HIDING

In my mind so many things I hide
Hiding the contempt towards my fellow man
Hiding the fear of life, that one day I might die
Hiding the confusion of wrong and right

Hiding my thoughts of the past
The hoping that I will learn from my mistakes

Hiding my thoughts for the future
My dreams are still just an illusion

Hiding my feelings and dreams
Thinking what is the need
When they are only feelings and dreams

Thinking what could be worse
Hiding feelings of anger
Or hiding feelings of love

Hiding is what every one dose

Hiding from a lie
That I giving up before I try
That is when I lie become true

Hiding behind sadness
Hiding behind happiness
Hiding behind anger

Hiding my feelings
Behind a honey coated poetry

©Copyright Thomas Dooley

GIVE ME SONG

To much sadness
Not enough joy
The woman said to just let go

So much pain
Sad words are the only thing I can say
When a baby has pasted away

And love has turned to hate
When will we have a better day?

He said to *”Heal the World”
It’s hard to heal
When it doesn’t want to live

When a mind has anger inside

Why can’t we find?
What is right?
When all we are doing is wrong

Give me a sad song
The tears won’t take long

Give me a musical trance
Something that will make me dance
Give me a happy song
A song that is strong
Give me song

Give me a soul filed tune
Marven had it now Jill has got it
Give me song

Give me a groove
Some thing to make sing
Even though I can't sing
Give me song

A beat, a wisp of strings, a puff of the horns
Music can do so much more
Give me song

©Copyright Thomas Dooley

A NEW WIND

A new wind
A new season has begun
A new birth
Come from the earth

A new joy
Is it a girl or boy?
Who's to know?
If we don't take hold

A new wind is here
Full of life
Full of a green, green earth

A new wind
Full of death
To take all
Till there is until nothing left

A new wind
To power the soul
That is who you are
That is what you should know

A new wind
Inspired by life
Inspired by death
Just live your eternal life

©Copyright Thomas Dooley

FEELINGS INSIDE

GOD, why do I feel this way?
Why do I feel pain?
Why caring for some one
Have to destroy me

Every one stands around
Waiting to tare me down

Why do I feel this way?
Is there someone who cares about me?
Someone who will love and hold me?
Kiss me on the lips with so much tenderness

Someone who will make me feel my best
When sadness has me

Why do I feel this way?
Will it ever go away?

I need some one to understand me today
Some one to drink the some understanding
Before it spills out of my mind

Just lay with me or lie to me
Either may make me feel better

Why do I feel this way?
Will it ever go away?

Don't want to hide away
Just to hide the pain
Just want to be a soul
Want to go beyond whats old

Don't ego your way by me
It just make me feel less of you
More than you will of me

Why do I feel this way?

©Copyright Thomas Dooley

GRANDMOTHER'S CHILD

A child, with her grandmothers smile

If you could see

She is her grandmother's child

A three foot shadow

She will start conversations

With whom ever

She has some of her father

Some of her mother

A little of her grandfather

But she looks like her grandmother

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 1993

STAY AWAY

This feeling runs deep
So deep can't even think
With my feelings, I hide

Don't know what to say to you
When I think of you every day
When I'm with you
Don't know what to do

You know I'm true to you
There is only one thing for me to do
I got to stay away
Don't want to feel the pain
Don't want to see you that way
I got to stay away

I pray for you every day
That your pain would go away
Every time we talk
That pain is all you talk about

We've been friends for over a year
It feels so much longer
Don't know what to do
With this feeling, all this fear

You know I would do anything for you
How can I prove it to you?
I got to stay away
Do you hear all I say?
I don't want to go away
I got to go away

©Copyright Thomas Dooley

TRIBUTE TO SOUND

Music is a tribute to sound
From the wien of an electric guitar
Piercing through to your inner ear
To the soft sound of a violin
Played with emotion.........
It can Pearce your heart

The voice is a tribute to music
The soprano, the base
The tenor, the alto
And falsetto
With the right word
The story of music can be told

Music can touch the soul
With someone special
Or all alone
Pictures with sound
Feeling with every note

When I see the moon
I think of Michael Jackson
Insight, but out of reach

When I hear a screeching guitar riff
I think of Prince
I have to have more of this

