True friend

Silence is a true friend 

who never betrays.

(c) JR. 2023

A darkness

over the road of darkness

travel those denied the light

they're spirits chained to their history

be it just or not

and they all have a tale to tell

how it came about in that pit they fell

where only a silence reigns

where cries are muffled and souls maimed

and a cold flame houses an evil way

it does not burn their flesh away

but still leaves a thousand pains

(c) JR. 2014

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

Somewhere out there

as a feast finds it self in its ending
and a 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 an'
key and a room somewhere, out there
is cast into the loneliness of...

the lost word again

(c) JR. 2018

A Silence

all I wanted was to think come
to terms with my surroundings
where

I didn't find a will to listen to
the silence I bear, a silence is
in me

keeps me out of touch, out of
reach, guarding my secrets a
silence is in me

so I struggle on, fighting
contradiction in a process of
regaining

a balance in my soul, I need
'cause a silence is in me regaining
my security

is all I need to get by, this silence
will leave me in its retreat, free, on
the mend

I'll step into life again, a silence is
in me, keeps me out of touch out of
reach

it will always leave, a silence is in
me

(c) JR. lyrics eightees

Where trails don't match

we trail along saying nothing at all
a Sunday afternoon in a forest wide
yet small

where silence sets the pace not

a birds call, our trails don't match

at all

we live different lives, we have

different styles, we don't talk with

thoughts being, hers or mine

our trails don't match, we don't care

for love, we only met, no more than

that

it is not in us to love, we don't have 

much, not the touch, we're strangers

we only met

we'll be like that ev'ry day that comes

to pass, 'cause our trails don't match

no sound ever the same

no thoughts alike, we're just partners

in somethin' we both like, a dance 

routine

strings us together, makes us cling

for a while, it don't last, 'cause our

trails don't match

(c) JR. Ninetees