Fools rush in where wise men never go. So since I'm no fool, linger in the
Shadows of caution and starve, while the dinner table of love passes on
By.Far beyond the lights of my hidden desire. Fools rush in, so here I am
Like a lamb, thinking of giving myself away. And I can't help but wonder
If in the future, I'll be a lamb chop slain by her sweetness

You do not heed my sighs of need to be paid the same in the work force
As you.Or the need not to ridden like a horse when the mood is not there
I know life is more than washing your drawers cleaning the ***** house
And raising a trio of crying snotty nose kids, even while these hands Scrub the dishes clean I see myself on a slow boat floating down the NILE
Of my dreams far from the crocodiles of bills boredom missed chances
Anxiety tight in my chest each morning that rage slaps me awake
In my mind I  fly on free wings past the temptations of those who Audition as possible lovers yet to be or new friends reaching out glad
Hands of hope  and sizzle. But than I turn on the light of reality when
Sweet baby arms hug my neck or hungry lips of random need ****
My warm ******* until the tide of desire picks me up and takes me Away quickly with a passion of want. And I remember the bountiful
Feasts of good times that we've shared and the many reasons that
We chose each other

Its sad that there aren't any free samples of love given out
Today or any day.Anyway they're never really free
You always have to pay, so I don't open up the door anymore
My heart is not what it used to be
And I don't take chances ,no not me
My charity giving is done by mail
And I don't need a notice for any special sale

Gone is yesterday and all  the love that we both had inside
I see clearly now, taken away also was the chance to make you my bride
Sitting in this lonely beach house of glass
I'm feeling so very sad inside
And even though it took a hit from a once beautiful
But now lost love
This man will walk away with his pride

I've endured pracically everything that one could imagintion, now I'm
Enduring your dishonor betrayal disdain for our love, when did our
Happiness turn the corner going to goodbye street? Is this what people
Mean by being kicked to the curb? And when will this rain of loss subside
It seems you boarded the train to new happiness and only bought one
Ticket for yourself

On Sunday mornings she would clap her hands
And call on Jesus in HOLY JOY in church
But selfishness fueled her spirit.This nubile looking princess
Who denied lust,yet allowed the daughter of her youth to ride waves of
Fleshly passion in the bedroom next door and moan out loud
Soon the call to JESUS within her grew faint and she rose up from
Prayerful knees and went back into the World again
Casting aside the Savior who had brought her through
Times good and bad for white and reggae music
And eat the stale apple pie of indifference
With a side order of the meat and potatoes of sin

Always do good so that evil will flee
For evil is a force that you cannot really see
Evil takes the soul captive and goodness is the army
That kills this enemy

Go on now if you're leaving me
Since you seem to delight in my greiving , I'll steel my heart
As you walk out that open door and carry out your things
As I brought them in before
Don't know really what caused our love flame to dye out
When we loved each other it was over the top
But I need to know just when did the loving stopped

You didn't buy the grits and gravy that went on your plate
And your shoes were under my table the last meal you ate
And though your loving gives me chills
Honey it never pays any bills
I've grown tired of carrying this heavy load
So mister take all of your stuff and hit the road
Your mama carried you for nine months and I've carried you long enough
Baby its time to you know I won't be buying any more grits and gravy

Guess I'll take the long way home just so I can think about her
Under the silver the silver moonlight time maybe some day
Will have us sail away on our special honeymoon
Hoping that walk down the church aisle might be real soon
She's the best thing in the world that ever happened to me
Guess I'll take the long way home just so I can think about her
Right here right now guess I'll take the long way home tonight

Have a little faith pass it all around  as you go,
Hand out a smile it will make someone's day just so.
Don't walk around with knifes of hate in your eyes.
Do a  deed of kindness for a stranger it will be a big surprise
Have a little faith in your fellow man. Change each bad habit
And attitude dig down deep inside people.I know that you can
Stop waiting turn your own world upside down
Start out with love it really works better than a face with
A daily frown just have a little faith

Hope you saw my help wanted posting
Please don't feel sorry for me or think I'm desperate
And don't go feeling alarmed Just waiting here patiently and calm for you to knock on the door than walk into my arms

