Feather Or Brick

          Life it can be light or heavy
You’re the only one who can pick
Troubles can float away or they can
Hold you down, Feather Or Brick

There’s so many mean people
It’s enough to make you sick
You can brush them away or carry them
On your back, Feather Or Brick

Take your addictions and blow them
Away with the wind, habits you can kick
Don’t let them be the reason you fall or
Part of your wall, Feather Or Brick

The Devil is like a Magician
He’s always got a trick,
You can push right through or let it
Stop you in your tracks, Feather Or Brick

Your a candle burning Bright, don’t let
The every day burn you to the wick
Burn it away instead of it smothering
You out, Feather Or Brick

Written By:Charles Kean
07/10/2025

Permanent Hurt

  When you find a love
How will you know it's real
If you're diving in head
First with so much zeal

You gotta take it slow,so
You don't land in the dirt
Your heart can't take that
Kind of a permanent hurt

Don't get caught in the
Trap that you set
Don't put your money down
On that sure bet

If you feel yourself falling
It's time for a red alert
Your heart can't take that
Kind of a permanent hurt

You spend your time working
On your sophisticated flirt
You got your high heels on
And your slit skirt

Your makeup is perfect and
You’re wearing that KISS T-Shirt
Your heart can’t take that
Kind of a permanent hurt

You need to protect yourself from yourself
You play with fire and you’ll get burned
You must remember your fragile heart
And all the lessons you’ve learned

The red lights are flashing
You need a quick divert
You’re just setting yourself up
For another permanent hurt

Written By: Charles Kean
Copyright © 03/03/2020
All rights reserved

The Hills Of Winter

      As I drove the highway I couldn’t help
But notice the abandoned look
Like something Evil,a forest in a
Fairy tales story book

A transparency, or invisibility as I could
see through the trees as far as the eye sees
For all the trees were naked
Having lost all of their leaves

The landscape looked barren like it was
another planet from another galaxy
Oh though the hills still rolled as before
It just seemed so sad like a lost legacy

I felt as if an Evil Witch or Warlock
Or the Devil himself had cast a spell
Because looking across the vast wasteland
It resembled my visions of Hell

The gloom of the season with the darkness
As the clouds blocked out the Sun light
I had visions of an epic battle between
A magnificent Dragon and a Gallant Knight

But even with all of this it seemed
These hills had lost all of their splendor
Just my observation as I drove through
The hills of winter

Written By:Charles Kean
Copyright 2/16/2018
All rights reserved

Screaming Whisper

The pain so hurtful
Left me paralyzed
I was lost in a haze
Like I had been hypnotized

The shadows are filled with demons
They reach for me
The past has left me with scars
I’ve hidden them so no one can see

I’ve forever had a broken heart
I’ve cried tears like rain
My thoughts have been suicidal
Desperately I’ve tried to stay sane

Now a change has come over me
Something words cannot explain
I am free from the prison, a force
Has helped me break the chain

I’ve realized that when I’m alone
I can feel you near
In my darkness, you are the light
Shedding my fear

A still small voice like a beacon
For the wonderer, a lone drifter
I’ve been saved by you
And your screaming whisper

Written By:Charles Kean
Copyright 01/23/2020
All rights reserved

It Only Takes One

  Just food for thought
Something I’ve been thinkin
Something we all need to comprehend
And let it all sink in

You know how it is on a rainy day and
The rule is we should have our lights on
But you know some won’t
Yes there’s always one

The snow has been falling for hours
Over night so you scrape your car clean
And there’s the lazy one just wiped a spot
On the drivers side you know what I mean

So now there’s this virus we all know
The all powerful COVID—Nineteen
Shutting down a nation and people dying
But some people aren’t so keen

There’s the ones who just don’t care
And some just can’t understand
So what’s the big picture for the
Rest of us here in the heartland

I fear  this is something that will
Continue and  it will never be gone
Because the world is filled with the
Stupid and it only takes one

Written By:Charles Kean
Copyright © 04/17/2020
All rights reserved

Twenty Thousand BC

  It’s the year twenty twenty
We should be far advanced
We should be as one working together
Our lives should be much more enhanced

