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I’m honored to have my demo track “8 Minutes” on the compilation Demos for a Difference.
The Demos For a Difference Project is a new benefit album created by Brian Erickson, of Asbury Park, NJ, that is completely crowdsourcing its music (with over 190 different artists), all in the name of raising funds for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
Our art is what we give to people. We're using it to help those who need the most.
http://demosforadifference.bandcamp.com/album/demos-for-a-difference
Here is a link for my new album available on all of the streaming services . Here is the link to Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/album/2YU6QNGieHs4rIk46aMNoL
Here is the link to my new single called Moving In Time, available now on all of the streaming services. Click one of the links below to listen to Moving in Time.
https://open.spotify.com/album/6n3XB55w6h5ZdqKe8CtQgc
http://itunes.apple.com/album/id1557083502?ls=1&app=itunes
POETRY
Current Events/Historical Events/Poems/Lyrics
Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing (by Frank McKenna – working lyrics)
Verse 1
Hour by hour,
humanity’s at stake,
we can stand against the power,
and the walls they make.
Stop the machine of power,
their cruelty routine —
we are better than silence,
we’ll rise from the machine.
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Pre-Chorus
We are the check on the system,
we are the fork in the road,
we are the voice of resistance,
in a country already sold.
That’s the story to be told.
⸻
Chorus
Oppression and suppression
from the power elite,
a shadow of depression
creeps down every street.
Fighting against evil men,
it takes persistence,
the fire within —
we have the power,
we have the light,
we will not let
the madmen win tonight.
⸻
Verse 2
A wolf in sheep’s clothing,
smiles through the lies,
selling false devotion,
to the blind man’s eyes.
But truth is a weapon,
and love still defends,
the power they’re taking,
will break in the end.
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(Repeat Pre-Chorus)
We are the check on the system,
we are the fork in the road,
we are the light of the people,
that can’t be bought or sold.
⸻
(Chorus – Repeat / Build)
Oppression and suppression
from the power elite,
a shadow of depression
creeps down every street.
Fighting against evil men,
we stand with persistence,
the fire within —
we have the power,
we have the light,
we will not let
the madmen win tonight.
⸻
Outro (optional spoken / sung)
Hour by hour,
the truth remains —
the wolf still hides,
but freedom reigns.
Time Waits for No One
The fall waits for winter
Summer waits for fall
Winter comes a callin’
Spring flowers bloom for us all
Vacant shopping malls line the streets
Endless calls
And haunted walls
Many voice overheard
Do you remember a fast ride on empty streets?
Empty souls beneath our feet
A lost sky
A distant eye
A fleeting glance
A hypnotic trance
Time never aligns
endless highways find vacancies
In suburban minds
Time Waits for No One
Summer calls
to long lost falls
Victims wait for justice
Lovers wait for a sign
Poets wait for inspiration
Criminals do their time
singers sing
their same old song
Patients wait for a cure
The hungry wait for a little more
Immigrants wait for freedom
Tyranny waits by the door
What is wrong?
Time waits for no one
At What Cost
Maybe you lost your wallet,
maybe you lost your keys.
Maybe you lost your rights—
the freedom to do as you please.
Maybe you lost your dignity,
maybe you’re not free.
Maybe you lost your dream,
the one our leaders fail to see.
Maybe you won the lottery,
maybe you gave it all away.
Maybe you decide, at last,
to take a stand today.
What’s the price we pay?
Maybe we lost the future today.
Maybe tomorrow
is already slipping away.
One life born,
another life full of scorn.
One life lost—
at what cost?
Maybe you’re an immigrant,
maybe you’re a scientist.
Maybe you’re a teacher,
an artist, a dreamer—
tired of it all.
It’s a call to action
for us all.
You can’t take it with you.
You can’t reclaim what is lost.
The future’s gone—
at what cost?
A dreamer dreams of a time long past,
dreaming of a future
that forever lasts.
At what cost?
At what cost is silence kept?
At what cost is courage slept?
Is our psyche beyond repair?
Do we act, or do we stare?
At What Cost?
Maybe you lost your wallet,
or lost your keys,
maybe you lost your rights,
to do as you please
Maybe you lost your dignity,
possibly you’re not free.
maybe you lost
your dream, that our leaders
fail to see.
Maybe you won the lottery,
or perhaps you gave it all away,
or maybe you decide
to take a stand today
What’s the price we pay?
Maybe we lost the future today
Maybe tomorrow will be different today?
One life born,
Another life, full of scorn
One life lost,
At what cost?
Maybe you’re an immigrant,
maybe you’re a Scientist,
while nothing is fine today
possibly you listen, or maybe you
make the call,
maybe you’re sick and
tired of it all.
It’s a call to action for us all.
You can’t take it with you,
you can’t get back what you lost,
the future’s gone, at what cost?
“A dreamer dreams of a time long past,
dreaming of a future that will forever last”
“At what Cost?
The price we pay for remaining silent about what we see and hear, feels like a small price to pay when we are in the crosshairs of tyranny and authoritarianism.
“At what cost” is a question that we all ask ourselves, at what cost is my silence and inaction doing to me?
Is our psyche damaged beyond repair?
is our lack of action, due to the fears and intimidation, or what?
Are we all complicit, and what is the cost of inaction? I ask, at what cost?
Compromise
“Compromise is what the world functions on”
Neil Peart
Compromise
A tear fills my eye,
turn your eyes,
to meet the world’s unruly force,
the consequences of actions are a curse,
while hatred and stubbornness,
make humanity worse
No compromise
Strategize
Realize
Energize
Don’t live the lies
Where is the proof?
Where is truth?
A compromise used
Is a package sold as lies,
Reality is never fantasy,
political fiction morphs into lies,
as the world cries
Turn your head away,
your path is a journey,
Turn your life towards your way,
a call for a new day
Turn your eyes toward a new
world that is near
A path that will lead away from fear,
Justice is always clear
Through uncompromising darkness
The cloudiness and greed arrive each year,
Storm clouds are the compromising fear
A refusal doesn’t mean no
Refusal to compromise
is a new path
that my generation will go
A Compromise to justify the lies
Wise are the truthful stories
that we try to surmise,
Into the depths of your lying eyes
Compromise is not to try
A new hope that will apply
THE TOAST
Your shadow, a permanent reflection,
a connection, to our destination.
