My life is o’er, how fast it went
I wonder where my time’s been spent
It’s passing by too swiftly now
The cradle has long left the bough.
I shall not pass this way again,
Perhaps I may remember when
The days have gone or passed on by
Each full of smiles or tears we’ve cried.
Oh how I wish that I would be
Some creature flitting, tree to tree
Who’s spent its life up in the air
Where only God and birds may share !
The sun is fading in the west
My world unravels as a test
I bear the weight of my belief
Too soon there’s nothing left but grief.
Awake my heart and try to say
Great words before you melt away
Like Dorothy ere she is caught
In winds life’s misery has brought.
Command the soul, be steady now
And to its pain refuse to bow
Then keep your place in heart and mind
Until God’s rest that you’ll soon find !
WALK WITH ME.
There is one thing I’m searching for
To be some place I’ve been before
And feel the warmth of your embrace
The peace of love upon your face.
It’s too late now there’s no time left
As I am here, alone, bereft
I’m sorry that it could not be
Life found an altered destiny !
When I was young, my dad he died
And left us so dried up inside
There was no way to help explain
The basic anguish or the pain,
Through all these years we’ve hid it well
And never did that sadness tell
It’s simply there reminding me
Of all that life once used to be
It’s too late now, none can catch up
This heritage is our sad cup !
Each time that I sit down to eat
I notice there’s an unfilled seat
It’s been like that for quite awhile
I don’t feel ready yet to smile.
I wish your laugh and wisdom’s word
Were still the pleasantries I’d heard
For times have changed, you’re gone away
I miss you more, day after day !
Who’d ever guess that I should be
Alone at last upon life’s sea,
I never thought that I would share
My dinners with an empty chair !
Today’s the day we do recall
Our heroes brave who scaled the wall
Their actions all did set us free
They led us on to victory
Remember well how many died
To free us from old Satan’s pride !
There was a war long time ago
In places that we did not know
So many years now in our past
Proof of length that memories last.
Both young and old were forced to fight
Across the globe or out of sight
A war that simply parried on
Left none untouched here or beyond.
Now I am old but can recall
Those shadows cast upon my wall
With forgotten names that I’d known
Redemptions’ chance all but unknown.
Oh, someone should research this tale
Ere soon we shall completely fail !
REMEMBERING PEARL HARBOR DAY
This child I held close to my breast
Has left me now to be at rest
His life of pain at last set free
Upon God’s unrelenting sea.
This was his battle for too long
He tried so hard, he was so strong
But here we are, this is the end
I’ll miss you son, my life, my friend.
I doubt if we shall meet again
Another time, but where or when,
There’s none to know or even learn
Truth is, no one has e’er returned !
There are no words that can help explain
The length and depth of a mother’s pain
Losing a child no matter the age
To an illness or another’s rage !
Through the passage of time, aches may fade
As sadness and loss are all displayed
Seems the worst of all that can be said
Are that those we have loved are now dead,
And with heavy heart and tearful sigh
Were denied the chance to say goodbye !
Two thousand years ago or more
When God’s own Son did tred the shore
And angels still had free access
To every spot that earth possessed
There was a man of great repute
Round whom there was a huge dispute.
This humble man of power and fame
Then known as John, his given name
Who thrived on honey and locusts
With leather belt round his waist trussed
O’er his robe of camel hair made,
So sad that he won’t make the grade.
The “Baptist” was how he’d been called
Beheading was his final fall
Remember Herod’s Salome
It was her dance did John away !
In truth, the heart does beat away
Biding its time day after day
And as each day goes whizzing by
The clock will tick and hands will fly
With wings so swift and life so fleet
You’ll feel the spinning on your feet !
Our time, one day will disappear
Along with love and life and fear !
Our hearts are full with eyes cried dry
Why must our youth so sadly die ?
How many dreams have withered there
Upon the vine of unkempt care ?
I hear the sounds of early morning now
Somewhere in the distance, a mooing cow
With traffic passing on a busy road
The whir of truck tires with their heavy load
The predawn mist that finds it’s meant to stay
On a day that seems dark and dullish grey
As the tides roll in they all crash ashore
Just to wash away what was here before !
What does one seek after the midnight hour
Neath the veil of darkness and loss of power
When the stilled air deserts its resting place
And we bid farewell to eternal grace
May the love of God now protect us all
From the final cut of the curtain call !
I hear the echoes through the trees
Life’s shadows move with each new breeze
Old voices carry loud and clear
And fall upon the listening ear.
