Poems

I will not lie I will not cheat

I will not let the demons in

I will not bend I will not break

I will not cease until we win

I will not run I will not hide

I will not waste another dawn

I will not quit I will not leave

I will not stop until I'm gone

Da dump da dump da dump da dump

da dump da dump da dump

Da dump da dump da dump da dump

da dump da dump da dump

Pen one more poem 

before the bells 

of joyful living toll

Make a rhyme 

about four Lilly sibs 

still alive and well

Place the verse in harmony 

with all that's been and done

Then say hello 

and bid goodbye

to our moments in the sun!

Try not to waste the time you have

For time is brief upon the earth

Do not lay down until the last

And milk your life for all its worth

I'm just like you

This much is true

No more no less

Our treadmills turn

The trudges burn

I must confess

We are the same

No one to blame

We did our best

Still on the track

No going back

We passed the test

All treadmills halt

It's not our fault

Soon we will rest

I will depart with little word

Without good reason as to why

Leaving a solitary trace

And take my chances do or die

I will withdraw to take my leave

With slings and arrows as my guide

Lacking a levelheaded clue 

Dark thoughts of liberty inside

I will escape with little hope

Under some fiddle-footed spell

Missing the signs to reassess

And just like that return to hell

Billionaires joyfully and gratefully

sharing their self-realized fortune,

may be considered the good guys!

Same as Harry, Ron, & Hermione

Frodo, Sam, and Gandalf the Grey

Bob Cratchit and the nephew Fred

plus, all the townsfolk of Whoville!

You reached the one place meant to be

And left no rolling stone unturned

You are the sum of all you are

And every lesson you unlearned

You reached the point of no return

And soon will leave without a trace

You are the sum of all you were

Humility your saving grace

I'm an inconsistent human being

wrecked by over thinking and doubt

and the treadmill that's my entire life

has brought me right back to here

exactly where I'm supposed to be

All that matters now

'tis I helped a really nice lady

a woman who loves herself, her children and her life

the way a human being is supposed to

presently, peacefully and unconditionally

And that I didn't 

destroy my good deed doing

didn't lose the very reason 

I'm redeemed here at the end

turns my last-ditch philanthropy into a win

For those of you whom are whole and complete human beings I'm sorry,

a huge chunk of my humanity is missing, and happiness isn't my friend

normalcy shuns me like a scrooge locked in his lonely fireplaced rooms

hatred hath become the fiery balm that fuels a sick perverts death wish

These are our voices calling out

The say-sos which we put in words

The seeds we sowed fortuitous

As horse manure is for the birds

We tried our best to reach the stars

To ply terms fit for bardic kings

But moons are harder marks to hit

When arrows sail on hapless wings

These are our voices left behind

The standpoints ours and ours alone

The thoughts we had encouraging

As dreams tied to a sinking stone