Hope is all I have to believe that the sun will rise each morning
So that I can see it
Hope is all I have to believe that the moon will glow bright every night
Hope is all  I have that my love will not fail you
Hope is all I have to believe that my child will come home each night
Happy and smiling like she left this morning
And that street violence will not claim her
Hope is all I have to believe that the rain will not be held back
And fall like it always has and feed my crops with continued life
Hope is all I have that the doctor is wrong when he kicks it away
like a three legged chair and tells me that I have no more time to laugh,
love, or care for you tenderly
or another chance at happiness on another new day

If only these hands could sculpt your pristine beauty in wax
So all the world would see in exact detail every curve and line
Just as God created it to be breathing life to its stillness
My house of wax of course would only contain statues of you
No one else would be allowed to touch  each formed part of
A creation from a long ago memory

How do you know how I'm feeling or say how long I should be grieving?
It's true my loved one has been gone for a very long time
But the memory is still fresh in my mind
Time and reason say I should be over the sadness now
But I really don't quite know how I prayed so hard to the Lord
yet peace of mind is not now my reward He'll give the answer I seek in the the right time but can't sleep with this on my mind and how
Do you know what I'm feeling or how long I should be grieving
While its true my loved one has been gone for a very long time
But the memory is still on my mind

How Do you mend a broken heart
   When love is no longer there
     You thought love would be an easy thing
        But watched it passing in the night
   Which just proves that no one
    Can teach another
     How to care
  Maybe another time or another dawn
    You'll come back to me
     So I'll wait here
       While you search out being free
         Though your leaving really mattered
         And left my once whole life shattered
           So now I say with tears
   Running down this sad face of mine
Woe is me

Love is no more than you make it
Always be sure it's real never fake it
Only let into your life the one that you want to take it
Love draws each person closer and closer ,
Ends up making two instead of a lonely one
Love will find you when not looking
Make two people joined at the heart
Bump into you on the street or crowded public place
And that innocent one is how love starts
Protecting your heart is never easy
Only let in the one you want to break it or take it
Take down the emotional caution sign from both heart and mind
Nine times out of ten , you'll end up just fine

I'm a hungry child in AMERICA and all I dream of is food
Eating chips and candy cookies every chance that comes
Surely doesn't help my hungry mood
Crying on mama's shoulder for a little more to eat
The small donuts that I  saw in the supermarket would be a great stomach
Treat.I'm hungry, so very hungry, hamburgers  fries steak with brown gravy are dancing before my eyes.Mama loves me, I know that she really
Cares,but she ate noodles every meal before my birth
So that's why I came out of her womb, impaired and hungry in the greatest country in the world and there are so many others like myself
Out in plain sight , many hungry boys and girls
Will the nightmare ever really end?  so hungry and tired of the gridlock between the President and both houses in Washington to mend.Can't they come together for my sake, and pretend to be friends
And not fool the Nation or me with their phony promises and lies
Just to get elected to office again, because I'm hungry

On the farm I made a playhouse out of wooden grates
It's a place to ponder about the food I haven't ate as yet
When mama is in the kitchen ,her meals are light as a feather
But if there's nothing in the pantry to fix, how good a cook she is
Really doesn't matter.Preacher Joe and his wife millie are aware
of our family's plight, they both prepare church cooked meals for all
Who are hungry in town,so that their stomachs don't growl in hunger
Before they go to sleep at night
Sometimes when I go to school to get learning,at home is an empty fridge cup plate
I have to put my head down on my desk because keeps striking
me with crossed eyes like a coiled up snake
No one can see my hunger, but it's always there and I pray
To the Lord  above that the people in WASHINGTON who hold
Power over everybody's life will open their eyes and really help
The voters in the Nation and stop pretending that they really care
Their party line strife is killing me  in this so called land of plenty

Even a blind man could see
    That you belong with me
And this knowledge would even make any fool wise
  Each time I look into your eyes
   I get so soft and mello inside
Upside down is the way you touch my heart
    And every day I feel the same
Sunrise to sunset the very best is coming yet
  My love will faithfully remain
Don't ever want this romantic spark
Out of my grasp
  Want to always walk beside you
  And make these feelings last
  You know that some people only get that  one chance
    I believe we can be together
Despite stormy times on life's trying seas
     Baby  I 'll always believe in the strong love ahead
       For you and me

I can remember as a male child playing with my lone toy car.On the floor
In a house where love was present coming from mama. Who could ask
For more? Much to young to know that politics would be a part of
Adult life . And become a lying fairy tale. People marching in
Washington streets for full freedom and equal rights. Single mothers
With fatherless children not sleeping at all many nights. Women shut out
The doors of equal pay.Gridlock a living monster on both politicial sides
That just won't go away. And the PRESIDENT with smooth words
And body language trying to shoo the problem away. Wants to sip
KENTUCKY bourbon with GOP speaker MITCH McConnel while
The ROME of our nation slowly burns. Is reason impossible?

