BLIND MANS LANE You’re going down Blind Mans Lane Don’t think it’s by any mistake Can’t see the nails and broken glass When you get that flat You’ll have to change that tire you’re riding on Don’t think it’s a bit of bad luck Son As many before you This lane is named after you It’s a place we all… (more…)
www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk AGAINST A STORM You know When you’re in a storm at sea You do better in following seas Plowing through walls of water Only brings damage to your ship Yes I’ve stood on deck Watched the giant waves Heard the howling wind and not felt a thing Yet my men got washed down the deck When I went the other way… (more…)
From Mark’s Picasa Web Album THE AFTER LOOKOUT I stand back aft Not knowing what time it is Not knowing where I’m at Its been some time I don’t know how much further Don’t know when I last Had a chance To rest My insides empty in the dark of night God is here I’m scared to death Ice flows… (more…)
The After Life I’m dreaming of butchers on their knees Abusers and Accusers down and out in the gutters While the caring, shy and meek have wings and fly Nobody is hungry Nobody tired None hurt Beauty is loved and worshiped not used and tossed out I’m dreaming of the after life That place Atheist mock You gonna be there… (more…)
Seeing Outside A candle burns in the middle Burns to the bone Alone And the rain falls out of time Waiting for that dry place No longer a race In a distance I see a face And realize it’s mine I see I’ve been out of place A pen speaks what lips cannot An expression misunderstood A foot slip The… (more…)
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 By: Roger Harkness 7/25/10
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… (more…)
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… (more…)
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… (more…)