It's Beautiful
Refreshing beauty highlights my lawn
There is where my Rhododendron grow
Purple and Red blooms can be seen
So bright they almost seem to glow
With Azeleas showing multi colors
Pink, Orange and Red can be seen
Lovely blooms grow on branches
Garnished with leaves of dark green
Roses soon will show their bloom
Buds I can see growing on a cane
They will give us color all summer
Then in Autumn they shall wane
Wild flowers growing in the back
Show many diverse colors to see
Yes beauty is all around our home
With love on the inside ever to be
The Old Swing
He sits on the old front porch
In the swing he built long ago
He thinks to a long time past
And how fast the years did go
A smile crosses his aged face
As he thinks of a lady he knew
Fifty two years his wife she was
How he loved her eyes of blue
He lost her about two years ago
He saw her draw her last breath
She was bedridden from cancer
She smiled just before her death
He will linger on Earth for a while
Then he too will lay down and die
Together they will be once again
In a Heavenly home up on high
My New Roof
Four men on my roof did climb
They tore the old shingles away
Hoping they could finish the job
It is suppose to rain later today
I hear the tapping of a hammer
Driving the nails with percision
Each man has a job he must do
A Boss has to make the decision
Up the ladder they carry shingles
Heavy, too much for me to carry
It sure doesn't take him very long
He works so hard no time to tarry
When the job is over they get paid
With money out of my pocketbook
I am glad Baker's are doing the job
For I know Ron Baker isn't a crook
Yesterday's Friends
Will you fill me a glass with water
This thirst will you quench for me
My work has been so exhausting
Sweat on my tan brow you can see
Working to help all our neighbors
We work from dawn to setting sun
With a feeling of deep satisfaction
When our days work is finally done
That is how things were years ago
When everyone was a good friend
Working side by side was the way
They worked until the job would end
Today, sadly it is so much different
Each man seems to go his own way
Without thoughts of helping others
Their work becomes a solitary day
Classmates
Guess they just don't remember me
Could they have forgotten my name
As I look back to that long time ago
My friends just don't look the same
What once was muscle, is now flab
Double chins must be in vogue now
Paunchness now rules the waistline
It has happened to most some how
Gee I don't remember the wrinkles
That now line most everyone's face
Guess somehow they could no longer
Stay in step with such a fast pace
We all have aged and most show it
It really makes no difference to me
The thrill of you here one more time
A sight my eyes always want to see
Memories Of OHS
It stood in the small village of Otway
A school where we got our education
Although it wasn't a very large school
To us it was the best one in the nation
Our graduating class was a small one
I sometimes visualize them in my mind
Reflections of a time back in my youth
When it seemed our world was so kind
Memories Otway High has given me
Go through my mind now and then
Happy times we spent in that school
Are some of the best there has been
Sadness too often comes to my mind
Knowing of some we cannot now see
Memories of happiness will do for now
Knowing a great reunion for us will be
Love
The glow of an incandescent moon
Gives us a feeling of love this night
The sweet smell of lilacs fill the air
A setting seems so perfectly right
On my bended knee I now ask her
Will you be with me for all our life
All your love is what I want forever
My love will you become my wife
With a big smile on her lovely face
She says her love will be ever strong
With a laugh on her pretty red lips
She asks why did you wait this long
Tomorrow we start our life together
Happiness now flows in two hearts
A man and a woman deeply in love
Their new world of happiness starts
Love Games
What has happened to this old world
Can you find any true love any more
Tears come far too easy for me today
You have broken my heart to the core
All my dreams have now vanished
My days seem to all be the same
Lonesome for all those good times
I was never good at playing a game
You got tired of playing with my heart
You met another you think is so cool
But sweetheart he knows how to play
He is smart he wont be anyone's fool
I know he promised you everything
But what would you do with a moon
He will destroy your heart completely
So don't throw away our love too soon
Service
I guess service is a forgotten word
In this modern age at a retail store
Employees look at us and wonder
Will he come back here anymore
I ask where I can find this product
I am answered over that way maybe
If you can't find it over in that aisle
You can look back in aisle three
In isle ten I finally find my product
Although they had some in isle four
I guess the size doesn't really matter
We don't use it very much anymore
My legs are tired of all this walking
Next time I will go to another store
I reckon though I will find again
They don't have service anymore
Your Man
As I walk through this world
I feel so lonely and I am sad
We once had a sweet love
But now it all has gone bad
He now holds to your hand
As you go on with your life
I wonder if he will someday
Ask you to become his wife
Bitter, yes you can say that
I now have a heart cold as ice
If today I spoke my mind to you
I know it just wouldn't be nice
So walk the pathway with him
Love him the best that you can
Just remember on a dark day
With love I would be your man
copyright © 2003 By Acie