Don’t Listen to Them
By Jfarrell
Don’t listen to them;
Anyone who tells you “You can’t”;
Don’t listen;
Believe in yourself.
You CAN be anything you wanna be
Do ANYTHING you wanna do
You gotta work at it; you can’t snap your fingers and ‘pow’
But, believe in yourself
Learn, practice - everything IS achievable
By you; because you want to, you choose to;
It’s when you start believing “You can’t” that you’re stuffed
So believe in yourself
There is nothing that can’t be done;
We haven’t found a way to do everything,
Maybe you’ll find the answer and build our first time machine
Or teach the child who will cure cancer
Believe in yourself; I believe in You
:-)
Nothing, Like You
By JFarrell
I am not the messiah
I am not a celebrity
Not wealthy, not important; I am
Nothing, like you
I am not particularly intelligent
Nor talented, special or anything other than average
I am a nobody; I am
Nothing, like you
I am a faceless, voiceless, meaningless statistic
A number on a piece of paper
It is cost effective to give me
Nothing, like you
Nothing; empty; space; absent; irrelevant;
Nothing; zero; zilch; sweet F. A.
I am absolutely
Nothing, just like You.
Knowledge is the Key
By JFarrell
Knowledge is the key to betterment
Whether knowing how to split the atom
Or to open a tin of beans
Without knowing how to do it
You’ll get nowhere.
What we ALL see can be changed
War, famine, homelessness, injustice
But, knowing how to change it
Is the tricky bit
Everyone and no-one has answers
It is our responsibility, all of us
To LEARN, get an education, gain knowledge
And WE CAN ALL learn
And that also involves
Stopping letting people telling you what to think
Your mind is unique and great, as are you
And this is your world too
Please get involved and start making it better
I am making my dreams, a better world, reality
Come and join in, it’s your world too, take some responsibility
Guide Me
By Jfarrell
I was lost
Without direction
Without objective
Without destination
I was nowhere
In the land of fools
Being led by the blind
Forever falling
From when I woke
To falling exhausted into bed
I was lost
And going nowhere
Then
With the siren of the Siren
You called to me
And gave me a way
Your sweet voice
Whispers in my ear
Leading me over mountains
Guiding me through the deepest chasms
I am coming
As fast as I can
Call to me, guide me
Give me the wings and I will fly to you
My most wondrous Siren
Clouds
By JFarrell
Like a film reel
The pictures flow before me
One by one
A majestic bird, an eagle,
Spreads it wings and takes flight;
A steam barge,
Chugging it’s way upriver;
A juggling clown,
Putting on his mask, to hide his tears;
Another man in a mask,
Highwayman, to take your gold at gunpoint;
This one shows the sun breaking,
Over a lovely, sleeping town;
This one shows the sun setting,
Over the smouldering, blackened ruins of a bombed village;
This one shows the beginning of all time,
That one shows the end of all time.
Clouds are beautiful and wondrous,
And such an inspiration,
For the imagination.
Look up,
You might too
See the beginning
And the end
Of everything.
Someone
By JFarrell
Someone,
An amazing, beautiful, radiant
Queen,
Haloed by the very stars themselves,
Fell in love with me,
A waste of space, good for nothing drunk.
And I must go to her,
Half way round the world;
I must hold her tight,
I will cry tears of pure joy.
I will say thank you,
I will ask why, how
And I will pledge my undying love;
She is what drives me,
Her wish is my desire.
No longer,
A good for nothing,
Waste of space,
Drunk.
Thank you, my Valkrie battle queen.
Out of the dark
By JFarrell
Out of the dark,
You came
And hit me like a steam train.
And I was totally blown away by your light;
So beautiful, so wondrous
I never expected to see the light again,
Stopped believing it existed.
You are a majestic angel,
Aflame
With a rainbow for a halo.
Because..
by JFarrell
Because
It may be my only redemption
I wish all joy to the World
Because
I fear to be alone forever
I wish happiness to everyone
Every man, woman and child
Because
I fear and feel pain
I wish LOVE
For YOU!
As I walked down the road thinking,
How all hope had abandoned me...
I came up on a pitiful sight~
A bent, lonely and broken tree.
Tears fell from my eyes,
As I reflected on my life...
How much I felt like this tree~
Pitiful, broken and full of strife.
I sat down at the base,
Closed my eyes and begin to pray...
"Dear Lord, why did I give up.
And allow the strings of my heart to fray?"
He answered with a whisper,
Like a soft and gentle wind...
You turned away from Me, my child~
But I promise this isn't the end."
He then went on to tell me,
To look at the top of the tree...
So I tilted my head skyward~
And saw two lovely green leaves!
Then God said "when you think you're alone
And feeling lonely broken and bent...
Look up to Me for reassuranc~
For My love is Heaven sent.
And like the two leaves,
That you now see...
I will ALWAYS be with you~
Especially when you're a broken and bent tree.