Love's the name

sometimes
it can be found a moment away
into the distance where a new morning
is waiting, 'cause it likes to play
this ancient game and love's the name

where it is a search into time as nothing is certain
and nothing else remains but the riscs you have to try
in comes that moment of love as it is ready for the taking
and then again sometimes it just won't come out to play

(c) JR. 2020

One sweet day

she was the one
I had touched
she was the one
with my laugh
she was the one
that went away
it was her laugh
that didn't stay

and I knew
some sweet day
I'd hear
that laugh again
yet
years went
and passed by
something told me
I was telling myself
a lie

just
I wouldn't feel the pain
'cause I knew
I wouldn't
hear that laugh again

I still can see her smile
but all this time I knew
this laugh
it wasn't mine

so some sweet day
I decided
this laugh was not for me
to have or stay

(c) JR. 2020

An old love

she crept up on me while I was sleeping

started about what once had been, I sensed

something was wrong, I knew I had to find her

would I know if I saw her, would the years not 

keep her away from me, I got up, still wondering

about her, with guestions at the back of my mind

I couldn't answer any of them, she had dropped

out of sight since a long time, her trail had run cold

there was nothing left to see, all I could do was

dig it up, at its roots she might be

I was getting near, so very close when I read this

ad in the paper and its news was bad, all it said was

I could stop digging, I could stop thinking of ever

finding her

now I've got all the answers and none of them

I like, it now is a never ending story, they take

a long time to die

(c) JR. 2019