kers

 in de peilloze diepte van het leven

kom je tegen wat anderen hebben vergeten

de room en kers op de taart , een taart 

met zijn door het leven gevulde room 

en de kers de kroon op ieders werk

die altijd blijft en nooit opgaat

(c) JR.

Somewhere out there

as a feast finds it self in its ending
and silence takes its rightfull place
in a room lost for words

a man's resting his eyes on the now
empty chairs, trying to recollect the
image of the person that sat there

it is then a door finds its lock and key
and a room out there, somewhere, is
cast into the lonelyness of the lost
word again

(c) JR. 2018

Dark glasses

when I slide 

my dark glasses on
in my bright lit room

everything

seems to change 

into 

a warm old
friendly brown

there are many 

shades of light 

mine
to be shade of twilight 

when I leave
my bright lit surroundings

I return to

that old friendly 

brown world,
and running 

like a mad dog

I slide them on
those dark brown 

shades

they will take me 

into that new world
where music

women an' wine 

are 

the benefitting trade

stay there a while 

if you like 

enjoy it to the most 

if you know how 

make
yourself at home

stay awake 

in the midst of night 

hear
the sound of laughter 

caress the walls
of 

your surroundings

your the talk

of the town 

many faces
wear a frown 

of what you might 

be doing
in the little hours 

of the tranquil night

you're invited to take 

a deeper insight
they all  wear 

the same glasses 

they're all hear 

for a good time

they don't expect you 

to go 

before daylight 

so sing a little, talk a little
kiss a little

and do take 

your time 

in the zone 

of twilight 

and when you go home 

take of the shades

it'll take you back 

to the room you
came from

it'll take you back 

to
your reality again

(c) JR. 2018

Scent of a woman

just two people passin' by in a lonely room
full of happy people, she was leavin' with
a smile

a scent of a woman lookin' for somethin'
she just couldn't find and I saw her go off
into her dark cloak of the night

wondering, would I have stopped, would
I have paid attention to that faint scent of
a woman

so close, so near waitin' for me to take her
away into the still of this night, would she
then not have passed me by

I failed, I wasn't prepared we were just
passers by

(c) JR. 2018

Just another room

I'm travellin' down the road
sellin' my stuff wherever I go
I'm good at it somethin' I do well
takes me to remote places sometimes
that little out of the way

still I enjoy it, at the end of the road
just another room where I stay the
same girl with the same innocent eyes
asks me ' will I stay all night' yes it is

I know what to expect when I go up
she's lyin' in my bed in just another room
a new morning arrives she's gone happens
all the time, I pay my bill hoot my horn

leave the place another day on the road
another day of what I do well in the end
just another room where I rest well


(c) JR.