Sad sad world

 a sad sad world

with its lonely tears

waiting... 

'till the morning comes

(c) JR. 2023

Sleep

when the night is lonely

and begs the morning to come in

is it only the sleep of the justified

that separates them

(c) JR. 2022

Mistakes

when the night is lonely embracing its stars

when its dawn is breaking embracing the morning

with its scars

will we relive our mistakes as again the night

embraces its lonely stars

and when we do wil we meet the dawn and its morning

without its scars

(c) JR. 2022 (c) Photo

 

Takin' it easy

 and I'm taking it easy

lying low in the shadow of my thoughts

thinking of you in that new morning of our past

hoping I'll find us a peace in which you and me

can have more than a promise in life much more

we can ever forget

knowing, hoping searching for a way

finding a way, finding again what we once had

in which we laughed, loved yet never cried 

yes, we were only living the good times

 and now I'm taking it easy

lying low in the shadow of my thoughts

thinking of you, wondering how I can get to you

so far away, so far out of range, so lost in your memories

of a past almost dead and gone and a future that didn't last

and I'm hoping, searching for a way

to leave that past behind bringing it up to you

into a new morning where we can wonder again

and find a way to live and not forget there's always

a way in which we can find each other in a promise

of a future that will last

and I'm taking it easy

(c) JR. 2020

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

A life living worth while

she was fair
she was kind
she was all
those things
love can find
it was a life
living worth while

then she changed
a change came overnight
as a new morning
broke its light

she met me
coming up
with a cold stare
in her eyes
a winter had come
and crept inside
her mind

and all I could do
was wait for
a new summer
to arrive

I waited many a year
sometimes I almost
lost my mind
and yes
a miracle came
a new summer
did arrive

where she met me
coming up the way
with a smile
and a shine
in her eyes

and once again
life became
living worth while

(c) JR. 2020

Shade of loveliness

and when I see her walking
in the early hours of the morning
through the fields of our yesterdays
with the shine of a new tomorrow
in her eyes I can only sigh

it is when I love her innocence the most
walking through our morning's haze into
the brightness of a coming day wondering
what life will bring when our future finds
its self where our hearts sigh

and when I see her walking in the early hours
of this morning with a breeze running through
the darkness of her hair I know it is that shade
of loveliness I want to share

(c) JR. 2019

Lost in a smile

an' I see her comin' with a smile
on her face a laugh in her eyes
and I, I was lost inside

so when she left I was lost, lost
in a smile I knew never would be
mine now it's been many years
an' ev'ry mornin'

standin' on the porch I see her
comin'  hear her laugh in the wind
see that smile on her face

stoppin' right in front of me lookin'
at me with her famous laugh an' smile
sayin' to me

'I've come to see you again' and
she sees me smile but that's just
me dreamin'

starin' into the distance lookin'
for something that will not be
an' ev'ry mornin'

I see her comin' hear her laugh
see that smile upon her face and
yes I know I'm only dreamin' lost
in a smile

(c) JR. 2019

So tender so cruel

as the dream of my youth, where I found love
so real, yet never knew, is fadin', it leads me into
a new mornin'

where my heart's achin' as I'm wakin', bringin' me
back the only realty it ever knew, somethin' there
in my mind

chose to be tender, yet so cruel, as it brought  up
all my yesterdays with you, where I was full of
the tenderness and love

the ones, you never knew of, it then comes to my mind,
how tender, yet so cruel, a dream can be when it is
overruled by all those yesterdays

in an attempt to please, but leaves you behind in its
wake, so tender, so cruel, an dreams, ...
do they ever come true

(c) JR. 2018

My Heaven

she's like an angel in the morning
when she looks me in the eye and
folds her wings around me with
her restful holy sigh

and she shows me my heaven with
her garden waiting inside and I know
we will taste her fruit when we reap
what we sowed all through the night

and she takes me to all those lovely
places where she knows she'll blow
my mind

and she shows me she's my heaven
with her garden waiting inside

(c) JR. 2018

That new morning

and I will stay as long as I can
slowly I will set the pace driftin'
into the wonders of the night

enjoying my stay feelin' so young
again and slowly, yes slowly goin'
through the motions

I will bring on that new morning
let it live again for yet another day
and I am... so very happy

(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

My heaven

she's like an angel in the morning
when she looks me in the eye and
folds her wings around me with
her restful holy sigh

and she shows me she's my heaven
with her garden waiting inside and
I know we will taste her fruit when
we reap what we sowed all through
the night

and she takes me to all those lovely places
where she knows she'll blow my mind and
she shows me she's my heaven with
her garden waiting inside


(c) JR. 2018