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The first step, is take a step
The second,
take another
No goal is met by thought alone
Action is to
thought, a brother
I have a gift of saying things
That carries
your intent
I put in words the thoughts you hold
But never quite
have sent
To all those near and dear to you
Unexpressed too
long withheld
For fear of who you really are
And rejection
not dispelled
The irony is of course you see
You’re accepted
for who you’re not
But you’re the one can’t live for long
Hiding self
from self forgot
If I could be, for just a second
All I dream to
be
I’d wrap my arms around the world
Hug it close to
me
I’d sooth the pain and calm the fears
Feed the
children, their dreams repair
Restore man’s dignity where I find it lacking
Create new
hope, destroy despair
To find is easy, strife and dilemma
Wherever we
look, abundance of grief
To fix is difficult, a massive undertaking
The goal is
visible, eventual relief
But alas I am but merely mortal
A practical
plan needs to be made
A dream or wish wont make it happen
We can’t afford
a failing grade
The children are the hope upon
Which the
future rests
We must therefore our plans to make
With wisdom to
invest
Teach, our children they must do right
Not what their
parents have done
Love and cooperation, should be the rule
This battle can
be won
We must prepare to raise our standard
Sight a higher
place
The stakes are high, So high it frightens
Survival, of
the human race
The globe is turning slowly
Where will it
come to rest
Her eyes are covered tightly
Hands explore
to be impressed
Far or near the two will join
Somewhere on
the map
Foretelling our adventure
And all who see
do clap
The globe, itself a gift
Symbolic
metaphor
Begets a new reality
Far horizons
are in store
All that I have cared for
Worked so hard
to save
Comes back to me in earnest
From old
subjects of the knave
An honor without equal
As I fight back
little tears
A thank you with respect
High point of
business years
All the smiles and all the laughter
Good natured
voices joined
The family is growing
A new attitude
is coined
It is time to change the guard
Pass the torch
to others younger
My work will soon be ending
Better done by
those who hunger
For a challenge to apply themselves
With all the
vigor in their souls
Fresh runners in the relay
Charged with
reaching all our goals
And I must move along to
The next
adventure coming
Find new pieces of my being
Songs of life I
will be strumming
I have given what was needed
Now it’s time
to take my leave
As the fledgling finds its wings
And itself it
does conceive
We all must do our duty and
Move on when it
is done
Find new challenges, keep on growing
From the new we
must not run
See the joy in each new facet
Of ourselves
that we can find
No regrets should we have ever
For an earnest
use of mind
So this honor I take with me
Warms my heart
and warms my soul
Wherever I may be in life
Sets the
standard for my role
And when it’s next my time
To move ahead,
explore
I’ll give the globe a spin
With your gift
the gods implore
Keep your spirit that is wonderful
In my mind for
evermore
We are now a part each other
Learned our
lessons, that’s for sure
From out my door I see
Two
secretaries… thigh and knee
A very pleasant sight
I think you
would agree
It strikes me quite a shame
I haven’t time
to look
Problems of the business day
Keep my nose
stuck in the book
I wonder if they think of me
Looking out at
them each day
As friend or foe or lecherous one
Plotting a way
to play
I really am not interested
In diversion of
that kind
I have my love at home you see
But the view I
do not mind
I’m on a plane heading home
The sun is
shining brightly
I’m feeling good, have energy
Responsibility
sits lightly
I feel as if an era’s closed
I’ve left the
old behind
Across the sky my love awaits
In her arms
pure joy I’ll find
I’ve come from out a tunnel dark
A year of transformation
In helping others I have changed
Result… my own
creation
I’m filled with hope and confidence
No force,
resolve deters
From plans I’ve made inside my head
Or newfound
love confers
At last I feel I am adult
Understanding
comes to me
Adulthood is the using of
The child in me
to see
With clarity and awe of life
Without the
color of a thought
Reduce all things to simplest terms
Find the
answers that I’ve sought
Trust the instinct deep inside
A resource I’m
to take
Listen carefully, a voice that knows
Answers
questions that I make
Which brings me back from whence I came
A child just
starting out
With lessons of the years I’ve learned
This child
guides me no doubt
No words to
describe
I feel good
Great to be
alive
I’m satisfied
Don’t know when
or why
I’m feeling strong
Do anything I
try
I’m balanced
Seem to be
complete
A new day is dawning
From life I
wont retreat
The world’s a thing of beauty
Each moment I
enjoy
I am a place beyond
Emissary, an
envoy
Bring to all I’m called to know
All the peace I
can invoke
Lift a soul a little higher
When my
internal voice has spoke
Life is what we make it
Happiness be
not by chance
A choice we all can make
As to the
future we advance
Perhaps that’s why I feel so good
I am living to
the utmost
Trying all I’ve not before
Through life I
will not coast
It’s a thrill to be alive
Took a life to
find it out
I simply had to be
Take control,
my doubts to rout
Life is made of frozen moments
Scattered from
end to end
All the rest is empty spaces
With which the
moments blend
Though time between can be quite long
These moments
reign supreme
The spaces fade, no memory lasts
