tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28639730781516467742024-03-13T05:45:20.759-07:00Drops of RainJohn O'Halloran: Poetry etcJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01571267097006481481noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863973078151646774.post-10603999047358715512015-10-06T09:10:00.002-07:002015-10-06T09:10:39.749-07:00As Dark as Day<div style="background-color: white; font-family: Roboto, 'Droid Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 6px; padding: 0px;">
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I knew myself, what come what may, what love I lost, it slipped away<br />I closed my eyes and turned away,<br />the sky was dark, as dark as day<br />I heard myself, such rage, such pain,<br />a wailing in the pouring rain<br />I saw myself, no eyes, just blame, such weather storming in my brain<br />I killed myself, the blade that came, was made for me, it held my name<br />I grieved myself, for all I’d lost,<br />for every penny, every cost</div>
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I closed my eyes and turned away,<br />the sky was dark, as black as day<br />As white as snow, but dark as death, no voices here, no choices left<br />No need to walk, if I should fall,<br />no one to care, to know at all<br />No life to pin me down like chains,<br />no love to make me weak, no stains<br />No Gods to fear<br />on bended knee,<br />nobody else except for me</div>
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I heard myself, such rage, such pain,<br />a wailing in the pouring rain<br />A tale I told to stem the flow<br />of ghosts I know<br />but do not know<br />The light is gone,<br />the light that glows,<br />then darkness comes<br />before the close<br />The close of us,<br />the close of all,<br />As shadows weep before they fall</div>
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I killed myself, the blade that came, was made for me, it held my name<br />I grieved myself, for all I’d lost,<br />for every penny, every cost<br />I heard myself, such rage, such pain,<br />a wailing in the pouring rain<br />I saw myself, no eyes, just blame, such weather storming in my brain<br />I knew myself, what come what may, what love I lost it slipped away<br />I closed my eyes and turned away,<br />the sky was dark,<br />as dark as day</div>
Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01571267097006481481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863973078151646774.post-33584914606525985122014-11-01T10:57:00.001-07:002014-11-01T10:57:13.819-07:00What a WorldWhat a world, what a place<br />
What a mess, this Human race<br />
What a war, what a waste<br />
What a terror, what a taste<br />
What a way, what a which<br />
What a when and what a bitch<br />
What a win, what a loss<br />
What a kill and what a cost<br />
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What a word, comes to that<br />
What a tale and what a fact<br />
What are we, what is that<br />
Tea for two or tit for tat<br />
Tat for tales already told<br />
Sell the shit already sold<br />
Don't come back if you're to blame<br />
Change your face and hide your name<br />
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What a whoa, here we go<br />
What a wave to show I know<br />
What a chance, time to dance<br />
Lost my legs like Frogs in France<br />
Time to take another look<br />
Head inside another book<br />
What a world and what it took<br />
I was there the day it shook<br />
<br />
It was I who made it shake<br />
Gave the world a stomach ache<br />
Indigestion, learning lessons<br />
Quick confessions, keep them guessing<br />
<br />Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01571267097006481481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863973078151646774.post-11035001819431211582011-09-06T10:41:00.001-07:002011-09-06T10:41:59.606-07:00Song<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;"></span><br />
<div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;">Who were you when I was me, when I was you then who was I</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;">When I was her and she was me, when he was she and she was he</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;">Then who were you when I was you, when you were me then who was she</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;">And who was he when I was me, when I was he then who was me</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;"><br />
</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;">What did you do when I was true, when I was you, what did you do</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;">What point of view, what style renewed, what word to give a meaning to</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;">What single thing, what uncrowned king, what words to say to help me pray</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;">To help today, when things go wrong, what God to love, to sing a song</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;"><br />
</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;">What song to sing, oh what a choice, the melody and then the voice</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;">As lyrics bring the need to sing and all the world is listening</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;">What was the start and what began, when I was he, a broken man</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;">And she was you, so beautiful, I can't believe there was a plan</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;"><br />
</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;">But if there was, it strikes me dumb, I breathe alive, a single lung</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;">But not for fun, or anyone, it works for me but not for some</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;">If some were true, then so were you, then so was I, perhaps or die</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;">Perhaps if I could sing that song, the concert wouldn't seem so long</div>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01571267097006481481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863973078151646774.post-22864865901082044922011-09-04T01:20:00.000-07:002011-09-04T01:20:27.670-07:00Not for UsNormalcy was not enough<br />
Not for me and not for us<br />
That was why I let you go<br />
Just so I could watch the show<br />
<br />
Nothing else can bring that rush<br />
Not for me and not for us<br />
That was why we had to split<br />
Just so I could die from it<br />
<br />
Don't expect you'll cry that much<br />
Not for me and not for us<br />
That was why we had to part<br />
I could never break your heart<br />
<br />
There was never any love<br />
Not for me and not for us<br />
That was why it had to end<br />
Nothing tortures like pretend<br />
<br />
Normalcy was not enough<br />
Living never seemed so tough<br />
There was never any love<br />
Not for me and not for us<br />
<br />
That was why I let you go<br />
Just so I could watch the show<br />
Nothing else can bring that rush<br />
Not for me and not for us<br />