Your love is an open door of heavenly blessing
Sunshine lighting my dark way and I choose to love only you
As the years come to us, than pass slowly away
Nobody ever told me that loving someone tenderly
Could ever make me feel this good, and I choose willingly to love you
For all the rest of my nights and days,your hand reaching out in welcome
Changed my very life in so many ways
And I choose to love only you , as  in song I lift my voice
I choose to love only you , its my own personal choice

If all the trees in the neighborhood were made of ice cream
And you could have as much of it as you want or need
Just put  long handle spoons in both hands in the summer
Eat every mouthful real fast before its goodness melts
All over the face and clothes but in winter eat a little slower
Because all the ice cream trees will be frozen and you
Would be forced to  go real slow
And if all the clouds above were multicolored lemon drops
Falling gently down, there would be nothing to worry or think about
Except what day that your family dentist could take you in
Because after eating all of that candy and ice cream
you're bound to have some holes in your teeth my friend

If I could only feel love moving and starting in my heart
And feel tears flow all because love had a chance to start
Someone to come and keep my spirit warm on  cold and lonely nights
Someone who will say I love you and got you
Keep my heart and life running with ease
Someone who'll hold my hand and never leave me
I want a love that stimulates my senses
Puts me on a natural high
One that will give me structure with the wings to fly

I can hear the rain falling hard and fast outside my window. Rain coming
Down to water city sidewalks and streets. People pass with raised
Umbrellas rushing to work. Raindrops touch places where spring
Flowers lived before surrendering to death.Washing the city clean
Each second that it drops down asks no permission to do its  mission
Count on the rain with a steady beat to be around . And if you don't
Have to go anywhere just pull up the covers to your chin and know
The falling rain coming down is everybody's friend
Have a cup of warm tea on me.Or relax in a bubble bath and breath free

Memories of the past trying to put a hold on me
Going into the future not looking back over my shoulder
And I'll still end up being free
Making a new choice of my own , and lifting up my strong voice
Won't have to try so hard and give away myself
Looking in the mirror and yes I like just what I see
Still going to keep my distance from wrong and temptation
And stay real and always be free
Never going to give up , no matter how hard the test
I'll stand among the victors and come out being the best

So many people gone
Death came and took them all away but I keep holding on
Because in time and life I want to stay there are no more tears
As onward this man goes looking forward to greet the coming years
Before moving on.So I keep holding on
Won't sing no more sad mournful songs. Got to keep holding on
Through the mist of disappointment you know at every funeral
I wept a lot of  real falling tears and no one was looking on at me
Wresled with each new hidden fear
I keep holding on .Got a lot of living yet to do
Until each and every single moment left is gone
I keep holding on

Colored leaves of fall, come down on the square,  lovers seem to be
E verywhere, I want to show you some tender care, just whisper my name
Just whisper my name on the phone,and i'll be there, I'll be the friend to protect you, never treat you mean or disrespect you, just know that all times, i'll be there, waiting patiently when all others , have turned away
And gone, my love will be the anchor, that keeps you hanging on
Just whisper my name, on the phone, and i'll be right there

I'll leave the light on for you and my heart and arms will be
Open wide. Turn down the covers and the lights real low
Or maybe we can love by the soft candle's glow
Make the night go by  nice and slow .Please know that inside
I'm waiting here and holding back each screaming sigh

Night rocks me to sleep with sweet dreams of you
God answered my wish for a lasting love and made the creation come true.All the loves of my past have disappeared now I'm traveling
Down the road to happiness pass all doubts fears whistling as I go
Toward new dreams and plans happy as a piano man
Reminding myself to never look back because just one longing glance
At what used to be could throw this man off track
Don't you realize that I'm stuck on you and will be hanging around for life and vow that I'll never turn back