No consequence
they seem
Important things are valued more
Than
accumulated time
The cup is not remembered
As is the pleasant wine
Sometimes inane
sometimes profound
Sometimes just
tenderness
There is no rule of what will make
A moment
coalesce
I offer up a prime example
Bizarre though
it may seem
Of how life’s fabric can be built
Of air and
twinkles gleam
Last night I know my phone did ring
Three AM if I
recall
My love did tweak my brain I think
But I enjoyed
it all
“Are you up?” she asked as if
It truly were mid day
Yes I said,… I really was
Our lives are
strange that way
Now you may think I make too big
A deal of what
occurred
If you were called at 3AM
Would your
wrath be then incurred
Not mine you see cause anger’s not
In the cards for me
I’ll gladly swap my sleep for living
Or loving,
that’s the key
It’s impossible to think
That angry I
would be
To hear the voice of someone
I love and who
loves me
To hear her voice at any hour
Is pleasure for
my heart
Especially when we happen to be
3000 miles
apart
I’m part of her, she’s part of me
Day or night
we’re constantly
In touch by voice or body
Whichever it
can be
Every night is merely part of
Every day that
goes on by
No reason not to use
Every minute
draw us nigh
Life is what you make it
A minute can be
divine
Not important is duration, even
Seconds bloom
sublime
A look, a fleeting thought,
Body contact,
geometry
Something different at the moment
Burns itself in
memory
It’s the essence of what’s happening
The way it
strikes your mind
Perception frozen ever,
Born of senses all combined
In a way not words not logic
Or emotion on it’s own
Can explain what actually happens in
That instant
we’ve all known
When warmth engulfs your being
In total
comprehension
Of the presence of a special
Heretofore
unknown dimension
Of your feelings merging inside
With the sense
of what is out
Form a being part ethereal
A moment
special without doubt
When your body has reaction
You’ve not
ordered from your brain
When you’re feeling something wonderful
Before you know
from whence it came
It’s experience unexpected, an
Un guessed at
reverie
An oasis, …crystal clarity
Lived a second,
ceased to be
Stood alone each one does little
To make a life
of joy
Concentrate on all the spaces
And with darkness you will toy
But gathered all together these
Indescribable
instants all
Form a consciousness pervasive
Give off light, our hearts enthrall
The secret is… how
we look at things
Link the spaces
or the moments
One leaves us very happy
While the other
sadness foments
The choice is up to us
As we build each our perspective
Filter in or out the spaces
Happiness can
be elective
Every new day there’s a chance
A thrilling moment will occur
Expect you will receive it
A happy future
don’t demur
Of course if you should happen on
A moment sweet,
supreme
Remember once you’ve frozen it
It becomes part
of the dream
You weave of moments fair and good
That make up
your existence
You can fill space in between
With love and your
persistence
In other words it takes so little
To make your
life a joy
Just concentrate on moments best
Last to next
you must alloy
An endless chain you can create
Of joy and
happiness
By looking only toward the light
And loves
embrace caress
Alone alone I am alone
Only mental
images for friend
I learn to live in a world created
From memories
the past can lend
The happenings of today become
Tomorrow’s forming play
The actors on my stage of life
Use scripts, my
repartee
A cast of thousands on my call
That say and do
my choice
Anything I want can happen
If I deem to
give them voice
I call them each in turn to ask
Their wisdom
and advice
They help me plan beyond my ken
A useful mind
device
.
In the twinkling of an eye
Life can cease
to be
Around every coming corner
A surprise may
come to be
Waste not a single moment
Tell all you
love, you do
These precious times in life
Are far apart
and few
Give those special someones
The joy this
knowledge brings
Let them drink their fill of love
While to this
life they cling
Let them know how much they mean
To you in all
the ways
That bring you pleasure And inspire
And thank them
for their days
Of dedication to your life
And growth of
your own soul
The parts of them in you endowed
Which serve to
make you whole
Don’t wait until they’re sick, to pour
All you feel on
them
It’s not about your conscience or
Who will, your
acts condemn
It’s quality of life received
And given back
again
You owe it to your loved ones to
Secure the same
for them
Don’t miss a single chance to be
Liberal with
your heart
Not waiting for the right time, or
They’ll leave
before you start
Ever so sweetly the strings are singing
Deep within me
the music goes
Vibrations seem to hold and play me
I am captive to
the bow
Every note does effect me
I am more than
simply listening
I am part of all the music
My attachment
it’s insisting
Like a sympathetic tuning fork
My existence it
dictates
Each and every note that’s played
Directs sadness
or elates
Strong emotions made to vary as
The instrument
performs
Emanating a connection
In the gut a
feeling’s born
Though notes are captured by my ears
Their beauty
comprehended
Their message surely found my soul
The composers
soul extended
A total stranger moves
Across my field
of view
Nicely turned ankles
Other parts
attractive too
Face is nothing special
Doesn’t whet my
appetite
And yet her covered movements
Hold my vision,
directing sight
Unseen there is privacy
Beneath a
pretty skirt
Softly shifting firmness
Behind a silky
shirt
What is it that is stirring
Within me very
deep?
