Some of the good times

sometimes,...when the clouds gather again

I think of you, wondering if I'd ever come again

I did, as I always did, on time always with you

always around, untill something showed, lingered

and was passed around in my mind it hit a nerve in 

a corner of my mind, 

a possibility, I couldn't deny, I decided to put it to the test 

and was found right, it now is many years ago, a pain lingers

buried in my mind

I tried to shake it, fold it, throw it away, I didn't succeed

it just remained, hard to accept, memories can mellow in time

turning the hands of time in to something better, a more worthy life

and sometimes, time reminds you, of what once was...

some of the good times

(c) JR. 2026 

About Grief

sometimes,...

you don't see the pain behind the eyes

but it's there if you look for the signs

(c) JR. 2024

Clear as glass

nothing compares to

the music of the soul

it can sing as loud as it can

and sometimes it cannot

be heard by 'men'

but when it keeps on singing

and its intentions are loud and clear

it will be heard and if love's the case

its music will not be deterred

it will reach

each and every single part

of someone's heart

and its message

will be clear as glass

(c) JR. 2023

Smile

Sometimes all you have to do is smile

to make someone else's life worthwhile.

(c) JR. 2023

Waiting to connect

sometimes

love will be that stranger

you never met

and sometimes cloudy days

will bear that heavy burden

you didn't expect

and sometimes

you're just glad

they're the days you've had

and sometimes

love will be that friend

lying low in waiting

to connect

when your times

are troubled

when you're out of touch

and out of step

and you just didn't connect

it will be that love

coming to you

over the mountains

in your mind and soul

finding you comforting you

as only love can do

(c) JR. 2023

Solitude

sometimes, time doesn't live up to its promises

and takes me down a road I never wanted to go

I'd give anything, to again experience the sweetness

a love can bring

I know the pain, when it doesn't, stops and is taken away

from you, beyond your control and then it is lost forever

the truth is, once it has died in that way it is hard to find

and almost impossible to retrieve again a chance is only

given once, never twice

so when you do live on into your solitude

memories are those pieces of happiness 

that are left to you, until their silence finds you

(c) JR. 2022

Sometimes

Sometimes

the times are troubled and out of line

and these times they're the times all about the lies

sometimes

when there's no peace in the valleys of our minds

speech will become the prison of a restricted time

and conversations wil be in a plain spoken tongue

filled with the poisen of the unjustified

and meaningless talk will become the correct way

of dealing with the free word caught up in the dominance

of the incorrect mind

and sometimes in the end a new truth of the untruthful will come

and some will think and say that's just fine

(c) JR. 2022

the most you can have

sometimes

love's an answer you do not expect

and sometimes

trust is a treasure once given never upon to tread

sometimes

a life together is what you can share but most just don't get

and sometimes

most important of all is your soul given to the other

to cherish and to have

sometimes this is the most you can have

(c) JR. 2022

Whispering

and sometimes I hear her
when she comes to me in my sleep
and into the restlesness of my thoughts
whispering to me her words as melodies of love
and I wonder will she come and visit me again
as the night closes in where she's my hunger and pain
knowing she will whisper but never come again

(c) JR. 2020

Richness

sometimes

love's a reason to build on
sometimes 

love needs to be led 

and sometimes
asked to stay

and if love's a story

it should be told overnight
as a journey on its way 

and if it finds me

I'll kiss its richness 

as a message from far away

(c) JR. 2019

Sometimes

sometimes
life throws at me ev'ry thing its got
sometimes
I'm not worried I've dealt with a lot

sometimes
life's just that bit too short and ties my
weary mind in a knot

and when I feel like resting my weary
bones my bothered soul is sounding its
retreat

it is when life's becomes too difficult for
me, just for a moment or two, before I blow
my lonely horn in support of its victory

sometimes
life throws at me ev'ry thing its got
sometimes
I'm not worried I've dealt with a lot
sometimes....

life's too short

(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 smile

the same innocent eyes asks:' will I stay

all night ' yes, it is I know what to expect

when I go up she's lying in my bed in 

just another room a new mornin' 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. 2016

The core

sometimes...days are lonely and
without reason sometimes days
are filled with a sadness you
never knew

but time will come and heal from
within its core as it should when
you're hurting way down deep
from within your core as it
weeps

(c) JR. 2018

Live or die

Love's , sometimes not new or never heard of
a final commitment with or without a reason

sometimes stays or leaves with a lie an' yet
it is always Love that devines if it will
live or die

(c) JR. 2018

Club of 27, Jim Morrison, Jimmy Hendrix, Janis Joplin

Vieuwing 'The Doors'



an' sometimes evil will come to your 'Door'
sometimes it will stop, sometimes it comes in
an' if you're strong enough, sometimes you win

'Evil' will drop, come to its knee an' leave

sometimes, loneliness embarks onto its road
of freedom, sometimes it makes one weep for
a soul lost in its peace


(c) JR. 2018