Acute courage
Lingering verbiage
Subservient against
The grain
Go
Getter
In a time of full blown fear
Tearing at our hearts
And minds
Acute courage is needed
In the thickest of weeds
So that the strong can truly
Be
Acute Courage
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Tag Archives: new years eve
A Rotten Destiny
A rotten destiny
Filled with blasphemy
Blaming infamy
Of tyranny
On the everyday man
And woman
Even
And odd
But when people die
Not even the truth can imply
That responsibility is ours
Behind these bars
I scream
Favor Folk Music
Favor folk music
Stories and lines
Mixed up intertwined
Amongst the Nasville Skyline
To the Manhattan Subway
The flavor to favor
The music in the air
Folk music stories
Take me there
Reasonable Christmas
Reasonable Christmas
With a happy start
With minds open
To the lines read from the sky
Happy friends and family
In great consultation
Avoiding politics
Or resignation
For a meager celebration
Hands together
For its a reasonable Christmas
Given the weather
Atlantic and Pacific
I am no expert
I speak with no certification
Validation
Or Accreditation
This great nation
Built certainly through a process
Of migration
We must hold true
To life, liberty, and freedom
Now we contemplate
Such great
Changes
As 2016 is brought in
I hope the best in the year to come
For the nation that lies
Between the Atlantic and Pacific
And under the sun
Tokens of Life
What is the cost of a dream
Not the capital or the initial investment
More importantly the hours laboring and spent
Rather than being well rested
What is the emotional cost
Is it two tokens
If I could somehow come up with a value
Two tokens of life
If it all works out do you get those back and more
Are you delivered from seeing your time
Wasted in hopes of achieving
Rather than just ending poor
And broken
What is the average
Per day
If not achieved is it wasted
Thrown away
Can I accept this
Failure is only owned when you label it
Give it a name and recognize it
But I refuse to do so
Call it reckless
But this is how it goes
I must continue on this path
Continue to let go
To see anything through
Through and renewed
To see what these life tokens can do
Lines on my Skin
Hard work sucks
It beats you up
Tears you down
All the while
The world spins round
The commitment must not waiver
Construction creation and assemble
Hard work makes you stronger
Sunrise sunset
Making you better
With every practice set
It is staying up late
And waking up early
From Thursday to Thursday
Everyday is a workday
It’s opportunity seen
And opportunity taken
No questions asked
No errors mistaken
Hard work wakes you up
And keeps you up
The competition grinds
While you fill your cup
With more coffee to keep going
Never stop
Never slowing
It frustrates and confuses
Engages and amuses
This is what I have learned about hard work
So when you shake my hand
In my eyes you look
The lines in my skin
I have earned
With every opportunity I took
A Cup of Songwriting 