THAT PAST JULY (A Soldier's Story)
That Past July
Written by: Wilfred Mellers, Friday, February 4,2011 @ 4: 04 PM
Wives and sweethearts watch the warrior’s from the piers
Drafted conscripts without any volunteers
Hairs cut low from the barber’s shears
Nothing left to comfort their familiar fears
From the straits of Tiran to the steps of Algiers
The imperial army dressed fully in their battle gears
Bullets whisper lullabies in their ears
The timid hunkers down and shed silent tears
Thinking no longer it was only a one-year affair
Senses heightened surroundings I was totally aware
Bombs were bursting high in the air
Illuminating the darkness was a single flare
Silent was the night rich with foreboding
The cries in the mist were of self-loathing
The fog thicken as the atmosphere filled with apprehension
Moods swing wildly for nothing could cut the tension
Shadows creep around a stone clearance
Horrifying scream breaks the silence
Hatred filled the heart with vengeance
Cold was the steel of cruel temperance
Thin is the air for the Devil’s appearance
Such fury without any guidance
Hollowed utterance in the distance
The meadow ran red without conscience
The idiocy for we were so naïve
Arms severed from shoulder to sleeve
Such depraved cruelty one could not conceive
Not even the fallen you could retrieve
From the onslaught brings no reprieve
The jungle roars in a malicious up heave
Men bow their heads and couldn’t believe
Fanatics spares no one time to grieve
From the Shire to smallest Glen
No one can fix what has been broken
This is the true nature of mice and men
For fools repeat the same act all over again
The same song was also sung back then
It was frequented a thousand times ten
They are children in a filthy playpen
The crowing Rooster was truly a hen
The choir says amen
Only god knows when
Prayers clergies no longer send
When will the insanity come to an end?
The conscientious objector always asking why
The government perpetrated the biggest lie
The president had one last fish to fry
Oil since then has been in short supply
Mothers turn their heads and cry
Families bid their soldiers a fond goodbye
Their sons sent off to war to die
Hot it was that September to July
poem by Wilfred Mellers
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Magpie
MAGPIE
Written by: Wilfred Mellers, Wednesday, May 4,2011, @ 12: 51 PM
Violence washes your sore feet
Carnivore stuffs their bellies with the anguishes meat
Staunch was the summer heat
Filled the winters with your deceit
They came to subjugate and divide
A feast of blood cooked and well fried
Babies died so the angels cried
Dressed in white Satan's bride
Passed and future now collide
Never royalty for lack of pride
The weak shall be swept aside
The gates of heaven shall open wide
Those worthy shall step inside
Those who are not shall be cleared by the tide
You can run but you cannot hide
Consumed by flames he watches by the fireside
Your existence was nothing more than a lie
Everything you’ve done you tried to deny
This world was your apple pie
Plastic smiles the cohort spy
Your hordes always on standby
Evil was your only true ally
Picnics gather as ropes we worn as a necktie
Complacent for you were always anti
Ears closed to the outcry
Never your cup ran dry
Your wealth, anything you could buy
Perversion, anything you would try
Now your bombs burst high in the sky
Irradiated so you can no longer multiply
Birds no longer fly
Cannot find not a single dry eye
Hatred sang for a lullaby
Forked tongue in suits sly
Crushed the life out of the firefly
Spreading your gospel was your reply
Celebrating no longer in July
Songs of love no longer to you apply
Reasoning and logic your deeds defy
Gone will be your tomorrow now to a sad goodbye
poem by Wilfred Mellers
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Sad Goodbyes
Sad Goodbyes
Written by: Wilfred Mellers, Saturday, March 3,2012 @ 5: 26 PM
Once I had it all and stood a thousand feet tall
I had a house that was our home
Life was good like it should
A car in the driveway that took me my way
Hotter than July, I don't know why
Mortified and left with egg on my face
Happiness vanished without a trace
Quite the fact for I was left with only the cloths on my back
Such a distance to dropp from the top
How long can it last for such time has past?
