Love Story

 no more reasons to cry, no more years to go by

no more words to say in pain, no more anger to remain

no more lessons to be learned, no more reasons to stay

so,...if you're out there planning your next move

it might be a good time to reflect on what your causing  

when you do

we've come to where a Love story's a Love Story

'no way ' so let us talk, wish each other well and 

let this exchange of words, find its peace in the valleys 

of our soul where only sanity is the way

but if you're still out there planning your next move

not reflecting at what you do, think it through let this 

barrage of words

find a way to seize in our valleys of reason

where we say goodbye and walk away to where

solitude will become our best friend for many a day

(c) JR. 2022

Shaken

 when there's nothing to see or hear

when all your clouds come together

they will stay

pouring out their  rain on all the misfortune you bear

and they are many

hanging on while you live your life

waiting to be shaken, folded and put away

as one angry moment in time

and all those clouds will drift away 

but your anger

will not, it will not fade

people say,: that anger should be put away

in the graveyard of your mind

and time

time will find a way to ease your aching mind

but be aware, it will always try to shake

and break away from

its shackles and rise up to haunt you again

so let your sanity come inside, it will strenghten

your weary soul and keep your mind open to an attack

of any kind and your counter attack will always be formidable

each and ev'rytime

as you learn to deal with it trying to survive

(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

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

Ev'rytime you beg I bleed a little

Ev'rytime you beg I bleed a little
your eyes tell their tale your hands
ask me to stay

don't start pleading again 'cause
ev'ry time you beg I bleed a little
and I'm crying pain

have to catch that last train, pain's
in my head, in my heart, pain's takin'
me apart

pain's more than I can take, more
than I want, 'cause we must part and
ev'rytime I go

you beg and I bleed a little my life's
in another city belongs to someone else
she's waiting for me there

I'm a part of her as well, never can I tell
about you, how I miss not being near so
don't make it hard on me

when I leave, your eyes tell their tale,
your hands ask me to stay, pease don't
start over again

'cause ev'rytime you beg I bleed a little
and I'm crying pain, have to catch that
last train

I'm crying, you're in my heart, don't take
it apart, don't plead again, pain's in my
head, my soul

says don't go don't destroy what you chose
where on it you founded your hopes your
eyes tell me to stay

your hands ask me the same, and I'm
crying pain, 'cause ev'rytime you beg
I bleed a little

(c) JR. 1985

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.