Poems - Bernardo Stella

New Car

Every year
Every first of august
The rush is on
The day is an important one
Every car celebrate its birthday
New one are born
A new number plate
Begins from that day
A new shining car
Roaring to go
Begins the run in.
The road parades
The new arrival
Car’s show off
Puppet of the wheel.

IKU

In the silence of morning
Just before the sun
The day prepares its make up

The giving of a mother
Trust of a baby
Essential humanity

I do you do he does so
We are all at it
Busy at doing nothing

The satellite circles
The plane flies
Still is the hearth below

The jet of water spouts
Forming crystals
Just before, it turns to fall

The star-studded infinite
The deep blue sea
Stand above and below me

Food satisfies the stomachs
Drinks enhance spirits
Water provides a need

Traffic flows along roads
Comfort in display
But fumes poison the air

The Berlin Wall

There was once a wall
It cut Berlin in two
The boundary line
The focal point
The meeting of east and West
Capitalism and communism

An eyesore the contraction
On each side bellicose soldiers
Watchful and ready to wage war

For decade no sunshine over the sky
Only stormy clouds forever gathering
A constant spectacle of rope walking
Each side thought the other was wrong
A subtle war of attack and parry waged
Living with peril became acceptable
Ideology was fought with propaganda
Cold war no gun but cruel just the same

After forty years confrontation was spent
The guard came down, suspicion cast aside
Necessity and fear forced understanding
Talk gave way to promise and action came

As the wall came tumbling down
Once again, Berlin became a town

Jimmy Connors 98

Years gently mount into layers
Strength furtively ebb away

Tomorrow the future the gate is wide open
A birth certificate demanding submission

In the arena the gladiator
Stands and fights
He dares time and fears no one
He gives no quarters takes none

In the heat of the contest
Each shot and move is a test
But for the one who tries his best
Is true grit coming to the fore

That spirit enthuses the Youngs
Delights the old
That the way legends are made
And Jimmy Connors
Has made the grade

Tomorrow the Last Day

Today we are reflecting
On too many yesterdays
And the blunders we made along the way

We are walking the tight rope
The abyss is here foreboding
Tomorrow might be the last day

The world of today seems lost
What the future has in store?

Apocalypse is on his way
Adam and Eve lost to the apple
Will we loose yet again?

Kingdom come
God’s will is be done
What a pity what a bore
The world is rotten to the core.

Lonely Without You

I wonder and ponder
Emptiness and loneliness
Desolation wanting consolation

No one to listen to
No one to talk to
Where ever you are
What ever you do
I want you to know
You cling to me

I am craving for company
I feel lonely in the crowd
The thought of you is sanity
I am a prisoner of your love

Feeling vibrant and bright
I see sparkle in your eyes
With you away from me
I’m like the sun on a rainy day

Up and Coming

Friends and foes
Do you see the sky?
That’s where I want to go
It is in my sight
It’s within my grasp
I want to go that high

And like the sun
I want to shine bright
And like the moon
Romanticise the night

Up and coming
I’m on my way
I am coming through
Don’t go stay with me

I want to fill the world
I know what it takes
I know how to do it
Watch me take off
I am on my way
Forget the rest
I am here
Up and coming
Up and coming

Older But Not Wiser

There was a time
I shrugged my shoulders
Walked away
There was a time
When I thought
There was another day

But now I am
Hooked on you
It’s no longer so
True love has me
The ecstasy of wanting
Has only pain for me.

You are promised
But my heart goes boom boom
Every time I see you smile.

Yet what I want is a kiss
All I need is an embrace
Little joys are better than none
But …

Love the Selfish Kind

Sometime love can be strange
Sometime love can be cruel
Do not know how or when
Love can be selfish tyrant
A love pulling sideways
Demanding you to choose
A bitter dilemma faces you
Whatever you do it is wrong

To keep the status quo
One never knows
What choice to make
Which way to go
If you give in its slavery
If you react, it is aridity
This is the dilemma
Give up or fight.

