New town if just for 26 hours
Hotel boxes
Window door tube bed
None for me
Walk it off

I am alone now not dead

The air is brisk
The sky clear
Inviting wanting
Pacing slow steady
Keep moving fear is behind me

I am alone now not dead

The A.O.J. , D.O.C. , C.D.C. ,
Look at the bulls
Watch the lawyers
Observe bondsmen pandering
Short steps take time
I’ve been them all

I am alone now not dead

The crooks the thieves
Crying mothers worried families
The poor the addicted the transient
Angst fear anger disappointment
Have no color creed affiliation
But their taste is forever in me
Slower still now each step is for
For you your loved one your painjoyfearhope

I am alone now not dead

At the capitol the peach blossoms
They drift down to me
Only the destitute and I
Stop to appreciate the beauty
Of the blossoms against the architecture
He then picks his bed for the night
Pace dieing growing weary
I hear a crow call

Walk on… you are alone now not dead

I keep a new pace
Steady watching wanting
A distant familiar sound
I begin to rush
Pull back I tell my self
No reason to hurry

I am alone now not dead

The closer I get
The louder it grows
Around and within me
Resonating stirring a deep seated past
A lone man in bad light
The stark display
Playing a schizophrenic
Jazz trumpet rendition of
The star spangled banner
I stop & sit
Invited into a new world
Time drifts
Like the peach blossoms
As towering sounds escape
The garage he projects into
He may be something special
He may be a ghost to the world
But here now as he plays
He is King
Even as people go by
Without ever taking heed
I clap and walk away
Shaken
In a new world as I go

I am alone now not dead

I have been counting paces
As diligently as I count days
1,433 steps
From the emptiness in the room
A fortnight
From the day I craved your touch
Peace is a road not a location
The path is here for me
So I walk with out fear
I know every day gets better
I’m still here
I am

I am alone now not dead.