(Early Poems continued…)
14. ONLY MEMORIES REMAIN
The time has come
For us to part
We drift away
In our changing lives
Remaining
Only in our hearts
The memories
The hands of time
Continue on
But we stand still
As time flows on
Together
Suspended alone
From the world
Only memories remain
Brightening the rain
When life has made
You saddened
My life is now a dream
Woven in your mind
Of the times and happiness
We’ve had
We laughed and cried
All starry eyed
Sharing our lives together
As we lived
Sustaining
Each other
With our love
But I must leave
My time has come
Word’s can’t describe
What you’ve given me
Happiness
While my life
With you continues
Only memories remain
Brightening the rain
When life has made
You saddened
My life is now a dream
Woven in your mind
Of the times and happiness
We’ve had
Live your life complete
Fulfilling all those dreams
That together
We once shared
Every now and then
Think of me again
Remembering the love that
Strengthened our lives
For we will be together
Together forever
Together once again
In the end
But until then
Only memories remain
15. HUMAN WASTELAND
What good are we
What use are we
Our eyes are shot
Our minds are blown
Our lungs are clogged
Our muscles untoned
Just look at us
Misused and abused
We’re a wasteland
A generation of peace
The flower was our sign
True heretics of our time
We refused to go to war
To avoid the guts and gore
But we butchered ourselves more
With drugs by our own hands
We’ve created a human wasteland
Our crusade will soon be over
Our inheritance is near
This land that we put down
Every time we turned around
Will be ours to commandeer
Then the time will come to fear
16. LOST IN FOG
I’m lost in fog
Can’t find my way
My mind keeps on spinning
I gotta get away
The sun’s going down
Darkness rolling in
I’m stuck in the wasteland
Destroyed from within
Confusion’s coming on
Reality fades away
Echoes fill the void
Until the start of day
The sun begins to rise
Rays streaming through my mind
Darkness turns to gray
My thoughts start to unwind
Gray blends into purple
Yellow and then to white
My mind is blinded and then it’s dazed
Paralyzed until the night
With darkness flowing in
My life is flowing out
Strength turns into weakness
Awareness into doubt