The book has closed the story ends
And bids farewell to all our friends
To leave one nothing more to say
Ere we are forced to look away.
But let us go in peace and calm
Believing one must do no harm
Remembering those days of yore
And all of paradise before !
What is this hell that men call war
What is it they are fighting for
They’ve wasted so much blood and gore
We’ve known it all and want no more !
My heart got lost so long ago
How that occured I cannot know
It was that war, I often think
That took our values to the brink
The young, the old, the in-between
Not one of us escaped the scene
It hollowed out each living thing
And in our lives did chaos bring
We took the test and some did win
Although too many were done in
And there were those, ones that I saw
Who ne’er returned forever more
Oh Lord I wish I could forget,
I haven’t mastered that trick yet !
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*( MEMORIES OF WORLD WAR II )
There was a bridge in the Great War
That both sides had been fighting for
So many died in that one fight
From early morn to darkest night
Tis true that they performed their best
Though in the end all failed that test.
They died there by the River Somme
As back and forth all hell did come
Of Brits alone some price to pay
Fifty-eight thousand fell that day
Now this occured lifetimes ago
And none are left who really know
But tell me please if any can
What does this say about a man ?
There is a song the people sing
That praises God and glories bring
It is a hymn from times long gone
That we have pinned our hopes upon.
A darkened hill, a blood soaked cross
The ugly terror of our loss
A day that one cannot forget
That caused earth’s early sun to set.
It rent the temple’s curtain break
As trembling earth did mighty quake
While God to man anger displayed
Christ’s vow to us had long been made !
One cannot know just how I feel
About a war that was so real
There is no way I will forget
All those sad days that haunt me yet
And sometimes when I’m in sleep land
The visions seem too close at hand.
I pray to God we’ll never know
The ugliness that from wars flow
Quite often when I’m at my ease
I beg of God, end all wars please !
The infamy of events gone by
Those scenes of the past that made us cry
The tearful times no one will forget
Sad memories that do haunt us yet
These are the shadows of all we hate
That we’ve learned to fear but much too late.
These agonies fail to go away
Increasing more with each passing day
Oh when, oh when will this madness end
Oh where, oh where does the blame depend
May the Lord above help us find peace
And from this anger grant our release !
My heart is full it heaves a sigh
Too soon my love, we bid goodbye
I will to you one fact revealed
Your love should never be concealed
For words that you have left unsaid
Shall not be heard once you are dead !
The poppy blooms o’er many a grave
Of all the souls that we could not save
Colored red like blood that heroes gave
That our emblem might forever wave !
My heart does flutter with every thought
My throat goes dry and my voice gets caught
And for all the sadness war has brought
You’d think we’d accept that lesson taught.
For the time we’ve left, we must demand
That the world we know need take a stand
And plant red poppies across the land
Reminding all that peace is at hand !
The battleground of Shiloh has fields of missing and of dead
Where many nameless small white crosses lineup from head to head
A place where ten thousand died as through the heart this nation tore
While Shiloh from the bible came with His message, peace not war
And was the home of God’s own ark and His holy covenant
That from the Lord to us our peace and true happiness was sent !
I’d like to think where e’er you are, you hear the bugle’s call
And know we’re missing you from mid-November through next fall
I see you in the twilight just before the even’s pall
It’s with morning sunlight rising I miss you most of all !
I’ve seen the troops in battle dress
They make me proud I must confess
I wish they were but dressing-up
To partake of sweet valour’s cup
Instead of battling someone’s cause
While fighting in these futile wars.
There is no break nor any end
The fracas leaves no untouched friend
There’s no peace found to fill the air
We’ve only distress everywhere.
The saddest part we must accept
We’ve done our job and are bereft !
The walls are sterile, antiseptic clean
The floors are silent mopped by hands unseen
The night is long and chill and strangely stark
As tip toe feet cross these halls in the dark.
There is one thought that quickly flashes by
This is a place where few prepare to die
The air is still, but hear the humming sound
As thousands of machines do all surround.
Here nurses try to understand slurred speech
Dealing kindly with parts of pain’s release
Pray time does rapid heal without delay
As some won’t live to see another day !
I hear their voices calling me
Out of a past that used to be
So long ago and faraway
That unspeakable yesterday.
I was quite young how could I know
I lost my childhood quickly though
The words I heard, I can’t forget
At times I’m sure they echo yet
And temper all my actions still
I am convinced they always will !
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Claire V. Bogdanos 