Raise your glass again, to our friend.
Words don’t do you justice,
In everyone’s mind
Raise your glasses,
For peace and love in our time,
A reflection, a connection,
the ultimate destination.
A shadow now a reflection,
leads to our deeper connection
Meet me when your journeys end
Sing with me when the song plays
Live with me through all the days
Love and peace,
A message,
I will send
When times get rough,
I’ll be there
When times get tough,
I say enough is enough
Connections found,
Voices echo into one sound
a perfect place in time,
A place that history once knew
The past, present, and future,
Is now yours too.
SALTWALTER COWBOYS (The Journey from Chinoteague)
The Chincoteague ponies cross the Assateague Channel from Assateague Island to Chincoteague Island during the annual Pony Swim, held on the last Wednesday of July. This event occurs at slack tide, typically between 7:00 AM and 1:00 PM, to ensure minimal current for the swim. The ponies are herded by the 'Saltwater Cowboys' across the channel, a tradition that has been celebrated since 1925.
This is the story for all of us,
volunteers and cowboys , who aid and help the ponies travel from their hibernation of winter, to their springtime journey to the other side.
It’s really about our life journey and how
we help others along with their personal
journey of life and all its trials.
One way to accomplish this
is through people working as one
to help those who need help
during a transition.
SALTWATER COWBOYS
You’re the ride I always wanted to take
All those things we couldn’t shake
All those dreams we tried to make
You’re the ride I always wanted to take
the dream I wanted to make
saltwater cowboy
Making dreams night and day
saltwater cowboy.
Making their way
Down the Saltwater highway
You’re the ride I always
wanted to take
You ‘re always in
my dreams
All those things we
couldn’t shake,
All those dreams we tried
to make
saltwater cowboy
Making dreams both night and day
saltwater cowboy
Down the Saltwater highway
Making their way
wild ponies from
Assateaque
Swimming wild from the Chincateague
Making their swim
Always wild
Night and day
The saltwater cowboys are there
to ensure their way
Across the Saltwater Highway
You’re You’re the ride I always
wanted to take
the dream I wanted to make
You’re the ride I always wanted to take
You ‘re always in my dreams
All those things we could t shake,
All those dreams we tried to make
Come Thru and straight back again
Down the Saltwater Highway
always your way
Any day
And never looking back
Until we make it straight thru to the
Saltwater Highway
12,500 Years (The Saga of the Dire Wolf)
Extinction is out.
Reinvention is in.
Wolves in dire straights
left me howling that night,
let’s say 10,000 nights ago,
As of yesterday,
Romulus is back like,
there was no tomorrow
I know about long goodbyes,
I’ve waited so long to say
my last goodbye, it was
10.000 long days, and
years ago, yesterday
Maybe this is not good bye
it’s hard to look Romulus
in the eyes, it’s been
10,000 years.
Long gone was the wolf
In dire straights
A dire Wolf, or two,
Their names of Remus and
Romulus and you.
Their names sound familiar,
Like old neighbors planning
their revenge
Who knew?
History tends to repeat itself in
awkward fashion, I’m not one
to name names, or cry Wolf,
10,000 years,
and I hardly knew,
after all we had been through?
What took you so long,
Game of thrones needs a prequel,
while scientists determine what’s real.
Extinction is the game of life.
The Dire Wolf still hunts fair game.
Season 10,000 was finally renewed
10,000 years too soon,
but who’s counting?
Lone gone is our world
Human affliction led to
the dire wolves extinction
A sheep in Dire wolves clothing,
who is next on the list?
Wooly Mammoth’s, or human beings,
We don’t even know how to pre-exist?
it’s better to find the cures
than to reinvent the wheel
We are all in dire straights,
A herd of sheep look on,
Is it a sheep in wolves’ clothing,
is just a put on?
ONE VOICE
One voice, one peace, one way
We can make it
We can make it today
When Does the Rain Stop?
When I dry my lovers’ tears
When does the Sun rise?
When I awake and see you shine
One voice, one peace, one way
We can make it
We can make it today
When do the cries fade away?
rebellions turn peaceful one day
When does the killing end?
Broken hearts need time to mend
When will the famines end,
And storms subside?
Time for us to act,
To decide
One voice, one peace, one way
We can make it
We can make it today
When do the wars end?
When does common sense reign supreme?
Fighting against the war regime
Fighting oppression and evil,
Justice for all,
Peace is the new crying call
one voice, one peace,
the many can silence the few
Why do we settle?
for one leader, one party, one way
The old policies are not new?
Fix what’s broken in a universal way
to see another day is to see
One voice, one peace, one way
We can make it
We can make it today
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Today is yesterday‘s tomorrow
Tomorrow is today’s yesterday
Yesterday is tomorrows past
Love for today
Live for tomorrow
Live for today
Love today like tomorrow
Love for tomorrow
Live for today
The past is the present today
Live today
Love tomorrow
And yesterday’s love becomes every day
Live for today
Love for tomorrow
Love in our time
Your tomorrow’s in re-wind,
Love will come today
Live for love, tomorrow
love resides here today
Today turns to tomorrow
Today’s love is everywhere
It’s Yesterday’s detour from today
love once more
yesterday is no more
Live for today
Love for tomorrow
Love in our time
Breathe in yesterdays exhaustion
Exhaling todays fumes of future day
Live for love today
and tomorrow
and beyond
Love for today
Love for tomorrow
Love in our time
Your tomorrow ‘s in re-wind
Love will come today
tomorrow, a day like today
love every day like its yesterdays long
ago love here today
Like a long ago love here today
The Ones Left Behind
Spread the word
Life is in rewind,
have you heard?
The past is here
my very eyes, so clear
Facts are now lies.