Sometimes love is bitter
Sometimes love can be sad
But we must strive to make it better
Otherwise, our lives will rot

Love can be a good companion
Love can be an absolute master
If you don’t watch it, a prison
With a cackoon of false hopes

A Fresh New Day

The day is coming
Fresh with the morning dew
The distant horizon
Is opening its eyes
As if to guide the light

The sky retreats
The soul awakes

The rubbing of the eyes
The stretching of the arms
The deep liberating sighs
While a person gets ready
For things awaiting to be done

The breeze fans the face
While the rising sun
Rises smiling above
A reminder to every one
A new day has come
There are things to be done

Tomorrow is around the corner
As yesterday was
Today you make hay
We make hay
While the sun
Lights the way
Away from yesterday gone
To tomorrow that will come

Leaving yesterday
Going through the motion

We will do the same tomorrow
So let us make most of this day

Conman

A lurking beast
Smiling out of habit
Affable of necessity
Comfy and assured
On deceit and take
Aloof on the give
Dreams, dreams and more dreams
Glorious past
The transient present
The launching pad
Rich pasture is in wait.
Lightning and no thunder
Thunder without lightning
Where is it the rain?
When reckoning bekons
And promise fade away
He does a quick get away
And the victims are hit
With a thunder bolt
Feeling fooled

Tears of Joy

Tears of joy
Smile of sorrow
Where do such
Strange feeling come from?

Maybe it is you
Maybe it is the music
Or perhaps
It is love coming to the fore

How do I know this is true?
Then again, will I know?
If this is wrong?

It seems that love is in the air
It makes me feel so good
Maybe I will keep it up there
One moment ten feet tall
The next my world crumbles
But I will rise above it all

My Vices and Me

It all begun
In the Garden of Eden
Long time ago
With the apple on the tree

It all begun
With the temptation
Of Adam and Eve
When you and I
Became humanity

I am a man
I need my vices
Although I know
I know it is not wise
Nothing you can do
Nothing I can say
This world was made
For us to live this way

Perfection is our goal …
Is perfection the ecstacy?
Of a fleeting moment
Dressed in cotton wool?
The weakness that we hide
Is our constant companion
Of everybody’s life
That we must forget
‘ Cause humanity is made
Of you and me.

The Coming Night

The night is falling… falling
Lamp post begin to glow
The stars arrive shyly
To give a ceiling to the infinity

Birds do not sing
Beams of light scan ahead the path
For speeding noisy cars

From the zoo
The peacock‘s shrieks
Vibrate in the air
While the wind
Like a conductor
Rattles branches
Into performing a chorus of wisper

The horizon shrinks
The world covers itself
Children retreat indoor
Now it is dark time to shut the door

Cold March Evening

A cutting wind
Dulls the flesh and chills the air
While lower on the horizon
The timid evening sun looks on.

People scuttle along the road
Cirrus glides across the sky

Buffed young twigs
Tremble and shiver
Maybe wondering
If they have materialised
Too soon.

While I the onlooker
Prey for nature to be kind.

Temptation Alley

We are Was Not Was
A popgroup.
We tour the world
We see many things
We play the gigs
We play the fools

Adoring fans clap
We bend and bow
And say thank you
For a double dose
We blow kisses
And add,” Love you”

Last time we did Hamburg
In the republic of Germany
You would not believe
What we did see
When we took a stroll
Down temptation Alley

Half-naked girls
Were everywhere
Doorways and pavements
Street corners and windows
A carnal display
A flaunting of wares
The girls had an assured dare
Coupled with a tantalising stare

Temptation was in the air
Repression at breaking point
Before we all lost control
Our minders herded us all
And quickly marched us
Away from temptation alley

Don’t Go

Do not go
Do not go away from me
Do stay
Do not deprive me of your company
You are
More fascinating than a precious stone
And life
Would be bare if you leave me all alone

Our life
Will be like a song
I will be the words
And you the melody
I will sing you
And you will sing me
Together the harmony
We will sing each other
And as time goes bye
We will be the song itself