Not a reason I can think of
With her to
want to sleep
This scene has been repeated
A thousand
times before
Despite my contemplation
I understand no
more
If I take it all apart
Examine it
minute
Her looks do not attract me
For me she does not suit
I haven’t any interest
In the tasting
of her charms
She surely cannot offer
What I find in
my love’s arms
And yet………
Something must attract me
I always want
to look
I’ve studied it intensely
And cannot find
the hook
I guess it is our nature
Attraction of
the sexes
Designed to save the species, but
It befuddles
and perplexes
For me, I fill my senses
With the joy of
honest looking
I need not prove my manhood
By constant
passion cooking
I have the best of both worlds
To look and see,
I’m free
My love supplies the passion
More important,
intimacy
Life gives to us a challenge
Be an animal or
a man
Either is acceptable, but
The
consequences stand
Man has the capacity to
More than
procreate
He has a hand determining
What final is
his fate
He has by dint of mind
The creation of
his joy
He can share it with another
If his love he
does employ
But if he chooses baser life
He’ll come to
understand
The direction of his future
Only loneliness
commands
A hundred lives ago
A piece that
didn’t fit
Thought its home a puzzle
And searched in
vain for it
Battered and reformed, it changed
No longer what
it was
A thousand other bits attached
From lives it
lived or rushed
The journey nears its end
Or so it seems
to be
Assembled over many years
The puzzle is
now me
As sought became the seeker
The puzzle
sought release
Looking for itself in hopes
Of finding
final peace
Life… an endless string of nows
Today, a bridge that time allows
From past to future it has not met
The leap from was, to what is not yet
Eternal orphan, born to flee
Now, will not the future see
Live one day, eternally
Fade before the future be
Forever out beyond your reach
Tomorrow’s purpose is to teach
That now is truth, reality
And living is the faculty
Caught between, forever so
To past, nor future allowed to go
Now, the only life you know
Is in the moment’s, gifts bestowed
What does denote my life’s beginning?
Not birth of
flesh but soul
A time before the cloak I wear
Became this
latest role
What is the essence of the me
I see in
mirrored glass?
Within the thoughts behind the mask
That time
allows to pass
A child of all that ever was,
Of kin as yet uncounted
A product of the universe
And times not yet recounted
A brother or a sister, mother
Father children
too
All and none I am become
Endless, that
is true
From out the womb the babe is born
Of warmth and
comfort to be shorn
Learn it must to go alone
Practice skills
and talents hone
Breath it gets from seeds were sown
The rest is
earned, this much is known
Tested by the winds of life
Its Lessons
learned by strain and strife
Joy triumphant reigns supreme
When struggle
brings to fruit the dream
No sweeter nectar can be had
Or drunk by
growing lass or lad
Then mettle tested, strong and sound
And all that’s
needed, inside is found
Into the void
Scurrilous
‘droid
Life was better
Before you
annoyed
Aliens many
Computer made
Box office money
Much be made
Science fiction
May be fun
Unless it’s pleasant
I think I’ll run
Life supplies us
Plenty trouble
Don’t need more things
Burst my bubble
Neither need I
To be scared
Pay my money
See grizzly bared
Blood and gore
Guts turned out
21st Century
Fans devout
Humans have now
Started path
Destroy our world
Real aliens
laugh
The battle is joined, phrases purloined
Jockey
reshuffle regroup
Looks are absorbed, postures nuanced
Counter each
cut then recoup
Filter each word store every fact
Connect them
with deft and with speed
Parry and feign never to deign
To win by a
dastardly deed
Slowly to weave, direct not deceive
Build an
irrevocable plot
Roll with the blows, be sure nothing shows
Keep hidden the
damaging shot
When they are all spent, thinking you’re rent
Destroyed and
worn thin by their volley
Unbridle your power, show fury don’t cower
Triumphantly
trample their folly
I lay down on my back, look
Up into the sky
The clouds are forming animals
That creep into
my eye
Here a horse, there a lion
And then a myna
bird
A goat becomes a chariot, and
It doesn’t seem
absurd
A great celestial movie screen
Kaleidoscope
for me
I am master of the universe
Create what I
do see
Air out all the corners, let
My mind wander free
Alter my perspective as
The sun shines
down on me
My years are disappearing, as
Floating, I can
see
This old perspective taken
Makes a child again
of me