Changing history should make us ask why
full of vengeance and hate
Affecting the ordinary and the elite
love instead of hate
Is it too late?
One President’s flaws could
seal our fate
Spread the word
What you hear and see
Determine what your future will be
Judge And Jury
Call the judge, call the jury
Feel his pain?
feel the fury
How can I explain this?
It’s a constitutional crisis
Democracy in chaos,
and at the top is a narcissist.
Executive privilege explains it,
Pawns lie to rearrange it.
The National suffering is real,
The bloody work of relentless politicians
trying to stop the things that are real,
not stopping an imaginary steal.
Fighting the truth with their crazy ambitions,
Fighting within their own imaginations
America spinning out of control,
blinded to its very sole.
Our nation has taken a heavy toll,
The answer lies with a leader
who has no soul,
Political activism alone won’t
get us out of this black hole
Does his sentence fit the crime?
Why should Democracy have to
walk his fine line?
A dictator contemplates his fate,
While America’s victims try to turn
the pages of hate.
If you’re an immigrant, or fighting for
Ukraine, or America’s workforce, it’s
never too late.
Policies that rocked us all to the core
Time will be the judge, and jury, for sure
It’s never too late. America deserves more.
Victims keep turning the pages of hate
time stops, while an
inept king contemplates.
Freedom needs a partner,
An answer to tyranny,
before it’s too late
Challenge yourself, fight the good fight
Help Decide America’s fate
Remove him with action,
without the violence of
January 6th’s
Insurrection
Be the judge
and jury without
violence, hate has no place,
Find a way around that dark space
With an open heart,
burn all hatred from within,
The embers of a dark space,
Burning bright in its new place
One More Time
happy places, turning to
distant spaces ,
Without you
Playing out in real time
It’s buried deep within my mind
we are back again.
Long ago lovers, now best friends
happy places turned to
distant spaces ,
Without you
You’re the ride I always wanted to take
All those things we could n’t shake,
All those dreams we tried to make
sun rises
The moon waits
It’s turn,
We learn
U
One more time
we found new
places, and erased those
distant spaces
All those things we could n’t shake,
All those dreams we tried to make
You’re the ride I always wanted to make
I’ll holding you tight
and it feels so right
It’s another midnight moonlight
And our hearts burn so bright
We found
Universal love, my reflections of your eyes
Turn Mysteries into truth
The facts become Lies
Just one more time
New Year’s Morning
It’s a New Year today.
New year today, it’s A New Year’s Day,
I wake up once again,
last night’s laughter,
welcomes me to a new day.
It’s only morning now,
It’s a new life today.
Imagine a California Coast,
one second burning
next second, it’s a welcoming host.
I met you, on New Years Day,
Yea just another day,
until you rescued me from the same old hell
And back again, one final farewell,
and we start again, on New Years Day.
It’s a New morning
It’s a never ending day
A never ending year.
Bring us Abstract Beaty, yet to be seen.
It’s Hiding in plain sight,
our New years’ long lost dream
turning the page again
It’s new years’ Morning
that never ends.
It’s a New Year’s Day,
turning to night,
I dream of tomorrow,
on this New Years’ night.
SIDE BY SIDE (The Side Within)
forests, mountains, rough seas
single lane highways
New partners, and priorities
We are not that different after all
Like summer turning towards fall
cold mornings ahead
Awaiting your call
You will always be
A part of me
Blood sweat and tears always flowing singularly
But there you were
Side by side
In my heart, in my soul
side by side
I look back on the younger me
Realizing the older version was really never free
You were always the younger version of me
And you were standing there, but I can’t see
You
Side by side
Thru sorrows that take me away
Thoughts of you -I really can’t say
But I always feel you in that loving way
your presence felt within me
Always near, in my mind too and as I fall away from you
By my side
You will always be inside
All of me
By my side
side by side
we followed different paths
We wrote our own stories
Page by page
It’s a new age
and ended
side by side
Downstream
Are we living downstream?
Where we travel into a reality never seen?
A younger me, flowing free
downstream
Are we from another dream?
Your never ending dream
Meets my Journey not yet complete
Our Hearts and minds meet
Flowing downstream
Living downstream
Have we arrived?
Are we alive?
Traveling downstream
Nothing as it would seem
Downstream
Into reality
And out of the dream
I’ll meet you there
downstream
Where rivers meet the stream
And lovers never say what they mean
downstream
Where rivers flow green,
Like our oceans once clean
I filter out the pain and suffering with you,
Downstream
Everything now as it should be
An ending from a beginning.
And you will see
I’ll meet you there,
Our Hopes and our fears
Flowing thru the years
Downstream
Utopia
(A song for the future)
Utopia-a place, an assembly line for
the human race
And we are free here in this place?
Food provided - work no more
The calluses of my hands fade like the
lines on my face
living in Utopia
They build ,they drive ,they work, they do everything for
us here
It’s Utopia.
A new economy without anyone near.
They are the new machines,
Big Data, and AI
robots for you and I
Utopia- a new land of the free,
or a dystopian highway of fantasy ?
Are we free to live like we once lived?
When we walked and lived and tried to DREAM
we didn’t text and
Post and we didn’t SCHEME , against each other from a
platform of nothing as it would seem.
They are the new machines,
Big Data, and AI
robots for you and I
Utopia- a new land of the free, or a dystopian
highway of fantasy ?
A place where the fields are harvested
The cars are automated, humanity separated
and tech re-invested
A new world order in this place
Asks the question, who do we TRUST
Our lovers, our friends, our government As our lives’
fade into the DUST
the grass is greener
The sounds of the farm once providing food and respect
for the working Man,
Now looks likes like only the machines Can
The machines are well oiled
All shiny new in a row
Factories once shuttered now feel the
machines' ritualistic flow
Utopia-a place, an assembly line for the human race
And we are free here in this place?
Food provided - work no more
The calluses of my hands fade like the
lines on my face
I work no more
A Utopian place
My respect for a decent wage,
Fades into this robotic space
Dancing in the streets and everything exists and tries to
LURE you away from what’s real
What's the remedy do we need
all control and fear?
