Rage, rage against the breaking dawn
Rage, rage against the coming storm
And silent let the pressure swell
Unto the world our sadness tell,
This story of its own demise
That happens here before our eyes.
For what is there the heart must ask
To bring to us a greater task ?
Our Lord in heaven see and hear
The ending grows too close, too near !
I’d like to think where e’er you are, you hear the bugle’s call
And know we’re missing you from mid-November through next fall
I see you in the twilight just before the even’s pall
It’s with morning sunlight rising I miss you most of all !
The moment that I rise from bed
Old memories do fill my head
I am back home when I was small
And dad is whistling in the hall.
Mom’s hanging clothes upon the line
The wind is crisp, the day is fine
The children shreiking in the yard
Makes hearing conversation hard.
While Nana’s praying in her room
Pop’s sweeping sidewalks with his broom
The smell of onions fills the air
As dinner waits to be prepared.
My world gets smaller day by day
As those I love all pass away
And will to me this legacy
They bide with me in memory !
Oh how I love to hear the rain
It helps me feel so whole again
And when raindrops splash on my face
I think I could win any race.
I’m sure it’s best when all is mist
You feel as though you’re being kissed
Caressed by unseen angels there
Who show us each how much they care.
The rain is like the precious touch
Of all that’s gone we miss so much
I wish that I might just reach out
To give a hug, a squeeze, a shout,
Most rain reminds me what I’ve lost
My Lord You know the price it cost !
A minor thought does come to mind
Outside these walls what shall I find
A world that’s cruel and much unkind
The foolishness of dumb and blind,
Society that’s gone to waste
A place devoid of any taste
That flounders in unthinking haste
On ideals that are wicked based !
My heart got lost so long ago
How that occured I cannot know
It was that war, I often think
That took our values to the brink
The young, the old, the in-between
Not one of us escaped the scene
It hollowed out each living thing
And in our lives did chaos bring
We took the test and some did win
Although too many were done in
And there were those, ones that I saw
Who ne’er returned forever more
Oh Lord I wish I could forget,
I haven’t mastered that trick yet !
…………………………………………………….
*( MEMORIES OF WORLD WAR II )
There’s no time left, we’ve lost our way
We cannot fail, not one more day
As angels in the clouds above
Extend to all unending love
Our Lord on high is waiting there
He feels our pain and hears our prayer
For there is nothing He won’t know
The world forgets, this is His show !
Oh daddy dear what can you say
To get me through this scary day
And help me face my wildest fears
With the vast wisdom of your years ?
What shall I do now I am grown
To find my way back to my home
With you not there to shelter me
From stress that life shares frequently ?
Oh daddy dear I miss you so
Too great a loss, why did you go
I pray we’ll meet again one day
In God’s sweet land of far away !
I never thought I’d rue the day
Once that I gave my heart away,
I stored my dreams upon the shelf
With no reserve about myself.
This life I planned of magic theme
Would ne’er become idyllic scheme
It didn’t take too long to see
True happiness is never free
No matter how we try and try
There’s no kind way to say goodbye !
There’s been so many friends along the way
That have gotten lost or have gone astray
While their faces blur and the names escape
Memories get caught in the charged landscape !
As the past rolls by and the time moves on
I will wait here like an old mastodon
In a silence that I would like to keep
Until I close my eyes in life’s last sleep !
Not long ago in this same place
The last time that I saw her face,
Today’s the day that I recall
The darkness of death’s knell did fall.
How sad that we shall never greet
Or hug and kiss when e’er we meet
I am so sorry that you’ve gone
We’ll catchup soon, it won’t be long !
At times I sense a whistle
As it rides upon the wind
There silent as the thistle
While it begs, “please let me in”.
When the moment seems to die
And the quiet does not bend
All the world whispers “goodbye”
And each friendship must now end !
Sometimes the world is full of gloom
Its sadness darkens every room
The seasons change, they come and go
From springtime’s warmth to winter’s snow.
Days roll on by with no account
Midst tears and sighs in great amount
And justice finds it needs a place
To challenge evil’s false embrace.
What was has been and is no more
Once lost will never be restored
The saddest words that one can say
Oh Absalom, you’ve gone astray !
There are no words that can help explain
The length and depth of a mother’s pain
Losing a child no matter the age
To an illness or another’s rage !
Through the passage of time, aches may fade
As sadness and loss are all displayed
Seems the worst of all that can be said
Are that those we have loved are now dead,
And with heavy heart and tearful sigh
Were denied the chance to say goodbye !
I cannot bear the tragedy
That is about to o’er take me
And wills my life to sadder be
From now until eternity !
The sun’s grown pale, the moon is red
One dare not speak, words are unsaid
See how each leaf twists in the breeze
Erase the pain Lord, if You please
There is no solace in the grave
There’s no time left, no cause to save !
My heart is full, my body numb
With grief severe and overcome
No matter where I try to look
My vision blurs, I am forsook.
Seems I’ve been here few times before
Appears there’s this familiar door
And of the lessons each has found
Let’s start with feet upon the ground.
The way is long, the journey hard
The rest I find best left to God
I pray that He will hear our claim
Greet a new dawn to spur our aim !