A unison inferior existence ready
To explore the realms of space
Lives living in harmony in a
Beautiful utopia of one human race

But no instead we are in a pitfall
As if we’re living in the era of the Stonehenge
Fighting amongst ourselves in fits of
Racial and political rage and revenge

A world of unrest pulling ourselves
Away from the matters of the heart
Letting the media and corporate entities
Keep us further and further apart

I don’t know about anyone else
But this is not the world for me
By now we should be aboard the Enterprise
Out in space but no we’re livin in twenty
Thousand BC

Written By:Charles Kean
Copyright © 06/20/2020
20,000 BC
All rights reserved

Vanlue

   There’s a magical mystical place
Somewhere out there, they say
Maybe in another galaxy
Or in our own Milky-way

I’ve heard the people say it’s
A land of honey and rainbows
A place with unicorns and Pegasus’s
And sun flowers by the rows

I know that I wish I could be there, far
Away from this crazy world gone insane
In a place where there’s no hate
Where there’s only love and no pain

Some people would say it’s crazy
But I think we should all still dream
So I travel via a shooting star catapulting
From a comets tail that I hitched from a Moonbeam

I let my imagination run wild
With all sounds, smells and sights
A place with overwhelming love
Free from the fussing and fights

Some say that I’m speaking of Heaven
Others say that it’s Xanadu
A place far, far away in our universe
But I wonder if it’s as close as a place
In Ohio named Vanlue

Written By:Charles Kean
Copyright © 06/18/2020
All rights reserved
I live in Ohio and I drive everywhere
Yesterday I saw a sign for the exit
To Vanlue. I didn’t know we had such a
Place and I thought that it was funny.
It’s probably just a very small town that
No one has heard of but it became the
Inspiration for this silly poem.

It Only Takes One
Re written

  Just food for thought
Something I’ve been thinkin
Something we all need to comprehend
And let it all sink in

You know how it is on a rainy day and
The rule is we should have our lights on
But you know some won’t
Yes there’s always one

The snow has been falling for hours
Over night so you scrape your car clean
And there’s the lazy one just wiped a spot
On the drivers side you know what I mean

Like you have a dog and you walk it
And you always pick up the poo
But there are those people out there
That refuse the respectful thing to do

Like when you go to a Gas Station and
Find litter that’s been dumped from a car
Yet there’s the trash can not three feet
Away but that’s how people are

These, the same people that protest about
Bad drinking water and our environment
I don’t like being the man of darkness and
Doom but there’s a need for enlightenment

So now there’s this virus we all know
The all powerful COVID—Nineteen
Shutting down a nation and people dying
But some people aren’t so keen

There’s the ones who just don’t care
And some just can’t understand
So what’s the big picture for the
Rest of us here in the heartland

I fear this is something that will continue
And that it will never be gone
Because the world is filled
With the stupid and it only takes one

Written By:Charles Kean
Copyright © 04/17/2020
All rights reserved

Living In The Horror

   Life we took for granted
The Sun will rise tomorrow
But now the cloud of darkness has
The world in the threshold of its sorrow

Even the addicted, with so many
Attempts of suicide they try
Are clinging to life because they
Really don’t want to die

It feels like we should all paint with
The lambs blood above our door
So that the death cloud passes over
And swear to sin no more

For now we face a real pandemic
And life seems to be an uncertainty
And we are a world facing a new
Challenge and a new reality

It is now we must all realize, precious
Yes life is and we must hold on
And instead of taking learn to give
For a day soon we may be gone

As the world is playing out a most
Enormous powerful scene
The scariest one ever anyone has
Witnessed upon its screen

For it seems there is no end to this
Coronavirus as it continues to devourer
And we will all play our parts
As we are living in the horror

Written By: Charles Kean
Copyright © 03/25/2020
All rights reserved

Passion Never Dies

     Love is for everyone
Not just for the lucky few
Though I know if you’re loveless
You may not believe this to be true

Love is enchanted and magical
Love is a blazing and raging fire
Love is everything we long for
Love is what we all desire

You can love and be broken
You can **** it all to hell
You think you’ll never love again
But you really just can’t tell