We are the Utopians We are living in
this New economy
this new marketplace
Livin' in Utopia affects everything
except my humanity
my love and my human race
I AM A MAN
I am a man, hear those cries?
I am a man. I am a man.
Without equal rights, as
long days turn to violent nights,
and we can see it with our own eyes,
I am one man. I am one.
Tyre Nichols, and many like him, a reflection of
past injustice, never undone.
we are many, I am a man.
Generations of injustice, never undone
Thousands before,and thousands after,
In a system that breaks all of us down,
I am a man.
It’s all too much, and too late,
no end in sight to stop the systemic hate.
I am a man. I am a man.
Is it too late?
It’s all too little and too late, I am a man.
living in a system of oppression,
surrounded by blue,
enforcing systemic oppression again
me and you. I am a man.
I am a man. I am a man, now without rights.
I am a man who will fight for peace and justice,
and do what is right.
I am a man who faces
injustice, I am a man,
through these long and dark nights.
I am a man
I am a man.
I am a Man. I am a man.
Tyree Nichols,
a man just
like him, i
The system is broken from within.
Tyree Nichols was a man, a man murdered
on an ordinary day,
a video like Tyree’s, more videos on repeat
every day, and I am a man.
Tyree Nichols, and many more,
You I Here no more. They were all men,
victims of
A broken system,
Bringing us no closer to a cure.
I am a man. I am a man.
I am a man. A man no more
Stripped of justice , racism hiding behind
a broken system, without any cure.
Fill in the names, but leave room for more.
new faces, in familiar places
Systemic racism for all races,
We are men no more.
I am a man, I am man,
I am a man. I am a man, many walked before me,
satisfied with laws, unable to here the cries from
within, to be a man,
they must strive and
for change to the system,
Or they will end up like Tyree,
and like you, and likme.
I was a man.
This is the story of the long ago Ababco tribe,
the Native American tribe that lived along the shores of the
Choptank River region of the Md eastern shore, which
is now Cambridge,Md.
ABABCO
The tides rise, and the currents flow, but
No one alive really knows,
why history repeats itself,
like the currents, ebb and flow.
From the Atlantic, into the bay,
into the mighty Choptank,
the tide rises, tribes are washed away,
The past rises up just like before,
so much more is lost, than just water,
washing it all away,
This is a story of a tribe,that was here long before,
the colonists’ washed up here,
up on the eastern shore.
Ababco lived there, but
One nation, one land, one with water,
Surrounded by many a hostile tribe.
New settlers’ arrive day
beginning their new lives,
who would survive?
Murders were common there,
but one stood out.
An English Capt Odber did not survive,
The settlers’ wanted the Obanco tribe,
dead or alive.
The slaying of Captain John Odber,
an English official said,
was not by the hands of the Obabco tribe,
but the neighboring tribe instead.
Obabco turned over some of the Indians to the whites, evidence of their loyalty,
they did what was right.
Instead, the settlers were
poised for a fight.
A reprieve arrived for the time being,
an English official said.
Until agreements were broken, the tribe of Obabco, were all dead.
The ghosts of Ababco tribe would say, to this day,
that the Choptank flows with their spirits,
taken far away.
In the year of 1699, a favorable decison came down,
Decreed by the government, that Ababco
Peace should rule all around.
Loyalty was rewarded,
Ababco and colonists lived side by side.
Decreed by law in 1699,
Both sides were aligned.
It declared that the English settlers had no right,
to encroach on their territory,
or put up a fight
“Sitt down amongst them in their clear fields."
the settlers were known to say, they sat with the elders of the tribe, back in the day.
“Sitt down amongst them in their clear fields."
but words have no meaning,
action rules the day.
The English looked with favor on the Ababco’ plea, and on May 7, 1699, a “
League of Peace" was the decree.
The mighty Choptank still ebbs and flows free,
Who know what would have been, and what
Is, and what should never be?
“Sitt down amongst them in their clear fields”
that’s what they say,
Sit down amongst them in their clear fields,
today, just like yesterday.
Utopia
Utopia,
an assembly line for the human race.
Are we free here, in this place?
food provided, work no more, blister upon hands fade like
the lines on my face.
Utopia.
They build, drive, work, everything done for us here,
in Utopia, what is it I fear?
Utopia.
They are the new machines, big data, and AI,
robots for you, and I
A new land of the free?
A dystopian highway turning into a fantasy for me?
Are we free here to live, like we once dreamed?
When we didn't scheme against the ways it seemed, hope for a survival in a place
A place as nothing as it would seem
They are the new machines.
Place where the fields are havested, the cars automated,
a new world order in this place, as our lives fade into the dust
Who do we trust here in this ritualistic flow?
The machines are well oiled all shiny new in a row,
factories once shuttered, now feel the machines' pull and tow.
I work no more, a utopian place, my respect for a decent wage,
fades into this robotic space.
I miss my old Utopia, dancing in the streets, and everything just exists.
Bourbon Street
Pavement below my feet on Bourbon Street
French roast, stronger than my dreams,
Nothing is as it seems,
Down on Bourbon Street
I remember a place like this,
from my dreams,
a long lost host,
A long ago toast,
a promise
not kept so it seems,
Here on Bourbon Street
Craw daddy in my mouth as glasses clink,
Bourbon Street doesn’t stop to think.
So I make my way down to the Rue this morning,
to toast those in mourning,
Here on Bourbon Street
I see the night, I feel the heat
I feel the morning , as we meet,
Here on Bourbon
I had to write something about all of the marches we either witnessed, or participated in, over these last few weeks, months, and years. It’s great to flex our muscles to try to make changes for racial equality. I’m proud that we have these freedoms. We will continue the fight!
THE MARCH
Marching as one to make things right,
Hands linked together,
like a chain of love, so bright.
Sounds of a million souls, fighting the good fight,
Town to town, city to city, long days turn to night.
Heart to heart, marching in step,
The progress of our history so inept.
