Years

Years ago, I loved you then
Years from now it will not end

I see you when I close my eyes
Your voice still echoes with the tide

Your breath is in the wind I feel
Your touch in dreams is somehow real

But you are gone and I’ll shed tears
Of love for you throughout my years

© 2006 JVD

Stained Glass

Stained glass corpses of color
Transparences of souls
Caught on somber stages
Cast in eternal roles

Prismatic lead framed oracles
Frozen at their tasks
Silhouettes of entities
Woven into masks

Eyes of silent spirits
Caught adrift in years
Pressed in one dimension
Chained in arc-ed spheres

If their voices now could ring
Of a choral note
Sure it would be shrill enough
To shatter all our hope

© 1986 JVD

Split

A shadow crossed the moonlight
And painted half my face
Then cut my silhouette in two
I stood a different race

A line shot down my middle
That sawed my thoughts in two
I moved one eye from left to right
And ask it ‘who are you’

It spoke no words
But ran astray, pulling me along
Toward my demise with each new step
Knowing it was strong

I fought against this hell bent strength
As deeper down it pulled
Dragging toward an unknown depth
This soul of mine it ruled

I prayed to God to hear me
But only heard a laugh
A wicked sneer pulled at my lips
I felt this Satan’s wrath

With one chance left to save myself
From what I know is me
I’ll tie a stone about my neck
And leap into the sea.

© JVD 1987

Limbo

The spirits of which I speak
The images I see
Are not the ghosts of death
But of reality

The vampires of the heart
The werewolves of the mind
Are not from out the tomb
Death is not unkind

These haunt the Earth by daylight
They feed upon a fear
A fear they find in living
Limbo is their sphere

The forms they hold are human
The blood they drink still lives
Eating out the souls
Of all save negatives

Who can rid us of them?
How long can we fight?
When spirits can't be killed
Unless they're of the night

© 1981 JVD

Armageddon
Look what we've said and done
Armageddon
Just when we thought we've won
We're running out of places to run
Under the Sun
Armageddon

MY TENEMENT

My Tenement is short and round
Its rooms are bright but small
Windows here are tinted blue
There's music in the hall

A roof of light loose shingles
Seldom stays in place
Uneven wall are vexed by time
No siding can replace

But is warm and safe here
where laughter shakes the walls
loosing the mortar
so bit by bit it falls

I have this space and nothing else
although I need much less
With all its flaws I love this place
run down sometimes distressed

When soon my soul will leave here
move on to something else
then I shall surely miss this
my tenement, myself

THE ROSEY

The wheels of the world
are grinding to a halt
While everyone tells you
everyone else is at fault
Everyone else is
nowhere to be found
Then just like the nursery rhyme
We all fall down

A rumor is going around
that Atlas Shrugged
He let the world fall
When his mind
succumbed to drugs
The sound of it's crash
will be the only sound
When just like the nursery rhyme
We all fall down

The things we are doing now
can't be undone
We're running around and around
with nowhere to run
You cannot escape
it's coming to your town
When just like the nursery rhyme
We all fall down.

Jane Van Doe

NUCLEAR WINTER

There's a hole in the sky
that's opening wide
and letting the sun burn through
All of man's truths
have turned into lies
'cause no one will tell you
what's true

Listen the children are crying
and all of their tears shed in vain
Now they know there is no denying
Nothing will stop Acid Rain

Nuclear Winter
Gone is the sun
It's what we've asked for
It's what we've done
Nuclear Winter
No where to run

I'M KILLING TIME

Time is dead
I killed it
Then threw it to the wind
I put off 'till tomorrow
Just when I should begin

Somewhere safe in yesterday
My dreams got packed away
By waiting for tomorrow
I lost track of today

Time is dead
I killed it
But in the end I see
Instead of my just killing time
Time was killing me

Jane Van Doe

I am the Weirdest O
And when I say hello
Run away
Don't ask to play
If you stay you'll know
I am the Weirdest O


That having been said
Hello
If you are still here my message is simple....

THERE WILL BE WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS

Another day another war...
is what the paper said
Another war another death...
and this is how it read

They started it... they are to blame...
we didn't want to fight.
They said that we
had to listen to them...
and they didn't have the right.

We've got to fight for peace
Waving the sign of the dove
We'll kill them all now we have to
They've pushed... now we can shove

DOOM WASN'T BUILT IN A DAY
IT WAS BUILT BY
THE POWER GAMES MEN PLAY
ON AN EARTH
THEY'VE THROWN AWAY
AND I CAN'T PREDICT
WHAT WILL BE
BUT THE ANSWER IS
THE QUESTION HAS BEEN ASKED
AND IT'S UP TO YOU AND ME

THERE WILL BE WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS

JANE VAN DOE