When freedom to express feelings is denied,
interaction goes from polite to stalemate.
A spark of anger where calmness once reside
can be the first light of a burning hate.

If honoring others leads to being gunned down,
how can we expect a crystal-clear appreciation?
If we see others' views with an egoistic frown,
we will only cage our minds in limitation.

When mom smiles

Her son smiles,
his son smiles
love like the cyclone
at terrific speed flies
miles and miles

all come to know
who is behind the smile
mom you and your family
all this while

Smile as long as you can
you will not ever be alone
but with a smiling family
last forever so happily
along with a smile
for a marathon mile

So spread your contagious
lovely broad
wide and beautiful
S M I L E...

JOURNEYS INTO THE MIND

Through a looking glass darkly
I stepped
Into a world of a black sun
a soulless place in the bowels
of fear and desperation
no truth to guide me
no light to follow
lost on the other side
of the moon.

Richard for Joe

I was just here yesterday.
Yet it feels so far away
Lost in the conception of a day
The birth of what I call today

The abandon child of the past
Meeting the orphan, the outcast
A current dilemma moving fast
Extricating my anxiety which is vast

Considering reactions in a mistaken place
Pain which can never be wrapped in lace
Obscuring every rejoinder without a trace
As if being struck with the power of a mace

suits and track suits...
in a dream
the papers blowing in streams
of whisper
the rush of air
the shinning light
I want movement
and time today
is not a friend

There are stars
in my soul,
there are scars
in my eye's

Leaving you
was the hardest thing
I'll ever do,
for I love you still

And always.

A million moments passed
then shafts of sorrow,
pierced the illusion
I'd summoned at our end 

Adorations birth took time
and the feelings I cherish,
grew from a seed of hate
into an everlasting love

This faith I hold dear
is mine and mine alone,
you see through a cawl
contempt with dislike

Of who and what
and
the why fore
Would you like to leave
a message
of a God created
by man
as nature came first

should there be Religion
should there be Visa
or only Americans are exceptions
if so why!

Shouldn’t gather together
this world’s
Intelligencia
and
lead human all from darkness
in to the wisdom
called light
and seep and creep out of the blindness
where mostly today man does reside
many here since ages in caves beside

How do I feel today?
Do I feel at all?
What's the point off feeling anything,
anyway?

So I can be sad like you?
Be mad like you?
So I can be fed-up like you?
So I can be everything you are?
So I can be you?