Never Look Back

Only the now is reality…

And the past has ceased to be

The now is where we’re at you see

So let’s enjoy it…you and me

Life’s too short

and is at best a test…

Of our mettle can’t you see

So lets kick the ass of time gone past

Let’s enjoy the rest…you and me

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Candle In The Dark

‘Tis frail I am
And grown so thin
Tossed casually about now
By wisps of wind

Words now mock me
Phrases smirk and grin
But don’t count me out yet
I’m still hangin’ in

My light shines not brightly
But now seems to dim yet
In the dark I’ve still a spark
That glows deep within

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Things that get better with age

There are not too many things
In this world
one can count on

To get better with age
As the clock
ticks sublime

But, for me, there are three
That I always
can count on

One is friendship,
another is a lady
who loves you and…

The Bee Gees,
who just get better
...with time...

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If'...read it...live it!

If you have doubt
Of where you’re going
If you have little pride
In what you’ve done

If you have not the faith
That once defined you
If you’ve lost the way
From whence you’ve come

Then read the poem “If”
By Rudyard Kipling and…
Come from the darkness
Back into the sun

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Passage

It was crystal clear
At first

Then developed a haze
With the passage of time

Things remembered … clearly before
Now recalled quite differently

Time itself changing
Tilting forward…leaning back

Smokey film draped
Upon time silvered webs

Time weathered memories
…Slowly fading…

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It's only two a day

If you could stop two young boys
From dying today
Would you?

If you could share the fear
that they do feel today
Would you?

If you could bring
Them home today
Would you?

If you could take
Their place today
Would you?

If you want…you can make
A difference today…

But Will you?

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Yet We Love Them

Not all women be sweet
Nor be all women Tiny…
Some seem to me,
To be fresh and beautiful
as the sea…
And others…E’en a tiny bit briny.

Some speak smugly
Others speak whiny
While some be as Ugly…
as a monkey’s heinie
So, why do we love them?
…Beats the heck out of me! ! …

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Sensual

Fingertips
That brush my lips
That graze across
My closed eyelids

And tingle-dance
down my spine
In tactile touch
So damned divine

Fingertips
That brush my lips
Caress also
My mind

Like feathers touch
Breath held…too much!
So fiercely soft…like fingertips
dipped gently in white wine

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Root Beer Float Afternoon

It was one of those
kind of afternoons
When ball games were heard
From open windows

And houses had porches
And porches had swings
Where voices murmured softly
Into velvet humidity

It was the most precious of things
In the most treasured of times
It was a root beer float…
Kind of afternoon

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A wish...and a promise

Stay honest…stay true
And I’ll always be there for you

Be loving…be kind
And I will… forever love you

Be there always…for all of my life
Be my partner…in hard times,

In happiness
And strife

I’ll place no one before you…
And I’ll be always… the one

…..there for you….

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