My Rose, My Fire, My Desire

when the morning's coming down 

stumbling in

changing my world into a new future

a day of starting over again

and it feels so good, coming 'round

standing up, taking control

'cause I was the pain of my own sorrow

I was my own worst enemy

I was fighting to survive

I always will

and she will always be there

my rose, my fire, my desire

she'll never go, fly away

my rose, my fire, my desire

she always will

(c) JR. 2024

Devil's Door

in the still of the night

darkness will be about

and stay for a while

wondering what will happen

when the day arrives of what

I had seen in the still of the night

its eyes so dead

looking at me in amazement

it thought I didn't know, but I knew

where the night had been

knocking on 'Devil's Door'

something I had seen 

in the still of the night

still living, still alive

I made it through

the still of the night

(c) JR. 2024

Heaven on Earth

when you're not from this world

and your mind is dying on its own

from intellectual neglect

as it loves the sound of

a breaking glass

a sound that makes

Heaven on Earth

a special place to have

where Hell

in any form, shape or word

has to confess

Heaven on Earth is a place

where it has met its match

and Hell in any form, shape or word

has no verbal complaint to show

'cause Heaven on Earth

having a mind of its own

has no trouble showing it

where it has to go

(c) JR. 2024

Let it be the love

let the water come down from the rocks

let it run into the cracks of my heart

let it fill up the empty spaces

let it be the guide to something new

let it be the love I never knew

let it be just that

(c) JR.  2024

Wings

He will hold her, he will carry her

if he must and let her wings fly again as

death sometimes is a messenger of

peace and sometimes of grief

(c) JR. 2024

Times coming down

she will always be the woman for him

and the times will come down, raining on him

ever losing her

so when she leaves her image will always be there

staring him in the face, never forgetting her

knowing sometime in time she will come again

(c) JR. 2024

Whatever I do

I can read her like a book but

whatever I do, I keep reading her book

whatever I do

but lately, things have changed

words are dropping out, maimed

not to be replaced

and I wonder will will I ever 

read her book again, somehow, somewhere

the ending has changed,..

it's been a long time,...

but I noticed words are reappearing

I can read the ending again

it's been a long time,... whatever I do

I keep on reading her book

whatever I do

(c) JR. 2024