These have all been inspired by someone....either people I know and love and repsect, such as The I'm Fine Girl, or simply people who have done or said something that inspired some words! And Smile - for B&K
And Smile - NEW
Driving Home - NEW
Raging Lady - NEW
From Here To There - NEW
Freelove - NEW
Tears Flow From My Pen
Unspoken Wishes
Tomorrow?s Fears
Your Eyes
My Green Plectrum - NEW
Arizona Man
Its Not You
I Wish You Enough
A Silly Game?
My New Van
Learning Life
Friend 1
Let?s make a pact today
And seal it with a kiss
To look at the dawning sky
Let?s always see the sun
And smile
Even if the skies brood
Thundering its sad lament
Grey and low and weeping
Let?s always see the sun
And smile
When the pain of it all
Hangs achingly heavy
And the dam strains to break
Let?s always see the sun
And smile
And when it is oh so easy
When we skip and dance
Light of foot and carefree
Let?s always see the sun
And smile
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Driving Home - for B&K
I drove
Us home once more
This time its different
Distance further heartache greater
We wept
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Raging Lady - for D.
Raging lady
There's a desert wind blowing over me
And it brings us things I cannot see
But we?re still raging lady
Burning baby
Set me alight
Burning wild
Through my night
Raging lady
Turning on moments such as these
The kind that bring you to your knees
But we?re still raging lady
Burning baby
Set me alight
Burning wild
Through my night
Raging lady
You light the darkness feed my soul
Take this broken man and make me whole
And we?re still raging lady
Burning baby
Set me alight
Burning wild
Through my night
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From Here To There - for B&K
And I?m cutting the chord again
Letting you go
In futures uncertain
We learn how to grow
Distance is relative
Partings a low
But we bear our fruits
From the seeds that we sow
So sad now but smiling
Goodbye till hello
Time and miles pass by
The north wind doth blow
But one things for always
I love you, you know
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Freelove - for Sarah
Let me talk about
A simple thing I hold true
My ideal for love
See who I am through my eyes
Freelove, unconditional
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The I'm Fine Girl - for Sarah
And the I'm fine girl is smiling today
All your troubles should melt away
Things to do and things to say
Can wait a while its time to play
And the I'm fine girl has a way to be
Be simple, have fun, live honestly
Feel alive and always see
The brighter things which are always free
So the troubled boy has looked outside
And saw the sun's not trying to hide
So has breathed real deep and stemmed the tide
And I'm fine too he's thinking inside
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Tears Flow From My Pen- for Dara
I sat at my desk
Hot tears flowing thickly
Where before there had been none
Falling onto the paper
Blurring the ink from the fountain pen
Where I had started writing
Because I could not cry
The tears pooled and merged
With the ink, with my words
An amalgam of my sorrow
And through salt-sore eyes
I fancied that they danced
Briefly like we did once
Before drying, as did our love
Finally they abated and I
Seeing more clearly now
Saw the words I had written
And in them the tears
Tears I had not really wept
It was just my pain in the words
That made it seem so
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Unspoken Wishes- for Bryony & Kate
So my girls tell me?
Did I do my best?
And was it enough?
Was anything left?
Did I always make sure
You are all you can be?
Was I enough
When you needed me?
Partially there, true
But ever in my heart
Did I do alright
When we were apart?
When you are grown
And know what is real
I hope that you see
What this is I feel
I hope that you?re happy
And oh, so much more
I hope you achieve
All that you reach for
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Tomorrow?s Fears- for Mum
And I am scared
For you, for us
What if you aren?t there tomorrow?
How can I contain this sorrow?
And I feel loved
By you, by us
What if its not there tomorrow?
How would I contain that sorrow?
You loved me as I am
And words can never say
Through the growing years
Till I found my way
And from then to now
I felt it every day
And I think back
Of you, of us
Will my thoughts of you tomorrow
Be filled with pain and sorrow?
And I hold tight
To you , to us
Will you still hold me tomorrow?
Or will I hold myself in sorrow?
You loved me as I am
And words can never say
Through the growing years
Till I found my way
And from then to now
I felt it every day
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Your Eyesfor D.
Your Winter eyes are hiding
Pain-flecked and half-closed
I could swim in your tears
Or wipe them dry if I chose
Your Spring eyes are alight
Joy-flecked and new-born
I could see a new way
Where we aren?t world-worn
Your Summer eyes are shining
Gold flecked and deep-brown
I could dive into them
Never again touch ground
Your Autumn eyes are closing
Sleep-flecked and dream-full
I could kiss them awake
Or just follow their call
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My Green Plectrumfor Floyd
I filled a blank
I want a balcony!