When I smell coffee
I think of the Ink Spots
All that Java Jive

When I see a painting
I think of Nat
He is Unforgettable

When I see tap-shoes
I think of Sam
The only Candyman

When I think of opera
I think of Carmen
When I think of Carmen
I see only Lori Mirabal
That is all

©2010 Thomas Dooley

SUGAR, SUGAR

Sugar, sugar umm
You caught my eye
Dissolve in my mind

Sugar, sugar umm
You caught my heart
Sweet is the flavor you are

Sugar, sugar umm
Sweeten the taste
Put a smile on my face

Sugar, sugar umm
Want to tell you I'm craving
Want to know what your maid of

Sugar, sugar umm
In my coffee, no cream
Just a little for the dream
So soft to me

Sugar, sugar umm
That flavor, that taste of love
We can mix it
To see what becomes of this
Will you share your sweetness?

Sugar, sugar umm
I got to love this

©Copyright Thomas Dooley

BLUE SOUND

What do I do when down?
What do I do when I hear
That blue sound

What do I do when alone?
What do I do when I hear
That blue sound

The words, the sound
Got my mind spinning around
It gets me up when down
I just can't come down

What do I do when holding you?
What do you hear when holding me?
The blue sound
Beating in my heart

What do I do when we're apart?
What do I hear in my heart?
I hear you sing the blues
I feel that blue sound

The words, the sound
Got me going around
What is my direction now?
That blue sound
Turned up or turned down
Feel that blue sound

©Copyright Thomas Dooley

BABY GIRL

She got everyone talking
She got all the other girls jealous
She walks in a room like Cinderella

In her red velvet dress
Envoge didn't look nothing like this

Baby girl
Can't help but to stare at her
Baby girl
A look to stop the world

She walked by me
I couldn't say a thing
I almost couldn't breath

What is this feeling?
A soft breeze will knock me off my feet
She is all I can see

Baby girl
Why just kiss and tell
Baby girl
No one to thrill

She fills my vision
Of the woman of my dreams
I just can't say a thing

©Copyright Thomas Dooley

CAN THE HEART

Can the heart
Read the mind of a lonely stranger
Can the heart
Feel the pain of a lonely stranger

Can the heart be blind?
When there is nothing to find

Can the heart be hurt?
When only the mind is hurt

Can the heart go numb?
When there is no love

Even if the heart breaks
Can joy and happiness be faked

What covers the heart's pain?
A mask or a tear
Or smile on my face

©Copyright Thomas Dooley

MELLOW SEASON

So smooth, so cool thinking of you
So warm, thinking of holding you in my arms
Day to day, times have changed
What we have stays the same

The seasons come and go
Fall, summer, and winter
Our love just gets warmer

Together we have it all
Our own nature
Our own weather
Our own mellow season

Together we are free
Our hearts beat
Our emotions sing in time
Days and weeks go by
The thought of you in my mind

The seasons come and go
Fall, winter, and spring
In love is where I want to be
Being a friend is where it grows
Never cold
Never old
Always a mellow season

Need no reason to love you
Living in this mellow season

©Copyright Thomas Dooley

SAVE A PRAYER FOR THE BEAUTIFUL ONE

My muse found me today
She walked out from the April showers
Through the rainbow haze

She heard the prayer of this lonely one
She came back for a touch of happiness and love
She brought me many more words to use
She said you know what to do

Save your prayer filled words for Christopher
Bring him peace when he wakes from his sleep

He had so much to say

But he sang it anyway

With a feeling in every tune that he played

That would move the soul and touch the heart

Some say it is, love others say its art

Save your prayer filled words for Jammie
He walks with a style that is all he needs

Sharing words for other people to sing
Without any tears to save
They become the paisley dew on the grass of a new day
He is that one song that sings to the universe
For you and me

Save your prayer filled words for Prince

Each and every song of compassion and peace 

He had so much to sing

Echoing words it would bring

Through the drums, through the guitar strings

What is inside will never grow old
Had so much for two lifetimes maybe more

Another song to warm the soul

Even in April when it snows

Save a prayer for the beautiful one

As the soul sings another song

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2016

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His Name is PRINCE