Tag: Peace
Do you remember the year?
Well John and Mitchy were getting kind of itchy, cause it was kind of a drag to not be groovin’ on a Sunday afternoon. So I said we’re going to San Francisco and I don’t care how much money I gotta spend, so we can fly. Here, the hometown looks the same but, you’re gonna meet some gentle people there and the rows of houses are all the same and nobody seems to care. Nothing is real and there’s nothing to get hung about. So there’s not a trace of doubt in my mind that when logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead, you can either stand in the pouring rain or hide behind rainbow’s wall.
Now, it was on the third of June, another sleepy, dusty delta day you asked me if there’ll come a time that we’ll go riding along on a carousel. I thought you looked too good to be true. You told me, “I aint never loved a man.”
But baby, I need your lovin’ and I know what you want…baby, I got it.
So let’s spend the night together and don’t worry ‘bout tomorrow. Then, all over the world you can hear the sound of lovers in love.
That’s when we skipped the light fandango because we both knew that all you need is Love.
Rest
‘Rest is a good thing but boredom is its evil brother”
Rest; we all need it. A good night’s sleep can fill up our energy tanks and send us off to face a brave new world all bubbly and inspired. (Or is that coffee?)
But boredom is something quite different. It can make people drink too much, start extra-marital affairs, rob gas stations, deface property and even make us fat. Where rest gives us energy, boredom sucks it away. The root of all evil is not money, but boredom.
So keep your mind occupied: read a book, go for a walk, call a friend or learn how to play the guitar. Or as my son says, “become the pharaoh of the world.” Whatever it is, set a goal and keep working toward it.
Love and Peace
The Backyard Poet
Taking the Backroads
My youthful dreams walked
A thousand miles
Through your summer dust
Your jagged face pressed
Against my calloused feet
Your solitude, a reservoir
For so many unwritten thoughts
I cried the day
They covered you in black
And carried away my innocents
On the back of their empty promises
Among the Stars and Moon
Among the Stars and Moon
You told me so many stories
Tales of someday very soon
Your God would lift our mortal veil
And we would join the stars and moon
I paid no heed to your warnings
For I was innocent and young
I had so many dreams to live
Too many songs left yet unsung
Tonight the ring broke the silence
Told me your words had come to pass
That your God sent down his Angels
And they welcomed you home at last
Now, that age has crept upon me
Can’t help but think about it all
How, in my life, I seldom prayed
That’s if I ever prayed at all
If it’s not too late my brother
I’ll learn that celestial tune
So that we might dance together
Out there, among the stars and moon