Not One Dry Eye and a Collection of Poems

A Compliment Will Do

A compliment will do

The caution of you

Warm dark tall

What a remarkable dude

Cut just right

In places receptive

Of sight to honor

You’re a good specimen

She would say

Strong one here

Who can take his place

Careful about that company

You so secretly keep

Yes I been watching

For maybe a week

Got you on radar

Took my time

Ripe now for the testing

Fill my glass

Lest I thirst for more

A compliment will do

The respect you choose

Take the ball down the court

Run with style and grace

Got something on your mind you say

Let your voice be heard

Shout it heaven high

I heard your style ringing

Like American apple pie

Your kind is so feared

For so many years

Boats will float and smoke will choke

Swim it without that fear

The channel fowl

We go from coast to coast

No I don’t care

Won’t cut my hair

Ask me if I’m lying

A giant in stature

They sometimes say

I’m gentle and free

Communication let’s see

Try to talk to me

Now keep it cool

Can we know each other

I won’t start a fire

Don’t shout

Don’t shoot me now

Don’t you be a coward

You just don’t understand

You never meet my father

For if you did

You know it’s royal

Now let’s all hoop and holler

A compliment will do

Fake Friends

When you were two

You loved to play peek- a- boo

Family Chosen way for you to have fun

Got you past childhood dysfunction

Life couldn’t get better

But now you’re twenty two

With too much world for you

Sometimes you’re happy

Sometimes you’re sad

Pain in those trouble spots

Stress out and feeling blue

Started that game again

Enhanced peek- a- boo

The Ammunition got real

Doctor’s prescription dispensary

Started popping them

Opioids was the chosen pills

Life changing thrills

Before you knew it

You jumped twenty years

Now Forty two

Don’t got a clue

Never understood that phone call for you

Your mom asking about you taking them pills

Take too many you never gonna heal

Asked about those new friends

Got you out late

Have you had enough sleep

Your mind body and soul

Going to waste

Now she consider you needing help

For health and heart

You wouldn’t listen

Popping pills played a part

Out with fake friends

Playing in the park

Woke up today

Just another twenty years

Wasted away

Sixty two now

Still loving that peek- a- boo

Time not to be trusted

Now it’s too late

Can’t warn you about your life

Your fate

All those demons on your plate

You consumed them all

Kept you up too late

Those fake friends of yours

Where are they now?

I’m at your wake

What a wasted life

Such potential but no Faith

Popping those pills

Opioids was not the way

The pain was the pill

Those lying friends

All ran away

Reckless

He walked like a gentleman

Sang like a fool

I was mesmerize

By the essence of Him

Caught by the collarbone

By the first slow dance we took

Yes you