High

     I was a troubled teenager,
I think most of us are at that age
So I’m not gonna try to say mine
Was worse and put myself on a stage

I’ve never mentioned this before
But within our poetry we share
We release what’s locked up inside
And it’s our inner soul we bare

So here’s a story that I’ve never told
One that haunts me to this day
There was a single mother I befriended
And I became her prey

She was in her twenties and I was fourteen
She was my real life (Maggie May)
I didn’t know it was wrong
It felt alright and I thought it was okay

She liked to dull her pain with wine
And Marijuana and there was me
We would spend time together on Saturday’s
Getting high and having *** if I would agree

She had an infant baby girl
And one Sunday early morning
Tragedy would suddenly strike
As it came without a warning

We were feeling good at around one
I’m gonna bathe the baby she said
We should all get some sleep so off
They went and I fell asleep on her bed

As the clock was about at three
I thought I was having a dream
I heard a screeching cry and waking
Me I quickly realized it’s a woman’s scream

As she was bathing her baby
That’s when things went awry
She fell asleep too the baby drowned
And died because we were high

Written By:Charles Kean
Copyright © 02/09/2020
All rights reserved
This is a true story.

A Whisper In The Wind

Sitting on my deck as night begins to fall
Thinking of a time I thought would never end
And in a sense it still exist
For now it’s a whisper in the wind

A monsters attack in the middle of the night
A child in fear unable to defend
Without warning it sometimes returns
For now it’s a whisper in the wind

A beautiful girl, young loves first kiss
Time separated, love letters I didn’t send
Hope she can still read them
As they are now a whisper in the wind

The sounds of us as children at play
And the promise of a forever friend
Though long ago it’s not forgotten
But now it’s just a whisper in the wind

A mother’s love, and watching her die
Her last breath, her soul ascend
She’s still with me, her love is a comfort
Now as a whisper in the wind

Time has flown so quickly
And it’s hard for me to comprehend
All the faces and voices still echo as
Everything still lives as a whisper in the wind

Written By:Charles Kean
Copyright © 02/07/2020
All rights reserved

Fragile

         Love is so hard to find
Love is so easy to lose
Love can be so blind
Love can bring the blues

We take the risk and we leap
We give ourselves as we fall
We are cautious and secrets we keep
We can’t reveal it all

Time has left us weary
Time saddens the soul
Time has left us leery
Time has a way to take its toll

Love is what we all desire
Love can steal our heart
Love can light our fire
Love can tear us apart

We know what it is to be broken and lost
Yet our mind fails to be agile
It is reckless with the ultimate cost
For the heart can be so fragile

Written By:Charles Kean
Copyright © 02/07/2020
All rights reserved

The Master And Me

      It’s a miracle that I am still alive
Fighting against all odds and the Masters jive
My bracket is dead but I still breathe
As we come to the end the battle continues to seethe

With every ounce of myself I will give
As the Master must die for all to live
I’ll apologize now if I should fail
I’ll take this fight to the darkest debts of Hell

I understand that I am not wise
I have never tried to deceive with a disguise
I am battle tested and battle weary
I fight without a formula or scientific theory

There is no way to have a full proof battle plan
You just have to stand toe to toe,man to man
Find the heart to rise higher and higher
And fight Fire with Fire

I know that all of my warriors have died
I’ve grieved and I’ve cried
Their lives lost,in vain I vow this not to be
As we fight on it’s down to just the Master and Me

Written By:Charles Kean
Copyright 04/08/2019
All rights reserved
Basketball Bracket battle last year
Against one who calls himself Master
Because he has won so many times
I was the victor in the end!!!

All That Remains Are The Thorns

     We had a love,
We had a love so strong
So where did we,
Where did we go so wrong

You use to smile,
You use to smile so bright
It use to feel,
It use to feel so right

I wish you,
I wish you were still my only one
But I can see,
I can see those days are gone

I think we,
I think we both know
It’s time to,
It’s time to just let it go

Now as the smoke clears from the sky
I’ve wiped the last tears from my eye
It’s time to move on to a better day
We took our best years
And we threw them away

Now our love is like a rose in the fire
I feel like I’ve got a bull by the horns
When you throw a rose into a fire
All that remains are the thorns

Written By:Charles Kean
Copyright © 02/06/2020
All rights reserved
This is another song that I wrote
Original title (Rose In The Fire)
Re-Arranged to make this poem