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Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01571267097006481481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863973078151646774.post-77053099769355718492011-05-22T04:11:00.000-07:002011-05-22T04:11:27.460-07:00Hand in Hand<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every day is all the same, the same is all of every day</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When everything is all the same, the same is all of everything</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How deep it goes, this need for change, this need for change, how deep it goes</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How deep are we, such blood and magic, miracles, children of science</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Understanding cannot be, we need to know the mystery</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We search for ways we can explain our very natures, place the blame</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Invented Gods, someone to name, someone to pray to, far away</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Someone to justify our flaws, place human weakness at his door</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A door too far away to touch, the only way to see to die</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And when we die, so out of reach, we cannot then explain, to teach</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And priest and teachers use our fears, to say we may not see the door</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If we be bad, or not believe, then there may not be any more</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">beyond our deaths, with nothing left, then we will fade away to black</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Which is of course, the way it is, no lack of faith, a simple fact</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Such fools are we, to base our lives, on ancient supersitious fiction</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Take each verse upon it's word, believing everything we've heard</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Instead of learning moral lessons, know your sins, who needs confession</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is value in the knowing right from wrong, it makes us strong</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But to ignore the evidence, it seems to me like ignorance</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is no God, there is no heaven, is no devil, is no hell</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Was no Jesus, crucifixion, what a powerful depiction</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To engulf the world in lies, a business grows, the church it flies</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I believe the Church is good, if misinformed, but still it would</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Emerge with light, I think it should, with opened eyes, be all it could</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If faith and science, hand in hand, could find some way, some common ground</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To understand the world around, the very depth of human hearts</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then God would be our Human soul</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And science everything we know</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If that could be then I would pray</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'd pray to God, I'd pray all day</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'd look into the sky and swear</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That I see heaven floating there</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</div>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01571267097006481481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863973078151646774.post-45375017141029169062011-05-22T01:43:00.001-07:002011-05-22T01:43:46.895-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">The man without options<br />
can do anything<br />
Nothing is forbidden<br />
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The man with nowhere to go<br />
can go anywhere<br />
The world is a vast neighbourhood<br />
<br />
The man facing death<br />
is free to live<br />
A life without fear<br />
is a life without limit<br />
<br />
The man who has been<br />
the worst that he can be<br />
need not fear the future.<br />
If he is better now than he was<br />
he needn't regret the past<br />
<br />
The man who has never been loved<br />
need not be ashamed<br />
if his heart is full<br />
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If his heart is cold<br />
it is because<br />
he has never loved<br />
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The man who holds hate in his heart<br />
is hateful<br />
He will search for hate<br />
and be drawn to hate<br />
And the world will give him what he seeks</span></span>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01571267097006481481noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863973078151646774.post-71580825009046376592011-05-22T01:41:00.001-07:002011-05-22T01:48:58.961-07:00Finally<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: arial; line-height: 18px;">Her Mother never loved her<br />
so she took her love from boys<br />
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But the boys never loved her<br />
Treated all the girls like toys<br />
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And her Step Dad said he loved her<br />
He was just like all the boys<br />
<br />
Now in dreams of him<br />
she screams within<br />
and that is how he wins<br />
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She told it to her Mother<br />
but her Mother didn't care<br />
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So she told it to her Father<br />
but her Father wasn't there<br />
<br />
So she told it to another<br />
but she wasn't quite aware<br />
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Of his pain filled eyes on her behalf<br />
or of his love filled stare<br />
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He had been her friend since they were young<br />
and loved her just as long<br />
<br />
As a child he'd often longed for her<br />
and put her name in songs<br />
<br />
And he'd watched her waste her time with men<br />
who didn't treat her right<br />
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In the darkness he had cried himself<br />
so many sleepless nights<br />
<br />
When she told him what her Step Dad did<br />
and what her Mother said<br />
<br />
When she told him she had no one for<br />
her Father he was dead<br />
<br />
When she looked at him<br />
As he looked back<br />
Then something in him snapped<br />
<br />
And he swore revenge<br />
and that was when<br />
she realised the fact<br />
<br />
She had never really looked at him<br />
Content that he was there<br />
<br />
He was constant like the furniture<br />
The table or the chair<br />
<br />
She had leaned on him to ease her need<br />
but never really seen<br />
<br />
He was everything she needed<br />
<br />
That was when he turned to leave<br />
<br />
And she knew that he would kill for her<br />
She knew that he would die<br />
<br />
And she knew that either way<br />
they would be forced to say goodbye<br />
<br />
So she followed him<br />
To say to him<br />
She wanted only him<br />