Love is more than just a dream
Love is very, very real
For if it wasn’t it wouldn’t
Control how we feel

One thing is certain even if
No one ever hears our cries
Love can and will endure and it
Remains alive for the passion never dies

Written By: Charles Kean
Copyright © 03/10/2020
All rights reserved

The Fringe

     Throughout history it’s been so evident
And we can see it today as well
This is the ultimate proof of the fire
Raging in the depths of Hell

It’s racism in its pure form
Just in case you didn’t have a clue
It’s a lunatic vision it’s a dangerous
Movement with a dangerous view

It’s ****** and his attempt to annihilate
The race known as the Jew
It’s the English and what they did to
The Native American Indian too

It’s what the White have done to the Black
And what Japan tried to do to America
It’s an evil in all of us and it presents itself
Everywhere and it’s also Media hysteria

America as we are seeing signs of becoming
Third world like as they want us to cringe
Please open your eyes so you can see
We must be aware of the fringe

Written By:Charles Kean
Copyright © 04/30/2020
All rights reserved

She

        She is the smile upon my face
She is my wonderful dream in the night
She is my thoughts through the day
She is my only delight

She is my calm and my reasoning
She is what keeps me from going insane
She is my bright Sunshine
She is my umbrella from the rain

She is the reason that I wake up
She is the tingling in my spine
She is my heart beat
She is everything so divine

She is my happiness
She is the best part of me
She is my forever
She is my Kings decree

She is my prayer answered
She is my Angel,a gift from above
She is everything that I see
She is my only love

She is my Everything
She is my life
She is my Cynthia
She is my wife

Written By:Charles Kean
Copyright 4/18/2018
All rights reserved
Love you baby!!!

MONSTER

  In the darkness of the night
I’m shaking in fear
I was asleep in my bed but I have to ***
But a monster is very near

I know the monster is sleeping, I don’t
Dare wake him and feel his wrath
But the bathroom is down the hall
And I may cross his path

So in my bed I stir until it’s too late
Yep I’ve wet it and I have to face him anyway
But at least it won’t be in the darkness
Of night but in the light of the day

He seemed to be gentle but it was a charade
His blue eyes changed to Devil red
He was my father and he would beat me
But the scars came from the words he said

Though the beatings would put me within
Inches of my life from the blood I’d bleed
The mental beat downs would ultimately
Be what would plant the seed

I got caught up in self doubt and I
Began to take drugs and drink
Self destruction and suicide was
The only things that I could think

But Angeles were put before me
And changed my direction
But it took a long time for my heart
To accept and to be able to give affection

It hampered my life in so many ways
But somehow I was able to survive
I live a blessed life now and I am
So very happy to be alive

My fear ran deep but it didn’t come
From some imaginary ugly imposter
My father was an abusive alcoholic
He was my real life MONSTER

Written By:Charles Kean
Copyright © 02/21/2020
All rights reserved
Dedicated to Carlo C Gomez

Your Eyes

     Your eyes they’re so beautiful
So sparkling and blue
But your eyes are just a part
Of the wonderful of the whole you

I get lost in the universe that’s
In the depths of your eyes
That’s where I find the warmth
Of your overwhelming love lies

I don’t know what I would do without you
I know I’ve fallen short of what you deserve
And it shakes me to think when it came to
Taking that first step I almost lost my nerve

Thirty four years together and still going
Strong for you’re my soul mate
I am so happy that I was able to speak
And ask you out on that first date

You could have done so much better
And for that I sincerely apologize
Forever I will always Love you
And be under the spell of your eyes

To my beautiful wife Cindy
Written By:Charles Kean
Copyright 12/27/2018
All rights reserved

Twas the night before Christmas

‘Twas the night before Christmas
And KISS is rocking my house
Not a creature can be seen
Not even a mouse

The neighbors are all checking
To see what the heck is a matter
For none of them,not one
Has ever heard such a clatter

When they looked in my window
They saw me rocking around my tree
A nightmarish sight I am sure
They wish they didn’t see

My windows were shattered and I was
Screaming on Peter,Ace,Paul and Gene
And turning the volume up louder when
The Police arrived on the scene

They said man it is Christmas Eve
It’s obvious to us you are a black sheep
Why do you feel the need to rock when
Your neighbors are trying to sleep

I told the officers that it was in my DNA
I was born to rock & roll
I have always been on Santa’s naughty list
And have always received bags of coal

They turned my music off and took my
KISS CD’S and gave them to a trooper
I waited until they all drove out of sight
And I began to listen to my Alice Cooper

Written By:Charles Kean
Copyright 12/24/2017
All rights reserved
Have a Rocking Christmas,God Bless!!!

