I see the salt white streaks
Running down your cheeks

White glacier trails receding
To their high mountain retreating

From another failed attempt at healing
I guess withdrawing is more appealing

But when you wear your hurt on your cheek
It's hard to hide the healing you seek

Battle tested suit
Old lion licks his torn face
both old warriors, are we

Hot tin roof rain dance
Mile long waves crashing in
Water rocks me asleep

I whisper her name when I dream
Songs of summer young and free
waves crashing on the beach
The spray screams her name to me

Cant see forest for trees
Your blinded, your in the ****.s.
dont fear, it's crowded there

My co-worker bought a twenty-twenty calendar today
To work I followed some ones footsteps on the way
I did see the sun come up and had a roll in the hay
Who's late for what anyway?

These battleship chains
like giant redwood roots, anchors
this boat in your port

tidal waves recede
howling winds fall, blizzards die
in Eden on earth

here is Rome burning
no Nero, hordes, just riddles
Do I hear fiddles?

A warm hug really says it all..........

Dee Cee big spenders
Silver cars and golden wives,
copper pennies clang

Mesmerizing water
Clear tar heel blue, mountain pool
This fool, peering back

Love lifts
Love lows
Love light
Love lies
Love leaves
Love limps
Love learns
Love lives
Love loves love

Would  you hear what I have to say
would you care what I actually said
Is it words that sway your fragile heart
I promise I can weave a fantastic tail
All told with a cross of a limb somewhere
Now to hide true intention takes a special fool
One who refuses to see what’s really true
And chooses silly words over a heart dead pure

men have gone insane
defining it, just nature
they say,  God just sighs

Am I less man then other men
For writing feelings thoughts of
Love lost of trusting others with
Thoughts put to pen

She’s rubbing her skin thin
Stressing about me stressing again
Wish I could take her worry away

A man should say when he lied or not
be willing to apologize to the ones he hurt
wear denim jeans and a ripped shirt
crush a beer can and rub a cut with dirt
Like when I supply us with wood to cook
chopping and hacking in a violent mood
yet I still sees beauty in a wood duck hood
No real man says he can't hug another guy
or bow down and pray wife at his side
my message for young men today
Is they need to sack up and see
they can wear pink for sisters in need
and stop blaming Mom for being mean
Now is the time to get lean and lead

ills with everything
even with the suns slow rising
don't fret, that too, stops

stretching tendons for the key
making ready both mind and body
soon I will grasp this mystery

horned figures dancing
pentagrams, flashing one eye
the kids bop along

Nowhere going fast
always steps behind the crowds
Life at my own pace

Why was I running
To that place, the bitter end
I should have listened

Pretty sure I’m gonna die
Seems it’s inevitable
God, what aisle are breadcrumbs on?

The salmon struggle
in the current passing me
on their own one way up
the river trip to eternity

Your softest truths
Ring louder then yelled lies
Both heard in your eyes

It's just so very strange
Thinking all this without me
Right in the middle
Everyone going about life
Without me even being

Plenty of big hair, aqua net
bad mullets,  studded belts, patches on back
Denim leather tough necks, guys in spandex
plenty of ***** and a roach or two
stuffed in places that’s just for you, dude
another cheesy friday night 80’s hair metal zoo

I want that last hug once more
The security in that final embrace
The love long felt seemingly erased
Since that cold November day
you whispered
Goodbye forever

They return in pairs
Great white gloves fluttering in
Nature’s horn section