Cuts

everything changes when life takes a break

it feels like a thousand cuts when someone

steps out of range

yet life can change your thousand cuts

and when changed you will never feel

them again

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Choices

when the sun goes down

darkness is not your best friend

when a lonely wolf howls a not idle warning

your danger is ahead

as the moon kills your last thread of courage

when it knows the morning is still far away 

and your choices have bled themselves to death

in your own made up bed

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Void

when feelings grow old

and love dies in a void of its own

it is not despair but relief that shows

'cause love can never survive on its own

once gone,...just let it go

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Harm or Danger

the rivers of my soul 

flow gently

without any harm or danger

to myself or those around me

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Time in short supply

you're on the wrong train

you jumped, you bolted, you ran 

you far away

on a non stop train

your runnin' will never end

never a new place to descend

you'll keep on runnin' 

it will never end

all those years down the line

you chose to run down that line

trying to keep track of time

it seems you were only mine

for a while

something tells me

you'll never be satisfied

and something 

you may have missed

your time is in short supply

(c) JR. 2025

For the crowd

somewhere down the line

I knew I was right, you were done

you were out, someone else came about

you were leaving, you were in so many ways

always for the crowd

so now you're done, you wanna play around

have fun, I'm movin' on, movin' out, you were

in so many ways always for the crowd

I knew all along, you wouldn't stay

it was just a game you played, and I know the game

you played yourself well, you played yourself too well

(c) JR. 2025

Your best friend

I was there, I wasn't there 

I should have been there 

I lost myself in my cause

sometimes there's  a reason

I was the reason, I did what I had to do

as well as I could

I stood my gound, I didn't back down

sometimes a bullet is your best friend

and revenge a dish served well cold

(c) JR. 2025

Sometimes

sometimes, it happens

good things grow,...but never last

in the dark dusty shadows of love

where love changes, where love ages

and never ever gets caught in the dark

dusty shadows of love

The Dream

nobody knows the troubles I have seen

nobody knows the dreams you dream are

not the dreams ever so real

it's only the memoreis that make it seem

(c) JR. 2025