Hello Sunshine

The next song on the table to put to music with Andy Ribbit:

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Hello Sunshine,
You have brightened my day.
I wonder where you come from.
I wonder who made you.

Hello Sunshine,
You have led me astray.
Into a life I once knew;
Seemed so much better than it really was.

Sunshine
Will do that.
Sometimes, it takes me back
Into a time when things were fine;
Nothing heavy on my mind.

Thank you Sunshine.
You have taken me there
Into a perfect place;
Into my sacred space.

But Sunshine
Can change you.
Sometimes it makes you think
That you deserve things you should earn.
Makes you petty makes you learn.

Sunshine,
What is taking so long?
Where is my peace of mind?
Where is my summertime?

Sunshine,
Where are you going to?
I didn't see you leave;
I didn't know you weren't happy...

Sunshine, I'm waiting for you
To do the work for me...
Sunshine, I'm waiting for you
To make me life easy;
To make me happy, sunshine.

Sunshine,
I will miss you my dear,
But you are always near.
No need for me to be scared.
Sunshine,
Don't care where you will go,
Cuz I will travel with you...

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Written June 9, 07

Heartsong (story)

She lays a hand on his back...
To speak to him? Lend him some comfort
For the pain she could not know he was feeling?
She did not know him; nor he her.
Never had their eyes met, even in passing...

But in this moment, once here, bearing an unmistakable air of reality...
In this moment, she knows all she needs to.
Not why she has touched him;
Not even what she will say when the invariable questioning look settles its gaze on her face.
She knows only that she has done the right thing.

And then a strange thing happens...

He breathes a long sigh of relief.
This man, who knows nothing of who has touched him;
Who has no way of knowing the intent of the hand on his back.
He lets out years of tension in that single sigh.
He turns and stares into the eyes of the woman who has freed him.
He smiles and all the hows and whys of it all
Disappear.

They embrace, knowing that, in the other, they have found...
Not what they had been searching for, but...
But....
They know that they have found
Their heartsong.

Torn cocoon

Between the hours of night and morn;
Cocooned in the comfort and the breathy silence.
Cheek caresses pillow.
A sigh: content;
Perhaps the face expresses.

Roll, run, swim, stretch
In the sheets.
Delicious peace;
Tearful happiness.

Torn apart by the mechanical cry.
The repetitive, jarring, unwelcome, mechanical cry:

AWAKE! AWAKE! AWAKE!

Disoriented and seeking solace in the dream

That is no more.

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Man, I hate waking up.

Before I Die (short list)

Things I would like to try/ be able to do:

- Drive standard
- Drive on the highway (don't laugh)
- Recording an album
- Cook without a recipe
- Run for 30 minutes without my chest/ legs exploding
- Travel for my career
- A yoga class
- Draw manga
- Draw realistically
- Paint


... to be continued

If I walked... (song)

If if if...
If I walked walked walked
To the moon moon moon
I would ne- ne- never see you you you
Cuz you're far- far- farther then the stars stars stars
And I gaze gaze gaze at you
All night long.

If I walked walked walked
To the sea sea sea
And I let let let it
Envelope me,
I would ne- ne- never see you, my dear.
You're too deep deep deep
Deep for me me me.

If I walked walked walked
To the sky sky sky
I would ne- ne- ne- never fly fly fly
Quite as high high high as you always do.
You're too fly fly fly fly
For I I I.

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Check out Ton Ange for the melody.

Strategy

I want you.


I want you,
But I'm not very good at this game
And my mind is filled
With where I went wrong;
What I should have said;
What I didn't do.

And the analyses never end,
Because no matter what I think,
I have so little to go on
From YOU.
I can't be sure of anything
Until you tell me
what's on your mind.
But I won't get that for now
And the truth is
I don't know if I can handle

Not knowing what you want.
Even while knowing I want you.
Even while others want me
Even while I do to them
What you've been doing to me.

And I don't know you, really;
Figuring you out is impossible.
So resigning myself to waiting
Is my only strategy.

We are never at fault

We are never at fault;
We are not to blame.
Misfortune and pain,
Regardless of circumstance,
Or our own part
Are always the result of another's actions;
Another's choice to be inconsiderate;
Another's thoughtlessness.

It is never we who mislead
Who mistreat
Who misrepresent our "true" nature
Through actions foul or cold.

Never we. They.
But if I am he as you are he as you are me,
Then they are...
We?

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Please, someone tell me they noticed the Beatles reference...

Obligatory First Post

Hi,

Expect to see my written pieces in addition to semi-random ramblings about my day. I teach ESL and every now and then I'll happen upon a funny story. So you might see some of that too.

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Enjoy your stay.
T/V