Our life
Will be like a dance
I will be your partner
And you will be mine
I will lead you
And you will combine
Together the ecstacy
We will dance with each other
And with time and practise
We will become the dance itself

Suspicion

I do no wrong
But I never do right
Your suspicious mind
Spoils everything

I am honest and true
Do not need to lie
I do not deceive
But I cannot convince you
Suspicion is in your mind

That serpent inside you
Is rotting your soul
Twisting your brain
Robbing your sleep
Alienating your peace of mind
Suspicion has conquered you

You will never change
You think yourself strong
You are pathetically weak
Suspicion is your master

In your cocoon of jealousy
There is no room for trust
Goodness will not germinate
In your suspicious mind

Web of Emotion

When love knocked at my door
A new dimension befell me
When love came to my life
I learned the agony and ecstacy

So the story goes
Along its twists and turns
Each time
To live the promised dream

But love is never wise
It only listens to the heart
Forgetting the reasons
And defying the logic
From sublime happiness
To the abyss of sadness
We tumble endlessly
Trapped in a web of emotion

All too soon much too late
Dream died and regret came
I waited for so long hoping
That some special someone
Wanting the same dream
Now that’s over and done
I nurse my wound bearing the pain
But I know if fate would tempt me
I will do the same all over again.

The Search Is Over [There and Then]

I have followed
The stream of life
I have worked
I have loved

I have lived
Life’s joy and pain
I did the round
I was doing fine

What came my way
I took it on my stride
Until I saw you
Now I know.

You are the link
I lacked before
You are the one
I have been looking for

You are the one
I want to love
So let me be the one
You will say yes to

Let me be the one
To love you
Let me be the one
To love you.

When the gods
Pick you to be the one
When lady luck
Paves you the way
When ecstacy bubbles
Residing in you
You will know
There and then

The search is over
No one matters anymore
Because….
You are the link
I lacked before

Where Love Has Gone?

It used to be
Sweet glances
And warm embraces
Contented heart

We saw plenty
We did much
Togetherness was one
The chemistry was right

Where love has gone?
Where are you my love?
Do you ask yourself?
The same thing I do.

Love does not die
Not like this
Love is not controlled
By the turn of a switch

Happy yesterday
Sad it is today
Loneliness has taken
My sunshine away

I do not know
What is in store
But I am in dread
Of coming tomorrow

The Enterteiner

All of you down there
Here to live a little
And me up here
Sugaring you hopes
Holding your hands
Leading you along
The path of expectation

So bear with me
Let yourself go
Listen and live
The magic of music

This is magic
Of our making
This moment of ecstasy
Of our togetherness
Let us look
In each other eyes
See the mirror of ourselves
Tomorrow today
Will only be
But a speck of yesterday

While the champagne bubbles
And the barriers are down
Let us be true
Test life to the full
Forget your inhibitions
Make the sky the limit
The beyond the challenge

So bear with me
Let yourselves do
While the magic holds

Love the Second Time Around

When an old love dies
It leaves you shattered
The world closes in on you
The sun does not shine anymore

You go through low ebb
Everything turns upsidedown
A dark cloud laden with misery
Becomes your constant friend

I felt this way
When my love and I
Parted company
Then I met my new flame
And I regained my glow
A new spring came to the fore
It seemed better and fresher
The cloud was there no more

Now life is a permanent high
New energy fizz out of me
I smile to the wide world
The sun shines in my heart
I feel I am on top of the world
Beneath me the golden valley
Roads paved with petals
All crowned by rainbows.

A Dream – A Reality

Long time ago
I had a dream
Long time ago
I had a will
A will to succeed
A will to get to the top
Nothing else mattered
My goal was the dream

Whatever came my way
I brushed it aside
Steadfast and resolute
I followed my goal

At last, I have made it
I have reached the top
But no matter what
I will not stop
I will sing my song
I will open the window
Of my own dreams
And sing your song too

Onward to another
Another dream
Onward to another
Another summit
Higher and higher
To higher peak
One day who knows?
I may reach the sky.

