Your time is now
shadows of the night
creep (I don't know how)
it just seems right.
I yawn as sleep approaches
I look forward to the rest
numbness of the limbs enroaches
sleep to get things off my chest.
Blotting out the day
as I slowly slumber
I had my fill, my say
no more, my pick of numbers.
Going to the land of Nod
be back in seven hours
nestled in my quiet pod
climing ivory towers.
Goodnight and fond farewell
adieu and sweet goodbyes
in dreams I soon will dwell
with snoring and deep sighs.

We never said goodbye
before you died
I think perhaps
you wanted it that way
you'd be proud, I never cried
alas, I was not there, that day.
two thousand miles away
I got an email
it was, just like they say,
a bolt, right out of the blue
a notice of your death by cancer
I was unprepared, I never knew.
Parents are supposed to be
the first to die, not  a daughter
I never got over the loss
of my little boy
my heart and soul,
now twice, was tottered
my emotions totally destroyed.
Only God knows the heartache
the sorrow of a life gone by
the devestation of a famiy loss
the answers to the question...why?

It's here already
one long day of sunrise and sunset
time knows no division
the very end     -      is not yet

Perhaps it will not come
but ours , it will be certain
you can be sure of that
we'll close that final curtain

So eat and drink my poet friends
be content and be merry
love and live and laugh
our life will not tarry.
our life will never tarry.

When the rain keeps me from walking
and the cold keeps me away
and I don't feel much like talking
then, I find another way...

to entertain my soul
to satisfy my longing
such things that make me whole
I do not like prolomging.

A good book is a plesdure
or some peaceful, quiet song
Chopin's a pleasant treasure
nothing noisy or too strong.

The walk still beckons me
the clouds have left the sky
is that the sun I see?
then I must say goodbye!

I say hello
they pass on by
as if they did not hear
strangers on a hiking trail
'tis these people
that I fear.

Like a leaf, we wither
like  a flower, we soon fade
too much sun destroys us
we must always seek the shade.
Here today and gone tomorrow
like a shadow passing by
we are for just a moment
like a twinkling of an eye.
In the vast eternity of time
we blossom quicly, then we die
hopefully, with love and peace
knowing well, the reason  why.
Shadows come and shadows go
like a fleeting, rushing stream
in  a life, that soon is gone
like  a long forgotten dream.

I always wind up here
no matter where U start
but it's my special place
so dear to my old  heart
All further thoughts are futile
to that, I am resigned
my mind cannot acknowledge
such ideas of any kind
I am happy and contented
in the spot which I am in
far away from trouble
from the places I have been
Sheltered by my living
it is well within my soul
as I feast upon my pleasures
the things that make me whole
Long walks with my dog, Charlie
curled up with one good book
listening to my music
in a cozy, pleasant nook
The days go right along
year by year by year
and whatever things befall me
I always wind up here.