<br />
And as they made love<br />
She fell in love<br />
Completely<br />
from within<br />
<br />
As they held each other in the dark<br />
She finally was free<br />
<br />
With his arms protecting her from harm<br />
She finally could see<br />
<br />
What it meant to really be alive<br />
She finally could be<br />
<br />
And the thing she had been searching for<br />
She felt it finally</span>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01571267097006481481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863973078151646774.post-6846027413981680302011-05-22T01:39:00.001-07:002011-05-22T01:39:53.403-07:00Journey<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #262626; font-family: arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br />
<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Doors open, same faces, same old thing</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sitting here, same spot, head down, no eye contact</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Same old journey, stop to stop, minute to minute, check point to check point</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lost in my own thoughts, mind drifting, scant attention</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Trying to block the sounds, some vulgar, all invasive</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lambs pretending to be lions, showing off to their peers</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Uniform becomes a costume, same old story, second hand</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Once the story was mine, long past, been and gone</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He who was, no longer here, died and burnt, turned to ash</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ash to flame, flame to birth, birth to growth, here I am</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sitting here, same spot, head down, no eye contact</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thoughts combine behind the eyes, words come, questions form</div>What am I still doing here...and when will this journey end?Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01571267097006481481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863973078151646774.post-5879293189578382322011-05-17T15:45:00.000-07:002011-05-17T15:45:46.628-07:00Born to WriteThe world is blind, I see that now<br />
I'll show them all, some way, somehow<br />
That I am here, that I exist<br />
I'll give them what they can't resist<br />
The words that float around my head<br />
The best that I have ever read<br />
The thoughts that come in deepest night<br />
That make me feel so good, so right<br />
I'll make these people understand<br />
That I was born with pen in hand<br />
That when I write I come alive<br />
My very essence does ignite<br />
<br />
But who can see, who looks at me<br />
Who reads these words upon this sheet<br />
Who takes the time to really see<br />
The power of the pen gone free<br />
But pens are now in short supply<br />
We writers now, we swiftly type<br />
Upon the keys we loose our souls<br />
As cells of skin slip through the holes<br />
This isn't like the greats of old<br />
Who wrote with quills, such tales they told<br />
But just like they, I have that light<br />
For they like I were born to write<br />
<br />
For they, like I, like you, like all<br />
Have brains that work and not at all<br />
Invisible to human eyes<br />
So very small, the world goes by<br />
Whilst few of us are hypnotised<br />
In battle with the T's and I's<br />
They tease, they lie, they pass the blame<br />
This isn't life, this is a game<br />
<br />
But this is life if life you lead<br />
With lines of ink and paper leaves<br />
On metal, plastic, boards of keys<br />
The words they haunt, they speak to me<br />
In silence in the dead of night<br />
Or in the day, the height of light<br />
In company or all alone<br />
Or miles away or safe at home<br />
<br />
The words become my only friend<br />
They give me strength like some pretend<br />
The words are strong but safe to bend<br />
They let me make a line of them<br />
A line of them and then with friends<br />
A rhyming trend and meaning then<br />
It scares me how it somehow fits<br />
I had not much to do with it<br />
It comes from somewhere deep within<br />
Behind my eyes, beneath my skin<br />
I know not how but it feels right<br />
I only know I have to write<br />
<br />
I write these words upon this page<br />
They capture all my joy and rage<br />
<br />
It makes me high just like a kite<br />
I think that I was born to write<br />
<br />
I know that I was born to writeJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01571267097006481481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863973078151646774.post-49497440322587049372011-05-16T13:40:00.001-07:002011-05-16T13:41:17.870-07:00Outlaw<div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In ancient times they would have called this The Year of Our Lord</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But no one measures time anymore</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And belief in God has long since fallen beyond memory</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The time of war has come</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and we are but ants beneath the tide</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Soldiers come</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Into our homes, into our hearts</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They take our children, they take our wives</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They take our husbands, they take our lives</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And lucky are those who are the ones to die</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nowhere is safe,</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nowhere is hope</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Civilisation is a long forgotten dream</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How did it come to this?</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When did the world go mad?</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No one knows how it started or when</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No one knows which country fell first</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But in all countries, on every continent</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The people are suffering</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our leaders</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">chosen by us, from us, for us, </span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Are answerable to no one and nothing</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not even the secret smile of history</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For history is written by the powerful and the victorious</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The world has fallen to the sins of Man</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For Man craves power</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And the more power taken by the powerful</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The more power they crave</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is