The Business of Living

This life to me
It is the beautiful gift
Bigger than anything
Better than the best

And yet it can be
Full of woes and misery
But I will not let it be
That way for me

Rich or poor
In health or otherwise
The stream of life
Confront everyone

No use hiding
No one can escape
It can be easily a drag
But let us make fun

This business of living
Can be a taught lot
But no matter what
We must not ever give up

If things go wrong
Do not be resentful
Try to live to the full
Try to make wonderful

Sunday

When the week is done
The cycle ends
You, everyone, and I
Pave the way for Sunday to come
Sunday is the day of rest
Sunday is the day of joy
We must look our best
And store our trouble away

Bells toll
Bells call
A message in the air
Love everywhere
Children tap their feet
Laughter is on the street
Sunday is the day
When game and fun
Is enjoyed by everyone

Today-Tomorrow

Today no clouds bar the way
Today my youth will not sway
Steadfast and strong I will stand
So love let me be your cavalier

Who knows what the future hold?
Who knows what surprise is in wait
We plan
Fate waits at the gate
So I can only dare fate

Tomorrow when I will be old and grey
Tomorrow when I will be wasting away
I will have to acceptwhat destiny has for me
And maybe I will need a helping hand
But today- has no tomorrow.

The Parting

The time is fast coming
Gathering speed
In time like this
Extremes come to the fore
Happiness and sadness
Unite to be strong

Why time goes so fast?
Please stand still
Freeze still forever
Let us be together
Lovers are never ready
To say their goodbyes
So today, bolt the door
Do not let in tomorrow.

What will I do tomorrow?
With you gone?
How will I feel reaching for you?
And you aren’t there?
So now, I clink with passion to you
Knowing that memories
Will be a poor substitute

Going

Before you go
You must know
This yearning
Churning in me

Time is flying
Running out
I wish today
To last forever.

Tomorrow will come
To take you away
Tomorrow will take
My sunshine away

Your love has grown on me
Too shy to admit it
Too afraid to tell you
But oh-oh I love you so

Many times
I wanted to tell you
The trick of my heart
Doing boom boom
The fear in me
It is a sweet ecstasy
Wanting but afraid
To throw the dice.

Another Me

Long time ago I used to know
A pretty girl and another me
Ambition was high
I never said die
Got the girl I wanted
But she failed me

In the dark, I hear a dog bark
It fills the night I want my girl
A swallow flies up in the sky
Messenger looking for my girl

She was my light
Enchanted the night
With her gone away
The magic is lost

Painful the goodbyes
Stupid the treason why
Stubborn was the pride
Too high is the price.

One Side Love

And suddenly
I have found love
But it’s one sided
Love for me alone

It is so real
Honest and true
That is strong enough
For the two of us

With time the one-sided love
Proved to me, to be
Like a bird devoid of song
A butterfly without wing

Before I am stuck on arid ground
Better, I move on to look around
Love is a strange necessary feeling
But the chemistry must be right

In time of despair and need
One measures others
With a personal yardstick
Expecting the impossible

People are seldom strong
But it hurts
To find out proved wrong
And remains sadly isolated

The more I look and search
For another one like you
The more I feel wanting you
Yet I know must find someone else

The End of a Tether

If you don’t want to
You do not have to
But please tell me
Tell me please

Your whims change
Your mood is fickle
You give me no warning
You give me no chance

I tried to warn you
You would not listen
Pleaded time and again
All this has been in vain
You were in another world
The world of reveries
Now you have lost me
You only have memories.

I am human you see
I have feeling too
Like every one
I get hurt inside

That is the end
No more love from me
I will look elsewhere
For a love, that pleases me.

