Problems

I’m younger than the river

but older than the hills

I shake and get the shivers

you can’t save me with a pill

I’m stronger than the hours

but weaker than the days

I’m ready for the flowers

but no longer making hay

       You’ve got problems

       I’ve got issues

       you’re the system

       based on misuse

       you’ve got problems

       I’ve got issues

I’m kinder than the hangman

and smarter than the fool

and I despise the gangbang

oh yes, I am old school

I may figure in your nightmares

I might turn up in your dreams

but this is not truth or dare

there is no audience that screams

       refr.

30/1/12   

Merciful wife

It shows in your face

when  you’re about to fade

acquaintances tell you

this is something new

this is something chilling

as you’re in for the killing

you’ve come to the end

and just cannot mend

      Somewhere there’s a river

      a stream that makes me shiver

      it’s where I’ll be delivered

      to my merciless wife

      at the end of my life

      make that my merciful wife

      at the end of my life

The masks are all falling

dark masters are calling

I just long for the spring

and the last song I’ll sing

oh bring the last beaker

to the mouth of the seeker

I’m looking for reasons

in these senseless seasons

     refr.

Hand of fate, on me now

Jagger said it and then how

I feel it in my very blood

and I’m stuck deep in the mud

of doubt and fear, anxiety

I’m a stranger to all piety

the truth is naked, inhumane

still I’ve decided to stay sane

     refr.

14/1/12

Derision and disdain

Yes we’re easily insulted

by each and everyone

the good book’s unconsulted

the conclusion is foregone

we are right and more than right

but still we are undone

by feeling tense and all uptight

and the game will not be won

    We just feel the pain

     of derision and disdain

     it’s there and then it’s there again

     our derision and disdain

We can’t live down dissent

or different states of mind

we even look down on our friends

find it hard to just be kind

everyone seems out of tune

with what we believe is right

and by and by we are immune

to all loving and all light

      refr.

Yes we hate and fear so much

seems we’re always on the run

out of our minds and out of touch

sometimes we’re just not anyone

we belittle and despise

nearly everybody else

so it comes as no surprise

life and love do not make sense

     refr.

11/1/12

The year of my undoing

The trees are bare

and I do care

now there’s no room

for things in bloom

the light does fade

it’s all a haze

the hours pass

like one dead mass

      The time is near

      yes now it’s here

      the year of my undoing

      stop the shushing stop the shooing

      in the year of my undoing

      no more wishing no more wooing

      in the year of my undoing

Don’t leave me here

please do stay near

I’m losing sight

of my birthright

I crumble up

like paper cups

thrown in the trash

this is the crash

      refr.

The crows fly by

in the grey sky

the rain comes down

and I do drown

in long daydreams

and endless schemes

how to survive

not take the dive

     refr.

8/1/12