dreams,
Fears, loves,
Desires, emotions
The list is endless
How can we just
Frivolously use these
Weapons to wound
But also words
Can heal
Remind us of
Our loved ones lost
Spread the love
In our hearts
And share it
Is anything more powerful
Than words

I sit with my friend and chat
Till days end we natter
Just chewing the fat
Does it matter we natter till
The end of all matters as his end
Already came and went