Yeah, won't be too much longer now
But we had our fun in the sun
The ocean combers letting up
The hang loose riding all but done
Yeah, the sets are nearly finished
But we carved some curls in our lives
The frothiest waves and wipes outs
The gnarliest surfer high-fives
Yeah, almost time to pack it in
But we sure had more than our share
The roller coaster clacking back
The sun going down like a flare
Well, I'm getting my affairs in order
though not much of consequence going on
as I don't have lots of business to attend to
so, I've time for sing-alongs with the swan
The friends on my Facebook aren't many
so, the loved ones at my service will be few
yet still I've nearly gratefully concluded
that I've simply done the best I can do
I'm an airplane glued together like Balsa
a flying feather pushing gusts of fresh air
so, here at the seventh stage of acceptance
I'm finally feeling naught au contraire
I'm a flier with hope plucking heartstrings
reaching up for just one more penned poem
so, I'm satisfied with all things reminiscent
and soaring lightly now above Earthly loam
I don't know what gets into me
It comes from someplace deep inside
A fiend that rears its ugly head
Like Doctor Jekyll's Mr. Hyde
I don't know why it lives in me
It does not pussyfoot around
Perhaps I learned it from my Dad
A man who wrestled with the hound
I don't know how or when or why
It seems to be a rooted curse
A foible I must ride herd on
And bear for better and for worse
I don't care what happens when I'm gone,
right now, I want women, wine, and song
It doesn't matter who I hurt to skip ahead
play nice as losers and then you are dead
Nobody gives a damn, and neither shall I
life is a hopelessness and then we all die
But I'll tell you this I'm going to get mine,
regardless manifesting a miserable time!
Some fairy tales do not come true
For evilness is hard to beat
The specious smiles of wickedness
So spurious and sickly sweet
And yet some fairy stories last
For humankind is sorely flawed
The greed of human heartlessness
A villainous and vicious fraud
Some fairy tales are here to stay
For goodness is a timeless tale
The crimes of immorality
Badness that goes beyond the pale
And still some fairy stories teach
For honor is a living thing
The human heart a place of love
Kindness its true and rightful king
Yeah, I'm going to leave her today
because she's not paying me enough attention
so, I'm looking up Airbnb right now
yep, she's on her phone way too much
and she doesn't do enough around here
so, I'm going to throw our love away
yes, toss it into the dumpster of a million regrets
flush it down the toilet of stumbling forward and always looking back
of destroying her to prove my point, that I'm right and she's wrong
oh, I'll throw my baby out with my toxic bathwater
and sabotage my pathetic waste of a life one more miserable time
I'm leaving, departing, tossing everything behind
those of you who care hoping happiness you find!
I'm going, gone, there's nothing more to do but go,
fought with a way out but I'm crazy as you know!
It's over, I'm splitting, naught one word left to say
yet our path meets again in memory here to stay!
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