I love you in the summer or when winter winds call
Walking on city streets or even riding on two camels
Far across desert golden sands
Your love is my mentor and mine is yours
Loving each other in the future would be a great eternal reward
I love your presence if in London or the very next room
And if duty calls you away
My love will remain steadfast until  your returning day

Imagination will take you places that you might not want to go
It will make the fake seem real just ask me for this i know
Sometimes imagination is needed to keep sadness and blues
Far away I pulled out my Imagination on this sunny saturday
And if you feel that a lift in your spirit could be helpful
Than come along with me we can fly high above our cares and troubles
Throughout the day and feel so free let imagination amuse us
And teach us some new things so come along with me and let old
imagination teach our hearts just how to sing

I'm dancing as fast as I can get away
From your beatings on my legs and arms you're insecure I say
When we first fell in love you were so handsome
And had such dazzling charm, but oh how over time a romance
Can change, and I wish now inside, I'd never learned your name
Dancing as fast as I can away from the storm of confusion
What I thought was real love was only an illusion
You're certainly not the same man and I'm dancing away alive
While I still can. Dancing away from from movie set dreams
And the partner who never was in this life, who he really seemed
Dancing as fast as I can from all the  pain and sorrow
And into what I hope will be a brighter tomorrow
Dancing as fast as I can

I'm holding out for the right love. One that will give peace of mind.
Don't need daily grieving. Leaving my troubled life of tears and past
Behind. And when you see me smiling. To Myself.You'll know that the
Right one has come .Happiness has taken me off the old merry-go- round
Thank God I held out for the right love. No more tears or doubt to be  Found. Kissing now each new day with sweet expectation. Have you seen
My seen my new glow or heard me holler with delight? Holding out for
The right love.Made a final escape. And writing this on the good news
Train Freedom train . Because I held out for the right love
For thrills me day and night.

Impossible that's what they said of me and you .Impossible now we
We are a happy two.It's so wonderful to know that you're really all mine
Like the powerful roar of yonder sea or the tune of a violin melody
Of sweet love, there's nothing that can shake or break us or stop
Us from doing our thing.We're just impossible  all the world will see
Impossible a smiling loving relationship to be . It's so wonderful to
Know that you're really mine

In the ghetto time and grime don't hold back
The years or the tears.Scream out in the night nobody hears or cares
But I'm still holding on.There are fears out here nobody has met yet
I'm still holding on. Walking city streets praying that death won't
Get to me. Sooner or later strangled by the secret wishes inside
Hoping the fake dreams of smoke entering the bodies noses I see
Don't off the real dreams of those not on the pipe
*** being used to sooth away each tired ache or lack
People trying to escape from the ghetto blues
So I'm still holding on. Watching kids doubledutch on sidewalk cracks
Lots seeded with tossed mattresses junked cars rotting trash
Stray dogs seen hanging around hot dice nearby
Thrown down roller hoping to get lucky
And I keep holding on

Long ago ,someone once wrote,'' There is no sacrifice  to great, for a
Chance at immortality'' I wish that  this great thought was mine
But, its not,and therefore,I'm sharing it with you
And whether your favorite poet,might be one of mine,Paul Lawrence
Dunbar,Phyliss Wheatley,Langston Hughes,Maya Angelou, in a lonely
Place,in communaties, all over the world,their is a poet,from dawn
To dusk,capturing on a blank piece of paper,as a willing servant and
Scribe,a poem, which is in, and of itself,a creative flight of the mind
Spirit,soul,for poetry has a story to tell,just like all of us,and demands
To be heard,which is the reason,that it came to you in the first place

Long ago,some one once wrote," There is no sacrefice to great for a
Chance at immortality'',I wish that  this great thought was mine,but
It isn't,and whether your favorite poet might be Phillis Wheatly,Paul
Lawrence Dunbar,Maya Angelou,Langston Hughes,like they are mine
In a lonely place, in communities all over the world,their is a poet
Capturing on a blank piece of paper,  as a willing servant  and scribe
A poem, which is in,and of itself,an uplifting of the spirit,mind,soul
Which is the very reason,the poem came to you,in the first place
Poetry demands to be heard,and its story told at all times, in all places
So poet,keep on being inspired, and inspire others with your muse
While in your lonely place, and always know within, that there is
No sacrefice  to great for a chance at immortality

