There is no right or left

There is no right or left

And there’s no back and forth

I have reached a stalemate

A dead-end on this course

No way to begin again

And nothing can be said

I’ve no way of turning

A black rose back to red

The slow hum of Sunday

The slow hum of Sunday

I travel with the sun

Is it six or seven

Has the evening begun

Where is Sunday morning

It seems like yesterday

How soon the night will fall
And sleep be on its way

I would surrender time

I would surrender time

And all future tenses

To have you here again

Near to all my senses

To see you eye to eye

To have you in my care

I’d give up all of time

For one moment to share

This winter without snow

This winter without snow

Although the trees are bare

Spring in February

Where is the Arctic air

Climate change amongst us

Tornadoes touching down

Winter disappearing

No longer frozen ground

Time is running past me (Variation)

Time is running past me

I must learn a new song

Sad to be leaving but

I’ve held this note too long

Soon I’ll be expanding

Never will I implode

I’ll find a new landscape

Where I can make my road

Time is running past me

Time is running past me

I’ve only learned one song

How singular it is

I’ve held this note too long

I should have expanded

Instead I just implode

I know this landscape well

I travel just one road

My answers can't be found

My answers can’t be found

Under a microscope

Or at the very end

Of a strong telescope

Neither the smallest small

Or the infinite space

Can wrap its arms around

All the questions I face

Between the tall graphite

Between the tall graphite

Avenues in splendor

Cross your narrow streets with

Niches full of wonder

Running like a loose flag

Ambassador of me

Through this urban canyon

Declaring I am free

Winter February

Winter February

Dreams float in outerspace

Summer so far away

So too the human race

While a transparent moon

Slowly glides to its light

Idle stars are waiting

For the darkness of night

Forget February

Forget February

Look past it into Spring

Past this evening’s snowfall

The icicles it brings

Look at the peeking star

In the coldness of space

Above the sparkling snow

That tulips will replace

How can you judge a leaf

How can you judge a leaf

A clover or snowflake

Superiority

Of one in mass create

Breathing but just one breath

Is not greater than great

But one idea can be

The winner of the cake

Is this the word of words

Is this the word of words

Is that the line of lines

Can you see my blood flow

And can you hear my rhymes

I’m caught in the brush strokes

The poet’s life and times

Is this the word of words

Is that the line of lines

Still I remember you

Still I remember you

Youthful in the sunlight

You never knew at all

My lonely painful plight

Of how much I loved you

And dreamt of you all day

As I stood beside you

Not knowing what to say

The Universe has no center

The Universe has no center

And it is said it has no edge

Yet our planet has gravity

 Should I fall off this very ledge

Always the less than equal sign

In the equations in my head

If energy can’t be created

Or destroyed, then what is dead

Remember Saturdays

Remember Saturdays

When we had time to spend

Together just us two

And we were best of friends

And now we’ve grown apart

We cannot find amend

And all those Saturdays

Came sadly to an end

My head is in a cloud

My head is in a cloud

I trip across the cellar

I am bigger than Life

Taller than any pillar

Then I’m under your foot

Feeling so much smaller

I wish I could again

Just be someone taller

So what is my success

So what is my success

Not in it for applause

Just my own heart beating

Two thumps and then a pause

Maybe one day you’ll find

One snowflake in the snow

Common as the clover

Tears in an ocean flow

It will always be there

It will always be there

Though I’m no longer near

And in the night its lights

Cannot be seen from here

In its urban canyons

I will no longer stroll

And it will always be

A place that makes me whole

Have the courage to live

Have the courage to live

To let yourself unfold

Accepting the past while

The future is to behold

Be so wise to be kind

And gentle yet so strong

Should the journey taken

Be too short or too long

I send this single thought

I send this single thought

Into the weightless space

As the snow slowly falls

Gravity holds its place

In all the vast darkness

It drifts out in the still

Nothingness receives it

And time will make it nil

Across the sky beyond

Across the sky beyond

The blue and into black

Where radio signals call

But never answer back

Where wars are never won

And rain never showers

Into the cold and where

Tulips never flower