Middendorf

   She’s a lady of evil, when she
Changes her blue eyes to red
If she sets her eyes upon you
You’ll be walking with the dead

She lives inside of her pain
She goes out on her own
She’s like the ancient medusa
She can turn a man into stone

If you come in contact with her
Make sure you stay on her good side
If she feels you’ve done her wrong
There’s no place you can hide

Most of the time she’s alright
Soft and gentle as a child
But when she drinks, she thinks about him
And it drives her crazy and she goes wild

They say she’s been dead a hundred years
And she rides an over ridden horse
And she’ll forever haunt the village
She’s known as the ghost of Middendorf

Written By:Charles Kean
Copyright 01/10/2020
All rights reserved

Our Certain Uncertainty

  Since the beginning of time
This has always been true
In our life we never know when our
Time here in this world is through

With this Coronavirus though humans
May be closer to being extinct
I am not one to push the panic button
But by being human we are linked

Now our Mother Earth is getting its
Revenge for our abuse
For we take and take and litter and
Dump our waste and there’s no excuse

So now here we are, the world
Is on the edge of an emergency 🚨
And the one thing that hangs in the
Balance is still our certain uncertainty

Written By:Charles Kean
Copyright © 03/20/2020
All rights reserved

Where Do We Go From Here

  When a man named King
Gets beat in the street and
the line between right and wrong
keeps getting thinner

When kids **** kids for the
Jackets that they wear
Because everyone wants
To feel like a winner

Where do we go from here
Have we all gone crazy
Is this how life is to be
Have our minds gotten
So hazy that we can't see

When a man in Waco says
He's Jesus,he promised
Heaven to those who would believe,those
who did lived and died In his hell

When inmates in Lucasville
Riot and take control,what
Evil do they possess that
Made them **** even from their cell

Where do we go from here
Have we all gone crazy
Is this how life is to be
Have our minds gotten so
Hazy that we can't see

When the world buys
what the media sells
and we'll never know
Just who to trust

When we still can't get
Past the color of another
Mans skin and everything
We touch turns to dust

Where do we go from here
Can anyone tell me
Where do we go from here ?

Written By: Charles Kean
Copyright was in 1993
All rights reserved

Native American Way

      Out in the wilderness at peace
With the Miakoda and the Tadewi
The Omaha words for Power of the Moon
And wind, this is the life for me

The sky was not littered with Skyscrapers
The rivers were not littered with waste
The Buffalo were many and brotherhood
Was alive but its all been erased

The white man came and now the Buffalo
And the Native man is all but extinct
Only by my ancestry blood line
Am I distantly and slightly linked

Today we are un respectful of the land
We take and take and destroy
Soon the wilderness will be gone as well
And there will be nothing left to enjoy

Everyone seems to carelessly litter
Without even blinking an eye
But when the drinking water is poison
They don’t understand why

Sometimes I wish I could travel back
In time before the white man invasion
Where a man could be at one with nature
Where I visualize a much better nation

I let my mind take me away to a time
Long ago and far, far away,
So peaceful you can hear the winds whisper
Back to the Native American Way

Written By:Charles Kean
Copyright 01/28/2020
All rights reserved

Cerulean Blue

       My mood is Melancholy at best
There’s no words I can use to describe
There’s nothing a Psychiatrist can treat
And no medication a Doctor can prescribe

I know with the comfort of Jesus
That eventually I’ll be okay
I’m where I am in the moment
And for the moment it’s where I’ll stay

We’ve all been there before
Caught in a spiral of everything wrong
Like being in the middle of Summer
But the wind whispers in a cold song

