Man of taste, style and a smile

the eyes,...that look at you, wander all over you

are the eyes that wanna mess with you

from way back, years on the ride, walking through

this valley of peace in your soul and mind

when that time comes something is very clear,...

you've been found, that man of taste, style and a smile

that laughs at society, 'cause you will never comply

with their sense of taste, style and a smile, as the eyes

that wandered all over you, are walking with you,...

down this road, where only love grows, 'cause she

wanted to mess with you

(c) JR. 2025

A mind so beautiful

sometimes I look over my shoulder

into the distance of a lost yesterday

a yesterday I left behind something 

comes to mind

a mind so beautiful, so full of love, in love

I guess I should have stayed, I should have tried

I left somewhere around midnight

I had that urge buried in me, deep inside

an urge to be again on that road

be on that stage, perform, my way of life

I couldn't resist and I couldn't hide

so now I'm back on that road

enjoying what I do best,... yet what you do best

always comes at a price. I had to leave 

a beautiful mind

so sometimes I look over my shoulder

into the distance of a lost yesterday

a yesterday I left behind, something 

comes to mind

a mind so beautiful, so full of love, in love

I guess I should have stayed, I should have tried

I left somewhere around midnight

(c) JR. 2025

Prince of darkness

when the night has come upon me

and Lucifer's wrath is nothing more

than an unreal dark hole, with nothing to offer

 

trying to spil his venom into my mind and soul

in an attempt to stop my new morning from coming in

I challenge my fate and his poisen dies a brutal death

as my willpower is more than he can take

claiming my new morning as a release for my peace

when its light caresses my mind, body and soul

healing his madness of darkness,...

inside me.

(c) JR. 2025

Escape

when the rain has fallen, but its solution, a road less travelled 

still speaks a lie, take no prisoners but escape into the light 

'cause,...even the smallest amount of happiness 

can last a lifetime 

(c) JR. 2025

Forever love

I need a reason and the reason's 'why'

'cause why should I stay, when my world's falling apart ans astray

you were my first choice, my first love, I trusted you

with all my trust and my forever love

now,...cast aside in a whirlwind of dust and forever time

maybe you think in what you had was never there

but sometimes what you think, was always there and never left

just you know,... I've known your reason, all along and all too well

So now in parting our ways, I wish you well, my advice, don't come back

'cause regret will be all you have

(c) JR. 2025

On a sweet Summer's day

I don't know why

but she came to me on a sweet Summer's day

a sweet lady, with her sweet breeze of the day lying in wait

and she took my love, showed it to everybody's eyes

she was so much in love and everybody knew why

she gave me that meaning in life, so many are denied

but to me it was a gift, given to me with a smile

and every time I look at her I still can see 

the reason why.

(c) JR. 2025

Smile

I am a man of taste, style and a smile

I laugh at society, 'cause,...I will never comply

to their sense of taste, style and a smile

(c) JR. 2025

Pieces of the unknown

a tear was blocking my view into her heart

as I felt it break into its pieces of the unknown

making me wonder, what happened to cause those  tears

to be shed as they were never shed before, there was no story, memory

or even recollection, as the origin of those tears, was never known

she only looked at me with her eyes in accuse, no words

only silence leaving her breath, still,...

I wonder why she left, in her quiet with drawl

I saw her walking away into ever greener pastures

then,...

I deep down in my heart,...knew 

(c) JR. 2025 

A tear in her eye

the first time we met

I was speechless an ache in progress

consuming, no free surrender

addiction calling for its numbers

so,...we knew, we knew, yet we carried on

holding on to something, we could only lose

so intens, burning inside and out,...

as long as we possibly could

and we did,... a whistle blew

leaving us with only one more last move

her eyes locked into mine

we kissed, a soft goodbye, a tear in her eye

a ship sailed into its own stormy weather

yet love prevailed, it would transcend time

(c) JR. 2025

Noise

there's a room I go and talk to

as the walls of my past listen to the secrets that lie hidden

until a silence falls my speech falters and fails

there is no reason, no reason why I should lose myself

in the noise and earthquakes of the words of my mistakes

as I don't care about any word that leaves my breath

travels through those walls and be heard,...over and over again

it will be my yesterdays words that will fall in ruin

as their dust settles down, covering those words once spoken

burying their sound in not a shy way

slowly I am getting up, starting over knowing mistakes 

have a reason of learning as they always do, over and over again.

