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Mike Hauser Jun 2024
I sometimes wonder life out loud
How in the world will this work out
The hectic turns it seems to take
The never learn from past mistakes

Showing up and showing out
Far too many times to count
In this I know I’m not alone
Confused at times to where I’m going

Yet things seem to work out right
On this fact you can bet it life
There is no need to be afraid
God works in mysterious ways

I more often take the winding path
Instead of the one straight ahead
Although it takes me twice as long
God gets me to where I’m going

I move in ways I think are right
Later on is when I find
Things that I try on my own
More often than not turn out wrong

It’s not long before I find out
Life itself turns back around
What more can one sinner say
But that God works in mysterious ways
Mike Hauser Jun 2024
You can bring up love
Talk about hate
Things that you save
Those you give away
With the little progress
That you have made
As you watch it all
Go down the waiting drain

You can read along
Knowing you are not alone
When robbing Peter
Trying to pay Paul
Having the right
Of course, to be wrong
You can bring about all this and more
On the inside of a poem

You can hum a tune
As your hands collect
Count the things that do
And those that do not last
Talk of remembered times
That really weren't that bad
Move in the direction of
What may lay ahead

You can tell the truth
Of what is going on
Or greatly misconstrue
The entire point
Rhyme wherever
You find that your mind roams
Bring about all of this and more
On the inside of a poem
Mike Hauser Jun 2024
Behind these bars in Raiford
Is not where I want to be
Going through this with most of my friends
While missing my family

Ask anyone, from day one
I've had a problem with the law
I struggle in the direction of
Trying to follow along

More years here I've found than I care to count
These notches on the wall, interwoven
Leaving little doubt that it spells out
A hard life passed down unspoken

I've about given up pleading I'm innocent
Placing on others the blame
Like everyone in this joint I've met
Saying pretty much the same

Dealing with my dealings in Raiford
With the taking of another man's life
My one-way ticket to this losing attitude
Until the day I die
Mike Hauser Jun 2024
let's see how high
i can count
before i decide
to turn my life around

if i don't change
the things i do
there won't be a thing
to do things to

i really need
to shine a light
on all i have
that resides inside

that keeps me here
right where i sit
preventing me
from getting ahead

not privy to
what's going on
to tell the truth
not sure i want

to hear how i
can bring about
the needed change
to get me out

of this hole
of self-defeat
i'm digging deep
in misery

which brings me back
to just how high
can i count
before i find

i need to turn
it all around
this life i have
of up-side down
I have someone very close in my life that I'm sure is depressed but won't get the help they need, it's very frustrating along with heart breaking to see them going through this when everyone is reaching out, but they refuse to reach back.
Mike Hauser Jun 2024
We are the people
They warned us about
Taking to extreme excess
All that we’re allowed

So easily bored with
What they toss our way
Looking for the next big thing
In our means of escape

We are the people
They warned us about
Living  topsy-turvy
In a world that’s upside down

Clearly out of control
On this spinning wheel
Out here selling off our souls
Feeling that it’s no big deal

We are the people
They warned us about
Take a look around
If you have any doubt

Better yet grab a mirror
If you’re afraid to go outside
We are the people
There’s no way to deny
Mike Hauser Jun 2024
we all desire something more
more than what is in store
some more than they can afford
what's behind the other door

some are happy with what they have
others want much more than that
not yet ready to accept
the life that's landed in their lap

who's not looking out for love
of which there never is enough
with the beating of the drum
more of that and then some

more pleasure in the prize
more than just this one time
finding out you were right
more to this so-called life

more of what they think they can
more of what they wish they had
more than they are left with
what more can be said
Mike Hauser Jun 2024
Strike a match
to the gas
on everything we do and say

Ignore the lack
of the facts
they just get in the way

Don’t be surprised
when you’re lying eyes
see things differently

As we pull the wool
over you
in what you should believe

If we told you
the entire truth
on todays shake ‘n bake

The living proof
would haunt you
until your dying day

As we strike a match
to the gas
on everything we do and say

Ignore the lack
of the facts
they just get in the way
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