The summer breeze that is meant
To bring you relief from the searing heat
Turns into an Arctic chill that freezes your
Thoughts and sends a message of defeat

The Sun hides behind the clouds though
Its light is still within your view
The sky isn’t dark & grey but more like
In a witch’s tale described as Cerulean Blue

Written By:Charles Kean
07/09/2025

When Darkness Wins

     When you get lost in darkness
And hopelessness and doubt
When you feel there is nowhere to turn
And there’s no way out

When you feel worthless and you turn
To drugs or alcohol to ease your pain
You’ve lost everything and your dreams
Are washed away in a never ending rain

And suicide becomes the answer
And your own life you take
That’s when your loved ones get
Swallowed in darknesses wake

They loved you and tried to help
But you closed all the doors
And now your pain has been planted
In them like millions of spores

Your death left your soul
Unforgiven of your sins
emptiness devours the ones left behind
And that’s when darkness wins

Written By:Charles Kean
Copyright 07/06/2018
All rights reserved
Suicide doesn’t take away the pain
It just transfers it to someone else
Don’t let Darkness win!!!

In The Darkness Of The Night

      I hear the sounds of war, bullets streaming
The bombs bursting and men screaming
I see only by fires light
In the darkness of the night

I try to sleep but rest doesn’t come easy
Now this nightmare is mine for eternity
I’ll always see the images vivid and bright
In the darkness of the night

I see the fear in my buddies eyes
I see him ****** as he dies
I promised his survival from this horrible plight
In the darkness of the night

Why must we go against Gods will
With weapons made solely to ****
Thousands die in each ****** fight
In the darkness of the night

I long for the touch of my love
I pray to God in the Heaven above
I see myself horrible in his sight
In the darkness of the night

I don’t know if I can live with what I’ve become
I fear my heart is completely numb
Can I still love her and hold her tight
In the darkness of the night

The man I was I am no more
And for my mental illness there is no cure
Even safe at home visions are trite
In the darkness of the night

Scarred by bullets scarred by knife
In my brain I’m scarred for life
I hear bullets streaming,bombs
bursting and men screaming,
I pray for the days light
In the darkness of the night

Written By:Charles Kean
Copyright 5/28/2018
All rights reserved

The Heart Of A Knight

   He’s a warrior, a gallant knight
He’s a fearless dragon slayer
He’s got no time for love, he hides
His heart under many a layer

He walks to his quarters alone
He see’s his life with certain clarity
And he hardens his heart
Knowing this is his destiny

Though at times he feels his King
Abuses his power with his dominion
He must honor his King and keep
His pledge to the people of the kingdom

She was of Cinderella beauty
Living her life in poverty
With only dreams of love
But also aware of her own destiny

One evening coming home from his
Routine patrol he saw her at the well
Instantly he knew his life had changed
For he had fallen under her spell

She too had felt something
That she thought she would never feel
The magic was in the air, something
So powerfully undeniably real

Cupid had saved them both
From their dark and doomed plight
With an arrow that pierced through the
Armor and the heart of a knight

Written By:Charles Kean
Copyright © 03/04/2020
All rights reserved

Distance Can’t Escape Time

      Our species lives on a big ball
In the vastness of space
All we can do it seems is to fight
Simply for the difference in our race

The one big question I ask is why
There’s no rhyme or reason for hate
There’s not one person on Earth who
Can explain how did it originate

We all dream of a better future
Yet no one can let go of the past
If we cannot learn to love then
Forever the hate will last

With this concept we find that the past,
Present and future are one in the same
You might as well take a picture of any
Decade and put it in a frame

You can dream  about a new planet in
A far off galaxy, a life so sublime
But eventually you’ll face the reality
That Distance Can’t Escape Time

Written By:Charles Kean
07/30/2025

The Sound Of Silence

     Everyone knows the song and everyone
Knows its complete real beauty
But I ponder the question to everyone
Is there truly, is there truly

I try so hard to listen but it’s impossible
For even in my times of glorious poise
I have never experienced it because
There’s always noise, always noise

