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pat caldecott Jun 2020
In the desire to observe
In the desire to show love
There’s only one you should serve
One over all put above
But flesh is so desperate and weak
Your heart not one can discern
With pride it cannot be meek
To badness will always return
Remember me don’t let me wander
To the places my heart wants to go
My life force don’t let me squander
And victory’s give out to your foe
I know that there’s nothing within me
That’s useful to filling your goal
Can evil and devotion agree?
So death claims us all in its toll
Then when a visit at midnight
The enemy we cannot decline
Who comes to our bed without invite?
No mercy in all his design
And so look to me with your pity
Don’t give me the things I deserve
And let me enter that city
And with heart mind and soul let me serve
pat caldecott Apr 2019
Until you've fought my fight
Until you've run my race
Then you don't have the right
To get up in my face

Don't look at me and say
She didn't do it right
If you live in the day
And I live in the night

Until you've lost your worth
Stripped bare of all esteem
Dragged screaming down to earth
You can't be on my team

So go away and think
The worst thing you can find
Sink to the lowest sink
Your still not in my mind
pat caldecott Feb 2019
Coffee bean

Live a caffeine life style
Feel a bit flat white
Drinking up your Java
Nothing going right
Off you go to marshals
Coffee quick to go
Can’t stop now for friendship
Got to work you know
Get into the office
Sitting at your place
Don’t you get your lifestyle?
Caffeinate rat race
Always in a hurry
What’s the hurry for
Got to earn a living
Got to get some more
Growers don’t plant poppies
Theirs nothing left to glean
Just dig up the garden
And plant some coffee bean
pat caldecott Feb 2019
The Incubus

You give pleasure to the senses
You’re light and fair of form
And Breakdown our defenses
You’re high above the norm
A child you have provided
Delight to those who care
But the things you have decided
Are cobwebs in the air
Your beauty hides a being
That’s hard to harmonize
With the thing that we are seeing
The stories and the lies
And one day when you’ve grown
And your beauty’s gone away
And the child looks at your designing
What are you going to say?
That on a whim you ravaged
Three lives and just for play
As a dog a victim savaged
Those who let you have your way
Let your aging not be graceful
And your beauty not remain
For your dealings are disgraceful
And to look at you brings pain
Let your action be rebounded
And you reap what you have sown
On the lies that you have founded
From a heart that’s made of stone
pat caldecott Feb 2019
My Dearest Dad


Please explain my dearest dad
Why you allowed the pain and sorrow
Gave her everything she asked
And never thought about tomorrow
Did you love to much to speak
When she beat me with a bar or
Was it just that you were weak
You always let her go to far
When she spit into your face
And went away and formed a tie
With a lesser man to you disgrace
And made the entire family cry
I know your love it was sincere
I know she was your very life
But you should have made the limits clear
To save your children from your wife
pat caldecott Oct 2011
I think that death has come for me
I see him in the shadows there
He say he wants me to be free
I ask why is it that you care

Knowing that he'll win one day
knowing that I'll lose the fight
Knowing that he'll make me pay
He stalks around me day and night

And so he beckons on to me
It's not so bad here in the shade
I only want you to be free
And I am just the price that's paid

The price of freedoms very high
The price was set so long ago
And i have nothing that can buy
A single minute from my foe


Knowing that he'll win one day
knowing that I'll lose the fight
Knowing that he'll make me pay
He stalks around me day and night
pat caldecott Jun 2011
One day we'll say it was a dream
The one's we loved and had to leave
And no more count the bitter scheme
Crudely played on mother eve

And memory of this bitter day
When in paradise regained
Is washed away like feet of clay
I for one will not complain

Then you and I and all we love
Will shout with joy and Ecstasy
Praises to our god above
Who paid the price and set us free
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