The Give and Take

One always receive
With two hands
And let go with one
That is the law of nature
But you do not bother
You defy the rules
Yet I want you so
That I also defy the rule

When I look at you
You turn and look away
You become the cloud
That has no rain
It seems that my love
Is all but lost on you
You are the desert
Lacking the oasis

It is better if we called it a day
You go to your destiny
Leave myself free to look
For a love that cares for me.
The sting of the goodbye
Makes sweeter the hello
I look to a brighter tomorrow
When I will start a new cycle

Dangerous Time

Every decade has its history
Every generation has its glory and misery
Now we have bomb galore
Whose ferocity has not been herd before

Esplosion here
Explosion there
Explosion everywhere

To kill for a cause
To ransom for a profit
Blackmail to assert
Maim for vendetta
The victims suffer
Endless pain
The perpetuators
Feeling no pity.

These faceless monsters
Hide in our midst
Their tramp card
Judas in disguise

WHEN YOU ARE GONE

When you are gone
Sad it is to realise
You are no longer with me
When you are gone
I feel stranded
With nothing to do

You make me want to share
The joy of life endlessly
It is not enough to live on memory
Even if they are of you and me

Strangely enough
You make the past
Stay with me for real

Strangely somehow
I cannot find
Peace of mind by myself

Strangely but true
I simply cannot live
Without your love.

MAYBE

Maybe I am dreaming
Maybe I need waking up
The prospect in sight
You and me alone tonight

Maybe it is the music
Maybe it is the song
You me and the wine
Everything is just fine

Longing is that joy
Longing is the wish of the soul
When the heart knows
Something will surely grow

Happiness is hard to hide
Happiness ebbs like the tide
We will be two into one
A river entering the sea

Out of something ventured
Out of something dared
Love has come to the fore
Moreover, I want the world to know.

Oh ye, oh ye
Everything is just fine
You me and the wine
Oh ye, oh ye.

WONDERING

From L.A to the U.K
From Glasgow to Moscow
From Europe over the China Sea
Looking for you, I am loosing me.

I will fly over mountains and plains
Be it sunshine or be in poring rain
I will never stop looking for you
I will never tire of wanting you

Your love is like a drug to me
You are my port, my bay my fix
The one who can keep me sane
Prey for my search not to be in vain

WAITING FOR MY CHANCE

Waiting for my sun to come through
Waiting for that chance, I am due
After the dis-appoinments and woes
I want something that glows.

I need to recharge myself
I need a turn of good luck
That is all it takes
To wipe off the sleats

I want to turn a new leaf
Thread the rightful road
I want a girl beside me
I want her to fulfil me

Alone I am not complete
I lack that balance
That only love can give
I have plenty of it but no girl.

A TIME IN MEMORY

This time on my memory
Of a very long time ago
When I was too young
To know and understand.

Young and green I was
Slyly I knocked at the gate
It seemed that my world
Was there waiting for me.

Crossed the gate feeling numb
I began to tremble all over
Stood still saying nothing
Shyness had made me its prey

A kind heart and helping hand
Came to rescue and save the day
Warm smile and reassuring words
Paved the way to me to open up.

Life can play many tricks
It can beautiful or be fickle
One moment you can be tall
Next, you can feel very small.

When you know it is too late
When you can, there is no time
When you want, you cannot have
When you have, you do not need

It’s like being on cloud but can’t stay
Or locked in a cage but cannot get out.

YOUTH

Youth, the youth
That transient period of everybody’s life

Youth, the desire
Ebullient and drastic with no room for half measures

Youth, the rose
That seems to thread only on thorns

Youth, the memory
Once gone is bent on remembering only the flowers

The youth, that passing face
Of joyful present
That forgets the yesterday
And scorn the tomorrow

The youth, that vibrant spirit
Diced with daring folly
Full of longing
For the pleasure of the moment

The youth far too short
But lives its eternity in the mind
Like a strong rapid
On his way towards the sea.

WRONG LOVE

I thought it was love
The love of togetherness
Where two people
Want to be one
I was wrong to think
I had finally found
In you my twin soul
And live our eternity

I was not aware
And the thunder struck
I could not believe
You with somebody else
The laughter and overture of love
Sent my world in ruin
Retreated to my shell
Realising too late
I had been deaf to warning bell.