It doesn’t matter where I am or where I go
In the country or in the city
No matter how hard I try, I know
It always escapes me, always escapes me

When I lay my head down on my pillow
I hear the traffic and every little thing
People yelling and doors slamming
And sirens ring, sirens ring

Out in the country I’ll admit it’s much
More peaceful but we all know
Owls hoot, birds sing and crickets chirp
And train whistles blow, train whistles blow

Even if I lock myself in a quiet room, I
Cannot escape the thoughts of my mind
Though I still wonder what it would be like
If I could ever find, I could ever find

Even when I can get to the point of
Getting my mind completely clear
Though it be so gentle and still so soft
The voice of God I still hear,I still hear

So I’ve come to find the true reality
And surrender in complete compliance
There’s no such thing as the
Sound of silence, the sound of silence

Written By: Charles Kean
Copyright 04/15/2019
All rights reserved

Words Of Steel
              (Scars That Won’t Heal)

   They hit you like a fist
And they hurt the worst
The words of an alcoholic father
He was able to sling them in a burst

They cut like a knife
And leave a deep long lasting scar
I never understood his hate
And I wish I could seal the pain in a jar

He passed in ninety nine
And I’m over forty now
But those words always seem
To come back and hunt me somehow

Out of nowhere I see his angry face
And I hear those words of steel
That’s when one realizes that he’s
Been left with scars that won’t heal

Written By:Charles Kean
Copyright was 2009
From my book New Angel
I’m over fifty now and still I
Hear those words of steel
But Jesus is healing the scars
That I thought would never heal
I wrote I’ve been to Hell Years Later
As a sequel to this poem.
God Bless!!!

My Corona

  I live my life on the edge so I
Bought some corona beer
I drank three of them and I
Drank them free of fear

Let’s all Panic and and buy all the
Sanitation supplies from the stores
Let’s use them excessively and then
Touch the handles on the doors

The gas pump and the escalator rail
Wash your hands but did the one before
Are you aware of everything that you touch
Like the simple every day at the store

The grocery store provides the wipes
For your protection, they do their part
Then you get to the register
And they switch your cart

You wiped yours down but did the one before
Let’s all protest about our environment
Let’s show our pride so everyone can see
And let’s blame it on the government

And when the day is done
And silence is the only sound
Let’s leave the area in peace and
Leave all of our trash on the ground

Yes let’s go to the gas station and dump
Our trash pump side that’s what we do
A trash can is provided two feet away
So is the problem, shame on you

Pick up after your pets it’s your responsibility
Bags are provided and yet there’s the poo
Right at the post with the bags
I swear this is true

Now your family is sick and you don’t know
Why and you want to place blame
Well just look in the mirror and see
The person that deserves the fame

Litter is everywhere the guilty know who
They are, the water isn’t safe to drink
Yes blame it on everything else but when
You threw your trash down did you think

No you didn’t so this is where we are
People you literally make me sick
This is poem is intended for the careless
You know the ones that are just a *****

So now it’s time to Panic, oh but you’re
To cool to put litter in it’s place
That’s the mindset of this declining
Evolution of the human race

You know the first stanza was just for
A laugh but the rest I hope was more
This is not a joke and so wash your hands
Touch everything, did the one before

Last stanza I’m through with my rant
I surrender to the woman of Zeus Latona
I will pray that you are safe from the
Coronavirus as I drink my corona

Written By:Charles Kean
Copyright © 03/11/2020
All rights reserved

Naked

  As I type I assure you that I am
In a complete state of dress
Sometimes I am romantic and
Sometimes dark and other times a mess

Sometimes I am silly and other
Times I can be inspirational
Sometimes I cannot believe it
When someone writes that I am sensational

But each time know that you are
Getting pieces of my multiple personalities
And you read words of my fantasies
And of my all too real realities

I function outside in the world each day
But I live inside of my mind
Words usually come easy but difficulty
Is something that I occasionally find

But with each poem I write whether it
Be of passion or love or of being jaded
It’s as if I am baring myself
And therefore I feel naked

Written By:Charles Kean
Copyright 01/28/2020
All rights reserved

Scripted Silence
    
    The alarm sounds in the morning
As they wake they kiss
He thinks to himself what did
I do to deserve such bliss