Each American story, a reflection of our times,
We march for equality and justice, in
unison and rhymes.
A reflection of a million lights,
Hope begins a movement towards
Equality and Rights.
A government without justice fights an unjust fight, while the masses light up the night,
Being on the right side of history makes it alright.
You fight for what’s right, and it’s alright.
We fight for our freedoms, marching one step
at a time.
You fight, you march, you hope, one story at a
Time, cities march in unison, and in rhyme.
You fight for what’s right, and it’s alright.
Our stories are amazing, incredible to behold.
Soldiers of equality, marching to a story untold.
American freedoms already bought and sold.
Our voices are heard within a nation, divided within our sight.
So many young, and old, black or white,
Ready for a fight, defending those who can’t
put up a fight.
You fight for what is right, and it’s alright.
The past has taken its toll
on the American
Psyche, tearing America’s sole
Government inaction, leads to action,
Do they hear the actions of a million feet, two by two,
Black and white together, it’s me and you.
You fight for what is right, and it’s alright.
8 MINUTES LONG
8 minutes in time, a long,long time
Does an American life matter?
8 minutes is a long, long time.
The long blue line has no limits,
8 minutes , no justice in our time.
1968, 2020, an inhuman race,
American lives unprotected, not safe
8 minutes turn to years,
I drop my head, and shed American tears.
Seconds to minutes, time moves
forward thru the years
feel our pain, feel our fears,
“I can’t breathe”, and no one hears.
George Floyd, burning in our hearts,
and the others thru the years.
“I can’t breathe”, and no one hears.
8 minutes
A long, long, time
8 minutes,
A very long time
As I watched the USS Comfort embark on its journey to help with the Coronavirus, I wanted
to write her something for her
journey.
Mercy Onward
Give her a Wide Berth,
Batten Down the Hatches
The west coast fast approaches,
Humanity appears beyond the horizon,
Struggling in the deepest of water.
Comfort Onward
Give her a Wide Berrh,
Batten down the Hatches,
The east coast fast approaches,
while humanity looks to her for comfort
Like ships that pass in the night,
We are following your passage
Onward Mercy, Onward Comfort,
You are a beacon
Of shining
Light.
This is a poem in tribute to Claudia Patricia Gomez Gonzalez, who was shot and killed at the US border on Wednesday, May 23, 2018.
Claudia
Claudia (Claudia Patricia Gomez Gonzalez)
Her journey ended here, somewhere between Laredo and the Rio Bravo,
A 1,500 mile journey to find Americana.
Her passing through did cause a violent death,
and our hands' are now bloodied ,as she was unable to cross.
Now we are only able to make the sign of the cross,
We can pray, or we can change policy, so we don't have this loss.
Her name was Claudia
Traveling from the Rio Bravo, in search of nirvana,
or just a job, from Guatemala.
She was stopped in her tracks at the border,
now forever marked as a border crossing, lacking any social order.
There was no weapon, 'they were hiding", locals say,while the others said they had weapons, and used them that day.
There was no weapon, "they were hiding", locals say,and the others said they had weapons, and used them that day.
The bloody hands of Uncle Sam, etched in a policy where leaders' don't give a damm.
She did die a violent death, by bloody hands of a government policy,
that supports the American dream.
She was gunned down, the useless loss of life,a dream unfulfilled, a murder as it would seem.
What are we without our American dream?
She was Claudia, shot down at the border, trying to flee a place with no law, no order.
The story goes that she "hit him with a blunt object, or "they" hit him, as the border patrol will say,
and the locals dispute this account to this very day.
'there was no weapon,
they were hiding, is what the locals say.
See what happens when all people take a stand,
instead of listening to the words we here so often in this great land,
"This is what happens with you people,
but now it's time and
"We will take a stand,
"By the people and for the people"
for life, for liberty, and the pursuit against a policy, in this great land.
Treetop
No stop until I spread my wings,
yes I'm climbing to the place.
I won't stop until I'm there.
I'm high above the treetop at last tonight,
at the first light, and the last light.
My last stop below everything that seems alright.
But I'm above all the that now.
Up here it's all so clear
You are always near,
You are down and out, but no doubt,
but down below my pain won't go.
But I’m above all that now.
So rise up , climb up, look up, open up and go above it all.
In this tree top where an empty nest turns to a long and peaceful place
without a fight to be the best.
In this place amongst the hurting that need rest.
Stay above it all. A place to rest. A place to fail. Fall with me to a place where you get it all.
No trouble here high above it all in this place where you never fall except into my nest.
Down there
You are always near,
Like the tops of trees , I see above it all
down and out, but no doubt,
but down below my pain won't go.
But I’m above all that now.
My arms open and your wings spread. Fall into my arms open your heart and spread love and feel me. Open your wings and fly to me. In the treetop built for you and me.
Occupy Wall Street Poem
OCCUPY
Occupy, Intensify, electrify, ask why?
It's our occupation.
Occupy Wall St encompasses the Nation.
On any street, on any road, America is locked down, ready, but already sold.
My place, my country, at what price? At what cost?
It never gets old.
Banks too big, politics all rigged
people fail, while fat cats' sing.
Occupation of a nation - to take over comes from within
I changed my place in life today
without my own doing, let's say
I never asked for this, and I asked for help in haste,
from within this national space
Occupation against the ones who say
that freedom is the price to pay
The only way to occupy the mighty on high,
is to get to the place that they will not try
Occupy. Ask why?
And you say that this place is taken,
by the god-forsaken
Why not an occupation of the places that ruined this nation
A boardroom, a congressional hall, - any place where men dare to stare,
at the plight of our nations' despair.
45 (America on Fire)
Michael Flynn, Kim Jong Un, Robert Mueller, Vladimir Putin.
Puerto Rico, Mexico, Charlottesville, and Otto.
Israel and Jerusalem, Border wall mayhem,
NFL, Russia probes,
travel bans, who the hell really knows?
He was always tweeting, while the world was weeping, he was always tweeting,
The electoral college elected him, but the world's light is burning dim.