Now with pride restored
I often wonder about the love
That turned out to be
Not the right one for me
Now the pain just a scar
Wonder if it was love lost
Or pain saved.

THE UPS AND DOWNS OF LIFE

I was once a pearl
Captivating through the T.V.
I was a showcase
Creating sorrow and laughter

Like everything and everyone
The difficulties come and go
A recurrence like cloud and rain

From ashes new seeds will rise
A new chapter and cycle starts
It has one way to go
And I feel happy to show the way.

HAPPINESS

A new life has begun
I find asking myself
What Have I Done?
To deserve this blitz
But it is so and I want
Everyone to know
I am on a high
On cloud nine
In the kingdom of the sky

I am happy as you can see
I feel that bubble inside me
Fate as chosen to bless me
With a new life a baby son
That to me he is
As precious as the moon and sun

THE PASSING OF A COLOSSUS

He came, took, lived and passed on
Seed he planted in plenty
Some will waste other will flourish

His passage left his mark
Decent and loyal to kith and kin
Whom he knitted into one

Much I cannot say
The knots inside are tightening
Followers will pick the flag
And on and they will go
In the fashion, he set to follow

Now the loving will stop
The cherishing will begin
And will be so
Evergreen shall he stay
Until our day will come
To pass on the flag

Now with the heart beats
Drumming sorrowful farewell
And sighing a morbid sound
We take the field

DON’T DELAY

Now it is the time to get up and go
The time is right to have a go
Do not delay the resolve of today
Because today is the day to have a go

Come along with me
Let us grab the destiny
That’s is there in wait
Let us go and dare
Where no one has been
Let us beat our chest
Shouting and daring
Tell the world we are coming

The chance that was might be gone
Tomorrow will come regardless
The time is to strike the iron is when is hot
Let’s be positive, give ourselves chance

TAKE CARE …

You do not know who I am
I am everywhere wearing disguises
I can be nice or display a temper
Because you see, the devil is in me.

I am the one you cannot name
You cannot ever take me for granted
I can play and beat you at games
I practise night and day
While you are enjoying the night sleep
I am out doing my tricks.

I am the devil in disguise
With me, you have no chance
You had better get yourself wise
Before it is too late

The world is not what you see
It shows roses but hides thorns
The coating they call it falsity
Be weary when out of your shell.

THE UPS AND DOWNS OF THE POUND

The world of finance
Is coo-coo land to me
It’s rushing and dealing
To me is just a cacoghony
The stock exchange just a place

But the pound goes
Up and down like a yoyo
Before I realise what is all about
Before I can get wise
The pound goes off again
Up and down like a yo-yo

At school, I studied English
Coupled with history
Mats with those numbers
Was not the one for me
So now, I feel lost
Every time I hear, say
The pound has had a so and so day.

THE PASSING OF A FRIEND

A lump in the throat
Aches to get out.
A void in the heart
A stunned mind
A requiem for a friend
Sadly gone.

A vacuum
That a legend will find
The pendulum has swung
And me luckier mortal
Mourn the passing of his soul.

OUT OF WORK KID

Left school wanting to get by
Wanted to earn some money
Be a man of the world
Walk with my head high

I have looked for work
Far, wide and everywhere
Worn out my new shoes
Talked myself dry

This life is very tough
And I thought it a laugh
My world is in streds
I am always on the red
I have time in my hands
So many hopes in my bag
The world is at my feet
But I cannot get started.
Feel like a jene
Locked up in a bottle

The real life is at the door
A hard task is facing me
Daunting but I will not give up
I will try and try again
Persist until an opening
Will come my way
So until such a day
I will do the round.

YOU AND ME

Alone in this place
With the memory of you
The only company

I wonder where you are
And if you do
What I do.

Do I help you to feel good?
Like you do to me/

You are the music
You are the beat
Give wings to my feet
You make me glide
Across the universe
You are the light
Fuelling my dreams

Lovers along the lane
I bet they all say
The same old thing
Whispering to each other
I love you as we do
The world a better place
When I am with you.