I.m honored that you entrusted me with the sacred treasure
Of your love. One that I find rare in what can be a selfish World
Of me and mine, I may not always know where or sometimes even
How, But only know that I need you now, your love strikes a cord
Of rememberance of what real love should be, like I said before
Only know that I need you now

In the lonely hour, when everyone is fast asleep, silence is  all around
Like a sweet maiden , all mine to keep.One thing I realize that my distant
Lover can't hear me now, but even far away or near remains bone of my
Bone and flesh of my flesh , and I  would hope that this prayer reaches
Across the miles touching your very spirit, just like I long to do were you
Here in this lonely hour, and I would hold you close to me like man holds
A very precious jewel,my love

In the courtroom of love I stand before the bar with you ready to make
The final decision concerning my fate by banging down your gavel
Will your judgement be yea or nay in the matter before the court
Will I be cast away in utter darkness forever or be released and ordered
To be tied with silken threads and placed forever by your lovely side

I still see your face, even in my dreams, some things never change
So it seems, it was christmas each day, when you were here with me
Now I'm talking in my sleep,could it be that my wedding ring, on
That left finger,hurt your sense of pride, or else why aren't you here
Now,by my  forever, by my side, tears I can no longer hide,
Sweet memory, now gone, they were the best days, of my life

It could have been me, lying in a narrow alley with a drug needle
Sticking in a vein,or white powder up my nose. It could have been me,
Wandering the dark streets talking to myself jn madness, always
Thinking there was no way out, but your love stayed in my corner
Knocking out all fears and doubts, love was in my corner tending to keep me strong, flashing light of inspiration saying don't stop now or do any
Harm or wrong, my soul says yes I can make it, with each trial and testing
I can take it because love is in my corner

You know this love given so rich and fully
Makes me dance around and I can't hold my peace
Its proper name has been called love by all down through
The centuries, got a hold on me now so dizzy I cannot see
Whatever else somebody would call this thing, its moving like fire
Inside of me, I get weak and don't have any strength
Think of you all the time , and to others not in love like us
They shake their heads and walk away because it really makes no sense
And its everything good one in love could think of
Yes , feels like fire slowly burning in my bones
Before it overcame me, I wanted to leave it alone
You know a manor woman cannot run while chained to a giant tree
Guess everybody in town know now
That it just won't let me be

It seems I've waited a whole lifetime
Just to love you, to hold out my arms and draw you near
Now that we have each other so faithfully , wedding rings sparkling
In the sunshine of future days ahead, I wish that we could spend
Eternity here, forever as one

ITS  not easy being a baby these days. I get pushed around in a carriage
Or stroller to places I might not even want to go, and some people think
That's great, but maybe I want to stay home. I have to cry for my food
Or when I need clean clothes.All day long people are making funny faces
At me trying to make me laugh.But I'm just a serious guy.Also they talk
Funny and I haven't learned to speak yet,so adults don't know what I'm
Thinking so I just stare at them while they perform and try to amuse me
So as you can see, its not easy being a baby today, it's hard work

It's the final  countdown when buildings and trees on earth
Are falling down. The final countdown when panic and raving madness
Can be found. Rich men and women sitting on their money
With the poor left behind again in life too
And overcast days will be normal  here
And the sun will never shine on us  any more
Tell me brother what will doomed mankind do ?

Sometimes, in a loving relationship,there must be two on board
If one wants to jump out of the bat, than pain is the only reward
It takes two , to make the thing work, one can't be slipping around
In the dark,doing dirt, be of a made up mind, to cherish each other
From nine to five, please don't be selfish , just thinking about yourself
Because your once true love, will soon start looking around and reaching
For somebody else, it takes two people, to keep love real and true

Sometimes, in a loving relationship,there must be two on board
If one wants to jump out of the bat, than pain is the only reward
It takes two , to make the thing work, one can't be slipping around
In the dark,doing dirt, be of a made up mind, to cherish each other
From nine to five, please don't be selfish , just thinking about yourself
Because your once true love, will soon start looking around and reaching
For somebody else, it takes two people, to keep love real and true

I want to be loved but by only you, I shouldn't be so madly in love with
You, but there's nothing else for me to do, this new feeling inside
Has me with gratefulness crying, my dreams of future sweetness
With you there is no denying , for I know that deep inside they
Will all come true' so glad  that you love me more than just a little
Because I want to be loved but by only you