Never I understood the scope for I was a dope
So I cope without giving up hope
Seasons come and they go
Winter birds flies solo
Past memories still echoes
Neighbors still say their hellos
Whispering still the willows
Sadness leaks in the shadows
From the hip throw in Judo
The drummer beats a syncopated tempo
The green trees has turned yellow
Frost still covers a hollow window
On occasions winter snows
Greener grass no longer grows
Laryngitis befell the sparrow
Still the heart filled with sorrow
Such a big pill to swallow
Spring now soon falls on a dejected meadow
The artist paints a picture perfect photo
No longer call a planet is Pluto
But there is one thing I still know
For you my heart will still glow
Does anyone have a heart I can borrow?
Mine is now hollow
My suburb has turned to a crime-ridden ghetto
Tarnished is my halo
My heart beats no more
Eaten its been by a condor
Lost I have my mentor
Now I've closed the door
These words I scribe now so you know
In my sincerest of heart I loved you so
Now I let you go and wish you the best
For the time I spent with you I was truly blessed
These words I now pen
I cannot and will ever go through this again
The pain is just too much to bear the tears
Someone I've loved about me no longer cares
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My Angel
MY ANGEL
Written by: Wilfred Charles Mellers, Monday, March 28,2011 @ 1: 15 PM
When you feel like you are going to drown
When all your face can wear is a frown
When trouble has you spellbound
When you feel totally dumbfound
When the rain comes through your window
When the path is no longer easy to follow
When the road for you narrows
When your heart is filled with sorrows
When you have fallen I’ll pick you up
When your entire plan fails, I’ll be your backup
When you can’t sleep, I’ll sing you lullabies
When you cry I’ll dry your weeping eyes
I’ll be there to soothe your pain
By your side I’ll always remain
I’ll listen when you need to complain
From the bonds that bind, I’ll break the chain
You were never alone
I was there at every milestone
So no matter where you may roam
I’ll be right here waiting for you to come home
poem by Wilfred Mellers
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Misleading Lexis
Misleading Lexis
Written by: Wilfred Mellers, Monday, April 26,2010 @ 9: 50 PM
Came here so naive
Me they want to deceive
No longer in them I believe
What’s up Lucifer’s shirtsleeve?
Not a moment’s reprieve
Treachery they conceive
Who is left to trust?
Satisfaction is there must
Their hearts filled with lust
Pursuing a harem
Liars spewing venom
Words came from their rectum
Clever not for I they’re not fooling
Here instead I am cooling
Their endeavor will need retooling
Sipping cheap wine from a plastic glass
Snakes they are in the grass
Lowbrow having no class
I the clever sleuth
I recognize a half-truth
So asinine and uncouth
Thinking they have me figured out
Their words are lacking clout
For I know what it’s all about
Moist is the dog’s snout
Sincere their words I doubt
Severe will be the fallout
As the player starts to croon
As soldiers march in a platoon
As the dogs bark at the moon
As your reality turns to a cartoon
As your fans no longer after you swoon
As your life they start to lampoon
As your rains turn to a typhoon
As your lies balloon
The music you’ll face real soon
When you no longer carry a tune
When your plum turns to a prune
When your winter comes in June
Fleeing will the fat-rat and so-called tycoon
From you conduct you are no longer immune
Your joy will become a great big misfortune
poem by Wilfred Mellers
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A Real Sellout
A Real Sellout
Written by: Wilfred Mellers, Sunday, September 5,2010 @ 11: 16 AM
It’s for you these words I write
I hope you sleep well at night
My name your words now smear
For you I won’t even shed a tear
Are you happy with the decisions you’ve made?
What about the friends you’ve betrayed?
What about the lies you’ve told?
What about the friends you treated so cold?
