Doves

Some see the light of stardom
this world can't overcome -

living in the shadows
of a name that made it wrong -

to have human flaw
when they think you have it all -

and silence is your
only friend to hear your call...

they think you're at the top
as though you have it all...

yet you're searching from the bottom
no cup half full at all.

Twelve O'Clock High

I guess she realized
the sun would never
greet her eyes -

she would wake
with the despise
of the daily rise...

maybe she had
courage that
others wish they did -

all her tempted troubles
she successfully
hid...

The world could
see her beauty
yet could not see her soul -

the turmoil that
she watered
only made it grow...

her picture is
in black and white
no color at all -

like that
fatal April day
and her final exit call.

The Beat

Busting through the heart
the stream from the eyes -
the questions and the silence
all a bunch of lies...

headaches and the strain
hopes tried in vain -
neglect leads to pain
and nothing is the same...

ever or again
when you just can't win -
tear stained blurrs
from beginning to the end.