poetry

Isn’t Love A Beautiful Thing Toast

Isn’t love a beautiful thing

To have someone who’ll laugh at all your old jokes (even the corny ones)

Isn’t love a beautiful thing, 

When the world is conspiring against you, but you have someone at home who’ll always have your back

Isn’t love a beautiful thing

When this world is just about to make you crazy, and then suddenly you both realize laughter is the only remedy 

Isn’t love a beautiful thing

When you have someones hand to hold

while taking walks on summer evenings 

Isn’t love a beautiful thing

When you have someone to build a home with

Someone to make a family with

To share your dreams with

Isn’t love a beautiful thing

When you have someone to remind you to throw out the garbage, to not leave dirty dishes in the sink, to put the cap on the toothpaste and to put your dirty socks in the hamper, and you respond by saying “Yes Dear” That’s love!

Isn’t love a beautiful thing

When you have someone who multiplies your joy and diminishes all your woes and worries

Isn’t love a beautiful thing

When on February fourteenth, you have someone to call your Valentine

Isn’t love a Beautiful thing

When the time in front of you is shorter

than the time behind you, and your shared memories are the glue that holds you together

Isn’t love a beautiful thing

When at the end of the day you have someone to lay down next to you, someone to say goodnight to———someone to say,  I love you too

Isn’t love a beautiful thing

When you have someone to help you solve those repetitive life changing questions—-such as, What do you wanna do for dinner tonight? What? What did you say? I said, what do you want for dinner?  What? I can’t hear you. I said, what do you want for dinner, I still can’t hear you, you know I can’t hear you when the waters running, and so it goes

Isn’t love a beautiful thing

When being right is less important 

as being kind

Isn’t love a beautiful thing

To have someone to encourage you 

when you’ve had a bad day. And you come home exhausted and there’s someone there to tell you everything is gonna be okay

On this journey we call life, 

I wish you both——- love

Nothing less, nothing more

Yes, love is a beautiful thing

Love, nothing more, nothing less

Tell me daddy, what makes the sun burn so bright

Who turns on the moon, when it gets dark at night

Oh Daddy, what makes the wind blow

Who turns on the rain, who freezes the snow

Tell me Daddy, why’s the ocean so blue

Who decorates the flowers, with morning dew

Someday my son, you’ll be a man

You’ll see, it’s all part of a plan

What you take, and what you give

Gonna come back to you, in this life you live

Love is all, we came here for

Nothing less, nothing more

One day son, you’ll leave home

You’ll find love, and have children of your own

You’ll teach them all, all ya know

You’ll wish them well, then ya gotta let-em go

You can choose your friends, but not your family

So I guess I’m stuck with you, I guess you’re stuck with me

Someday my son, you’ll be a man

You’ll see it’s all part of a plan

What you take, and what you give

Comes back to you, in this life you live

Love is all we came here for

Nothing less, nothing more

Hard Learned Lessons

Those were the days, and we didn’t even know it

 Living in a hurry, I was racing to get through it

Thought I’d have time, to do the things I didn’t do

Now that I finally got it down, here’s what I want to say to you 

Thanks, for those hard learned lessons

To make a life and not just a living

To be kind to all, and stand up for the weak

Give smiles and handshake to all I meet

Everyday’s a blessing, and a gift

Don’t worry about tomorrow, or today you’ll miss

Thanks, for those hard learned lessons

To make a life and not just a living

Remember to give thanks, to the one above

Thank you mom, for all the love 

The way I remembered It

I don’t know how to put this, so I’ll just come right out and say it, You only get one precious life—-that’s it.  There’s no replays or second chances. That’s the way this thing life is designed. The days drift by as do the weeks, months and years. We treat time as if it were limitless. Sorry, but time is a clock that can never be rewound

The most precious commodity we are gifted with is time. Why do we waste it by allowing petty annoyances to consume us. We treat people as if they are replaceable, treat our bodies as if they are refundable, surrender our souls as if they’ll always be redeemable. 