At least my conscience is clear
To your friends you were never sincere
You where a friend I once held near
Your cries in the night no one will hear
About yourself is all you care
One day you will end up in total despair
You are mixed up in a dirty affair
Shame is the price you shall bear
Deceitful and spinning a web of lies
You and the Devil are true allies
You will come to your own demise
For prudence you will never exercise
So Many years friendship wasted
Bitter fruits are now being tasted
For you I don’t hold any malice
Any care once held is now callous
My mistake was thinking you were a friend
I thought that you I could depend
I had thought that you were a godsend
I suppose that was all just pretend
This I do without any apprehension
Stricken now your name I shall no longer mention
You are foul, crude, and cannot be trusted
For now of you I am feeling disgusted
Money is where you’ve found your happiness
Your heart one day shall feel the sadness
Wondering through life you trod aimless
You’ve proven that you are truly classless
Thanks for the lookout
You tried you best I doubt
Now I now what you’re all about
You truly are a real sellout
poem by Wilfred Mellers
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Shades Of Gray And Blue
Shades Of Gray And Blue
Written by: Wilfred Mellers, Friday, April 15,2011, @ 8: 35 PM
I was glancing at the beauty once in your eyes
The night mystically filled with butterflies
Days remembered comes as flashbacks
It was not a random encounter at the Tracks
A full Moon broke the stillness in the dark
A chilly night sitting by your side in the park
Hours flew as we chitchat
Can you remember any of that?
You I was trying to entertain
That night I kept on saying ascertain
Our laughter held back the rain
Our joyfulness we could no longer contain
There was so much magic in the air
Moonbeams’ were shining in your hair
Moments enchanted we did share
I had put my heart in your tender care
I recall saying some pretty silly things
What joy those memories still brings
Staying out till it was really late
This I recollect was our first date
You and that blue station wagon
No one would expect what next would happen
Changing a flat by the side of the road
My heart at that moment you had just lassoed
Seasons changing came and went
I could not have received a greater present
Maybe it was just the ambience of the starlight’s
Maybe it was because of the afternoon delights
Stormy skies were in the forecast
Maybe I love too hard and too fast
Love like that could never last
Now I leave it all in the past
A love eternal and forever true
Those were the things I once offered you
I had not much for I was a mere pauper
But I promised you I would always look after
A cold wind that sweltering July blew
Shadows of gray had turned to a dusty blue
Treachery capsized my canoe
For the past we can never undo
Remember how I use to call you Alice?
No longer I bear you any malice
As locks graying now turns to balding
I can now hear my true destiny calling
poem by Wilfred Mellers
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Somrit Mellers
Somrit Mellers
Written by: Wilfred Mellers, Thursday, February 10,2011 @ 1: 38 PM
Sacrifices I’ll make to give you it all
You caught me honey when I was about to fall
I’ll shower you with all my love and affection
You showed me the light for you’re my redemption
Nights we shared filled with so much pleasure
No one compares to you they don’t even measure
Through the years our love will constantly get better
I’ll stay by your side no matter whatever
From the tip of your head to the bottom of your shoe
Don’t you know how much I really love you?
With you anything I’ll try for nothing is taboo
Anything in this world for you I’ll do
Your deepest desires in me you can confide
No mountain to high and no ocean too wide
Inside your love my toes always curl
You are my wife and my favorite girl
You are my life and my one and only
With you no longer I shall ever be lonely
I promised you my very heart and soul
With your love my heart’s in cruise control
Here is my hand to have and to hold
Whatever you need for I’ll never say never
I want to hold you here on and forever
I could watch you sleep all night and day
I’ll never get bored in any which way
You are an angel divine and I’m so glad you’re mine
I love you baby nine times ninety-nine
