Valley of peace

more than ever

can a road be longer

an end in a never, never

exposing the true nature

of a lose canon

firing up and down the line of time

all the time

it is a season

of change that has to come

when he walks again

into his valley of peace

where his anger dies

in his new found harmony

he thought he was wrong

but then again

reading between the lines

as his empty heart dries up

without any complaint,...

he was right all the time

now he is at the abyss

a turning point

where he will get a chance

to live and smile again

looking for the one

with a reason to stay

(c) JR. 2024 

Nights on the town

when nobody is around

everybody is asleep

and silence is a peaceful sound

I'm looking through a window out

into the dark outside, reminiscing

 remembering all those nights on the town

full of laughter, full of life, full of sound

thinking it would never end

now everybody is asleep

an' silence,...

has become a peaceful sound

I'm looking through a window, out

into the dark outside,  remembering

all those nights

(c) JR. 2024

maybe I'll make a song out of this one JR.

Het raam waarop ik schrijf

Life

 Life is not always a good friend

It can bounce, step down, toss you around

let you down, cross boundaries

and,...

never look back

Life's not always a good friend

JR 2024

He's been there

he has been there

when a heart breaks

is torn apart

thrown into its own ashes

covered by the shade

of a not so kind gesture

as time admits it made a mistake

he's been there

when a life once so beautiful

comes to an end

as speech once so sweet 

now so unkind, so unwise

so hard to bear

becomes so denied

he's been there

when time is not on your side

not so understanding

destroying your believe

in what's wrong an' right

as life seems so lost

in its own demise

he's been there

he now knows what its all about

the wonder of life in his eyes

says it all

lessons learned

new cards dealt

on a rearranged table

an' so much more to go 'round

(c) JR. 2024

Something's goin' on

he's walking down this path

of his memories

the path where they should be

something's goin' on

no memory makes an appearance  here

has he lost them all

what's happening here

they're gone, had they left him

if they did

let there be peace in the valley

after all those years

he thought he had lost them all

but then again 'NO '

the good ones were still there

saved by time

time had played a trick on him

as time sometimes likes to do

and yes, something had been goin' on

it was time

time made his pain disappear

(c) JR. 2024

Long and winding road

so, he's sitting there in in his chair

looking out and back at that road he has taken

wondering, what life can be, what it still has in store for him

at the end on this forever long and winding road life is

crossing into sentiments, boundries, crossing into

a mind experienced  and satisfied, with what life's

put out for him, it will not always be rewarding

it will disagree with every aspect of its and your being

he knows it has been a long and sometimes exhausting journey

in the undertaking, taking him to every aspect of life he wanted to see

feel and deal with, he travelled all the roads he could find multiple times

he won't say it gave him the wisdom of a godly mind, 'cause somewhere down the line

he still makes the mistakes of the human kind, all he can say, he's satisfied at where he is at

as his journey, however has not yet come to an end, he knows he will be in awe what life

can still offer him and if it it wants to take away again, as that's what life does now and then.

(c) JR. 2024

So much more

I'm out on this road

looking ahead into 

its distance

looking for a way out

looking for a way back

into my life

looking for a comeback

counting the milestones

almost losing track of

what I ever had...is...

when I find her

at the side of the road

showing me her true colors

in this life

harvesting her lost emotions

one by one

leaving no answer unchecked

telling me her dreams of a future

her future never shared

as she came to me

with that sweet innocence

in her eyes

asking for a love

her so many times denied

she found it with me

and she grew into this

beautiful, breathtaking woman

whom I could never deny love

as the love for her

was so much more I could ever

find

(c) JR. 2024