There is no doubt

The god myth reeks

An ego trip

For stone-blind freaks

I'm sick to death of life itself

A man who roved right to the end

I've reached the final lap in life

And now must find a way to mend


I want to run away and hide

A child who wants to have his way

I've raced along the rainbow road

And now must limp in shades of grey


I'm on the outs with life itself

A man who knows when he is beat

I've reached the point of no return

And now must face the last defeat

We can't stop the saboteurs inside us

No matter how much we try to pretend

The crooked chorus of shouldered demons

Tag along with us beginning to end


We can't miss our own paths of destruction

No matter how far we veer from the stream

The inborn patterns of heredity

Press on with us every which way we dream

Life is but a fleeting twinkle

A sparkle on the sunlit sea

Life is but a flashy shimmer

A flicker starring you and me


Life is but a passing fancy

A Roman candle in the night

Life is but a dreamy glimmer 

A flutter with our end in sight

Nothingness looms like a stake

Gripped by good old father time

Hammered home by hands of fate

Shadowing my downhill climb


Nothingness is all we get

Gone to dark and deadened doom

Driven home by destiny

Sitting tight inside my tomb

What is the secret to success

What makes us fight and win the day

What is the answer to our fears

What gives us strength to the find our way


What is the special secret sauce

What makes the best in us succeed

What is the topping of them all

Why love of course is all we need

It's looking bad in fact quite bleak

Our world is going down in flames

Such a mess and we're still in it

Now acting out the final frames


It's looking grim in fact quite sad

Our universe is nearly broke

Such a jam we're growing old in

But now at least we get the joke


It's looking up in fact quite bright

Our earth is giving us more time

Such a gift and glad to know it

Now basking in the land of rhyme

If I knew then what I know now

If my heart had been more open

If the moon jumped over the cow

If the little dog had spoken


If I knew then every riddle

If my eyes had been wide open

If the cat could play the fiddle

If the fun had been unbroken


If I knew then the road to seek

If my mind had been more open

If the dish and the spoon could speak

If the laughing dog had woken

Life is an unfinished work of art

A masterpiece stunningly sublime

Joy comes most in the disappearing

Getting lost in the moments of time


Life is an incomplete chef d'oeuvre

Each masterwork handcrafted from scratch

Peace comes most in the pioneering

Staying young on the thrill of the catch


Life is a rough-hewn magnum opus

An abstract and unsound tour de force

Love comes most to the undesigning

Growing old as a matter of course

The Lilly twins, one kissed by a bug, one with a bum ticker

Karma's a bitch and death is the penultimate ass-kicker

But neither twin bowed out as a bent-over arse-licker

To be remembered seems to be

A part of our anatomy

To die and then to be well missed

And thus in death to still exist


Our father said to miss him well

A cinch as far as I can tell

To live and keep alive with love

Our forebears in the stars above

So nice to see your poems again 

Fine words from deep inside your mind

A poetry which seems to me

A rare a very special kind


So nice to know you're back on track

Writing about the way you feel

It is the best part of my day

Consoling as a home-cooked meal

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