Saturday, September 20, 2008

the flowery rain...

walking down the road
with flowers in my hair
humming familiar songs
forgetting life's unfair

running from a past
I'd sooner like to forget
flashing pictures of him
still live in my head

I try to block them out
still the stabbing pains
makes everything much harder
now here comes the rain

the lightning crackles
a sunbolt through the sky
I am getting soaked
my humming songs have died

the thundering song
echoes through the world
soaked through to the bone
my hairs no longer curled

the flowers in my hair
have all washed away
all of my hopes
in total disarray

the raindrops from the sky
have become the tears
I cant cry for myself
ever through all these years

I've lived a life of torture
refusing to leave me behind
something good's out there somewhere
it's yet for me to find

his broken liquor bottle
lays before me somehow
I didn't see the glass
my feet are bleeding now

it's been a long journey
a longer one's ahead
I wonder if I'll make it
Or if I'll get there dead

I picked fresh new flowers
braided them through my hair
I started humming songs
forgetting that life's unfair

For My Grandma

Elma Elizabeth Irwin

February 2, 1915 - January 28, 2000

For My Grandma
Who was loved very much
With such a warm heart
Everyone she touched

Always warm and jolly
She had a tender way
So in our hearts forever
My Grandma will always stay

She'd greet you with a "howdy"
Her funny way of saying "hi"
She will always be remembered
So she will never really die

Although I'm sure shes happy now
Where we will see her again one day
I know she will miss us
As we do for her today

So Grandma if you're listening
Which I'm sure that you are
We love you very much
You're our bright and shining star

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Cornflake Man

With his box of cornflakes
at his head
he sleeps in a broken-down bus shelter
unshaven*unloved
he is alone
a tub filled with ratty hairbrushes and toothbrushes
rests by his side
this bus shelter is surely his home
he starts to waken
then realizes
'I don't have to go to work today'
so he resides back
into his slumber

Driving pain
Eating into your heart
Another loved one
Taken away
Heaven, Hell, or somewhere in between

About a boy...

When we met
I fell for you
When I got up
You were gone
Getting up
Was far more painful
Than falling