Monday, May 21, 1979

Mama Come Get Your Baby

Not the same without the music...
Mama was once
a shining girl,
Seeing life
as a shining pearl
So happy to be lead
Down the aisle to be wed,
A woman at last
with a woman's pain.
When Mama first held
her baby child
Little pink bows
and an inocent smile,
Such beauty to behold
But then Mama didn't know
The sorrow to come,
Her baby grown wild.
"Mama come get your baby
she's crying all alone!"
And with sobs that shook
and broke her heart
her baby hung up the phone.
And Mama remembers
the little lady
She dreamed her baby would be,
But her dreams are lost
in a life to shady
for Mama to see.
Little girl playing
in the sand
Always reaching
for Mama's hand,
Has gone away
to learn to pray
In the devil's land,
And her baby cries;
"Mama come get your baby,
She's crying all alone!"
And with sobs that shook
and broke her heart
Her baby hung up the phone.
Now Mama can't help
It's in the hands of God.
So now she stares
through bars
that forever leave scars,
At her baby,
Lost lady,
And Mama remembers
that tiny hand,
And Mama just can't
understand.
"Mama come get your baby
she's crying all alone!"
Now she stares through bars
that forever leave scars
Oh, Baby,
She's a lost lady,
And Mama
remembers.

Shining Pearl

From Texas Department of Corrections:
Walls and doors all sealed tight,
No wind, no rain,no love, no light,
What can survive? Surely all will die!
Locked awayWhile time passes by.
But look at the clam!
sealed tight and dark,
No light enters,
No cheerful remark.
Yet hidden inside,
Away from the world,
Waiting to glisten in light
Is a shining pearl.

Tuesday, December 12, 1978

no title

December 1978
Take the day
stand in the light
Learn to pray
and close your eyes tight.
Rock gently
to the rhythym of your soul,
Never mind,
Let your insanities flow.
Reaching hands
crying eyes,
No one understands
we all live lies.

Sunday, May 21, 1978

Space Case

1978 Last song for Jim
The black side
Comes out
in the backslide...
'Though you try
to avoid a slip
You slowly
lose your grip
And you slip
Tipping
backwards in time
out of midn
A Trip
of some kind
where you find
Your freedom.
I was a fool
should have stayed
in school
to learn the rules
the first time through
with you.
So, cool,
so slick,
So easy to trick
a world sick
for love
that you're the pick
of the flock,
HA!
Smoothe talk,
fancy walk,
words like chalk
so easy to erase
and then replace
without a trace
of the place
the promise was.
And face to face
you deny the rat race
You run in one place
behind your face
Just a space case
without a home base.

Monday, October 31, 1977

Who's In Control?

10/31/77
Sometimes people way
that they "aren't being themself"
Like what they've done and said
had a little help.
Some say there are spirits
who enter sometimes,
And take control
from within our minds.
Sometimes I will wpeak
and then look around,
Because I spoke without thought
and heard only the sound.
But I feel no presence of spirits,
I am neither prophet or preacher,
When I am not my self,
I am only my teacher.

Tuesday, June 28, 1977

Fools Gold

They pan for gold
led by rumor or knack,
Scooping and sifting,
dull rocks they throw back.
Gold in the Booby Rock?
Who would think that?
Hopeless romantic?
Or just crazy as a bat.
Lonely souls
Still believe in fairy tales,
We take their money
shaming justice's scales.
I see you see me
You think you see through,
Intrigued by the darkness
You dream of me and you.
I haven't been born
or I've already died
It exhausts me to wonder
why I have nothing inside.
I'll sparkle for a minute
but don't think you’ve seen my soul,
I  checked when I had hope
and found a wide, dark hole.
Shake away the sludge
and tip the water from your hat,
It's only fools gold
and badly damaged at that.

For Larry Wells 1979

Saturday, May 21, 1977

Laugh

1977 for Jim
Laugh, Baby, laugh,
Yea, laugh for a while,
Laugh in my face,
Baby, just go wild.
Cuz I'll laugh with you
and at you, too,
Lover you don't know
but the joke's on you.
Laugh till you're dizzy,
Yea, laugh till you're stoned,
Until you hear the door slam,
and you're laughing all alone.