Border Wall, Russian Probes, NFL, Trumps' summit not going so well,
Mueller investigating, Congressmen procrastinating.
He was always tweeting, while the world was sleeping,
he was always tweeting,
This place is burning down just like hell,
I'm not feeling so well.
We started the fire, but the time will come when this will all be done.
Sessions, Melania, Cohen Tillerson, Kelly Ann.
Spicer, Mar-a-Lago,
Electoral college got us into this, don't you know.
Kushner, Manafort, Kavanaugh, Pruitt, Ross,
Zinke, Price, Papadopoulos, DeVos at a loss,
Page, Stone, Bannon, Pence,
where is all the common sense?
Fake News, nothing as it seems to be,
Trump Foundation, Stormy D.
Russian loans, Executive privilege,
free press groans.
Right now, it's all for one and one for all, but there's is trouble at the Border wall.
He was always tweeting, while the world was weeping,
he was always tweeting.
Though the electoral college elected him,
but the world's light is burning dim.
End of part 1, to be continued....
Count on It
Can't count on my woman, can't count on my boss.
Can't count on my ex, can't count on anything else,
just counting time as it goes, count me out, know one really knows?
Only thing I can count on are the fingers on my hand,
Can't always count on the people in this land,
sometimes they appear weak and frail, and it hurts
like my hand is held down with a nail.
Can't count on family, can't count on my car,
can't stop counting all the relationships that ended with a scar,
some even
ended right outside my door,
They ended as fast as a country going to war.
Can't count on my doctor, can't count on my health,
can't count the good times,
can't even count my wealth.
I keep counting but I can't even count on that,
the fingers are frozen, and I can't even put on my hat.
Cant count on my I Phone, my computer, what Twitter said
Can't count on American Idol,my war heros,
Even all those who are dead
Politicians counting those medals
their policies are the same words that
keep "getting said"
Can't count on the IRS,
Can't count on my overdue loans,
Can't count on the military, and their low flying drones.
Can't count on my music, not the Beatles', or the Stones,
Asked my neighbor what she could count on,
she told me that she would get back to me,
"that I could count on it", but I'm still standing here alone.
Can't count on my neighbors, all those TV talking heads,
I lost track of time after the 60's I can't count on my meds,.
Can't count on the mailman, the undertaker, the shrink,
Not even my eye doctor, now I can't blink,
because if I blink I would probably miss the end of the world,
Does that kinda make you think?
I'll even miss talking to you about all the things I can't count on,
All of the things that you wanted, and all of the things that you miss.
Can't count on the Millenniums, can't count on the Boomers,
or generation X, can't even count on the next generation, or what
their generation will even try to fix
One thing is for certain, I can count on my fingers
all the things that i have lost,
I tried finding it,
but all this counting costs way to much,
So I keep counting, counting down this rhyme,
one thing for certain, I wish I had more time.
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The Technolution is a Futuristic Rock Concept Album
LYRICS
2102
TECHNOLOGY RULES THE DAY,
HUMAN CONTACT MUST FIND ANOTHER WAY.
I AM CYBOR, I MUST FIND ANOTHER WAY.
WHY IS LOVE GONE, 2102 IS ALL WRONG, NO HOPE FOR THE FUTURE,
TECHNOLOGY HAS GROWN TOO STRONG, MY DAY IS EMPTY, GOVERNMENT MISTRUST, INHIBITING US AT ANY COST.
CHORDS, WORDS, NOTES LOST,
AND NEVER FOUND. MODERN
DAY REALITY BRINGS ME DOWN.
FOR TECHNOLOGY RULES THE DAY,
AND MANKIND MUST FIND ANOTHER WAY.
WHERE HAS THE SOUND GONE?
2102 IS DARK, COLD, AND INFORMAL.
HUMAN CONTACT GONE,
NO LOVE, NO PEACE, NO HOPE,
TECHNOLOGY HELPS SOME TO COPE.
CHORDS, WORDS, NOTES LOST,
AND NEVER FOUND, MODERN
DAY REALITY BRINGS ME DOWN.
FOR TECHNOLOGY RULES THE DAY,
FOR MANKIND MUST FIND ANOTHER WAY.
CHORDS, WORDS, NOTES LOST,
AND NEVER FOUND, MODERN DAY
REALITY BRINGS ME DOWN,
FOR TECHNOLOGY RULES THE DAY,
Cybor
I AM CYBOR, I MUST FIND ANOTHER WAY.
I AM EVERYMAN, AND
I AM YOU, AND I AM ME,
I AM EVERYONE, DON'T YOU SEE?
A PREACHER, A MURDERER, A SINNER, A SAINT,
WHAT IS IT THAT HISTORY'S CANVAS WILL PAINT?
IT'S A VISION, A HOPE, A MELODY IN TIME.
A STORY WITHOUT AN ENDING,
A NEVER ENDING RHYME.
I FEEL, I SLEEP, BUT I DON'T DREAM,
MANKIND IS NOTHING AS IT WOUD SEEM.
BUT YOU ARE EVERYMAN TOO,
YOU ARE THE HOPE, WHEN DESPAIR FINDS YOU
YOU ARE THE JUDGE, WHEN NOTHING APPEARS TO BE TRUE,
YOU ARE EVERYMAN,
THRU AND THRU.
CHORUS
OOH, IT'S A SUNNY DAY OUTSIDE MY WINDOW,
YEA, IT'S A SUNNY DAY INSIDE MY HEAD.
(repeat)
I AM CYBOR, I AM ALWAYS ALIVE AND ALWAYS TRUE,
I AM HUMANITY, LIFE, DEATH, AND ALL OF MANKIND
INSIDE MY HEAD, OUTSIDE MY BODY, AND STRAIGHT THRU,
I AM THE SUNRISE, AS I WALK THRU THE DARK OF THE MOON,
I AM YESTERDAYS' HEARTACHES, AND TOMORROW' LIGHT THAT SHINES ON THROUGH,
I AM THE ANSWERS, TO THE DECISIONS THAT WILL NEVER MAKE US SANE,
I AM CYBOR, BUT I AM EVERYMAN'S SORROW AND PAIN.
