Triple Catch 04 28 2021 nj

We catch ourselves

in a sense

nearly everyday

–

except when we are working hard

and have nothing

left to say

–

I don’t know

when I went wrong

was it just the other day

–

Not so sure

when I went bad

and surely fell from grace

–

There was a time

I turned around

and saw a blinding light

–

There was me

the fool I found

hiding in plain sight

–

those wasted years

those aimless days

my self-indulgent life

–

so to redeem

a triple fool

yeah that’s where I stood

–

older sense

I feel it all,

with love and gratitude

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Where 04 27 2021 nj

Exhausted and disturbed

sights and sounds

the pictures don’t have time

to reflect

–

don’t pray empty prayers

you can still be

heard

going through the motions

–

the creator

the universe we live in

may not be

the same universe

–

but it isn’t a different one

either

the light years

the traveled time

–

we don’t know

where we are

in time

or in space

–

you are here

and there, a dot

on the spiral arm

of our galaxy

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Film Company 04 26 2021 nj

The old film projector

rattled along as the images

warbled on the screen

–

Believing the world will

happen before my eyes

while I safely watch from here

–

but I don’t know a thing

you have felt the quake

as we all did

–

lonely and nervous

people still make

your heart whisper

–

familiar gets lost

that is an overcast sadness

as afternoon dims away

–

I will drift forever

in unfamiliar streams

my roots are torn away

–

The film at least reminds

my sadness,

had some company once

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