I'm late, I'm late for a very important date

To put forth but not put in front
Give not for what it is but what you want
When you find the spot it moves a lot
So quickly it is that time is lost

Never knowing always showing
Never telling always allowing
leaving so quickly you are falling
staying still one is rotting

Finding not from what once came
but where it was when it began
Life is not a simple game
But it begins and ends all the same

No one knows what's been forgot
Pages are burned on the spot
Find it in your hart to look for what is locked
And when that door opens be careful for what it is not

One foot first

I stop for a moment and a shadow only follows 

Patiently staying pressing down heavily 

Foreign contributors so close to me

Decisions have past but now is the waiting game

What move is the right one and where is it landing

Love thy neighbor they say but I love my family 

God is watching but how much does he see 

Every small piece or the picture the puzzle makes

The clock spins so much slower than the fan blade 

Time never understands it only ends things

It is only from an ending that there is a beginning 

As a new seed grows so does its nurturing 

To take a step you must first learn to crawl

To take a breath you must exhale first

to fix something it must be broken first 

To take that journey you must leave your house 

Tao te ching

The tao is life where there is no life
death where there is life
Love where there is hate
and hate where there is too much love

People look up high for the tao because it is there
but it also pools at the bottom where no one wants to go
It is strength when you have fallen
It is the weak part of the rock that allows it to crack

It is you and I now and when we die
it is neither here nor there but everywhere
It is so complex it is in the move you make next
it is as simple as a step

To control it, it will overtake you
to flow with it, it flows to
it is the door to that other world you seek
the one right in front of you that you cannot see

how far down do you go?

Drip drop make it stop the pounding in my head and the water goes on
One more one less one little one will not be noticed
A piece of the pie a piece of the puzzle a piece of cake the pieces crumble
Give it all give it up give in give something

Something for nothing when nothing is nothing got to find something amongst all this nothing
Flavor is a taste but taste is a tease one little squeeze one more please
Share with me your secrets but keep your pain within
far behind your window pain no ones looking in

Skeletons in your closet skeletons under the bad skeletons behind flesh and skin skeletons when we are dead
Rivers of blood the river of Styx rivers are polluted rivers we are drinking in
Here to there there to here I have been here before what is it that you hear
Why are you here why were you there why is it that we ask ourselves why do we care

 The pin drops in precisely the way that you find it when you are not looking that day
One mans garbage is another man's treasure one person's pleasure is another one's disaster
If money is greed and greed only takes where does it go and how do we get it in the first place
If I were to fall would you still stand would you help me up or just walk away

I feel sick

I am sick of being sick
but the sickness is not sick of me
The soul rots the body
While gravity ways heavy on the mind

The brain becomes numb from the hum
Without a drink to ease my tong
I find myself questioning myself
To find what it is I believe

Like a curse leaving the body
Sometimes rest is all that is needed
But rest just leads to more questions
and answers only leads to more questioning

The forest seems so far from me
I am detached from where I want to be
Roaming through the desert
What does it mean to be free?

There once was a good man

The problem lies
And that's is why the solution is hard to find
Around the corners of the mind
Time and time again needs more time

Everyone knows only what they want to know
The deception is denial as the river flows
Through the words of every mouth
That creates so many roads

But with every path to choose
One too many right turns
And you are going in reverse
From what it was you wanted to learn

Left with nothing but breadcrumbs to follow
While everyone picks apart their own version of the story
Until what was once so straightforward
Becomes so bent and out of order

I will be there on that rainy day

Like a marker without a lid, I was dried up and not working
no more colours or pretty things, just a black and white canvas I was walking in
I felt like a rose on a grave that's always given to someone way too late
I'd  have one too many drinks they say but my place always seemed so far away

And like a marker without a lead, there was only one destination I was heading
Dirty places and that candy dish I always seemed to find my hand in
Every s your friend when there's money in your hand
But when its all gone you've hit that dead end

Then I met her one rainy night and the colours came pouring in my life
We'd hide under the covers during rainy days as the wind sang and the drops played
We turned that old house into a home and the pitter patter could soon be heard
Like a marker without a lid I am nothing without my kids

They love their momma and their poppa writes too much we argue and work it out
When they put their tinny hands in mine I would do anything to keep them alive
I'm no longer scared of lions, tigers, and bears
But if you go near my kids I will make sure you meet your maker


