As time goes by ,
I think of how things
Have Changed,
Buildings crumble and fall
To the ground,
Paving the ground for brave
New days,
My mind aches
from memories of Good times
And friends,
And I notice I've slowed down a bit,
As old age creeps it's way in ,
As Time ticks away ,
I can feel my body
Grow Shallow and frail,
For I know that someday I'll
Leave this body
Nothing more than an empty shell,

Waking up to police banging
at the door 5 o'clock in the morning
disturbing
hearing he's a live
hopeful.

holding on to that hope
a hour drive to the hospital
comforting
seeing him hooked up to a breathing tube
horrific
neck brace around his neck
scary.

seeing his eyes opened
a mother's saving grace
thanking God in all his glory.

he suffered eight broken ribs,
shattered spleen,
collapsed lung;
he lives to see his newborn son.

LETHE’S WATERS

Love transcends all things
except death’s silence.
we speak to the dead
as though they can hear
but the echoes of our own voice
tell us no one is there.
or have the departed tasted
of Lethe’s waters to forget
the world they left behind,
blind now to our existence
no memories to care.
my heart still sickens
after so many years
and I awake each lonely day
with a soul so broken
I can hardly pull back
from the pain of despair

BANSHEE

The wind blows hard and cold
from the ocean east and screams
like Banshees through corridors
and narrow streets.
Doors are locked and shutters
tightly closed, a candle for light
and a silence for fear imposed.

There are many evils from which
we hide: fantasies and games
playing horror movies in our mind
but when the Monsters come for true
to take your soul away there is nothing
we can do but say BOO and watch
those bastards run like hell !