I’ll worship you my little lotus flower
My passion for you will never ever sour
From your love I could not ever cower
It’s your love I want each and every hour
A vow I’ve made I take it sincerely
My oath to you I take seriously
You’re a vision to me of perfection
You’ve pointed my life in the right direction
By your beauty I am smitten
Your name on my heart it is now written
Down and out my heart was once broken
But now I love you more than any words ever spoken
poem by Wilfred Mellers
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Someday we’ll be together
Written by: Wilfred Charles Mellers, Sunday, November 6,2011 @ 6: 21 AM
Lost and confused
Not knowing what to do
Understanding not the words being said
I cannot silence the noises in my head
Standing looking into space
My bed is such a lonely place
No longer seeing the sunlight
No longer sleeping at night
Rests just wont come
My body feels so numb
Shivering stands my neck hairs
Can’t recover from the nightmares
Thoughts now random
Peace comes seldom
Me, myself, and I in a threesome
At the foot of my bed stood a phantom
Lonely wont leave me alone
From my steed I’ve been thrown
Darkness covers the horizon
My mind is my dungeon
Once I was in heaven
Paradise now seems foreign
Stubbornness I forgave
For the warmth I crave
Finding so hard to exist
Nothing was check from my list
Happiness was my only concern
I have no idea now when it’ll return
Broken is my heart
My mate and I are apart
Sleepless nights rousing in the darkness
Solitude is now my fortress
Vanished without a trace
The smile no longer on my face
Wanting your tender embrace
Thoughts I cannot erase
Did things in such haste
A rainbow I chased
Steps I retraced
Now feeling displaced
Missing your fragrance
Needing your presence
Needed now is patience
The heart knows no distance
Now I must make due
All my thoughts are on you
No matter what the weather
Someday we’ll be together
poem by Wilfred Mellers
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Gone Is The Light
Every day I wake in my lonely bed
How I wish that I was dead
No more left to be said
A great burden I carry on my head
All I do is question why
No longer pointing my head to the sky
No more wind is in my sail
Nothing more I can fail
I have lost my only friend
In love I fall never again
It is sad but yet so true
Nothing left for me to do
Into the night I'll fade away
For me there's just no more day
All is left is the night
Gone tomorrow the sun light
Darkness surrounds everywhere
Gray are my skies since she's not here
Turned his back no longer I sleep
For my soul no one will keep
As winter’s chill cometh the dawn
Lost all my senses since she’s gone
The darkness cry’s out my name
Hard I find to live down the shame
No longer can I conceal my sorrow
Why must there be a tomorrow
No more comes a brighter day
It just won’t seem to go away
This is a first for me to be alone
I've never been on my own
Gone are the days of my happiness
All is left is pure sadness
No one left to kiss and caress
No longer do I have someone to impress
The darkness I now embrace
For I have fallen on my face
No more to rise it’s the end
For I’ve lost my best friend
That voice I no longer hear
For she’s no longer here
poem by Wilfred Mellers
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Somewhere In The Jungle
There it stands way up high
A million bodies piled to the sky
Arms and legs, feet and hands
Impossible to understand
Countless heads, ears and eyes
Never hear, never cry
Tribal chants, tribal war
Tribal death, tribal gore
And the scaveggers are feeding
Cuz the killing fields are bleeding
Not a single soul is breathing
Cuz the Serengetti's bleedin'
And the scaveggers are feeding
Cuz the killing fields are bleeding
Not a single soul is breathing
Cuz the Serengetti's bleedin'
Listen somewhere in the jungle
You can hear the devil laughing
Somewhere
African genucide
Brother kill brother
Side by side
Wild animals show their teeth
And run away in disbelief
And the scaveggers are feeding
Cuz the killing fields are bleeding
Not a single soul is breathing
Cuz the Serengetti's bleedin'
And the scaveggers are feeding
Cuz the killing fields are bleeding
Listen somewhere in the jungle
You can hear the devil laughing
Somewhere
Somewhere the rivers will flow with blood
The mothers will cry their tears
They watch their sons die
Listen somewhere in the jungle
