Life: Here & Now II

The last place I looked Is the last place I couldn't find it And the first time I find it I'll know where it is

demands for evidence almost always precede apologies and follow flashes of doubt and mistrust then we whip out the sanctioned documentation of our true intent flash it around thump it down slide it (magstripe left, please) protesting the whole affair as quite unneeded when I needed reassurance, you simply showed up waited patiently listened carefully smiled gently spoke softly and poured grace upon whom grace was needed I know you This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License

You've got me pondering Making me think My mind is wandering over you 'n everything

Lost my Stetson in the wind On a rocky mountain climb Couldn't get it back again And eventually I'll stop trying

One more shadow meets the light Another antidote I'm gonna try False effects -- we'll have to smile As one more shadow leans against the wall

in the end, it's all that matters in the end, it's all I care about to be with you

There's not a sunset that's not worth seeing Not a heartache that's not worth feeling Not a breath that's not worth breathing When I'm with you

West of the Pecos The landscape changes But through the ages

I was sitting at the table Sipping at my coffee Nibbling at my bagel Thinking too many things Here in my head Imagination fueled by the things you said

There I was Standing in the doorway Dinner in my hand Thinking that surely no way Would this fleeting love stand

Out on the edge of the desert, where the cactus is in full bloom and the yowling of the coyotes never seems to startle the moon.

looks like yesterday was just a way to get here on my way to where I'm meant to be on the mountain where everything's clearer

you can have a friend who always tells you the truth tells it like there's really nothing left to lose the kind of friend who will faithfully wound the kind whose love is always in the mood for telling you nothing but the truth nothing but the truth

charging ahead like the Light Brigade running through deadly pass looking at my watch now and again hoping to find that time has stood still under Joshua's watchful gaze

down by the border, in a border town dads and daughters just hanging around watching the river, knowing it's Grand and sharing the dreams only fathers understand

In the morning I can see you Coffee grinding My heart's finding A new day

decades pass years slide by like fading grass and the clouded sky each time they come around another hope begins each time I make the sounds but I fall right back again This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License

she backs up a bit when he comes around like a mail carrier avoiding a bark he listens hard for the incriminating sounds like a blind man watching the dark

While all the rest are singing carols, With wan smiles  Scotch-taped on Watching hour and hours of Farrell And the Clauses and elves falling down We're sitting at sunset exhausted from all the crazy run-around stress

deep within me things I hold hold onto me standing poised ready to duck the coming cleanse This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License