A Stone Is All You Got
Just agree with everything you see
Believe everything you hear
The stone is your reality
But the life you aint got
Until you are brave enough
To Disagree
Then inside that rock you will see
It isn’t that hard to be
Follow That Man Who Taught A Rainbow
Acting like a clown
I found as I looked around
I had fallen down
Just wanting to be
Someone you’d like to see
When I just should have been
me
A gray sky
the lies
and the mask
And when you can’t put it in words
It’s time to put it to an end
So I took thirty four pills
And lived
don’t know why I’m around
As I carry this grave around
But I’ve left town
I cannot go back down
All I lack is reason
Out of season
Yet I am alive
Though you think I should be ashamed
That I am to blame
I will have no shame
As I follow that man who taught a rainbow
Because there is gold at the end I know
Because I lived
As we gather around that pot of gold
I hope to see you then
see each other as we are
not as we thought
we were back when
Roger Harkness
7/14/10
It’s Nothing Personal
If people don’t like you
They won’t like you
Can’t make them like you
No need to hurt eternal
Caus it’s nothing personal
Some like the cactus
Others the flower
Some want a butterfly
Others the life after life of the crow
What we know is
No one will like everyone
Some will like no one
Others will only like some one
No need for that hurt feel
No need to die
or wonder why
Reach as hard as you may
Can’t reach the sky
Building bridges to no where
Take you no place
Don’t matter no how
Just say, “Whatever”
Go on
Notice those who do care
If you can’t find anyone
There is one man who loves everyone
They call him the son
If there is no one else
Reach out to that one
By: Roger Harkness
12/21/2009
Guilt By Default
My face smeared across the basement
A picture defaced
All goodness erased
In my disguise
I wait for peace to arise
Stepped on
I take a step down
Against an attack
I took a step back
My precious stones
polished for no one
Awaiting the rise
of the one they call the son
Some say I am wrong
But God knows I’ve hurt no one
I’ve loved, cared and shared
Ask for nothing from no one
Guilty they are ashamed
and make me the blame
Until proven innocent
Jesus sees all the same
By: Roger Harkness
12/20/2009
Friendship
You need a friend
I understand
I need a friend
Understand
I have about
A million things that need to come out
You have emotions you want to feel
Daily, the world tries to kill
That’s what happens when a bird learns to fly
Its got to get loose
or face the noose of a rope
You can’t cope with being alone
You can’t stick around
I know the tone
Someday the song will mix with the music
The little lamb will find its mother
For now
We have to help each other
By: Roger Harkness
Mother Wakes At Noon
Chains reaching up from the ground
No one
Nobody to be found
None
Butterflies sing that song
You know the one
That one no one hears
Nobody
None
Wind blows the trees
When I look up
They’re pointing down
At me
And there is no one
Nobody around
None
Just me
And the ground
But at noon
When the sun reaches its height
on the twenty first day
of the twelfth month
In the year – 2012
An earthquake
will brake me free
You looking at me
Waiting
For the day
The ground shakes
The day mother will awake
The ground opens up
swallow up the pain
brake the chains
You’ll see me
Free
to be with you
You will see me
And there
We will be
All accusing fingers will be braking
Hatred back biting bitterness shaking
and love
Taking its place
In a new time
In the year 2012
By: Roger Harkness
09/12/09
What’s Inside Of You
Those who live long wish to die soon
Those about to die wish to live long
Its never right
Why is everything always wrong
So who wrote the rules
I have a few things to say to that one
They say be happy
So be happy
and they find something you did wrong
Then they will say
It is because we love you
What’s up with this always finding something wrong song
Just go on
Pay no attention
Nothing to see here
Except fear
Afraid to say what is on your mind
Afraid they will laugh at you for
A long long time
The straight road is square
Boring
A crooked road is wasteful
And I have a bucket full of things to save
No place to store them
Do you have room for me
Will you be my friend
Oh I’m sorry
Did I ask you to sin
You can blame me for what you feel
And I’ll take my pill
But there is a darkness inside of you
The light may never fill
By: Roger Harkness
09/11/09
The Hearts Are Tested
In this placeBy: Roger Harkness
Alfred’s Song
The page of truth we do not speak
We speak only of the pages edge
Who will cross the page
Realise its hight and depth
No one
It has never been done
The truth in the sky is hidden
by an artificial light
Sunshine relieves the pain
of the freezing rain
And at times seems insane
Falling taller than the stone
A frog jumps for no one
A frog jumps alone
And Alfred has written a song
No one will understand
By: Roger Harkness
7/2009
The Seed
My skin is peeled to the bone
No one recognizes me
No one knows me
Can you
Will you
See me
The marrow bleeds
Looking deep inside
Invisible to the naked eye
A seed
But I don’t see
Stone ground is the love I share
No one is fair to me
No one cares for me
Can you
Will you
Help me
The dust blows
Looking deep inside
Invisible to the naked eye
A seed
But I don’t see
An earthquake shatters the truth
The ground knocks out my feet
Vultures circle over me
My stomach growls
But there’s nothing to eat
Looking inside
I see – A Seed
Standing to see better
I watch it sprout within me
Hearing distant thunder
I know there must be water
Washing my feet in a puddle
I feel better
Planted
A fruit vine grows within
I believe
Oh God – Please
Forgive me
Give me this chance
Let me just be a branch
The fruit of the vine becomes me
And overcomes me
Full – I share
Because I care
By: Roger Harkness
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Found in my poetry collection. I can’t remember when or why I wrote this, but I’m like, wow, I wrote this. Enjoy!
Love Roger
