Somebody, somewhere

I simply cannot stay
I've got to leave 'cause
somewhere, somebody's
waitin' for me

knows I'm comin' expects
me at a certain time I will
arrive

a shadow's runnin' into my light,
my arms unfurl, somebody somewhere
was waitin' allright I was right on time

somebody, somewhere will wait for me
ev'ryday, ev'ry hour 'till I come again,
a shadow will run to me all the same

a happy time a happy place, 'till
I have to go, it's hard to break away
somebody, somewhere, is waitin'
for me again

(c) JR. eightees

Maybe now I can care or even love

coming from the past reaching
into my dreams, you've come to
me into the shadow of my thoughts

maybe now I can care or even
love

as long as you stay don't leave
me again, as you did when we
were kids took of an' you were
gone

you came into my thoughts
when I least expected it, in
my dreams you were caught

maybe now I can care or even
love

I do try to make you stay I want to
know where I can find you again
but my dreams are fading

not much time left now, so tell me
where are you 'cause I really care
I want you about

once you were in my world, something
I can't shake I shuffle my deck of cards
up comes the queen of hearts

you belong in my heart maybe now
I can care or even love, many do say
a dream's no fake

come back to me tonight and tell me
exactly where you hide 'cause I can
feel something's not right

once I know I'll come and take you
away from whatever it is that keeps
you caged

into the shade where we met and
laughed never realising what we
had after so much we shared

I think somehow now I can care
or even love

(c) JR. 1985 

Summer of 2018

It's warm, warmer than warm, hotter than hot

my house's my shadow, under siege by an all

day long, undisturbed, cold and heartless glow

and yet...

my house's my house, it's loyal to me and

it will resist, won't give up its cool shield

protecting me from a power laying siege to it, 

day by day

and it will evade its reign and I ask myself

how much of life will be left after such a day

and then this heat calls it a day and leaves it up

to the night to come and give us a breather for a change

and yet.. 

the heat it knows, it knows what's been left behind

will still be hot enough to stay away from and hide

and I, I rise from my shadow into a new one, "the night'

it is then, I hear nature calling for me, she's thirsty

as she is ev'ry night and I, I bear her water, and more an more water

refreshing her thirst, 'cause she relies on me to pull her through

as long as it takes even if it seems in vain

(c) JR. 2018

A word

I'm in a black sea
motionless, in need
not a word, not a line
was sent to me

living in the shadow
I wonder, what chose me
to live this life given to me

I'm down on my feet
looking for resources
to get away, from the pain

running behind me
I can't believe
I'm in a black sea

motionless, in need
with not a line a word
sent to me

(c) JR.