long since the people had any power</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The screams of women and children fill the night</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like the wind howling outside my window</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I stand in the shadows, hunted by demons that walk in the light of day</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Haunted by the darkness that has befallen my world</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The terror that has gripped my people</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The injustice</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My thoughts turn as dark as the blackness of my surroundings</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I reflect on what the world has made of me</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The enemy say I am a killer</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and they are right</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For I have killed many</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I will kill many more</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My name is known throughout the world</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some call me legend, others myth</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The enemy uses an oft' neglected word</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Outlaw</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is a name given to criminals</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But was a name often given to the heroes of the past</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My people call me hero</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I do not desire any of these names</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I only desire the peace enjoyed by my ancestors</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My ancestors</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the town of my birth and heritage</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The authority of law became the harbinger of death</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They butchered many, my family amongst them</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But they did not get me</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gripped by rage for my fallen kin</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And with a small group of allies and friends</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I took righteous revenge upon those who had broken us</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Who had so sorely abused their position</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I etched a message in blood for all the world to see</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No more</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No more will we fall victim to the whim of the powerful and corrupt</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No more will we be crushed beneath the boot of persecution</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No more should we fear death</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For what is death in battle when measured against a life of slavery and torture</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now we stand upon the edge of tomorrow</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The sun is starting to rise from the ash of yesterday</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I do not know what is to come</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I face it with blood on my hands and with hope in my heart</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They all give me names</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some call me Legend, Hero, Myth</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some call me Killer, Enemy,</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Outlaw</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01571267097006481481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863973078151646774.post-60084243648183843882011-05-16T13:37:00.001-07:002011-05-16T13:38:54.370-07:00Self Definition<div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How do you define yourself</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By name, by job, relationship</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By house, by car, where do you fit</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What do you do? Just who are you?</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What of belief, your point of view</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How many parents, one or two, </span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or maybe none, or maybe few</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or maybe you don't have a clue</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or maybe they all lied to you</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or better still, perhaps you grew</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In endless fields of endless blue</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If that were true, how many grew</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And do they ever write to you?</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By what do you define yourself</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By who you are or what you do</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When someone says 'what do you do?'</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is that the best that they can do</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why ask me that? A pointless fact</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it matters not, it's just a job</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We all have jobs, to pay the bills</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And very few like what they do</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The question isn't quite the point</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The answer is the thing they lack</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And power lies behind the finding</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What they think the answer means</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They think that what you do is you</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They think that you are what you do</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So when you tell them what you do</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They formulate a point of view</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They think they have a hook in you</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They think that what they know is true</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But how do you define yourself?</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By what you are to someone else</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or by the things you know yourself?