You can hear the devil laughing
Somewhere
Listen somewhere in the jungle
You can hear the devil laughing
Somewhere
Listen somewhere in the jungle
You can hear the devil laughing
Somewhere
Cuz the Serengetti's bleedin'
Listen somewhere in the jungle
You can hear the devil laughing
Somewhere
Somewhere the rivers will flow with blood
The mothers will cry their tears
They watch their sons die
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Ode To Somrit Mellers
Ode To Somrit Mellers
Written by: Wilfred Mellers, Wednesday, February 16,2011 @ 11: 12 AM
My feelings for you are endless
I bear my soul to you in its bareness
Words cannot ever mention
in your arms I find redemption
We are the perfect duet
I thank god the day we met
Over you I am obsessing
You are truly a magnificent blessing
A love so amazingly real
You have that certain sex appeal
There is no better way to spend my days
I cherish you now, here forth, and always
If I was granted only one wish
I would make all your pains vanish
A world without you I want no part
To you I have given my very heart
Even though we are at a distance
You remain my sole existence
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I've Seen The Devil (And He Looks Like You)
I've watched people in this world,
do evil things to each other,
I've seen them do evil things to the ones,
that they love and cherish,
but I never understood why they did,
the things that they do,
war to me is so useless,
couldn't we just find other ways,
to settle our differences,
except for trying to talk it out,
we put guns in the arms of our young ones,
Chorus: I've Seen The Devil,
and He looks like you,
I've Seen The Devil,
and he looks like you,
I've Seen The Devil,
and He Looks like you,
but do we really know what its all about,
do we really know why we do the things we do,
like going to war with one another,
trying to beat the devil that lives inside all of us,
I see the devil every single day,
I see him on the late night news,
and I see him on the covers of our magazines,
he tells us it’s going to be alright,
and that the wars going to be over,
only if we follow him,
and his un-holy union,
Chorus: I've Seen The Devil,
and He looks like you,
I've Seen The Devil,
and he looks like you,
I've Seen The Devil,
and He Looks like you,
but I don't see why we should,
follow you and your ways,
follow your path of destruction,
follow you and your destruction of the world,
why should we follow you,
you whisper stuff in our ears,
you say it’s going to be alright,
the next war that we fight will be the war of wars,
and we'll all die a Nuclear Holocaust,
and than we'll start a new,
The world would be new,
like back then when Jesus ruled,
when the world was new,
and not filled with your evilness,
and not filled with you,
Chorus: I've Seen The Devil,
and He looks like you,
I've Seen The Devil,
and he looks like you,
I've Seen The Devil,
and He Looks like you,
ever since time began we've been fighting,
fighting a war that we could never win,
a war within ourselves,
but the people in the world,
they fill us up with religious beliefs,
which is wrong,
and which is right,
we could never win the war within ourselves,
were so fed up with this world,
that we'd kill each other,
and ourselves to find a way out,
because we'd always knew that,
the children of today and the children of now,
would soon become,
children of the grave,
children of the darkness,
they'd become Satan's little soldiers,
Chorus: I've Seen The Devil,
and He looks like you,
I've Seen The Devil,
and he looks like you,
I've Seen The Devil,
and He Looks like you,
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The Journey
The Journey
Written by: Wilfred Mellers, Tuesday, November 9,2010 @ 6: 31 PM
Billfold empty filled with lint
Text so small I have to squint
Puzzled by questions without a hint
For the finish line I have to sprint
Perilous trod without a blueprint
Following shades of shadows setup for a stint
Chewing on my last stick of spearmint
Broken limb nursed back by a splint
Arrived by night without fanfare
Searching for what that’s not really there
For journeys unknown to a place elsewhere
To the belly of the beast and the bottom of its lair
Circles slowly became a square
Bound to the ground by a wheelchair
Future seemed so unclear
Software’s no longer drives their hardware
How does someone escape a nightmare?