But she’s been broken and love
Is something she just can’t trust
She’s guarded her heart from Cupid’s arrow
With a bulletproof vest, leaving it to rust

He is innocent and not the reason she’s
Hardened and cold
And he is usually unprepared for
When her feelings become uncontrolled

Like a train in the night that gets derailed
He’s done something that reminds her
And soon her wrath comes crashing down
As she’s let it bubble and stir

At first he tries to defend himself
And he circumbs to just apologize
He doesn’t know what to do
As the tears flow from her eyes

She separates herself behind a
Closed door and there’s no more sound
He has a loss of words as well but
He realizes his love is profound

And if love is to prevail he must prove it
And become comfortable with her defiance
Though he may never erase the reason
For her scripted silence

Written By:Charles Kean
Copyright 01/29/2020
All rights reserved

The Past Is Gone

     Some people say that I dwell
In the darkness of my one time hell
I don’t feel that I am bottled up in my despair
People take their pain to therapists to share

We all must vent before we blow
The reason for our pain we’ll never know
Jesus has taken me by the hand
He is helping me to understand

When I put it down in my simple rhyme
It helps release the hurt from that time
So I take what’s on my mind and write
To show the dark and the light

I tell people about what was once before
And they can see that it is no more
I have come a long way this I know
But I can see I still have a long way to go

I don’t want anyone to feel sorry for me
I don’t need them to necessarily agree
God is healing the scars I thought would
Never heal
But know those scars are real

I am still awkward and strange
But I accept the things that I cannot change
I am moving forward no longer in a lull
And for the Lord waits my soul

The Devil will still use my darkness in his fight
God will be victorious with his light
I assure you all I am moving on
Though I still write about it,the past is gone

Written By: Charles Kean
Copyright 10/16/2018
All rights reserved

The Graveyards Gate

    I stand here not wanting to cross
The threshold into the land of the dead
But I force myself to do it from time to
Time even though it’s something I dread

We’ve lost so many and I come to visit
Unsure if they know
And I wonder how long I should stay
Before I decide to go

I think about myself among the living
Walking and talking in their space
And if they can do the same in ours
Or if they are restricted in this place

In my heart I know there’s a heaven above
But I’m not sure if they all made it there
I wonder if they know the love in my heart
Or if they are completely unaware

It’s the hardest thing that I do because
It means I have to face that they’re gone
I have to re cry tears I cried when I said goodbye
And again I have force myself to move on

It’s so hard to re visit the pain of the loss
So forgive me as I hesitate
And it chills me to know that one day
I will permanently cross the graveyards gate

Written By:Charles Kean
Copyright 01/28/2020
All rights reserved

Planet X Or Planet Nine

      In the deep darkness of Space
It’s been lurking desperately trying to hide
It has stayed in the shadows because
Of its own selfish stubborn pride

It still thinks it hasn’t been identified
Because of its ego and its arrogance
But I’ve always appreciated the mystery
That’s always been part of the romance

So there’s a part of me that hopes
Like everything else it’s just fake news
But there’s a part of me hoping it’s true
And I struggle with which to choose

If it doesn’t exist then it’s still just
A fantasy and an unproven mystery
If it does exist, we could become extinct
And be part of Earths unknown history

I just want to see it in the night sky
Even though I know it’s the end of time
Still It would be such a spectacular sight
This Planet X Or Planet Nine

Written By:Charles Kean
07/29/2025

Old Ones

  I remember my youth and
The energy that was endlessly flowing
And today I feel that energy
Continually slowing

I remember my elders and
How they envied me
Wishing they could store
That energy for eternity

Now the years have passed me by
And I still feel the kid Inside of me
But I have no clue just where
That energy might be

I know it's lost in some
Kind of a galaxy Void
Harnessed inside some
Kind of a robot droid

Or maybe it's frozen in the
Space and time doldrums
Or maybe it was hijacked
By the old ones

Written By:Charles Kean
Copyright 4/9/17
All rights reserved

Some Days

     Some days are better than other days
And other days are better than some days
But it doesn’t matter anyways
Because we all have to get through our days