If someday someone was to ever says the kind of man I am
I hope they say I was a father to my sons
The kind of man my old man was
And if they ever look astray
I will be there on that rainy day

The winds of time blow their own way in the end

I'm just sitting here staring at the clouds in the air
Wondering where the time disappears
There was that moment with the person in mind
We spent on the beach until the sun peaked

Where did it all switch and what did I miss
Who says we never forget that kiss
What is it you wish when that coin flips
And falls to the bottom of the well with a dip

The trails we took
had been walked for years before my foot
The trials never stop going on and on
But who knows what it means when there done

Now I have been wrong more times then I have gone right
I watch the videos of my memories dancing in the firelight
All I can leave is this simple warning
Everyone ends with their name written in the sand

Tired these days

Drained like a battery in a toy that's been too much played
Strung along as though a puppet on a string
Dancing for the organ grinder in the streets
No one wants to trade for peanuts these days

Lemonds make lemonade but just as bitter without that sugars sweet taste
Honey straight from the hive comes with a sting
The rose has a thorn that will make you bleed
Hevan or hell waits for everyman between a woman's legs

The air is fresh on a cold crisp day
Patience is a virtue until it's your turn to wait
All answers can be found in the apples taste
What do you give when you cannot pay

Leave it alone and it will come back one day
Stare at the stars for a moment to escape
Lend a hand but never give it away
Smell a flower on the first spring day

Hello

Find what is lost that you do not even notice is gone

Look deep inside for that thing that hides from itself 

Give away everything but you still won't find anything

Search for a thousand years and when it is your grasp it will fade away

As small as a grain of sand as tall as a mountain 

Strong as a pillar and yet like a blade of grass

A branch will break and many will stay 

Rain is but a drop in someone's bad day 

The sun is great except on a hot desert day 

A fine cigar is free when its the match that costs money

Wishes are like dreams they only stay until the memory fades

More often than not black and white fades into gray

If you say stop, the world just keeps moving on anyways

Lines are drawn and its the eraser that gets paid

If you find the time you will find the day

In a lonely place, a hello goes a long way  

Scard?

The morning breaks and the sun takes
It's tole on the night's mistakes
One drink too many in the morning
Is one more is never enough the night before

Only because of the word responsible
Do this don't do that do what they say to be a better life
If one beer a day is good then better make it ten
Care not for my mistakes when you hide yours under your bed

The place you're scared to look when trapped in your head
The spirits whisper in your ear when you have drunken their liquor
The only person you become is the person you are deep inside
Those who are scared of themselves are scared to try

Scared to die and scared to live is a prison you are in
A wall of fear a stage of fright what gets you through the night
To give in to give up to be controlled by everything
Or to break free break thee brake one day from everything

The seed is planted

A taste so sweet it must be free
Nercruer of song and life and love
Flows like the bee the birds the sea
Sits up high far from you and me

Leaves that fall and rain and snow
Give way one day for what will grow
Time is time and time will be
Time will tell almost everything

Trees of might were once seeds so small
Trees in a group grow straight and tall
Trees along grow wide and windy
One is knotty the other is used for building

Shade of shades and colours of flags
Prayers of years and days gone by
Boots and shoes one walked in for miles
Are so quickly changed when they become worn

Your Dime or mine?

Care not for the not for me not for what is what to be
where it is at where it sat where it was when it was free
show the sign show the line show yourself in due time
give not not enough if enough is not enough
bring yourself in your most purest form if you dare to try

if an angle is closer or further then a straight line
find the time to walk a line
where we sat and where we are at
close and yet so so far from that

gifts and giving taking and leaving
one does not side the same
share a word share a thought
share a time one forgot

see nothing but everything
close your eyes and open them again
you are you and I am I
we will find time to set aside

Now is only now because of then

If it were to be would it see does it say anything
Would it stay in the fold or wrinkle its noes
To find the cause it's been sold
One foot in front of the other is the way it goes

Driftwood would never stay and never go
It only flows with the flow
The trees only dance when the wind blows
The sun shines when the clouds go

Stare into the air of what is not even there
as memories take hold you watch the show
Of places and people so long ago
Stuck in time while the mind travels there

The first kiss the first wish the first time we did this
The last dance the last song the last one before it was gone
Days before nights hard we've learned from
A moment that made you smile makes it all worthwhile