A better plan they wanted to prepare
Wanting not to sit in total despair
Their steps are now leading them nowhere
The little engine that said it couldn’t
Ventured places maybe it shouldn’t
Took chances other locomotives wouldn’t
Thought thoughts other trains hadn’t
Into the storm stepping boldly
Faced experiences some ending badly
Escaped perils sometimes barely
Reprieve lost and found so many briefly
Saw countries scores wanted to see
Told stupid jokes often so corny
Seas serene turquoise on days sunny
Stood on shores so positively Bonnie
Looking back no more on things I’ve lost
Paid the price at such a high cost
My windows no longer need to be defrosted
I ran a marathon and now I am exhausted
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Waiting For You
Waiting For You
Written by: Wilfred Mellers, Friday, August 27,2010, @ 8: 50: 43 AM
In my days of solitude for melancholy interludes so rude
Imaginings once thought everlasting are now shades of grays for happier days
Thoughts once shared have now all disappeared
Hollowed now are memories from distant countries
Wavering in my mind of happier times so kind
Solis seeking words no longer speaking
These words in the vernacular once spectacular
Saying my goodbyes as my dreams dies
Joys once bountiful to love so beautiful
Filled with anger as days grow longer
My heart beats from stress while working with less
Yet still trying my best without rest
What more can I say to you for respect long overdue
My heart won’t divest beating loudly in my chest
Seldom can I unwind for memories set in rewind
Life so unkind for that’s how it’s designed
Yellow walls now confined and the sun no longer shined
For the heart is blind and wont leave you behind
How long will it last as all hope fades fast
All roads incline from letters I no longer sign
Is it true that I still love you?
For you I’m dumbfound for my life ends when you’re not around
Days go on forever for these ties wont sever
I’m so lost without you and I don’t know what to do
These days I hate and only serve’s to frustrate
Searching for an updat so I wait
Ideas I review for hopes I try to rescue
Standing in a cue for life I renew
This line should I pursue a new?
Waiting for a breakthrough I make-do
Abused and always standing accused
It will only end and I will ascend when I’m in your arms again
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My Little Princess
My Little Princess
Written by: Wilfred Mellers, Thursday, January 6,2011, @ 11: 33 AM
I just don’t know her any more
For my very heart and soul she tore
I thought that I would’ve been there to watch her grow older
I use to once carry her on my shoulder
She was so beautiful that she would stop traffic
She and I were cut from the same fabric
She was her own worst critic
Everything she took so drastic
A drama queen like most little girls
She was my very own string of pearls
How she hated when we’d walk from her school
To be seen with me now would be too uncool
Picked her up from school when she felt sick
Yes she was the outsider and the maverick
Never she was the prudent skeptic
Her smile were never plastic
Told her back then in herself to believe
I suppose I was foolish and somewhat naive
Days of old truly magic
She was my music and I the lyric
Christmas we’d eat Achee, salt fish, and with fried dumplings
Boiling Easter eggs and carving up pumpkins
Tuesdays were the days for fish and chips
Ketchup and Tatar sauce we used as dips
The day came so tragic
Lost her love for reasons defying logic
In a dream it came to me but I’m not psychic
So from there on she started to panic
She never fit into any click
She was always that outside chick
She once use to get so very carsick
She the beauty so classic
How sweet it was when she sang “Dreaming Of You”
Selena Quintanilla-Pérez and Shania Twain songs too
Each time I hear her voice as a baby I cried
Reaching out to her I’ve truly tried
When she was born I first held her in my arms
Sheltered and protected her from all life’s harms
How I long to hold her once again
So these words I commit to pen
Thinking back to way back when
I shed a tear again and again
I cannot rescue her from the pain
So I sit a cuss the rain
Even though I had lost her mother
In front of her I would never put another
I would have given her the world if I could
To erase her pain I’d give my life I would
Some fights you just can’t win
She will no longer let me in
God knows how long has it been
Yes I took one too many on the chin
So looking back on yesteryear
It all seems now so very clear
On me she can always depend
For her I would do it all over again
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Dancing The Mambo
Dancing The Mambo
Written by: Wilfred Charles Mellers, Wednesday, December 14,2011 @ 00: 24
Do you miss my kiss on your lips?
When you lie down at night and turn off the lights
Are your arms still empty when I use to give you plenty?
Do you lay awake and from the cold shake?
Do you miss my sent and wonder where the passion went?
