HOW DO YOU CRY

In the light of day, there should be no shadows, no douts

Is that what respect for life is all about

How do you cry when there is no time for life?

How do you cry when hate is all you can find?

How do you forgive every time?

With marching feet, the calls for justice and peace

These sounds still echo from the streets

Will the next tear to be shed will be for you or for me?

How do you cry when life is just a short time?

How do you cry when a lie is revealed as hate?

How do you forgive next time?

Serve and protect until the next death

Mistakes and excuses do not make you innocent

Justice and peace are political vinegar and oil

How do you cry when this happens every time?

How do you cry when the tears run dry?

How do you forgive this time?

Tears spilled on the streets of Minneapolis.

No one should die for a light to be put on racial justice

Living and dying has no longer has any purpose

How do you cry when you have no tears?

How do you cry when you walk with fear?

How do you cry right NOW?

©Copyright Thomas J. Dooley 2021

Notes: 

PRETTY BLUE

Think that I might have forgotten you

It might be true never but I never asked anything of you

My dreams don't match the reality of you

Pretty blue where did you go too

No one like you in my mind

Was our friendship just an elegant lie

These feeling never change the many times the heart brakes

But I am the only one to blame when you walk away

What do you say when you think of me today

Pretty blue where did you go too

When you where the passenger of my mind

Never to experience these unconditional feelings

When you were alone I was only in your mind

I would call you every time just to make it alright

Now I have mastered the feelings I have of you

Pretty blue where did you go too

To hold you would be an intimate lie

When you smiled it would happen every time

Reality lies when I am next to you who is always a fool

Going out of my way for heartbreak and pain

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2020

NO ONE

No one wants to be loved

No one wants to believe in any thing

They just want the easy lie

Too much self-pride

To much hate filled denial

If you don’t like what they say

Change their words to go your way

No one wants to trust

No one wants to see what they can see

To them faith is a forgotten lotto ticket

Stuck up under their seat

I don’t want prayer

Here or there

I don’t want prayer anywhere

Selfish thought from a selfish mind

We hear it all the time

If you don’t like to pray

Remember psychiatry isn’t the same

No one wants family

Mickey-D’s and Burger King is just to convenient 

To put on the family table

But no one wants to be alone

But you just don’t want to go home

There your still alone

Respect the family tree

Don't forget were you came from

No one want to earn their freedom

Thinking it is given away for free

Walking in the heat 100 miles or even more

I would say you eared yours

Those who have it take it for granted

Making it sound like a commodity

©Copyright 2001 Thomas Dooley

THERE IS A STORY

There is a story

Still not told

About a man on the street corner

Waiting for your change

So you can put him out of your mind

He wasn’t there today

There is a story

Still not told

Of a child with a lot to prove

Out to do things they weren’t meant to do

Now their name is only mentioned in prayer

There is a story

Still not told

Of a forgotten soul

They pass you by with out a word hello

Will you see them again today?

There is a story

Still not told

Of truth that provokes anger

A story of love, from above

They just want to hear the story of selfish love

Who did you use today?

There is a story

Still not told

About a heavy heart

Alone in the dark wanting out

Can you tell what that is about?

©Copyright 2001 Thomas Dooley

DISTRESS

Wishes will never come true

When what you wish for isn’t next to you

You know what you want

But to show your love would be too much

Always trying to hide

Your feelings inside

Wanting to express your deep-hearted tenderness

They don’t understand your sadness

When life has you in distress

With all the love in your heart

You’re holding it back

Knowing it will soon explode

But you still keep hold

While it rips at your soul

But you still keep it inside

Is that my lie?


©Copyrights 1993 Thomas Dooley

BROTHER HOOD

Those who control the meek

They are the ones who are weak

With the pain they inflict

Suffering they will not admit

Prejudice is their passion

There is a race to be run

A race to be won

The human race is the only one

My brother is white we will always fight

My brother is black we walk in different tracks

Friction of the times is only of the mind

This time we should open our eyes

Don’t take different sides

Let wrong be over powered by the right

Come together as one peace shall over come

Hate dose not discrimnate

Hate is on ever-ones face

Why should there be so many different faces

Why can’t we be brothers and sisters?

With many different faces


©Copyrights 1993 Thomas Dooley