Nathan Tom

Nathan Tom Sep 5

A leisurely day under a cerulean sky
Simple comforts and a listless smile
I’ll sleep for a while, awake not knowing why
I’ll hold her close and maybe chat a while

Maybe there’s a single cloud in the distance
Headed off to witness better days
Coffee in hand, I admire its patience
In longing for whatever comes next

Nothing much to do, nothing I need to be
Is this a nightmare or a blissful dream?
I can’t tell which, but whatever it may seem
I have no choosing or desire within me

I let it go, and wish it away
Maybe you’ll come back another day
Or maybe you won’t, and that’s okay too
It’s just another thing that I have to do

I like being lazy sometimes.

Nathan Tom Sep 5

Face It With a Smile

This is the place where I wake up
On an open highway in the valley
My mind dreaming with my hands on the wheel
The radio churning as it always does

There’s love songs, ballads of what once was
Spanish talk radio just across the border
I pay no mind as the desert road sings
A simple melody lulling me into a dream

The other cars are simply props
Machines that accompany me on my drive
I press on as I always do
Muscle memory avoiding them as I pass

This is the place that I call home
A little town inside a world of sand
Earth mother carries me as I keep dreaming
The radio churning as it always does

I tend to zone out on the Highway 8 during my early morning drives. Probably not a good thing, but it makes for interesting storytelling

#desert #sky #road

Nathan Tom Sep 4

Stray Bullet Woman

Save your worries for another day
For when I come she’ll be miles away

Two words and a shot of whiskey
Somewhere lost in the open sky
Another one of my mother sons’ gone
Given in by cheap drinks and empty words

Hold on to every ******’ second
Like a steering wheel, with two hands
Ten and two marks the end of time
The loser who couldn’t feel worth a ****

Something I wrote a while back!

Nathan Tom Sep 4

Road to Nowhere

Drive me into the sun
Like a head on wheels
You can’t stand the engine
That screams to life

Downward and down
So close to hell
The sky has burned
And melt my mind

A hundred in the shade
With windows drawn
Drowning in the sand
That pulls me down

A song that my band recorded!

Oct 2020

Mohan Sardarshahari

Politics

May I smoke during prayer ?
Answer is ' No'
This is morality

May I pray during smoking ?
Answer is ' Yes'
This is politics

Knowing the
difference between
the two decides
our life's quality

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