I used to go outside every day and watch the sunset,
No matter the weather.
In the summers I would swim out to the forest with my brothers.
We would explore the woods, climb trees,
And my brother even found an arrowhead.
In the winter the lake would freeze and we would ice skate if it was thick enough,
I remember when we one time each got a bucket of snowballs and we were skating around pelting ...
My city on fire…
My home reduced to ashes,
While the fire whips and crashes,
All this trauma,
from trying to influence the masses
My city on fire…
The park where I played hide and seek,
When I was young, and weak
Now seems like a graveyard for my hopes and dreams
My city on fire…
They’re all gone now
my wife, my son, and my daughter
I lost them in this needless slaughter,
All because my gover...
We met in the fifties,
I thought she was beautiful and she thought I was nifty.
I’m not much of a looker,
But she wasn’t picky.
We went to dances, malt shops, Fairs, and sock hops.
She was my angel,
My gift from above.
There wasn’t a word for what we felt,
But we called it love.
She waited for me while I was in the navy.
Happy for 60 years
But cancer took her and I haven’t felt right as of late...
I had been planning a camping trip with my buddy’s for a while.
But on the day of they both flaked.
I decided to go by myself and try and enjoy the time off I took for this trip.
I got to the camp ground around 5 pm,
And i was able to get set up by around 8.
I decided to have a few, because if you camp you have to drink.
It was such a beautiful night that I decided to go on a little stroll.
I w...
