Alone in Plain Sight

 

Standing alone in plain sight
Keeping our intentions clear 
Shouldering on into the fight
Masking our peace and fear

Trying to keep intentions clear
We march forth into the fray
Suppressing our peace and our fear
We sit alone at the end of the day

We march forward into the fray
Never begining to doubt
Are we alone at the end of the day?
Time to make a whisper a shout

My love, don't ever doubt
We shoulder into the fight
Making our whisper into a shout
Standing alone in plain sight

Secrets

The secret voice
Whispering in my mind
Telling me softly
Joking, laughing
Never here, gone
Fleeting, away
No sight to betray
Kiss me invisibly
Touching not being
Once more into the fray
No one knows
Spying on life
Not of but above
You cannot be found

Deception

I once saw a future for us filled with hope
One seemingly blessed by a Pope
But one can not believe all that one sees
Or did my eyes once deceive me?

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You stay out later and later each day
Keeping yourself far away from me
I try to avoid the fray
Are my eyes still deceiving me?

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This isn't my first rodeo
I'm not a kitten stuck up a tree
It may be time for me to be free
'Cause my eyes are no longer deceiving me.

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No Words

Standing alone in the crowd
Afraid to enter the fray
Bottled up feelings escaping
Pretending it's all just play
Words no longer express it
Turmoil, terror and strife
Brought on by detrimental decisions
Look what's become of your life
A tragedy born of a comedy
Heroes need more than just hope
When circumstances warrant it
Right at the end of your rope
Time to pull up your bootstraps
Hard at the end of the haul
But everyone's depending on you now
As the prophet who's leading us all

Nightmare

Nightmare

The light is gone and hid from view

It disappeared one day

And took with it the sun and moon

‘Caused joy to pass away

A glimmer is all ‘twould take

To make the world okay

But now our life blood spills away

And we wait in nightless day

We’ll feast on the returning

Step once more, into the fray

Until that day, we shall march forth

Keeping the nightmares at bay

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Braggart

Braggart

Haranguing tongues wag everyday

Harpies hardly stop nagging

It’s a cross between lying and bragging

To assume yours is the only way

New things happen everyday

Wouldn’t want to be the one lagging

Who set new tongues to wagging

It’s better to stay out of the fray

Step to the beat of a different drum

Be careful in all that you say

Eventually the good things will come

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Sing

Weep not when angels fall

They do so every day

Cheer when men gain wings

And rise above the fray

Banish fears and sorrows

For they drag us down to earth

Search for knowledge and enlightenment

Value your own self worth

Other’s opinions are pointless

And vengeance is a wasteful thing

Giving up and letting go

Can make your conscience sing

So sing me songs of sleeping spirits

Those things that go bump in the night

And call me when your conscience soars

To new and unlimited heights

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Distance

Distance

Missing only begins to describes

The thought of being without you

As daylight creeps up my window

What’s missing from my view is you

And it burns more it each day

It’s getting more painful to say

How much I love you and in every way

The distance grows farther

And more silent every day

Without your smiling face

I wade into the daily fray

Certain that I’ve lost you

Determined to come for you

But missing you and loving you

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Stars

Love requires what love hath lost

We must face the coming day

The goal is replacing the ultimate cost

Learning the pacing and way

Time to join the fray

Not wanting to give your heart

That’s not where excuses lay

I’ve given up on foolish starts

 Is it time to break into parts?

 I’ve barely begun to begin

They call my trollop or tart

I don’t intend the start to sin

But allow me this to plea

The stars are only for thee

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