One Chance

Standing in the distance

Watching you make the wrong choice

Knowing I can’t say anything

Fighting my silent voice

 

Unable to squash

This burning inferno of fire

Trying to stand out

For it is you that I always admire

 

To be given a chance

To open your protected heart

To discover our passion

For our relationship to start

 

Not wanting too much

Just to be given a chance

To treat you right

And have one final dance

 

You won’t know it

But these words are for you

A hidden message

A relationship is due

A Stranger’s Love

I didn’t know which way to turn

Someone’s advice I did yearn

Making the right decision is hard to do

A decision that affects more than a few

 

A message on a computer screen

Usually missed but this one seen

Touched me somewhere deep inside

My decision no longer has to hide

 

A message sent and a reply received

Someone cared who’d have believed

Some how knowing what I need to hear

Putting me at ease releasing the fear

 

The strength inside to finally move on

Knowing my shyness has finally gone

All this because of a stranger’s love

A stranger sent from someone above?

A Helping Hand

How can I help if I don’t what’s wrong

You’ve bottled this inside for far too long

What ever I do, what ever I say

Can’t do right but hate seeing you this way

 

I’ll keep my distance until you are ready

Your mind and heart really need to be steady

Don’t like to see you in this downward state

Keep believing in the thing we all call fate

 

You cried on my shoulder just the other day

Your emotions expressed more that I could say

I put my arms around you and hugged you tight

Together we will have the strength to fight

 

I’ll continue to give you more than you need

Our friendship more than doing a good deed

If you need to talk anywhere across this land

I’ll simple extend my forever helping hand

Believe in the future

At times the world seems dark

And a scary place to be

Keep searching beyond the now

Eventually the light you’ll see

 

Your emotions uncontrollable

You want to scream and shout

Wipe away the frustrated tears

Let the tears become a drought

 

You seem to be fighting the world

Nothing is going right

One more dose of bad luck

You feel like disowning the fight

 

But things steadily pick up

Your friends close by your side

Suddenly you walk tall

Taking everything in your stride

 

An unexpected meeting with a stranger

Who offers you a chance

To be part of something special

Now you can have the very last dance

 

Remember when you’re down

The lowest point to be

Believe in what the future holds

As believing is for free

I'm here waiting

Afraid to lead

Fear rejection all along

Tried to read the signs

And got them always wrong

 

Lying here alone

Thinking of you day and night

Thinking of the question

Hoping the answer will be right

 

Fame or fortune

But that doesn’t mean a thing

When will you realise

I want you to wear my ring

 

Not making sense

The hidden messages inside

The unspoken lines

Let love be our guide

 

A choice you have

The chemistry elating

Take your time

I’ll always be waiting

A Thousand Stars

You shine so bright

In the midnight sky

The light in my heart

You make the time fly by

 

My darkest days

There seems no end

I always thank you

For the light you send

 

More than your smile

More than your eyes

You have a warmth

That lights up the skies

 

When I glance above

You are always there

Shinning so bright

In the midnight air

 

Others in your shadow

They just don’t compare

A thousand stars alight

But only you I see up there

Mum

Always there to give me a loving hug

Provided soup when I got the dreaded bug

Showed me the path that would guide me right

And when I was young you tucked me at night

 

You allowed me to grow but I knew you were there

I made many mistakes but you didn’t care

I could always come back to you no matter what I’d done

In your eyes I was always the perfect son

 

Maybe I never really appreciated what you gave up

You sat there quietly drinking the tea from your cup

Only now as I’m older I see everything more clear

You gave me a great life I have no fear

 

For me it’s not just one day you’re a special mum

I’ll let everyone know, I’ll keep banging your drum

Thanks for making me who I am this very day

I hope you have a wonderful wonderful mother’s day!

Give a little

Sports Relief has come round so quick

Helping the needy and the sick

Giving money to those who are desperately in need

Forgetting all are own personal greed

 

Watching the short films of children dying

It breaks my heart, can’t stop crying

A doctor unable to save someone’s life

The person gone someone’s mother and wife

 

We can changes the lives of people we don’t know

Instead of hurting them with a fatal blow

The world as one moving closer each day

Turning enemies to friends I’ll continue to pray

 

I know it’s tough but donate what you can

Even if you are not a Sports Relief fan

In these times we should love not hate

Do what you can and please donate

Chasing Rainbows

We’ve all seen the rainbow

A perfect arc in the sky

The world a wash with colour

Emotions running high

 

That one moment in time

We dream our wildest dreams

Hope for the future

Our life now clearly beams

 

Thoughts light up our inside

A light that’s been turned on

A dream that’s not forgotten

Then rainbow’s slowly gone

 

We keep on searching quietly

For the rainbow not far away

The dream we keep on living

Chasing a rainbow another day

Lonely Heart

Searching for something that isn’t around

Always lost but wanting to be found

Like a deserted island I stand silently the only one

The burning candle light has finally gone

 

The heart’s job to keep me staying alive

But without love how can I survive

The clock’s ticking, time is slowly running out

A relationship is becoming a certain doubt

 

I open my heart but have been used in the past

A single character in word wide cast

Another emotional game of relationship chess

Always ends up an emotional mess

 

Dating site like looking for a needle in a haystack

A message sent but no reply back

What’s the answer, where do I start?

Will someone fill this lonely heart?

Turning your life around

Born in to a world at a time of depression

So much hatred so much aggression

Unable to escape the housing estate

Leaving your life in the hand of fate

 

A community that relied on helping each other

Every man your uncle, every woman a mother

Twenty kids and one adult on another day out

Taken to the park so we could scream and shout

 

Growing older mixing with the wrong crowd

Lying to parents because you wasn’t allowed

School was a place you got a mark then left

Thinking it was cool to do shoplifting theft

 

Heroin abuse on the rise as people get high

Not knowing that having too much you could almost die

People giving orders to rob the latest stuff

Hurting because your parents don’t earn enough

 

Part of a gang that made others feel threatened

Not knowing this life would lead to a dead end

Sudden realisation that this life is not for you

There is only one person who can change what you do

 

Accepted by a college a fork in the road

Choose the right path for your career to unfold

An opportunity taken now time to give back

Helping youngsters to get on the right track

 

A fundraiser organised for a special holiday treat

An adventure begins for the kids to find their feet

Laughter and smiles return to their faces

As they realise the world has many undiscovered places

 

You are an inspiration to me and many many more

As you continue to open life’s closed door

Continuing to spread hope and belief everywhere

If only more people would take note and show care

I never knew my daddy

I was born into the world

With a wonderful mum and dad

The perfect two parents

Everyone would wish they had

 

But I was so young back then

When daddy was taken away

I close my eyes so tight

A perfect picture on a gloomy day

 

He fought for his country

And didn’t once complain or moan

How I would give everything

To hear his voice once more on the phone

 

I only had a short time

But he showered me with love

Everyday I feel his presence

Looking down from heaven above