ALL I WANT

Till the end of time
With you for ever
Because you’re my love
Because you’re mine

The thought of you
Gives wings to fly
Beyond infinity
Stay above the clouds

You are love
My haven sent
Even your scent
A touch of paradise
Lucky blessed me
With the joy to live
This ecstasy with you

The sound of your voice
Sweet music to my ears
Your warm embrace
Benison to my heart
The sweetness of your lips
A sparkle of delight
So my love let it be
This love will last to eternity

IT’S HAPPENING

After all the years
Suffering bitter tears
At last sunshine
To melt away the fears

It could not come
Soon enough
I am happy
To be turning the tide

I waited and hoped
For this day to come
The good time is on his way
I shout to the wind hooray

The good time is here to stay
Bare with me a bit longer

There was a time
When it was hard
I thought impossible
To last the course

Fate pushed me
Panic knocked
Temptation to quit
Give up the fight

THE END OF A ROMANCE

And the love that was
Is no longer
It is gone
It has lived its cycle

And like the sun
Which rises?
To start the new day
And then descent
To close it the natural day

When my love is done
Will retreat
Like the sun
Then surface
With a new one

Yesterday will be
Filled with memories
Today will brighten
A future charged with hope

Memory and hope
The two sisters
Laden with experience
Ecstasy and hope

The break and the accelerator.
They will be the two banks
And In between my life will flow

IN BETWEEN LOVES

Alone in misery
I try to find solace
Thinking of your company

Now you are gone
I am all alone
I am left without anyone

Without you by my side
I feel barren
A slope after a landslide

I nurse my pain
With dry tears
Preying to see you again

Love promised me much
And I hope for more
It gave me fresh heart
My eyes glinted with delight
New excitement came my way
The dream became bigger
The world my shell.

Sometime I feel cross
Then I mellow
Remembering the love that was

So easy to feel done
Hard to accept
But bygone must be bygone

Once on the floor
The way to go
Let a new love throu the door

Wiser than before
A new cycle
Happiness will come to the fore

THE PLIGHT OF THE STRIKING MINERS

Long time ago I had a wage
It kept my head high
My family managed to get by
Content and self-assured was I

In winter, I never saw the sun
But that I did not mind
Because I had peace of mind
Security helped me to unwind

Today our livelihood is at stake
There is no promise for tomorrow
Everything seems so bleak
The future has nothing in stores

This wind of change blows
And nobody seems to know
Which way one has to go
Life has became a wrath of woe

Once the stokers of the land
Now we cannot understand
What to do or where to go
So we fight for the status quo

We slave for a mere crust
We toil the soil underground
Only aware of our own sound
Looking for Sunday to come round.

One day they will see the folly
And too late, they will see
The wrong they have done
By switching to nuclear energy

REMINECSENCE

I knew it had to happen
It was on the card
Expected but never ready
Tomorrow came suddenly
Caught me unprepared
And my world was in ruins.
Yet love promised so much
Everything and more

I lived a permanent high
Love was in my soul and my gut
I glided without knowing why
Unlike now stuck in a rut.

When romance was in the air
The sky was always blue
Exciting was to caress your hair
It was easy to say I love you

Falling in love is sweet and tender
Falling out of love bitter and sad
But every beginning has an end
There is no end without a beginning

So the story goes each time
The pain you forget the joy you cherish
Life is made of all of this
Of pain sorrow and blitz

SYMPTOM OF LOVE

If you are in a crowd and see nobody
If you do not have much but feel a king
If the world around you is falling apart
And you can retain a contented mind
If you can listen with deaf ears to advice
It can only be love
Making you shout to the world
I am in love
I am hooked
I cannot deny it
Your love is true
And no other will do

This love I have for you
This love of mine
This love I have for you
It grows every day
Always a bit more.

In cool of dawn
In the freshness of morning
I feel love bubbling
Inside me.