</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just how do you define yourself</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When face to face, what face reflected</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just what action self elected</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Always someone will reject it</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do not ever feel affected</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We all sometimes feel rejected</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Face reflection, smile and wave</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From the womb and to the grave</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Know yourself like no one else</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That is why they call it self</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Who are you? What do you do?</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Know the answer, speak it true</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ask the question only you</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Has the right to ask of you</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</div>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01571267097006481481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863973078151646774.post-37486821085971563312011-05-15T23:00:00.001-07:002011-05-15T23:04:19.189-07:00What Happens<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">What happens when you notice</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">That your life is out of focus</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">When you dread the day the morning brings</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">You cannot see the light</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">When the only thing that means a thing</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">Becomes the thing you hide within</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">A moment when you stop and say</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">This cannot be my life</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">What happens when these feelings take ahold of you around the heart</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">What happens when you realise you want it all to fall apart</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">The rules mean less and less to you</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">What people say that you should do</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">With every thought</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">Rebellion</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">But still you seem to carry on</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">What happens when you realise</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">you want it all to stop</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">Like a pebble falling from a height</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">You're tired of the drop</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">Do the sights and sounds still seem as fine</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">As when you had the time</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">To appreciate the falling</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">When you understood the climb</span></span>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01571267097006481481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863973078151646774.post-4014659854113228092011-05-15T08:13:00.000-07:002011-05-15T08:13:04.756-07:00Places and SpacesI fell asleep, upon a cloud<br />
And when I dreamed, the dream was loud<br />
Too loud to hear, too near to touch<br />
I think I loved it very much<br />
And when I woke, I died inside<br />
The wrenching, waking, somehow lied<br />
To bring me here, to meet this fate<br />
I have to fall, I cannot wait<br />
No time at all, it's way past late<br />
There are no spaces on my plate<br />
My day is full, my laces tied<br />
No places left for me to hide<br />
<br />
I walked alone, on paths of thought<br />
Towards the place my death just bought<br />
I was not forced, I was not brought<br />
With all the will that I was taught<br />
And all I learned has led my here<br />
Beneath the mountain of my fear<br />
I start to climb, leave life behind<br />
The essence of my strength unwinds<br />
The things that I have seen rewind<br />
The places I have been, not mine<br />
The climb is hard, I feel no pain<br />
I feel just like a child again<br />
<br />
I look into the hallowed sky<br />
I hear a whispered word 'goodbye'<br />
I hear it break the icy calm<br />
For once I feel no real alarm <br />
There is no harm, I fear no foul<br />
I fear no thing, not fear, not now<br />
I only fear that I might wake<br />
To breathe once more, to feel the ache<br />
That I recall, each single day<br />
When I was flesh, when all was grey<br />
I pray to God that I might stay <br />
If God is here, he keeps away<br />
<br />
I'm happy now, like not before <br />
I know my path, I know my door<br />
I see it there, within the air<br />
Reach out my hand, with not a care<br />
A dream like daze has taken me<br />
The chains have gone, I feel so free<br />
If anybody speaks of me<br />
Then I am just a memory<br />
Which frees me from expectancy<br />
The burden of reality<br />
What use have I for fantasy<br />
For dreams are my reality<br />
I close my eyes, reach out my hand<br />
Then I am gone, no more a man<br />
But something else, without a name <br />
No longer really quite the sameJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01571267097006481481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863973078151646774.post-64411679902108334972011-02-26T00:20:00.000-08:002011-02-26T00:20:48.795-08:00When it is right to spendThere are many bargains available in Supermarkets. Many cheaper brands that in most cases retain enough quality to make the price good value. There are some things though where it is worth spending a bit extra for the good stuff. To my mind these are:<br />
<br />
Jaffa Cakes<br />
Free Range Eggs<br />
Tea Bags -Yorkshire, Builders, Tetley, PG - own brand bags are a definite no no<br />
Coffee<br />
Toilet roll<br />
Sliced meat for sandwiches<br />
Minced beef<br />
Bread<br />
Washing up liquid<br />
<br />
Are there any more?Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01571267097006481481noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863973078151646774.post-67105927273442904482011-02-08T14:22:00.001-08:002011-02-08T14:22:41.232-08:00GrowthYou did your work and did it well<br />
You live with that, I'll live in hell<br />
For you are here with me as well<br />
Each single day, each tale I tell<br />
As if you had something to sell<br />
Repeated knocks, a ringing bell<br />
A smiling face, that doesn't gel<br />
Your rotting soul, how far you fell<br />
<br />
I blame you for this sick aggression<br />
Over years I learnt your lesson<br />
That is why I dwell in silence<br />
Effort to subdue this violence<br />
Cannot once afford to slip<br />
To palm these shaking fingertips<br />
Into a fist, a tightened wrist<br />
Such power there, it isn't fair<br />
<br />
I lived within your grip for years<br />
I cried my share of childish tears<br />
I fell asleep with no one near<br />
Atop a mattress made of fears<br />
A snow white pillow soaked with salt<br />
<br />