I guess we weren’t so special after all

Sitting Indian style in the park

Face to face

On a warm summer night

And the crickets sang

Dogs chased one another in circles

We talked and laughed about everything

About nothing

You talked to me, as if you secretly read my journal

Like you knew me forever

Is this how forever feels

Buried bones, memories of love

Is the way I remember it, the way it was

Drip, Drip, Drip

Danced with the devil

Stepped on his tail

Got drunk in a tavern

I found Jesus in jail

Drank enough beer

To piss me an ocean

It’s hard to get lost 

If you don’t care where you’re going

Bummed me a smoke

Fired up a light

Now I’m stuck in this tree

Like a tattered old kite

Chased a few rainbows

Searching for a pot of gold

When I was young

I never thought I’d grow old

Times a wad of gum

Stuck on your shoe

You can try to out run it

But it’ll catch up with you

Fates a leaky faucet

It goes Drip Drip Drip

What you deserve

Is usually what you get

One night stands

Well I had me a few

When it comes to love

I bit off more than I could chew

Made some mistakes

but I paid my dues 

Smashed my TV

Tired of the same old bad news

You might same I’m crazy

Nutty as a fruitcake

If the fish ain’t bitting

It’s time to change your bait 

Chased a few rainbows

Searching for a pot of gold

When I was young

I never thought I’d grow old

Fates a wad of gum

Stuck on your shoe

You can try to out run it

But it’ll catch up with you

Times a leaky faucet

It goes Drip Drip Drip

The good times I’ll remember

Bad ones I’ll forget  

All That Ever Is

All That Ever Is

By Victor Uriz

The freeway sounds like the ocean, city lights look like stars

The ole moon singing down at me, to sound of a Spanish guitar

Trash dancing in the wind, my words cold clouds of steam

If I told you how I felt, would you say you still know what I mean

Streets dark and damp, puddles where the rain it fell

If I looked you in the eye, would you say you still know me well

Old friend have they gotten to you yet

Compromise yourself

Mayas what you get

What we become, these things we pretend

Careful what you value 

These things become you in the end

All that ever is, ever will be or was, from original sin, to unconditional love

Beneath a crooked smile, I hear a tenor sax sad and low

The nights so lonely, I feel it in the notes he blows

Play it sweet, make it true, Lay it down real sad, brother won’t you make it blue

We can change this world, if we change our minds

Put it down in poem, for the deaf the dumb and for the blind

Old friend, have they gotten to you yet 

Sacrifice yourself, Dharma’s what you get 

What we become, these things we pretend

Careful what you value 

These things become you in the end

All that ever is, ever will be or was, from original sin to unconditional love

Lets Fall In Love For A Minute

Stars burn out

Rivers run dry

People turn around 

Without saying goodbye

Thunder rolls

Lightning strikes

I’ll be your north star

You’ll be my guiding light

People say they love you, and then forget

Let’s fall in love, if only for a minute

Time goes by

Nothing seems to last

Tomorrow never comes

There’s no future, living in the past

Clouds shed tears

Mountains fall to their knees 

If the world stops spinning

I’d still need you here next to me

People say they love you, and then forget

Let’s fall in love, if only for a minute

Where No Ones Been

Where No Ones Been

When nothing seems to matter

And no one seems to care

Love leaves no trace

Autumn unfolds, naked and bare

What was it you said

As you turned and looked away

Come with me

Before we fall, and time fades away

Empty rooms

Empty space

No matter where I go

I always feel out of place

I know your scent

I know your skin

I know your touch

In those secret places where no one’s ever been

I swear I can hear your heart

I can taste your breath

If you’d only let me

I’d find you again between this life and death

Wherever you’d go

I’d follow you down

Through darkest of streets

Of the loneliest of deserted towns

Are you broken like me

Black and blue, painted sad

Letting go of all those little things

We could of had 

I know your scent

I know your skin

I know your touch

In secret places where no one’s ever been