DR's poems
I'm just going to post some of my poetry here...
(no name)
I will leave when the time comes
Without saying a word
Ready for what the world gives me
But you,
You don't care.
When the sky crashes down around us
When the earth splits in two
When the end of all things will come
There you will sit, up in your perch on the cliff
Away from it all,
Locked up in your reckless indifference.
"The Sound of Silence"
Twenty years from today
When the sky crashes down
And the world falls
Into the endless blackness
All the world will pause
And listen
To the sound...
...Of silence.
"Megalomaniac" (variation on the song by Incubus)
What motivation is it that drives you?
The need for power?
Or the knowledge that you'll never have it?
If I met you in a scissor fight
I'd cut off both your wings
So you could never leave the ground
Hey! Megalomaniac!
You're no Jesus! Yeah, you're no f***ing Elvis!
Open your eyes
And you'll see
That all of us are Heaven Sent
And there was never meant
To be only one
So step down!
"Eugene, Our Town"
This is a place
Where people speak their minds
Without fear of conviction
Where hippies outnumber conservatives
Where clouds cover the sky 7 months out of the year
But who cares?
After all, without rain, where would we be today?
And the summer dawns with renewed golden brilliance
Every June, without fail
Where there is a sense of peace
And of protest
All at the same time
It's a place that can't be explained with words
But only by having grown up here
And having known it
In all its successes,
And all its failures
All its rain
And all its sun
All its joy
And all its sorrow
This is the place that will remain
Unchanged
After all is said and done
And the rest of the world has gone and done itself in
An island of paradise
In a sea of chaos
It's not perfect,
But then, no place is
And I'm glad to have known
My little patch
Of heaven.