The remains of the day

tired of the day to sleep I me lay
I take with me the remains of the day
some nice some sad dreams aren't that
bad

things linger on, bring on a restless night
broken moonlight invades my dreams givin'
me an unease

yet most of the time I'm allright, a first ray
of sunlight, up an' about, cryin' out loud ready
for a new day

it will make me sing, the remains of that day
I'll take with me when to sleep I me lay

(c) JR. 2013

Another day

so, in the middle of the day when
the sun is out, I smell the new born
hay, an' I know life's been good to me
at where I'm standing for yet another
day

its struggle has left me for a while not
knowing where or when it will return
I cherish this brief moment in time as
I know it won't stay 'cause its forever
changing into something new ev'ry day

somethin' I've got to engage again  when
time blows its lonely horn, and when I hear
that lonely horn I will know time's come to me
with another test on a new day where I'm ready
to engage into the struggle, life is for yet another
day

(c) JR. 2018

We don't touch

we look, an' see what we haven't got
we laugh, but there's no smile in our
laugh 'cause...we don't touch

our days are empty, nights shortly lived
and a lot, we cannot fill them with what
we haven't got...we don't touch

and ev'ry morning is not a new day 'cause
our yesterdays are gone and won't come
again

and when we talk our words are caught
in their hollow silence 'cause... we don't
touch...we're not in love


(c) JR. 2018

Tobacco road

Midsummer, Sunday afternoon
sun's high up in the sky at the
sweat of the day

fields o' green dominate the vieuw
there's a humm a song rises up someone
starts to sing about the only freedom he
has

the freedom within, it's a religious song
a powerfull song, a bearer of strenght
others pick up on it start fallin' in

it sings about all the lost yesterdays
an' their tomorrows, as it finds its way
down Tobacco road

where the blues never end


(c) JR.  2017

carried burdens

on a lazy Sunday afternoon
as I was walking along the river
I noticed the sun low in the sky
getting near the end of the day

so peacefull, gracefulle dying
at that moment I became restful
burdens, carried on my shoulders
seemed to leave me for a while

I sensed suddenly, nature took a rest
it took its time, leisurely came the night
and I melted down with the Universe
exploring the stars, lighting up the sky

a calm had fallen upon me at midnight
I was alone, at peace down by the riverside
I realised, this was really the way to live
took a deep breath feeling so right

the water, calmly broke on to the banks
I heard the cricket play its song
a rowboat was lying there on its side
rolled it over and set out on the river

I never  felt so at ease rowing the boat
my worries had dropped into the rriver
slowly I was getting there to my little heaven
and when I reached it I recognised it

it was early in the morning at dawn
I returned to the bank of the river

left the boat in the place where it belonged
and...
walked the path back through the village

finally I had found the pace of life
never was I to carry burdens again
they had vanished at midnight on
the river


(c) JR.    2013