Decades

                                  6-10-24 

Close your eyes, relax and go to sleep 
Don’t waste your time counting sheep 
I will eat your bread and eat your meat 
I won’t toss you a line, my feeling too deep 

Needing to come to you, I came crawling in
In the flash of the night, with the breath of the wind
He’s my brother, aged differently, and not my twin
I could tell you the whole story but where to begin?

The invisible man will at once soon appear 
To pick on the lonely, those without fear
He’ll stop the next train, in the back, in the rear 
Keep touching the walls, let that man steer

Talking too fast and with nothing to say
A girl with a racket and wanting to play 
I yelled “in your mind you’re lost”, Allison and Gay
The two turned around, impossible, no way

In a car he took her, with her skin so brown 
Yet she picked me up, this being a small town
What tape was playing, from where came the sound 
I furrowed my brow, and dared to look around 

And gazing at the dancers, the widows, the lame
They all called for blood from the lion she tamed
Not thinking so clearly, to the same room he came 
What happened to him, there is no one to blame

Could they be listed, identified, or categorized?
If you heard the truth, would it open your eyes?
Forty years later still been given no reason for surprise 
 A word to the wealthy, to the strongest, and wise

A gaping hole with popularity, others called it a lesion 
Some people talk too much with no rhyme nor reason
This heat reserved for summer, it’s out of season 
But seeing you dress while committing high treason 

A white flame of fire, by a buyer of leftover junk
Stripped it bare, from the motor, the seats, to trunk 
Every time he’d drive by, with pride my heart sunk
Two creations of power but turned off by a punk

The gold standard melted long ago, melted to copper
From the land of time, then the fear of a daughter 
Those feelings must still appear, what death taught her
Once I’ve seen her, who she is, it’s all just a blur 

A cab light says open for business, no charge this time
Finish your drink, put the glass down, you feeling fine
I thank you for coming, next time I bring the wine 
To start all over, reserved my place, thoughts sublime

Twisted and turning, fighting, and scared of the web 
I got it all free and getting my strength, justice was said
But justice ain’t justice, to a girl he was to wed
Yet my eyes didn’t see him, in his presence I not tread

Things happen so quickly, they come, and they go 
A breath in the wind, she’s left, don’t you know
A brook to a river, my thoughts hindered the flow
Left in the night, quietly he pretends it is not so 

A crash on the highway times two left a hole to fill
I said we can do it, we have the skill, we have the will
We did it with style with grace, came helpless yet still
I’ll sit down and wonder, these thoughts will I kill

After the sun, more sun, hotter than her, I regret
The things that happened, plagued me, I try to forget 
Recalling when I want, thinking my year, in stone it set
So, a bottle I picked up like them, my future I met

Could it go on, you think these thoughts to go away
I’m asking sincerely, I can’t talk, what do you say?
I’m jealous of the stray cat, with no one to obey 
You think I could be normal; do I want it that way?