apathy is root on the tree of hate and its fruit sorrow

good and bad
happy and sad
up and down
smile and frown
love and hate
small and great
young and old
shy and bold
wrong and right
hold tight
to the flexible
(and)

you run
i chase
you run more
i chase more
you slow
i catch
you tease
i like
those eyes
that smile
just wow
i confess
you ignore
i confess more
you joke
i hurt
you pretend it wasn't you
i hurt more
i pretend it wasn't you

It's Friday night,
I've got a game
We play the Indians,
My best friend's team

My uniform's on
It's only 4 o'clock
Mom says we leave
5:30 on the dot

Tonight's our first game
I'm fast in my new cleats
My glove's broken-in
'cause I've slept on it for weeks

I'm still a little nervous,
but not about playing
I'm wondering which girls are there
and what I'm going to be saying

The bully has no empathy
no way to show sympathy
The bully only knows power
to make the prey cower
The bully only feeds the ego
cut from hate, friend or foe
The bully soothes pain unknown
no excuse for the abuse shown
The bully will see the true light
only from hell's fire, so bright

how do i wrong thee, let you count the ways

if windows into the soul..are eyes
the windows out are smiles
one of a shy boy’s first love
the smile of a new bride
of mother’s bursting pride
or made for not funny dad jokes
for a picture with the folks
but the best best one of all
is the one planning
a mischievous hoax

i knew before the need
i loved before and after the seeds
my mistakes are weeds forgiven
in the friendship garden we live in

this world
will try to dim your light
yours and mine
Shine Lizzie Shine
this world
will try to slow you down
you're far far from done
Run Lizzie Run
this world
may knock you down
aim higher than the sky
Fly Lizzie Fly
this world
is not as strong as you
angels watch from above
Love Lizzie Love

contentment, for some, is the most illusive condition ever

every love needs a test for what we have learned and what we have remembered

it may have been forward of me to go swimming in your eyes but i will never regret it

Those days that seem to last forever are a blessing, from a conservation of time perspective

What it means to be the
force that stands
What it takes to be the
force that's ready
What it gives of self to
be the force deployed
What it wants from a
nation free and proud
What it needs is a
simple thank you
What it gets has to
be enough
What it believes
doesn't matter
What it does
is whatever it's ask
What it is----is you

i don't tell you everything but i can tell you anything and that my friend makes all the difference

new love is a clear spring lake, old love is a warm bath

You know that feeling you get when you are watching someone do something totally different than you do it?

complaining to someone who lacks empathy is a fruitless endeavor

I lost my happy...my soul is spent
Don't know were I put it
or where it went
I looked behind my dollar bill
and in a death defying thrill
I looked behind your fake smiles
and at the end of 26.2 miles
I looked in the whiskey bottle
and in my car at full throttle
I looked on the waves at high tide
and on an epic motorcycle ride
I looked in my new car
and traveled near and far
I looked in a nettle hot
and found it......not
I looked in doctors chairs
and overdid the pill repairs
I looked in old empty friends
who did not make amends
I lost my happy...my soul is spent
Don't know were I put it
or where it went

a "thank you" is a rare thing, take note when you see one, protect their environment, this world will never be the same without them

To err is human, to err as much as me is super human...

i have accounts on all the social media sites, with zero followers...that is my ultimate goal as the best uninfluencer

why do i feed the darkness
why does the hurt taste so good

im better than yesterday but not as good as tomorrow

A true dogmatist would never accept the definition of their condition

i saw a crooked man today
old and wrinkled and gray
he walked a crooked walk
his jaw made crooked talk
why this shape i wondered
his pain, not to be numbered
i ask my friend if she knew
yes, she said, he is half of two
his love and he shaped a heart
his love passed and split it apart

If my heart
Were a thousand room hotel
And your love come look ’n
It can go straight to hell

You love only you
And you don’t even like that
You never loved nobody
And nobody loves you back

If my heart
Were big as the blue shy
And your love had wings
It would never ever ever fly

