1:44 AM 2020-05-06

Patience sat just around the corner
And like a cop it sat just out of sight
But time it flew by without any warning
The earliest morning had become the night

Now, there's things I don't remember
There are things I can't forget
There were times I was proud
There are times I regret
There's things I should have done
And there's things I should have said
Before the moment was gone
Or the feeling was dead

Old age was a mystery when I was young
I couldn't conceive of my life being done
Now youth is the whistle of a far away train
Full of mem'ries and moments that won't come again

And there's things I don't remember
There are things I can't forget
There were times I was proud
There are times I regret
There's things I should have done
and there's things I should have said
Before the moment was gone
or the feeling was dead

Now I sit all alone in my COVID corner
Two metres away from the touch of a hand
The tide rushes in and then back to the ocean
Relations are born and wash away in the sand

James H. Webb

12:47 AM 2019-12-07

She is so many colours
She is so many moods
She is so many flavours
Blended through and through
She's a taste you can't imagine
But it's one you can't resist
And if you turned the other way
You'd never know what you had missed

So you climb the Eiffel tower
Or Babel or Dubai
And you shout about the moment
True love came your way
About the soul that mated
With your own soul so well
That if there was a seam there
I swear no one could tell

And you feel it's something special
You' re holding in your heart
Not even God in heaven
Could pull you two apart
Yet you're afraid the slightest shiver
Could bring the whole thing down
You feel you don't deserve a love
So deep and so profound

She is so many colours
She is so many moods
She is so many flavours
Blended through and through
She's a taste you can't imagine
But it's one you can't resist
And if you turned the other way
You'd never know what you had missed

James H. Webb

I still have your picture; You never grew old
But how come I'm grey and you're shiny and cold
I don't see a wrinkle or any signs of age
'caused by the bars of your soft gilded cage

I knew you had wings; I didn't know you could fly
So far from my arms and so high in the sky
My loneliness binds me down hard to this Earth
I don't know who I am; Don't know what I'm worth

The edges are dog-eared and the coating is cracked
But it's still your picture and its holding me back
I remember the heartaches; I remember the pain
But Darling what we had we won't find again

And it's rivers of tear drops lost in acres of songs
and I'm drinking to discover what I did was so wrong
I've got mem'ries unopened and stories untold
But how come I'm grey and you're shiny and cold

We loved with a warmth could light up the sky
But the fire went out and the love it just died
I still have your picture; You never grew old
But how come I'm grey and you're shiny and cold

J. H. Webb

May 27, 2019 9:44 PM

Sometimes when I'm awake at night
And thunder rocks the skies
I remember how you'd hold me
In your arms so I wouldn't cry
I remember how you told me
That you would never leave
And I was so young and foolish then
It was something that I believed

Now I wish that you could hear me
But you are so far gone
(Gone Before Your Time)
You're farther then my memories
Can remember or hold on

Sometimes I wonder how the years
Could have passed so quickly by
Without me realizing that
I would miss you all the time
The things that matter most in life
Are as simple as can be
The quiet walks when we would talk,
Your warmth, and your company

Now I wish that you were with me
But you are so far gone
(Gone Before Your Time)
You're farther then your memories
Will allow you to hold on

Sometimes when I'm awake at night
And thunder rocks the skies
I remember how you'd hold me
And it makes me want to cry
Gone Before Your Time
Gone Before Your Time

James H. Webb

Mar 10, 2019

If the world were perfect I wouldn't exist
Never would have met you or had our first kiss
If the world were perfect you wouldn't be missed
And I wouldn't be alone and crying like this

If the world were perfect then unnoticed you'd go
I wouldn't have seen you. Your love I wouldn't know
If the world were perfect then today wouldn't fit
And the pain wouldn't drag me down this bottomless pit

If the world were perfect - you know where you'd be
And I'd never let go. So you'd never be free
But the world isn't perfect 'cause we're far apart
Don't know if you're alive except in my heart

J. H. Webb

Soft, alive and wandering
The sound that hits the shore
Moves her world around in it
And beats a quiet roar

Worlds of bathing light she sees
Vibrating through the haze
The pressure and the feel of it
A comfort to be praised

Everywhere the shimmering sound
That is all she knows of life
Held within her mother's womb
So far and free from strife

Softly as a whisper will
It lands upon her eyes
Her mind feeds on sensations
As endless as the skies


James H. Webb

He is not yet gone
he lies sleeping
but I have planned
his death
for 2:30 pm

And I can not express my love
for him and have it understood
unless you have been through the same

Euthanasia is such a strange word for it
but at least it is light
at a time when one feels
so heavy

I accept the word for now
It draws less tears from these sore eyes
and makes the task easier
if that is possible
It is very  hard to ****
someone you love
It does not help to know
that it is for his own good
when it is not for my own good
But I have planned his death
for 2:30 pm

When he looks up at me
with those half blind eyes
I can't stop my tears
from soaking his fur
and I don't try
He deserves that much and more

A doctor will be present and
a good friend of mine will bury him
shortly after.

J. H. Webb