CHORUS -
OOOH, IT'S A SUNNY DAY OUTSIDE MY WINDOW,
YEA, IT'S A SUNNY DAY INSIDE MY HEAD.
(repeat)
LIFE GOES ON IN THIS TIME AND PLACE,,
I LUST, I LOVE, ALL HOPES OF THE FUTURE,
APPEAR AS LINES ON MY FACE.
OHH, IT'S A SUNNY DAY OUTSIDE MY WINDOW,
YEA, IT'S A SUNNDY DAY INSIDE MY HEAD.
OHH, IT'S A SUNNY DAY OUTSIDE MY WINDOW,
YEA, IT'S A SUNNY DAY OUTSIDE MY WINDOW.
Rev (The Reverend)
I'M THE SAVIOR,
YEAA, THE SAVIOR.
WANT MY ADVICE?
REJOICE IN VIRTUAL REALITY,
ENJOY THE DISTRACTIONS AND LIES,AND DON'T THINK TWICE.
I'M EVERYONES' PREACHER,MURDERER, SINNER, AND SAINT.
I AM THE CHOSEN ONE,
CHOSEN ONE AMONG THE FEW.
I'M THE REAL SAVIOR FOR ALL OF YOU,
I SHINE THE HOLY LIGHT OF TECHNOLOGY ON YOU.
I JUST WANT YOUR SOUL,
YOUR DREAMS,GIVE IT UP TO ME,I WILL SET YOU FREE.
YES BABY, I'M THE SAVIOR
YEAA, THE SAVIOR.
WANT MY ADVICE?
REJOICE IN VIRTUAL REALITY,
ENJOY THE DISTRACTIONS AND LIES,AND DON'T THINK TWICE.
I'M THE PREACHER, THE FUTURE, THE LINK TO YOUR PAST,
TECHNOLOGY WILL SURVIVE, IT WILL OUTLAST.
I AM EVERYTHING, I MAKE THE YEARS' COLLIDE, I MERGE PAST WITH ALL OF TIME,
YOUR HOPES, DREAMS, WILL ALL BE MINE.
BROTHERS AND SISTERS,
I AM THE SAVIOR,
I AM EVERYMAN.
I LIVE THRU CYBOR, WIRES, AND ALL CHORDS.
YOUR FEELINGS ARE USELESS IN THIS TIME AND PLACE.
I'M EVERYMAN.
I LIVE THRU CYBOR AND WIRES, THAT TRANSMIT TO A BETTER PLACE
I WILL TAKE YOUR EMOTIONS AND BURY THEM IN FUTURISTIC SPACE.
YEA, I'M THE SAVIOR,
YEAA, THE SAVIOR
WANT MY ADVICE?
REJOICE IN VIRTUAL REALITY,
ENJOY THE DISTRACTIONS AND LIES,
AND DON'T THINK TWICE.
The Technolution
ACROSS THIS SPACE I TRAVEL,
I TRANSMIT, I HAVE A PLACE TO GO,
MY HEART IS FULL OF ALL THE LOST SOULS,
I WILL DEFEAT TECHNOLOGICAL WOES.
THIS IS LIFE IN 2102
IS THE END NEAR?
TIME TRIES TO MOVE FORWARD,
THE FEEDBACK OF SATELLITES MAKE THE PRESENT SO CLEAR,
THIS IS MY LIFE,
MY NAME IS CYBOR,
I AM THE PREACHER, THE MURDERER, THE SINNER, THE SAINT.
I WILL BRING
(REPEAT)
THE TECHNOLUTION,
THE REVOLUTION,
TIME AND SPACE HAS NO SOLUTION.
THE TECHNOLUTION
THE KILLING, THE HATE, IT'S THE NORM EVERY YEAR.
IT'S A FINE LINE, THERE'S NO ESCAPE FROM THE EVIL,
TECHNOLOGY IS LOADED LIKE A GUN, FULL OF FEAR.
TECHNOLUTION, REVOLUTION, NO SOLUTION.
YOU DECIDE.
PEACE AND LOVE AGAINST MACHINERY,
THE SINNER AGAINST THE SAINT,
THE HEALER VS THE MURDER,
REALITY VS FATE.
IT'S GOOD AGAINST EVIL,
WINNERS, LOSERS, THE KILLERS , THE HEALERS,
THE HAPPY, THE SAD,
TIME FOR HEALING, IT'S A NEW TIME FOR THE LAND.
TECHNOLUTION
REVOLUTION, NO SOLUTION,
YOU DECIDE.
JUSTICE OR REBELLION, YOU DECIDE
FREEDOM OR REPRESSION SET ASIDE?
TECHNOLOGY WITH REASON,
OR FREEDOM WITHOUT TREASON?
TECHNOLUTION.
REVOLUTION. NO SOLUTION. YOU DECIDE.
Imagine A Day
IMAGINE A DAY?
IMAGINE A PLACE
WHERE VISIONS CAN'T BE SEEN
AND WORDS HAVE NO SOUND
A WORLD WHERE OUR VISIONS OF TECHNOLOGY
ARE BURIED IN THE GROUND
HEAR THE SOUND?
HEAR IT LOUD, AND HEAR IT CLEAR
IT'S LIKE A SKY,
BLUE SKIES THAT ARE SO CLEAR
HEAR THE SOUNDS,
THE VISIONS IN OUR HEAD
THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT
THE POETS WORDS' ARE LOST
AND WE DON'T REMEMBER WHAT WAS SAID
FROM WITHIN, ALL AROUND, YET SO NEAR
IMAGINATIONS BECOME THE IDEAS,
THE CREATIONS BECOME SO CLEAR
HEAR THE SOUNDS
VISIONS IN OUR HEADS
IT'S THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT,
THIS IS WHAT IT SAYS.