You love only you
And you don’t even like that
You never loved nobody
And nobody loves you back

If my heart
As big as the ocean be
your love would never sail
it’d sink to the bottom of the deep dark sea

You love only you
And you don’t even like that
You never loved nobody
And nobody loves you back

i went on a life long journey
to get any kind of compliment
and found the quest endless
there must be no parts of me
that rise above the mark
maybe i will die well

Help
Such a simple word that I should use more often, and supplied even more

you can see new ideas so much better if you stand in front of your ego

your vibration is tuned to mine, like the precise measure of a piano wire, the perfect adjustment, the love song of two souls through eternity

you left before
i could tell you
            everything
in my prayers
             i know
we will have eternity
to discuss the reason
if you can't hear what
             is in my heart now

being unsatisfied as a default position doesn't make you satisfied in your unsatisfaction

People go to university to learn from a professor, if people truly learn from other's mistakes, I'm a professor

age and time
thieves in the night
cannot steal your beauty
locked in my mind

if you like
the fresh rabbit
posted on this venue
take a trip down
the rabbit hole
of my minds
bon voyage

"Come here and let me feel, you don't look well"
with her hand on my head,
"You know a mother can tell"
"Did you take your vitamins today"
yes mom, as she sticks a thermometer in
"Hold it in this way"
" There's a bug going round school,
and you went out, no jacket, like a fool"
I'd mumble, it wasn't cold....
"Keep that in you mouth, like you were told"
She takes it out and holds it to the light
"See 100 point 6...see I was right"
A box of medicine comes down quick
Searching through, calculating what to pick
"This will bring the fever down,
If not I'll call the doctor in town"
Another cabinet, and searching for more
I think she has more medicine than the drug store
One more pill box comes down from above
Why does she look so hard, I got the best
medicine first.......LOVE

on the glorious day
when i love you, you say
in some super human way
in sky i hold the sun to stay to stay
the clouds i will not allow gray
tomorrow tomorrow i keep away
i will live in only today today
for fear your heart will betray betray

we all have demons
parasites on our soul
we all had things
that changes our goal
some make us lose trust
some turn love and hope to dust
but the worst I am forever sure
hides and covers the heart pure

one.....alone
estranged in mind
two gave one another
three arrived unbalanced
one afraid of alone
conspired with two
and left three belittled

love is such a cursed road, if only a one way street

it's comforting to know, that someone out there can feel things as strongly and love with a greater love than mine

when my love gate opens you better have a lifeboat ready

You can read every book yourself
In every tongue, on every shelf
And I should be so bold
As my love for you
Is the greatest story untold

You can watch every movie
Ever put on any film
Of love between her and him
And your heart would still be lean
For my love for you
Is the deepest story never seen

You can listen to every love song
Ever recorded, old and new
And nothing could ever outdo
What the sight of you brings
And the song my heart sings

Sometimes I wonder
If thieves plunder
Just to be wanted
To be chased and haunted
For the alternative is worse
Unwanted is the true curse

the future is the fog of chaos crashing into us at the speed of life and fading into the blurry past

why do birds have feet
my spirit doesn't
nor my hope
or my love

i was only here
a few days
with heavy heart
we now part ways
until next we meet
blessings to you
from your head
to your feet

can't sleep indeed
what do you need
you did this last
and the night past
just let me go
what should I know
I'll have to listen closer
to the universe composer

Skipping stones with my girl years ago
Found the perfect pebble for her to throw
She told me
This rock aint big enough
Your love aint strong enough
Keep trying never give it up

Worked for weeks down in the dirt
Got us tickets to a jamming concert
She told me
This rock aint big enough
You just aint good enough
Keep trying never give it up

Made a million dollars green green
Got her the best diamond ever seen
She told me
This rock aint big enough
You just aint rich enough
Keep trying never give it up

Tried to forget her, she was the only one
her memory was all over this third stone from the sun
And you know
This rock aint big enough
I just can't get enough
Keep trying never give it up