Oh look at what your words have brought<br />
An enemy you raised from birth<br />
You trained to kill, so do your worst<br />
<br />
I'm ready like the battery<br />
The way you used to batter me<br />
But I am grown and I am strong<br />
The child you victimised is gone<br />
So take your place upon your feet<br />
I'll turn this box into your seat<br />
Beneath the surface, six feet deep<br />
You'd better pray we never meetJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01571267097006481481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863973078151646774.post-18362739710125607752011-01-29T02:07:00.001-08:002011-01-29T02:10:47.185-08:00No Regret<div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Where were you my sorrow</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I needed you?</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tomorrow we'll be wed</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By a point of view</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Something that I said</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That I shared with you</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We will be imprisoned</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What am I to do?</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wish we'd never met </span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meaning no offence</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Where were you my anger</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I needed you ?</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Smiled too much, agreed to things</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tied me down like apron strings</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What to do, cause a scene?</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Say the things I really mean</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Leave this plane before it stops</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hope I can survive the drop</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Where were you my envy</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I needed you ?</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wanted her so much it hurt</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Never quite knew how to flirt</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So she turned to someone else</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let her go, thought she would be happier</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Selfless act or foolish pride?</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now I'm dying from inside</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not much point in suicide</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Where were you these feelings</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I needed you?</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Consequence is painful and these words are true</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Question now is what to do?</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Face the truth, truth empowers</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Take the blame and blow the roof</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wear these phrasings like a promise</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Never to regret again</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No regret, no not yet</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not until the scores are in</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not until the large one sings</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Who can say what life will bring?</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Who's to say that we won't win?</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is not a film we're in</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No one wrote a script for it</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nor can you or I predict</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If this is a classic or a crock of shit</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not before the end is done</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And the critics have their fun</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even then I won't regret</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not if I allowed myself</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to be myself</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To not be swayed</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">or be remade</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The story hasn't finished yet</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I do not know what happens yet</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There may still be a sequel yet</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But there will never be regret</span></div><div><br />
</div>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01571267097006481481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863973078151646774.post-60357059428068107862011-01-20T07:01:00.000-08:002011-01-20T07:01:12.871-08:00Random RhymingI'm sick of sitting here like this and swallowing this rage<br />
You sit back and let me quick attack this wit onto this page<br />
I was born with half a chip upon my shoulder, grew with age<br />
Now it's turned into a paper weight, helps me keep my page<br />
Look at all of this, all of it, every single bit<br />
I could kill it if I gave a shit, make a joke of it<br />
Are you laughing Holmes, figure it, lay it then turn over it<br />
Flipping pancakes in a pan, pilchards in a can<br />
I'm a man, that is all I am, never had a plan<br />
But like Jam, that is all I need, 'cept for maybe ham<br />
In a fix, give me weetabix, give it to the lunatics<br />
Give them extra biscuits as you know they like to eat em quick<br />
That is why I go with it, anything a bit<br />
Moderate, never early, late, never want to make em wait<br />
Never want to wait neither, why should you or I, either<br />
Ever be the last beaver, dying by the meat cleaver<br />
That is where the short trees are, by the giant malteser<br />
Watch it as it rolls, through the field of sausage rolls<br />
Oh<br />
This is a good song, every single line , strong<br />
Flow like the ping pong, rising like King Kong<br />
Quick, better quit, never fall, not at all<br />
For<br />