To lean out from
To reach out on
With some help to
See a new view
Let me sing to you
People passing by
To the lost who
Still need Rum too
Want the whole sum
To find the new
I took a plectrum
So green and shiny
It sang to me
Of you and us
Of the days passed
Gone but not past
And something new
It took me to home
When rehab was done
Didn?t count then
Couldn?t stop them
As I used it
At last I knew
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Arizona Man- for Chris(az)
Arizona man, walking head down
So that he never misses a moment
With the two boys
Holding tight on his hands
Arizona man, walking head high
So that he never misses a moment
With his lady
Holding tight to his arm
Arizona man, walking eyes closed
So that he never misses a moment
With the words, songs
Holding tight to his mind
Arizona man, walking thought free
So that he never misses a moment
With the new day
Holding tight to possibility
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Its Not You - for Anji
Its like living with a dead body
You turned and said to me
And I wish that you could sometimes
Have the hope of possibility
Its not who we choose to love,
But how they choose to be
Rejection can be handled thus
But cowardice cannot see
You have so much more to give
Than is wanted in their song
But no blame could fall on you
You just grew and you moved on
Please don?t let the their anguish
Diminish your natural grace
You offer much because you can
Run to this dawn apace
So please my darling notice this
Its not you who is wrong
Take my hand, it will be aright
You can sing a different song
And you?ll be so much better than
Your strongest doubter?s know
Because I have seen a light in you,
And the seeds with which you sow
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I Wish You Enough- for Gina
I wish you enough
Future and past
Colours to last
Pinned to your mast
I wish you enough
Horizon and shore
Where you explore
Not wanting more
I wish you enough
Sunshine and rain
Harbours from pain
Keeping you sane
I wish you enough
Daytime and night
Getting it right
Star-guided sight
I wish you enough
Laughter and tears
Life?s souvenirs
Memorised years
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A Silly Game?- for Lorien
Is it really such a silly game
To live in peace and free of fear?
And how many want the very same?
Yet still have to shed a tear?
I think that speaking generally
The spoiling few can disapear
So we can live a life that's free
With our loved ones now and here
Tho' the guns they rock and roll
And tear our lives from here to there
We could still simply take a stroll
And know that love has more to share
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These Things You Do- for Ariel
And what you do amazes me
Like a child when climbing in a tree
Who jumps from high so selfishly
Because a friend has hurt his knee
For happiness you won?t think twice
Inner thoughts do not suffice
Reaching out in sacrifice
You can still give at any price
Touch the hearts of those around
Share the beauty you have found
Silently you make a sound
Sadness is shed, we are unbound
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My New Van- for Kacroon
I don?t know why
But today I want
To wear nothing on my feet
And loose, baggy clothes
Or nothing much at all
And sit in my van
My new van,
Cleaned by me
Repaired by me
Loved by me
And turn the key
And drive, somewhere
I don?t really know
Where, but somewhere that
Doesn?t have a care
Where the wind blows
Gently so the sun?s shine
Warms gently, soothingly
And where the view
Takes my mind and
Empties my thoughts
Out into the air
Where they dance
Wildly in front of me
Before returning back inside
Less frantic, more ordered
And then I return to my
Clean, mended, new-to-me van
And drive once more
Happily??..
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Learning Life- for Su(zi)e
You saw me when the glasses I wore
Were all I could afford
When we were only poor enough
To never end up getting bored
Now our eyes are opened
We turn and face the sun
Dawn of realization
Falls on everyone
Time it keeps coming round
Its time to be moving on
You knew me when those books of mine
Gave me everything I knew
When life was such a simple thing
From the heights at which we flew
Now our eyes are opened
We turn and face the sun
Dawn of realization
Falls on everyone
Time it keeps coming round
Its time to be moving on
You knew me when the things I said
Were all I ever meant
With nothing taken the wrong way
Clear messages were sent
Now our eyes are opened
We turn and face the sun
Dawn of realization
Falls on everyone
Time it keeps coming round
Its time to be moving on
You know me now and where I go
This journey that I make
I am still guided by such things
And from them strength I take
Now our eyes are opened
We turn and face the sun
Dawn of realization
Falls on everyone
Time it keeps coming round
Its time to be moving on
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Friend 1
And I heard, in the news to today
That things weren?t, going your way
And so you asked me, could you lay
Your dreams at my feet
Make you complete
Beside you in your sleep
Not moving
And I said, in the news today
It was clear I?d, lost my way
And I?m not able, to repay
The faith that you keep
That I am complete
And that I can sleep
Without waking
So please don?t be so sad
That its going this way
And please don?t get so mad
Such that you have to stay
Away
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