written 1998
Please forgive them! They know not what havoc they Reeked on you, Their beloved, beautiful home, Now ailing and sad
Close your eyes, little Rainbow C… And go back to sleep for a while Longer Back to the numbness where Pain can not sting
Grandpa is a cockeyed, potlickin’… Who’d rather be working at shearin… Than sit and lounge around all day… Until the stars come out and play. And his stories, every one is true…
ROAM HIM, to see what lives so… His fear! He thinks you call it p… ASK HIM, his name and he’ll tel… Him the transparent silent tears h… FORGIVE HIM, of all his sins…
Sometimes She wishes you were still here, Like in the mornings When you could pull her near, And say I love you.
The sidewalks glittered Like August snow that hot dawn He drove her through town Blind months of waiting broken On the bedroom floor back home.
Broken hearted dreams, Crying in the night Fool hearted love, Lost within the night Broken dreams
Spring’s emerald buds upon a youth… Never thought of death, A verdant pointed star so powerful… Love’s rain from reaching ground, The crimson fan mirroring sunlit a…
He never loved himself But he fell in love with a woman. He never loved himself, But he fell in love with his work. He never loved himself,
Ear to ear is the toothless grin, Widened eyes take all the world in… Sparse fly away hair, soft on your… Alert, attentive expressions to al… Perfect little hands that grasp an…
A mixture of tears filled his eyes Tears for the end, Tears for the beginning, Tears that flowed freely Mocking his manhood
Come the night on velvet wings, Ephemeral chorus rings. Melodic silence fills the calm, Awaits the mist-like rays of dawn. Tranquil beauty of the night
Still water in the beaver pond Songbirds tune to a trumpeter swan Willow waves like a maestros wand Ol’ Chickahominy sings her song Big ol’ bullfrog singin’ bass
Loved that old dog, Missed him when he died. Deserved what he got, Shook him up till he cried. Barked at a mountain lion,
She wants you to be as nice as her… She wants you to be as big as her, She wants you to be just like her, But now she knows you’re not, not… There’s only one of her,