Turn Down the Lights

Turn the lights down low

place the vinyl and play it slow

It's gonna be a long night tonight

So pour a drink and stay a while. 

Tell me Captain--do you go down well with ice?

Or maybe better straight?

Tell me Jack--do you prefer the bottle?

Or is it all the same?

Burying my soul under the ground

heart beat just slowing down

reality kicks in on it's own,

Skyy, help me fill the hole. 

So tell me, Jameson, can we do this all night?

Hey, Jäger, there is no need to fight.

So, José, what's the worm for?

Just shoot it back and bring me more.

Sitting here makes me think,

Stopping that by having another drink.

There will be no tears falling in my cup

Hey bartender, fill it up!  

It's a slow dance with a slow song...

hey, Patrón, let's take your platinum for a ride

Then let's get naked at the beach

And get wet in the tide

 

 Turn the lights down

In the bottom of the glass is where I drown

It's gonna be a long night tonight

So pour a drink and stick around. 

~~grb~~ 

 Feb 2013

 

 

 

Epiphany

the leaf fell and normally I would scoop it up

but today, i let it lay there.

perhaps it is not for me to pick it up everytime

or even mine to scoop for even a moment.

it wasn't just any leaf...

it was a leaf of years and years

something i found value in caring for

i looked forward to that one scoop....

but it is not mine anymore.

so every now and then

i will see it fall

i will smile, short memory

and walk on by.

i know that day must start soon,

but i sit here on the stoop

watching it move lightly in the wind

and i think...

it isn't moving for me

it is moving because of the wind...

so does that mean it was never really mine?

yes, and I have known that for years.

once there was a rose

a rose of years and years

something he made his.

once there was a petal of the rose

that fell to the ground,

it was his time to walk on by.

~~grb  2012~~

(picture does not belong to me...was sent to me via my cell phone with no tag.)