 

(c) JR. 2025

Somewhere between Dawn and Midnight

So,...I rounded a corner or two

never looking back, movin' on

remisniscing not my style

I'm out for forever time

said, "you'll be sorry'

somewhere down the line

a smile said, 'NO'

so sorry I was right

somewhere down the line

again I made my mark

earned my place in life

killin' time

so now I'm just killin' time

a Scotch on the rocks

feelin' so right

do I think about her

sometimes, somewhere

between Dawn and Midnight

not often

there were the good times

(c) JR. 2025 

Elke keer als ik val, gedicht naar het muziek nummer You raise me up

daar staat zij dan

mijn steun mijn toeverlaat

immer sterk, immer stavast

wanneer het leven mij ontglipt

is zij mijn stuwende kracht

ook als het mij weer vast pakt

zij beurt mij elke keer op als ik val

omvat mij met haar liefde

die mij altijd weer verrast

en mij,...

dan ook weer terugzet op het pad

dat het leven 

voor mij uitgetekend had

mijn steun mijn toeverlaat

immer sterk, immer stavast

ik zing haar mijn waardering

voor de waarde

die zij in mijn leven bracht

zij beurt mij op, elke keer als ik val,...

elke keer als ik val

(c) JR. 2025

Het zoet van de overwinning

als dan het donker 

van de wolken zich samenpakt

zijn donderslagen zich uitrollen 

en de bliksem inslaat

de regen jouw toekomst kastijd

lijf en leden ranselt

en,...daarin voluit gaat

zelfs de adem

van jouw zelfvertrouwen even stokt

maar,...

ondanks alles

de bliksem en de donderslagen

achter zich laat

hoe zoet is dan, na de pijn,...

de overwinning

als

uiteindelijk het leven

toch weer voor jou kiest

en,...

met jou verder gaat

(c) JR. 2025

When the love's gone

as the morning's coming down on me

love's gone past its point of no return

and never made it into the day of light

the night has played out the words not said

and a decision has arrived

(c) JR. 2025

Loyal

The man said to his wife, I love dogs

they're faithful, loyal and never leave

that's why I love you, the next day

he was divorced,...he wondered why.

(c) JR. 2025 

Fire

I've seen the fire

I've seen its pain and I've seen its rain

I've seen its death and I've seen it fade

(c) JR. 2025

Doubt of my fears and my desires

when again I'm on that endless road in my mind

build by my desires driving in a high speed chase

on a round about, looking for an exit, not about

to lose the doubts of my fears and my desires

in some empty dusty lane, in the aftermath

of a mental fire,... its flames desire 

to burn me down, yet I've put

my fearless thoughts at work

as they extinguish this

imminent threat

(c) JR. 2025 

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Time

I'm gonna run and run  

'cause my time is running out of time

I've been runnin', runnin' most of my life

to beat it to the draw, to beat it to the finish line

so,...now I have discovered

I can no longer run,...running time 

out of its ending time

I've got to accept, my time's stopped running

and it is calling, steadily walking away

to the end of its line

still,...I haven't lost, 'cause,...

when I reach the finish line

and my eternity awaits me

time will have become endless

and it's running, is no more requiered 

to beat infinite time

(c) JR. 2025

Space an' peace

he sits in his chair in his silence

wondering what the world's about

to bring him in his solitude

he knows it might be very little

but in life it's the little things not

the grand gestures that count

they will take you further up your mountain

of progress than anything else in life that will be around

solitude is not an hindrance it is a way to grow in your

spiritual existence

it will bring and give you your so much needed

space an' peace a peace each and every man in

his life needs

(c) JR. 2024