written 1998
Days in school were very hard. Ways to make him “right”, they tri… Wrong, is how teacher said he wrot… Long hours they drilled on change. Hide his talent, was all he did;
Transcending Categories of race Evidence, time unexplained; In the purified essence of The space of truth
Daddy don’t you touch him with tha… Cause when he kills you, the world… Understand. What got into him? What made him… Not knowing he lived the life of a…
He wondered her in all her moods And in her sweetest hour When first the icy snow would melt And wake the waiting flower. She covered him in the heat of noo…
Small Precise in her hearing And seeing She asks herself how Her thoughts connect
Resting in the rickety old rocker That sits on the rhododendron porc… She gazed into the mountains and g… Wild ponies, prancing and dancing And racing in the fields below.
As she looks to the sky She sees two stars This is the first time she’s seen Them In a long time
The trees are silently weeping, Love only knows what secrets they… Tears, pain & fearfulness seem to… Of people who sit under her branch… Listen & hear her rustling, like t…
Live for today. Come what may. No thoughts of tomorrow. No time for sorrow. Dreams come so fast.
Misconceived, She was misconceived A mother grieved... And she is left without Still searching for a safe
She loves to look at old things And remember times gone by; A rhinestone pin, a filled dance c… Or Grandpa’s bow tie. Old photographs, a handkerchief,
Call her back to a time long ago, Before the white man came to her l… A time long ago when buffalo roame… And her freedom knew no bounds. Call her back to a time long ago
Sometimes when she’s all alone She wonders why you’re gone. Why you went and left her On this earth all alone She wonders what you’re thinking
In the soul of man, Both can be found, Infinite peace And the devils bound. Side by side they exist,
Love of soft warm drizzly days Slowly, strolling along a quiet pi… Cloud banks cast light upon the wa… Illuminating a sea dance, then dis… Touched by pure gentle hissing rai…