Long horns come and go but they don’t know
What sweets you can also sour you too
The sky’s not always blue and words aren’t often always true
It’s about give and take for we all make mistakes
Reap the bitter fruit right down to the its root
Back to the premise at hand for this was not my plan
To fall in and out is foolish no doubt
Sacrifices made and a solemn price paid
Felt the blade once where I laid
Passed by the parade from the drums I plaid
Left alone waiting for you to come home
Staring out the window as grass green turns yellow
Feeling like a psycho for the lion turned to the scarecrow
Songs came no more from the swallow for halls now hollow
No longer the mellow fellow that always greats hello
Broken was my halo and silence came from the sparrow
Life was on furlough and I back to the ghetto
This I knew yet I still grew
No longer a shadow feeling so–so
Flying no more solo for I walk to a new tempo
Seasons come and seasons go maestro
Cover not my head with a pillow feeling sorrow
My disco has now turned to a tango
A planet no longer Pluto for Dorothy has found Toto
The zero is now a hero dancing the mambo
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Winter Fades To Springtime
Winter Fades To Springtime
Written by: Wilfred Mellers, Sunday, October 25,2009 @ 11: 22 AM
Birds sing their songs but for others
Children pine away for their mothers
Fools fall in love and think it’s cool
Beside me sits an empty bar-stool
Such heartache and pain
I can't stand the rain
In anguish naked I stand for all to see
Yet no one can see me
Minstrel, jester, and the class clown
Tears fall like waterfalls till I drown
Weeping and wailing yet I make not a sound
Brown are my leafs on the ground found
O' dear God hear my plea
No one is there any more for me
Someone please rip my heart out I need it no more
Tear it out and throw it on the floor
These thoughts no longer I can ignore
No longer the gangster settling the score
My heart, my life, my soul, and all that I am feeling
Heart scorched needs plenty of healing
Looking forward to peace of mind
In this world no more can I find
These eyes of mine are now blind
This world has been so unkind
Take me away to another place and time
Where mountains no longer I climb
Wedding bells no longer chime
Winter fades to springtime
poem by Wilfred Mellers
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Television Lovers
Once, something passed between us more than space and time
And something other filled my bed than flailing arms and kicking legs
And nights pass by in silence
Television fills the void
You leave the radio on late to paint the silence
And talk more with the static voices and the singers
The newsreaders tell me more about your world than you
And the dogs walk longer these days than before
and broken things take longer times to heal
the bones, the hearts, the ears, the lips, the words
all the organs of Love, degrading
You turn the volume up louder
And watch
poem by Jack Turner
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Man's Inhumanity To Man
All people, places and events share a Karmic connection,
And no deed is left untethered to this inter-relation
Of consequence, -for every action, there is an equal, but opposite, reaction!
A wave in one direction is an ebb in the opposite direction;
So too, for a depraved indifference to humanity-
Somehow, you shall be repayed for this insanity,
Whether it happens in this life or the next
Is not known; Though, I admit, I am perplexed
That it has not happened as of yet-
Why do I still await the time when I may forget
The past and allow my fragile heart to finally heal?
I suppose, only when you may no longer steal
My 'todays' and sully my 'tomorrows'-
When you are no longer responsible for my sorrows!
-Maurice Harris,27 July 2011
poem by Maurice Harris
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Faded Dreams
Faded Dreams
Written by Wilfred Mellers, Sunday, November 18,2012
Now I know dreams don't come true
For I wont be sharing them with you
No walking in the park
No sharing kisses in the dark
No showing you off to my friends
No spending romantic weekends
No more rides for all it's worth
No taking you to the land of my birth
Your tender hands I wanted to hold
Now the truth begins to unfold
Now the music has died
Just because to me you lied
In time all things reveal
Secrets no longer conceal
Happy life to me was ideal
Now I know how you truly feel
Your actions show you don't care
When I call you're not there
To comfort you I did my best
Put above all the rest
Gave you all that I could give
I would go hungry so you could live
Hours with you I did spend
Not even a letter you would send
Now my dreams have faded away
But I'll be alright come what may
Things time will not erase
Questions pondered you couldn't face
No more time on you I'll waste
No longer for the breeze I will chase
Dreams don't always come true
For god knows I had really loved you
poem by Wilfred Mellers
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