BOY INSIDE

So afraid think I've lost my way
Every day in secret I would pray
Is anyone listening? what would they say

Some times I dream some times I lie
What I can truly be, I hide
From this boy inside

My darkest day my brightest nights
Looking at these words, I write
Will, they ever have their own life

Caught in a dream captured in a lie
Finding my way through life is the real fight
For this boy inside

Traveled the world to know who I am
Got to learn to be my own friend
This I need to do, in this journey with no end

Reasons I dream, reasons I lie
What in life can I say is mine
Who is this boy inside

I am much older now
Living with a lifetime of doubts
Still learning what I am all about

Is it me that dreams? Is it me that lies?
Too afraid to reach for that prize
To give to that boy inside

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2019

   

INTEGRITY

Has morel ground become sand and dust
We can't count on the things we once trust

No integrity in a lie when it is the truth you hide
Soft hands soft mind is the result of the ego's pride

The truth once was like steel now it is just rusting away
Optimism tries to heel in the darkness of the day

No integrity in selfish privilege when hate is your only message
Truth and lies today are blurred lines but no courage to acknowledge that

Is justice the cure for the pain or have we lost our way
No inspiring words to take us through these days

No integrity in peace an unfulfilled desire is our reality
Creating the ingredients for genocide as we watch Palestinian children die

God doesn't choose who lives and dies we elect our leaders to do that
Now they wonder why is everyone mad when it is in the past

No integrity in fear wondering what brought us here
Too scared to show you care when hate is all you hear

You come along way to forget yesterday when all you did was prayed
Now you live with a hypocrite lie acting like you care, but you don't even try

Integrity is the inner wealth
Integrity directs the moral compass
I would rather be poor with integrity
Than rich without a soul

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2019

MELLOW MIND

Lost my dream when you looked me in the eyes
In you I thought I found a new dream, it was just a lie
Truth to a lifetime now the choices was mine

Mellow mind
You gave me the fruit to try
But then you put me to the side

Lost my way in your shallow game
Thought I found another soul to connect to mine
Alone got to work through these lonely days

Mellow mind
You gave me friendship in my mind
Too afraid to tell what I felt inside

Lost my sight saw no wrong in you
Go out of my way with feeling to prove
It was strange to me it was all new

Mellow mind
You gave me loneliness
Did you take back everything you said

Lost my feeling and everything I believed in
For a long time thought we could be friends
Have not heard a word from you ever again

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2019

DIASPORA GUILT

Is this what my ancestors felt
When leaving their homes for a better world
No longer I am on the path they took

Diaspora guilt
Now history is a bitter pill
Dreams scheduled to be killed

No compensation for the hate
Ignorance is the only food they ate
With another serving on their plate

Diaspora guilt
Now the truth is a bitter pill
No standing up for it get out your cameras and film

The privilege can't feel any pain
They have no sense of shame
It is always the victim they blame

Diaspora guilt
Now education is a bitter pill
The blooming youth just die and wilt

Reading, writing, and arithmetic no longer the way
Now it is only words of hate anyone can say
Thoughts and prayers will not make a new day


©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2019
   
  

MUSE ME

I can't lie what I am feeling inside
I would hide the words that I write
Some times so embarrassed I could die

Muse me
Inspire what I think
Inspire what I dream

You changed for the attention
For me to see you is a form of affection
Now I don't see you the same way, you lost my attention

Muse me
Inspire what I see
Inspire what I feel

Poetic words drip from his lips
As the needle on the album skips
Every word visual you know it is his

Muse me
Inspire the fire in me
Inspire something I can believe

One day your mixing drinks
So much with your dark eyes, you see
Now you call-out the commander and chief

Muse me
Inspire revolutionary dreams
Inspire them into reality

Lies feed on the plasma of the uneducated mind
The ego thrives as the communities hide
Facts with conviction will win the fight

Muse me
Inspire the need to just be
Inspiration should always be free


©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2019

DREAMING OF INSPIRATION

A hammock, a mattress, a pillow for my head
After a long day, I've earned this rest
Drifting away to a world without stress

Dreaming of inspirational food
For the body
Craving poetic nourishment

Counting the seconds go by
Past and present friends still lie
Deep in my mind

Dreaming of inspirational words
For the mind
Just to create one poetic rhyme

A coalition of thoughts in my mind
Thinking I lost everything in life
When I wake everything is fine

Dreaming of inspirational sound
For the soul
Only the purple omens know

What is the artistic process
But he hasn't told me yet
In the vault is where it rests

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2019

THE ALCHEMY OF PEACE

There is a scientific equation to peace

Like global warming, it is what our leaders can't see

The alchemy of peace
Is one part you and another part me
Living in harmony

It is not a mixture of exploding things

It is the respect for life and all that it means

The alchemy of peace
Is the extraction of all impurities

Like war and inequality

There is no potion no magical elixir

It is learning from the past and being a forgiver

The alchemy of peace

Is the reaction of a dream to be free

In the incubator of the mind the only place it can be seen

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2019