LOST MY INSPIRATION

Lost my inspiration

She up and walked away

must try to make it to another day

No more passion

Didn't even have it

It's just a distraction

Lost my hope

Can't find it with a rope

Being alive is worth the hope

Lost my inspiration

Pain and devastation

Pray the pain will go away

Lord take it away

Greed has the man

Taking what he can't have

Making the world so sad…

sometimes mad

Open your mind It's in front of your eyes

Man is so unkind

Wrong or right, it's life

Lost my inspiration

She is too far away for me to see

Love is now a dream

©Copyright 2016 Thomas Dooley

THE DOG ON THE COUCH

The dog glares at me 

As he lays there

Curled up at one end of the couch

We stare at each other 

Sitting there with his icy glare 

He doesn't move 

Curled in his corner

He has nothing to prove 

When I bring a visitor over 

He acts like a puppy 

But when my visitor leaves 

He turns and growls at me than goes back on to the couch

And starts to glare again

That dog has vengeance towards me

I know he doesn't like me

But when he is needy

He will beg in front of me

With his sad puppy eyes

I don't understand that dog

TO PICTURE ALICE WALKER

As I look at her picture

From the back of one of her books

I see beauty in her face

I see the strength of a proud race

Her smile glows with inspiration

I capture it in words to put it to paper

through the shape of her head

I know there is allot of wisdom in there

In the creativity of her hair

There is allot of joy there

She says there is a flaw in her eye

Its' something I can't see

When it hides behind her beauty

As I look at her, I feel a desire

To touch her beauty

But than I realize that it is only a picture

With her words and her wisdom

At night I will dream of Alice Walker

©Copyright 2016 Thomas Dooley