It's been a ball so goodbye to you allJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01571267097006481481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863973078151646774.post-8844190878635175682011-01-10T09:20:00.001-08:002011-01-10T09:20:57.188-08:00Formally Abnormal<div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">You may not find him normal</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">and he thanks you for the compliment</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">You may not find him formal,</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">he has never been an ornament</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">You may not comprehend him</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Cannot place him</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In a box like bricks</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">You think to then be friendly</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">To pretend he</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Is like family</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">To ease your curiosity</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">To know which box</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">You have to tick</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">But he can see right through you</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Very few do</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">So you won't expect</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The card he has stashed up his sleeve</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The one last hand before he leaves</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">You may not find him normal</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Find him quite the same as anyone</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">But he is rather</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">formally abnormal</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Just like everyone</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01571267097006481481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863973078151646774.post-44555750854649662682011-01-05T13:36:00.000-08:002011-01-05T13:55:10.064-08:00A Question of Faith: Faith No More<div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">These words will be my weapons</div><div style="text-align: left;">With these weapons I will war</div><div style="text-align: left;">I will war upon the heavens</div><div style="text-align: left;">Like nobody has before</div><div style="text-align: left;">And before I learn my lesson</div><div style="text-align: left;">I will lessen this religion</div><div style="text-align: left;">I will keep the Bishops guessing</div><div style="text-align: left;">As they kneel for their confession</div><div style="text-align: left;">I will make them face their demons</div><div style="text-align: left;">Make them smile whilst they are screaming</div><div style="text-align: left;">It will be too late for penance</div><div style="text-align: left;">When the faithful turn to hatred</div><div style="text-align: left;">Faith no more</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Do not bore me raw, love is not against the law</div><div style="text-align: left;">Woman - Woman, Woman - Man, Man and Man, holding hands</div><div style="text-align: left;">Contraception, is essential, keeping clean without disease</div><div style="text-align: left;">World of people, population, over-spilling, poverty</div><div style="text-align: left;">Faith of no real relevance, book of insignificance</div><div style="text-align: left;">Christening of innocents, priests corrupting innocence</div><div style="text-align: left;">Buried by the Catholic Church, Starts with 'P', ends with 'verts'</div><div style="text-align: left;">No more faith in hypocrites, all that I believed in bits</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Nothing left to pray for so these</div><div style="text-align: left;">Words will be my weapons</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">With these weapons I will war</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">I will war upon the heavens</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Like nobody has before</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">And before I learn my lesson</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">I will lessen this religion</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">I will keep the Bishops guessing</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">As they kneel for their confession</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">I will make them face their demons</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Make them smile whilst they are screaming</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">It will be too late for penance</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">When the faithful turn to hatred</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Faith no more</div><div><br />
</div><div>Look what faith has brought, planes left safely from the 'port</div><div>In the air all went to hell, three planes crashed, two towers fell</div><div>Then the buses, then the tubes, someone tell me what that proved</div><div>Such a waste of human life, suicidal sacrifice</div><div>Children born on British ground, British roots beneath the mound</div><div>Brain that spends in pence and pound, thinks to take our Britain down</div><div>Not a thought they have themselves, turned extreme by someone else</div><div>Victims turned to killers then, still I have to pity them</div><div><br />
</div><div>No one left to pray to so these</div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Words will be my weapons</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">With these weapons I will war</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">I will war upon the heavens</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Like nobody has before</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">And before I learn my lesson</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">I will lessen this religion</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">I will keep the Bishops guessing</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">As they kneel for their confession</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">I will make them face their demons</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Make them smile whilst they are screaming</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">It will be too late for penance</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">When the faithful turn to hatred</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Faith no more</div></div><div><br />
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More than you<br />
More than you<br />
<br />
When I first saw you<br />
Then first I knew<br />
At first I knew<br />
Then feelings grew<br />
At last I knew<br />
As people do<br />
<br />
That there was nothing<br />
Nothing that I wanted<br />
More than you<br />
More than you<br />
<br />
When I first saw you<br />
When you saw me<br />
You looked at me<br />
You looked right through<br />
I thought you saw<br />
You did not see<br />
But I was sure<br />
You needed me<br />
<br />
But nothing that I did or what I said<br />
Seemed to make you see<br />
That there was nothing<br />
Nothing that I wanted<br />
More than you<br />
More than you<br />
<br />
When I smiled at you<br />
You turned away<br />
I waved at you<br />
You turned away<br />
I spoke to you<br />
You turned away<br />
I called for you<br />
You turned away<br />
Gave gifts to you<br />
You turned away<br />
Wrote songs for you<br />
You turned away<br />
I killed for you<br />
You turned away<br />
What must I do to make you stay?<br />
<br />
What must I do to show you<br />
<br />
There is nothing that I long for<br />
More than you<br />
More than you<br />
<br />
I would live for you<br />
Or die for you<br />
Give up my aching soul for you<br />
<br />
If just to have you here to stay<br />
To stay with me for just one day<br />
