Love Story

 no more reasons to cry, no more years to go by

no more words to say in pain, no more anger to remain

no more lessons to be learned, no more reasons to stay

so,...if you're out there planning your next move

it might be a good time to reflect on what your causing  

when you do

we've come to where a Love story's a Love Story

'no way ' so let us talk, wish each other well and 

let this exchange of words, find its peace in the valleys 

of our soul where only sanity is the way

but if you're still out there planning your next move

not reflecting at what you do, think it through let this 

barrage of words

find a way to seize in our valleys of reason

where we say goodbye and walk away to where

solitude will become our best friend for many a day

(c) JR. 2022

I ain't home

sometimes, the hours are lonely, empty

without any words or space to breath 

sometimes I cannot hide my anger

and speak the words I should speak as

my relief 

and I know there will be no answer

she's not here to hear these  words I breath

but these words I speak I speak in her 

lingering silence 

and are mine and mine only to speak

 

and I leave the walls that surround me

to meet the world once promised to me

'cause this prison of silence is not meant for 

any one not even me

and yes, she should consider her options her new reality

I ain't home and never no more will I be I left my anger 

at the threshold of her ignorance walking out of  her room

walking out of her existing silence

a silence now her own new realty

(c) JR. 2022

 

May not be all that much

 

A face can only excist

with eyes that can  live and see inside

the thoughts they hide, the fear that's there

and the love it wants to share

the coldness it casts in despair

it may not be all that much

but it is all what they've got

yet eyes can be tamed, eyes can even destruct and maime

eyes can turn insane if jealousy is the name

eyes can scream wild for what they want and didn't get

and yess the eyes, they can be bad

it might not be all that much, but the eyes can make it a lot

eyes... are the face, they express anger and laughter

sadness and badness, almost any thing at will

love for life, the pain and the fear inside

its all in the eyes, it may not be all that much

but it is all what they've got

(c) JR. 80's

The long goodbye

when you left for no reason with all that anger inside
you left but you never left us comin' in like an angel
leavin' with a lie but on your ride of the long good bye
you never left us you just had something on your mind

and I know some sweet day I will hear that ol' familiar
knock from way back in time and I'll know you've come
back from your ride on the long good bye with that same
ol' lie never admitting you just couldn't leave us behind


(c)  JR. 2018