Here no there

I can’t understand

The plan

To go from

The mighty

Hopes of today

To the realities of tomorrow

It’s neither here nor there

Nor anywhere

So where is the

Promise of tomorrow

If it’s not around

Here

We couldn’t get

Our hands

On the most valuable

Lands

Creeping to the sky

With real estate

Blowing by

The standards

Of housing

So we will live

Simply

Or as simple as we can

For now

You and I

Off of Lake Michigan

Down on Belmont

Next to Broadway

There is a place

That lines up

Out the door

Not always

But once more

The caramel taste hue

More than a drink

A life

Lifestyle

It’s where I learned something

I can’t quite explain

But the reality of age

Has the same

Effects

As that coffee did

Years ago

Up we go

So let’s keep

Rolling

When the hope

Is gone

So I hear

A new hope

Is coming

And I wait for the new

Bet coming in

This is news

Later is better

And not on time

But in any way

Just hope to make

The difference I can see

All hope is to make

What I can of

Myself

I could feel it in my hands

The glow of sun

Healing my stranded

Mind

From the billows

Of winters cold

I feel the healing light

In the depths of my

Own light

To rejuvenate

And give charge

Obligations

Across

A one man

Nation

Is to behold

The truth

As if gold

In the hands of a miner

To know the difference

Between right and wrong

And to do the best

Of the weak and strong

The holy grail

Is the moment at hand

So I only begin

To understand

That this is just

The mind of one man

In a state of mind

Today

And always