You are the beacon
That brightens my path
You are the breeze
That fans my face

A dream of mine
This fountain of joy
It is always there
In me and everywhere

In the dark of night
In the quietude of the world
I can hear my heart
Drumming for you

Love is many things
It can be haven or hell
It makes bubble
Like a puppet on a string.

ANOTHER MAN’S VIEW OF FREEDOM

We all have different views
Freedom is many folds
Conflict is rife itching
To come to the fore
One-man power
To another is repression
One-man liberty
To another is a prison.

We make war to fight for peace
We make peace to stop wars
An endless repeating cycle
To fight the wrong to make it right
Nobody seems to stop and say
The other one might be right in his way

One-day maybe
A tomorrow will come to be
A new generation
With higher dimension
Will see this folly
Stifling us today

That day who knows?
They will find a new way
To enjoy what eludes us today.

BOSNIA 1994

Independence, the dream of man
Independence, the goal of nations.
Why for Bosnia is the contradiction?
Mother to three major creeds
Whose devouts fight for spoils
In each other’s garden.

Horrified is the look of the world
While mother Bosnia is torn apart.
Offsprings,brothers and sisters
Are set along the route of destruction
Deaf to Reason, blind to facts

Mother Bosnia a cradle of riches
Now the spring of discord
History repeating itself
Maiming, killing, displacing
Robbing of land, the rule of the gun.

Weeds of future conflict sown
Mother Bosnia is torn apart
The atomic age is with us
But Bosnia is just
another name for Lepanto.
Creeds disunited and waging war.

I often wonder how God must feel
When three sons with different flags
Crave for His attention:
” In Your name I kill
Thy will will be done”
How? by killing the other son?

Mother Bosnia is bleeding
No quarters are given.
Hate has a Chameleon of chauvinistic meanings
And the world at large watchers on T.V.
With an attitude of:
Provided it is you and not me
You can have my sympathy

And so, Bosnians are
The perpetrators and the victims
While the world watches by
Mother Bosnia is torn apart

Reminescence

I knew it had to happen
It was on the card
Expected but never ready
Tomorrow came suddenly
Caught me unprepared
And my world was in ruins.
Yet love promised so much
Everything and more

I lived a permanent high
Love was in my soul and my gut
I glided without knowing why
Unlike now stuck in a rut.

When romance was in the air
The sky was always blue
Exciting was to caress your hair
It was easy to say I love you

Falling in love is sweet and tender
Falling out of love bitter and sad
But every beginning has an end
There is no end without a beginning

So the story goes each time
The pain you forget the joy you cherish
Life is made of all of this
Of pain sorrow and blitz

The Dilemma

I am a two-timer
A girl is brunette
The other is blond
Both are nice
I love them both.
The brunette is free weekdays
The blonde gives me the weekend
But now both want it all
And my back is against the wall.

An ultimatum is at my door
By tomorrow I must decide
The blond or the brunette?
Or will I get the blues?
I love them both
But I cannot pay the price

Perhaps I will cheat
And make love twice.

I don’t know who to keep
But I know I cannot win
One will be sore
And the other will weep.

TRIBUTE TO LADY DI

Gloom laden is the Sunday morning
Tinged with sweet sadness is the air.
The horizon has capped the earth
While thin clouds hold back the tears.

Princess Diana is no longer.
She has left for fresher pasture
And the world becomes poorer.

She shone bright like the polar star
Alleviated suffering
Set fashion alight.
Acclaimed by the rich
Revered by the people

From green adolescence
To the throne of England.
From future Queen
To the womb of the world
She enriched the one she knew
Gave hope to the lame.

Now the polar star isn’t there
And the stars glitter no more

Changes

Changes the sign of the time
Since Adam ate the apple
Dare has become the habit
And along the way new horizons
And different ways of living found.

Every new generation
Dares the old tradition
And looks for innovation
The dream of yesterday
Becomes the reality of today
Onwards toward new peak
Where the impossible
Is no longer so.