I HEAR THIS IN MY HEAD,
I DREAM THAT TECHNOLOGY IS DEAD
I HEAR THIS IN MY HEAD
IT'S WHAT WE ALL DREAD
I AM ALL OF THIS,
AND EVERYTHING HAS BEEN SAID
HEAR THE SOUNDS
THE VISIONS IN OUR HEADS,
THE WORLDS' SPINNING AROUND,
THIS IS WHAT IT SAYS
YEA, THE SOUNDS ARE IN MY HEAD
TOMORROW,
IT'S ANOTHER DAY
HERE, IN THE PRESENT, I AM ON MY WAY
SEEING TOMORROW AS YESTERDAY, MAKES
IT APPEAR SO,SO
FAR AWAY
I LIVE FOR TOMORROW,
I LOST TODAY THERE
BABY, IT'S ALL IN MY MIND,
TOMORROW IS HERE, AND
THE FUTURE IS IN REWIND
AM I ON MY WAY?
TO MOVE BEYOND THE TRANSMISSIONS AND RECEPTIONS,
TO FIND ANOTHER WAY.
TOMORROW WAS ANOTHER YESTERDAY,
TODAY OFFERS SO MUCH MORE,
WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HAVE IN STORE?
IT BRINGS ME TO A NEW CURE.
AM I ON MY WAY?
TO MOVE BEYOND THE TRANSMISSIONS AND RECEPTIONS,
TO FIND ANOTHER YESTERDAY?
TOMORROW IS A NEW HOUR, OFFERING SO MUCH MORE,
TECHNOLUTION WITHOUT WIRES ,
BUT ONLY FLOWERS TO BLOOM ONCE AGAIN,
WHAT DOES TECHNOLOGY HAVE IN STORE?
WILL I FIND PEACE AND LOVE?
ARE THE SEASONS OF TOMORROW'S YEARS,
A PLACE WHERE I WILL UNCOVER MY FEARS?
NOW LIFE IS A PLACE ,
WHERE YOU CAN IMAGINE WHAT LIFE CAN BE,
NOT A PLACE WHERE TECHNOLOGY
INHIBITS MEN TO BE FREE
SOO, THE FUTURE HAS BEEN SAVED
EWWW,
THE PAST IS NO LONGER ENSLAVED - chorus
CAN YOU IMAGINE THIS DAY?
CAN YOU IMAGINE A DAY
WITHOUT WAR,
IT'S SO CLEAR,
TECHNOLOGY, WITHOUT FEAR
A PLACE WHERE PEACE IS WITHIN US,
NO LONGER A HALF-DAD SOCIETY
WHERE NO ONE COULD TRUST?
IS IT A FUTURE WITHOUT WAR?
NO FEAR? JUST LOVE,
IN THE TIME AND PLACE RIGHT HERE,
CAN IT BE WITHIN REACH?
LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE PAST,
WILL HELP US ALL TO TEACH.
LOVE IS STRONGER THAN ANYTHING THEY PREACH
Hear the Sound
IMAGINE A PLACE
WHERE VISIONS CAN'T BE SEEN,
AND WORDS HAVE NO SOUND,
A WORLD WHERE OUR VISIONS OF TECHNOLOGY
ARE BURIED IN THE GROUND
HEAR THE SOUND?
HEAR IT LOUD AND HEAR IT CLEAR,
IT'S LIKE A SKY,
BLUE SKIES THAT ARE SO CLEAR
HEAR THE SOUNDS,
THE VISIONS IN OUR HEAD,
THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT
THE POETS WORDS ARE LOST,
AND WE DON'T REMEMBER WHAT WAS SAID
FROM WITHIN, ALL AROUND, YET SO NEAR
IMAGINATIONS BECOME THE IDEAS,
THE CREATIONS BECOME SO CLEAR
HEAR THE SOUNDS,
VISIONS IN OUR HEADS,
ITS THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT,
THIS IS WHAT IT SAYS.
I HEAR THIS IN MY HEAD,
I DREAM THAT TECHNOLOGY IS DEAD
I HEAR THIS IN MY HEAD
IT'S WHAT WE ALL DREAD
I AM ALL OF THIS,
AND EVERYTHING HAS BEEN SAID
HEAR THE SOUNDS
THE VISIONS IN OUR HEADS,
THE WORLDS' SPINNING AROUND,
THIS IS WHAT IT SAYS
YEA, THE SOUNDS ARE IN MY HEAD
LIVE WIRE
WHAT IS THIS THING I FEEL?
WHEN I DO THOSE THINGS?
IS THIS FANTASY OR REALITY,IS THIS TRUE LOVE REAL?
YOU ARE MY LIVE WIRE
FLOWING THRU MY VEINS
UNCOVERING MY FEARS
AND WIPING AWAY THE TEARS
I HEAR YOU CALLIN" CONNECTIONS LOST, NOW FOUND
THE CALLING OF THE LONG, LOST SOUND
CAN I BE ONE IN THE SAME?WHAT IS THIS PAIN?
YOU ARE MY LIVE WIRE
FLOWING THRU MY VEINS
UNCOVERING MY FEARS
AND WIPING AWAY THE TEARS
AS I STARE INTO THOSE EYES,
I FEEL AS DARK AS A SUN THAT NEVER WILL RISE
(BRIDGE) AND I FEEL LOVE,YEA, I FEEL YOU AND I FEEL YOU,AND I WANT TO FEEL LOVE AND I FEEL LOVE, YEA, I FEEL YOUAND I FEEL YOU, BABY, I WANT YOU
I FOUND YOU AMIDST THE SCATTERED WIREYOU WERE ALL FRAYED AND BURNED LIKE A FIRE,YOU ARE MY LIVE WIRE, CONNECTIONS OF DESIRE
YOU ARE MY LIVE WIRE
FLOWING THRU MY VEINS
UNCOVERING MY FEARS
AND WIPING AWAY THE TEARS,
AND
YOU FOUND ME AMIDST THE SCATTERED WIREI WAS BURNED THROUGH AND THROUGH YOU ARE MY LIVE WIRE, AND I FELL FOR YOU.
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