After the loss of my son
(2006)
When you walked away from me on th… You just left me standing not know… Why would you do such a thing to m… After all the love that there has… Can’t you see the tears that now r…
The fog of life lifts, the scene b… Who are those souls that gather? There, beneath the cliffs The ocean waves crash in anger Driven by the shifting earth
Now I travel along this lonely ro… With soft light and calm air all a… And at my side an unseen presence… And at every turn I saw a view be… I saw rippling streams, and quiet…
Anger brews a sullen cord, Someone came who brought discord. The day distracted, over acted, Anger, became impacted. Anger, the destructive force,
Across the endless void From a place left in death Our traveller, the last of his kin… His journeys end is seen A destination unknown by him
Was it the stranger that was befor… Or the way you looked at him in er… Those strange days when it’s raini… When you’re standing there in terr… Waiting for the fiction of the tim…
Long days ago when no things had c… The day before me was within my ra… Safe and well in familiar home, Without any fear to play and to ro… This place I’m in is my entire wo…
Between the deep green pines that… The highway runs long and straight… The traveller steps out; he’s a hu… His wishes shattered long ago, and… In his disgrace he’s lost the race…
Behind the face, the clown Therein lies a broken heart The mask portrays better days But life for him was down Inside every clown
When in sleep in that faraway plac… Where only dreams make their trace You cannot know if again you will… And if you do what then will you t… From those memories that within yo…
There is a lesson here, In all of… That later may have good effect, Though right now, I can’t see how… There must be reason, In all of t… Or do we just say there is,
When days are long and time seems… When vision plays the game in the… When the noonday sun seems to scor… Are these the times when you see t… Long days’ hanging heavy, everythi…
Time runs slowly on restful days The hours pass in the greying haze The future seems not to behave Sleep overcomes you in the heat wa… The day’s end comes unknown to som…
Forgotten and alone, he walks the… But he is not unknown beyond these… Time and circumstance have changed… though still the person he once wa… changing times have taken the grac…
The boy in the mask stood still at… Trying to find himself in the glas… When along came his father Who being dressed in a gown Said why are you always letting me…