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

One sweet day

she was the one
I had touched
she was the one
with my laugh
she was the one
that went away
it was her laugh
that didn't stay

and I knew
some sweet day
I'd hear
that laugh again
yet
years went
and passed by
something told me
I was telling myself
a lie

just
I wouldn't feel the pain
'cause I knew
I wouldn't
hear that laugh again

I still can see her smile
but all this time I knew
this laugh
it wasn't mine

so some sweet day
I decided
this laugh was not for me
to have or stay

(c) JR. 2020

An old love

she crept up on me while I was sleeping

started about what once had been, I sensed

something was wrong, I knew I had to find her

would I know if I saw her, would the years not 

keep her away from me, I got up, still wondering

about her, with guestions at the back of my mind

I couldn't answer any of them, she had dropped

out of sight since a long time, her trail had run cold

there was nothing left to see, all I could do was

dig it up, at its roots she might be

I was getting near, so very close when I read this

ad in the paper and its news was bad, all it said was

I could stop digging, I could stop thinking of ever

finding her

now I've got all the answers and none of them

I like, it now is a never ending story, they take

a long time to die

(c) JR. 2019

No man's land

I've been there for so long
time flies into my yesterdays
must be years ago I came in a land
that never knew hay

no beauty as far as I can see
here an' there the odd appletree
no homestead at all only two walls
to guard it all

it's hard to believe, I here did find my peace
from a world forever at war, this place to me
is unigue

a place where the odd stranger comes running
before a storm bringin' bullets and rain, I help
him beat this storm

help him to a place out of the rain, where he thinks
home is not far away, where he thinks it has a bed to
sleep, where its stairs do not run steep

just I know where he'd rather be, safest place on earth
is right here, in 'no man's land' an everlasting peace
where the occaisional bullet is released

where nobody wants to be and the skies are clear
where I drink a quiet beer, I'm at ease here, livin'
close to those walls, where they can't see me

can't get me into their sight, where I live, stay
alive, I love my 'no man's land', a land nobody
claims, in my heart it has no rain

(c) JR.  eightees

Lost in a smile

an' I see her comin' with a smile
on her face a laugh in her eyes
and I, I was lost inside

so when she left I was lost, lost
in a smile I knew never would be
mine now it's been many years
an' ev'ry mornin'

standin' on the porch I see her
comin'  hear her laugh in the wind
see that smile on her face

stoppin' right in front of me lookin'
at me with her famous laugh an' smile
sayin' to me

'I've come to see you again' and
she sees me smile but that's just
me dreamin'

starin' into the distance lookin'
for something that will not be
an' ev'ry mornin'

I see her comin' hear her laugh
see that smile upon her face and
yes I know I'm only dreamin' lost
in a smile

(c) JR. 2019

How close how far

how close did we get
how far did we turn away
it seems like only yesterday
I packed your case

something stupid
an' yes it was a mistake
all those years I was hopin'
to meet and say

the things you did need
never would you have
walked away now we're here
caught in the midlle of

a pourin' rain
lookin' for shelter
older, wiser whose
to say

I only know
it would be foolish
to let it slip away again
how close did we get
how far did we turn away

time's closin' in
before it catches us
I'd like to try again
so if you don't mind

I'm actually proposin'
my answer as always
is in your eyes

(c) JR.  1985