L’Chaim! Toasting 2017 in...

My words like music, fill your earsMy lips, soft like rose petals touch your lipsWords fill you with sounds I don’t hearRhymes I spout fill your heartLonely, long for love, here, nowToo smart for my own goodIf you only stood where I stand,Maybe you’d understandWhere I’m coming from
Childhood to adulthood in barely an hourLive till we’re dead under powerOf the IRS, government shadows & showers Wonder if or when or can it be betterOur minds, thoughts controlled, fetteredWould a chain letter do, a scarlet letterBE a trend setter or pacesetter
Move forward, be straightforwardHold words close to our heartAs though words are people;They’re not Store words in our hearts Know we can’t go back to yesterdayMust live with what we hear todayWhat we say & hear on sad daysThoughts are transientWords last longerCan’t erase words you’ve spokenWords escape your palate, are tokenLeave me brokenheartedPretend to study a pie chart
Love is strange, Life, a curse, a game played on my shameKick start my life into another movie frameSoothe and feed flamesLove claims my blameMy name, my fame, Life’s games, reclaim my stage & nick name
Disclaim strife – go on with life