<br />
I'd give up all of everything<br />
Take punishment for every sin<br />
<br />
For there is nothing that I want<br />
<br />
Nothing more than youJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01571267097006481481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863973078151646774.post-77154792997336247972011-01-02T14:54:00.000-08:002011-01-02T14:54:10.093-08:00BooksWhen life seems so mundane<br />
When I resent my name, can't cope with blame<br />
<br />
And need someone to help me through the shame<br />
Someone who feels the same<br />
<br />
A faceless friend who will not judge<br />
To clean the mud, who holds no grudge<br />
<br />
I need a place to hide away<br />
A shield to keep the world at bay<br />
<br />
These pages are my portal<br />
And<br />
This story is my saving grace<br />
<br />
This made up unreality<br />
Is made for me<br />
A private place<br />
<br />
This person that I read about<br />
Is less than me<br />
And more than me<br />
<br />
But more than that<br />
Is nothing like me<br />
<br />
I am made irrelevant<br />
<br />
Along with all that bothers me<br />
<br />
I swear these books were heaven sentJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01571267097006481481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863973078151646774.post-91397050461640462772010-10-21T15:14:00.001-07:002010-10-21T15:14:42.470-07:00The ManThe man without options <br />
can do anything<br />
Nothing is forbidden<br />
<br />
The man with nowhere to go <br />
can go anywhere<br />
The world is a vast neighbourhood<br />
<br />
The man facing death <br />
is free to live<br />
A life without fear <br />
is a life without limit<br />
<br />
The man who has been <br />
the worst that he can be <br />
need not fear the future. <br />
If he is better now than he was <br />
he needn't regret the past<br />
<br />
The man who has never been loved <br />
need not be ashamed <br />
if his heart is full<br />
<br />
If his heart is cold <br />
it is because <br />
he has never loved<br />
<br />
The man who holds hate in his heart<br />
is hateful<br />
He will search for hate<br />
and be drawn to hate<br />
And the world will give him what he seeksJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01571267097006481481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863973078151646774.post-65265553384448748972010-10-21T14:59:00.001-07:002010-10-21T14:59:56.621-07:00Such a Worthy Dream<p>A book a day or so it seems, </p><p>as pages turn, </p><p>they can't be seen</p><p>This girl a blur, </p><p>her brain a whir, </p><p>she wears her knitting </p><p>just like fur</p><p>Just like the fur </p><p>that covers her, </p><p>a cat is on </p><p>her lap or there</p><p>Beside her on the blanket brown, </p><p>no other person, </p><p>can sit down</p><p><br /></p><p>The man is in his gaming chair,</p><p> his eyes below </p><p>his greying hair</p><p>Are fixed upon </p><p>the game he plays, </p><p>perhaps he has, </p><p>been there for days</p><p>The other cat</p><p>is somewhere near</p><p>She won't be seen</p><p>Then she appears</p><p>An arrow from </p><p>the bow she flies</p><p>Gone chasing shadows? </p><p>Hunting flies?</p><p><br /></p><p>Parents just across the way, </p><p>one of them </p><p>there all day</p><p>Keeping watch, </p><p>making sure, </p><p>keeping eyes, </p><p>on the door</p><p>Family in close supply, </p><p>close enough </p><p>but not too close</p><p>Hidden when </p><p>the door is closed, </p><p>coming when </p><p>they're needed most<br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Wish I could wake up to that</p><p>What a wish to live for that</p><p>Willingness to work for that<br /></p><p>Such a worthy dream to have<br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01571267097006481481noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863973078151646774.post-71773010258873072682010-10-18T13:27:00.001-07:002010-10-18T13:27:25.581-07:00I Recall<p>I still recall how close we were, too close to ever be apart</p><p>But now we live in different worlds, with different lives, two separate hearts</p><p>Each time we meet, we try our best, but even so, I must confess</p><p>It seems a mess, it must be stressed, we carry on, without success</p><p><br /></p><p>Who said that this was for the best?</p><p>Who chose this path, who had that choice?</p><p>Who dwelt on dreams? Who gave them voice?</p><p>Who cried the most? Whose cheeks are moist?<br /></p><p>Who suffered most? Lets measure that</p><p>Who gave the most? Who wants it back?</p><p>And who to blame? Who caused this pain?</p><p>If no one wins, what point the game?</p><p><br /></p><p>I still can see, like photographs, these memories, that made us laugh</p><p>In silent thoughts, I can recall, a room of joy, no tears at all</p><p>Now all is still, the room is dark, the lights are gone and voices fade</p><p>I wonder now, how it would be, what I would see, if I had stayed</p><p><br /></p><p>I will not say goodbye to you</p><p>I will not weep because you sleep</p><p>I will not shed a tear for you</p><p>I cannot speak, I am too weak</p><p>I will not tell a lie to you</p><p>I will not say it's all okay</p><p>I won't lie down and die for you</p><p>I still have much that I must do</p><p><br /></p><p>I still recall, like poisoned thoughts, how close we were, before we weren't</p><p>I still can place, not just your face , but even how your shoes were laced</p><p>I still can feel, what once was real, unpeeled, a heart encased in steel</p><p>I am the steel, if not the blood, I crave your touch, I miss it much</p><p><br /></p><p>Copyright <span>©</span> John B. O'Halloran 2010<br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01571267097006481481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863973078151646774.post-54322738324741685572010-10-11T11:16:00.001-07:002010-10-11T11:16:58.790-07:00Too Many RulesToo many rules and not enough schools<br />Or too many schools and not enough rules<br />Or too many fools who think they are cool<br />For breaking the rules, destroying the schools<br />Or too many rules for too many fools<br />Or not enough fools for not enough rules<br />And not enough fools to fill up the schools<br />And not enough schools to make up the rules<br /><br />And too many kings for not enough thrones<br />Or too many dim and slow witted clones<br />Or not enough homes for people who need<br />And not enough pairs, too many alone<br />Too many who care, too many to love<br />Too many who love are no longer there<br />So many not there, as distance creates<br />Unbridgable gaps, suspicion and hate<br /><br />Or too many words and too many books<br />Or not enough words, just feelings and looks<br />As silence is bled, as nothing is shed<br />With not enough said, just thoughts in the head<br />And not enough shared, in secret despair<br />Too many who care, too many alone<br />So many alone and not enough pairs<br />And not enough said, sweet secrets instead<br /><br />Lay blame at the schools with not enough rules<br />Lay blame at the fools who think they are cool<br />Perhaps at the feet of all whom you meet<br />Perhaps with yourself and everyone else<br />But understand sacrifice, simple and pure<br />It isn't a burden, it isn't a cure<br />But it is distraction, a moment, no more<br />A moment that maybe is worth living forJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01571267097006481481noreply@blogger.com0