Let Me Help

What's it take to tell you,
What you need to hear,
To make you understand you'll be someone,
If you just keep me near,

Let me me raise you up to the stars above,
For all the world to see,
What I see when I look into those eyes,
That read my mind when they look back at me?
You wouldn't have to fear for your future,
Your have all that you need,
People with less will clamor for your help,
Enemies will take head.

Let me help you,
The price hardly matters,
All you can know is what is in your mind, Ev'ryone else may as well be actors.

Wintertime Blues

This wintertime of year,
The light gone before day,
E'vry mind you see is on other things,
So very far away,

No wonder you suddenly feel alone,
Your feelings never lie,
Now your choice is to take this time to change,
Into a completely different guy,

One who is ev'rything you've e'er wanted,
Though you ne'er found the time,
Reflect, be thankful, make resolutions,
But stay within the lines,

Of what's proper,
We are not animals,
Change can only happen in our structures,
Or, you know, it's not really change at all.

This Dog

There's a dog beside me,
Stretched out and sleeping sound,
If animals can cure anxiety,
The doctor is in town,

There is no other moment in this one,
No decisions you made,
That haunt you when you stop to think of them,
When these paws rest in your armpit this way,

The flesh and bone and sinew are all there,
Why not a soul as well?
Unless you know something that I do not,
Then please, dear one, do tell.

You know what? Don't,
This puppy just arose,
Now it is pooping on its diaper pad,
No, wait, it's not e'en going to be close!

The State Of Today

There is what people say,
Then there is what they think,
Then there is reaction inferred from,
An unsupported link,

Based on a bias rooted in their thoughts,
They'd ne'er articulate,
But doesn't stop them from organizing,
To eradicate manufactured hate,

Which by then obfuscates the real issue,
Engagement in bad faith,
Until the light of straw man effigies,
Shadows what's underneath.

Which is what's real,
Since the onset of thought,
The need to know what is unknowable,
The cause of every war that's been fought.

There IS Magic!

Some things feel like magic,
Like they were meant to be,
If that's what they are then what does that say,
About one's tragedies?

Or even about the doldrums of life,
Are we all just surfing,
Spending most of our lives padddling from shore,
T'experience the thrill of returning?

I guess there's all the time to contemplate,
About magic moments,
If all was magic, it would be doldrum,
The truth for all humans.

How do I know?
If I'm pricked, then I bleed,
I may as well be talking to no one,
If everyone else is not like me.

I'm Just a White Dude

You might think I'm silly,
Living among the rich,
So close, yet so far, yet closer than you,
Depending on the pitch,

That was thrown to you and how good you are,
Through nature or nurture,
You know you have to live in a system,
To imagine any kind of future,

Even though when you think of the trade-offs,
You wonder's it worth it,
jesus said there would always be the poor,
Was he hedging his bets?

Only god knows,
That's why guilt is his drug,
Only a man would cover his own ass,
By sweeping the many under the rug.

What the Fuck Am I Talking About?

How much time do you have,
To become who you want?
I will tell you what, I know in my life,
That thought forever haunts,

Do you even know what you have to do,

To feel you've got it right?

In truth, if you still haven't gotten there yet,
I recommend that you call it a night,

Not that you've done any better than me,
god knows that I have tried,
Or have I? TBH I've never focused,
For long stretches of time,

Unless you count,
The years of faith I've held,
That all I've produced will one day break through,
Like an old sycamore that has been felled.