WE HIDE

Hunger hides in the schools

Hunger hides in the uneducated

Hunger hides in a child's mind

 

Why should this be a political fight?

We are not asking for a feast, just a little something to eat.

 

Sadness hides in the home

Sadness hides in the room

Sadness hides in the man on the streets

 

Don't want to run in your circle anymore.

Want to take that straight line leave it all behind

 

Pain hides in the head

Pain hides in the lie

Pain hides in the woman's box

 

Change your name change your life game.

Want to remove this pain just to replace it with a different kind of pain

 

Ignorance hides in the tip of a pen

Ignorance hides in the words of a little girl

Ignorance hides in the toothless follower

 

Red hat, red mask dyed with the blood of the virus of millions 

Showing off how privilege you can be when it is only attention you need

 

Love hides behind newborn eyes.

Love hides in giving without a witness. 

Love hides in a kiss unconditional.

 

More than a touch more than activity

Life, designed to be free

 

Hope hides in a morel decision

Hope hides in the silences before the dawn

Hope hides in the gift shop of the Obama Center

 

The last few dollars on a losing lotto ticket

Has more hope than what a preacher asks for in faith

 

Peace hides within the mind; the questions of life are inside.

Peace hides in the silence of nature  

Peace hides in the forgiveness of oneself

 

The things we search for we hide

The meaning to these feelings we hide 

All that we hide has become a part of life.

 

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2020

 

143

There are times when I am sad
There are times when I am mad
So I stop and think of all the good I have

143 what does that mean to me
An expression its a feeling
It is a way of being

There are feelings I hide
There are feelings I keep deep inside
So I stop and think of words to express them
I start to write...

143 is more than a number
It is something we all hunger to hear
A feeling so unconditionally clear

There are times when I am happy
There are times when I am glad
So I stop and look past the barriers to see you
That person isn't all that bad...

143 is more than a number
Add them up they become 8
That is something great

There are times when I become quiet
There are times when I become silent
So I stop and think what these numbers mean to me
Who expressed them when I was in need...

143 is more than a number
One is for I
Four is for LOVE
Three is for YOU

Now stop to think who said that to you.

Keep that number in your mind
See it with your two eyes
In the stranger next to you
Or the person you have known your whole life

Remember that I LOVE YOU

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2019

QUALITY OF ME

In a place of no reputation, I look to my own destination
These dreams in this life are the cream, but there is much more to me

Quality of me
We all have dreams, we all have needs
But what is different about me goes so deep
Seeing the value in time looking forward to the next day's light

Work ethic is not about giving and taking
It is the value I get from a job well done
Even when I am the only one

Quality of me
Time should never wait on me
I should be in the moment and ready for anything
Every day should be about reality

Just because you give less
That is no reason for me not to be limitless
Service towards others shouldn't be faked

Quality of me
I might have feelings, but that doesn't make me weak
I am a soul with a higher purpose for humanity to be set free
Verifying every thought deep in my heart this is me

Only a fool thinks the world revolves around just one
Peace is not made from a gun it come from unconditional love
The soul never get tired even when it runs

Quality of me
I might have doubts, but that isn't what I am about
I have needs there much more than anything you can see

©Cpoyright Thomas Dooley 2019


NOTES:

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

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

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