The Dummy!!

In that forgotten part of town
Where wasted hopes and dreams abound,
A wrinkled man with life near end,
In hopes to have at least one friend,
With fashioned bits of wood and things
He made a dummy run by strings.

He sat alone for hours on end,
Conversing with his only friend
And found delight within the fact
That he controlled it's every act.
He told it how he never had
A chance, since all his luck was bad
Although he'd tried so to succeed
The dummy nodded and agreed.

And how his journeys in romance
Had never given him a chance,
And wasn't it a crying shame
That he was always held to blame
When everyone knew, oh so well,
That life is but a living Hell,
Controlled by lust and power and greed?
The dummy nodded and agreed.

With patience that would rival saints,
That dummy sat through all complaints
And, with each little expert tug,
He'd droop his head or bow or shrug
And give some comfort to the man
Who held his lifelines in his hand
And helped to fill a lonely need
When he just nodded and agreed.

Senility increased with time
As did the old man's pantomime,
And feverish fingers pulled with glee
The dummy's dance of misery.
They never left each other's side
Until the day both stopped and died.
We found them lying, hand in hand,
The dummy - and his wooden friend.....

Me!!

In my mind
Nothing is clear
All this pain
Won't dissapear

On my skin
There are incisions
From when i was scared
And made wrong decisions

In my eyes
You can see the rage
You can see the pain
And me in a cage

I'm locked inside
For no one to see
A fake on the outside
Pretending to be me

Everyday
I put on a smile
Pretend i'm happy
But only for a while

Once i get home
The smile goes away
The real me comes out
He comes out to play

The real me
No body knows
Not even me.............

Memories..........

Memories...
Haunt me..
Dimensions of dreams..
Swirl by..
Colors of sorrow..
Merge the past..
Into my present..
Play with my mind..
Steal my future..
Desert me..
Of Images..what might have been..
Relinquish my hold..
On my shattered heart..
Memories of yesteryear....
Take away....my corroded soul....
Within the drop of a single tear.......