My Love

my love was a love for someone I could not have 

my love was a love for someone who didn't know

I did poses this love I had

and my love was a reality, my reality did reject

a realistic yet to me an unrealistic reason, causing a pain

I did not want to have

but then again reality kicked in and kept me in check

There's no tomorrow

no yesterday, no daybreak, no incoming night

there's only you

(c) JR. 2022

Perfection

if there's a yesterday

I'd make my mistakes 

my failures yesterday

lead a perfect life today 

all the time

a perfect future ahead 

a perfect job I'd have

perfect children I'd get

always a correct act 

no wrong word said

acting always in line 

no mistake is mine

not one's mine

perfection is my wall 

the wall I have to climb

just to make a mistake 

a mistake that's all mine

'cause perfection can kill 

kill the soul within

a life that doesn't live 

is one that doesn't excist

is one with nothing to give

(c) JR. ninetees

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