Some days we can do no wrong
We can multi-task while singing a song
We feel healthy and strong
The day goes fast it doesn’t seem so long

And other days we drag ourselves out of bed
We can’t think straight thoughts in our head
We feel weak and have a strong feeling of dread
The day is slow as we wish we were home instead

So here’s to you and better days
May the bad ones be a short passing phase
And all of your some days be as good as other days
And all of your other days be as good as some days

From my book “New Angel “
Written By:Charles Kean
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Your Poetry Story Teller

   I don’t know how I do it
But I’ll try to really explain
Just as the clouds get too heavy
Sooner or later it has to rain

I get a thought in my head
And a title is born
And for me every poem needs a rhyme
Just like every Rose has a thorn

You see what I did there
A little poison a little KISS
Keep it simple stupid
Just like this

Then a story ensues
And I am off and running
Sometimes I boggle my own mind
And I find it rather stunning

But I hope You’ll let me inhabit
Your heart like a dweller
So that I might become
Your poetry story teller

Written By:Charles Kean
Copyright 01/25/2020
All rights reserved

Angel Azrael

     Dear Jesus, If I could take this time,
I just want to talk to you.
You see most of the time I’m okay
But lately I’ve been feeling blue

I know that I’m not in charge and
I’ve got no say in the order of the list
And though I can get angry, I know
It doesn’t do any good to pound my fist

I know it’s not my place to question
So I’m not here to ask you why
I know you don’t owe an explanation
For the tears that I cry

You’ve taken so many of my loved ones
Over the years and in recent days
Though in my pain and sorrow, I still
Give you my love and your praise

Still fresh is the Death of brother Steve
Aunt Jaunita and Uncle Dean
And even so the ones taken before it feels
Like yesterday that the cut was clean

I can’t command or demand but please
Don’t take my Sister Tina before me
I don’t want her to go, so in my prayers
I ask is this the way it must be

There’s those who will say that the Bible
Is nothing more than a Fairytale
I know the truth and I beg you, I’m not
Ready for my Sister to meet Angel Azrael

Written By:Charles Kean
07/25/2025
Everyone Please Pray For My Sister Tina!!!

Worn Out My Welcome

   I was welcomed with open arms
I zealously showed all of my charms
Now it seems interest is lost
Or have I been blocked by not paying the cost

Did everyone take a vacation leave
Do I need more tricks from my sleeve
Did I do something wrong
Have I stayed too long

I tried to be just as polite
I tried to do everything right
Am I just being dumb
Or have I worn out my welcome

Written:By Charles Kean
Copyright 01/29/2020
All rights reserved

The Darkness In My Heart

        Once there was a time when I
Just wanted a place to hide
I kept a shield around my heart
I couldn’t let Love get inside

In the sky the clouds were always grey
And there was rain upon my windowsill
I had Demons for body guards and
Angels they loved to ****

But when I first saw you
I let my defenses drop
I didn’t want to love you
But now I can never stop

Those grey clouds have all disappeared
And now all those Demons run and hide
The deep pain and sorrow has lifted
I can’t remember the tears I’ve cried

Once I was drowning in a Dead Sea
But like Moses you made the Water part
You were the Angel that Triumphed and
Took away The Darkness In My Heart

Written By:Charles Kean
07/21/2025
I dedicate this to my wife
Our first date was 04/13/83
We got married 04/14/84
I Love You Cynthia!!!

Lose Control

     You’ve got everything in the
Palm of your precious hands
You think everyone else sees the World
In Black & White and nobody understands

You’ve got the power and there’s only
One rule and it’s gotta be your way
If the people refuse to comply
They can hit the Highway

Nothing can get in your way as you
Get all you can take, you’ll never stop
Clearing the Path you’re on as you
Navigate your way to the top

But your life is full of heartache
And darkness and setbacks and pain
You can’t be happy in your pursuit of
Happiness and your tears fall like rain

There’s a fire below and the contract
On the table, The Devil wants your soul
Jesus says the key to happiness
Is Simply to just Lose Control

Written By:Charles Kean
07/28/2024