Fatherless
Seeing you lying there Unwilling to accept reality Life wasn’t intended to be fair Endless cycle of the […]
Existing in this moment Lost for a moment Forget every moment That I loved for a moment Slowly […]
Waiting on the steps From the dawn of light Anticipating the excitement From last night Plans was made […]
Yearning solitude Pursuing anyone Irrelevant person Desperate attention Selfish attitude Invaded peace Limited proximity Desperate attention Affiliated quiet […]
Peace God I’m not trying to interrupt Just sharing some insight Hopefully we can reconcile Grant me just […]
Cannot explain this hole in me I open up the old albums for 1983 The smile looked real […]
Listen No I feel them Can remember them More than anything I’ve ever seen Hear this thing in […]
YOU LEFT ME DAD. As an toddler you never gave me a chance to say Da-Da, but I […]
Speak the words Like you know me Remind me of who I am Especially those solemn days That […]
Feeling like I’ve been pulled together Randomly The father and mother are clear But he was never here […]
Ever felt like everything you believed was a lie It’s like you realize in hindsight Nothing was real, […]
Time gone. And every time the past comes to the present, I can feel the present being wasted […]
So long a part of me, that now I find energy from misery. It’s a daily affirmation making […]
Sigh for a smile Remembering when I Would sigh out of frustration As an emotional release Opening the […]
Ride….. As far as possible. There is no time or speed quest. Just a feeling of emptiness. Striving […]
Kept thinking I could escape my past Find a way to end the wrath I thought the longer […]
The bottomless pit That envy Consuming mortality Focused externally Believing I’m not who I claim to be Claiming […]
Recognized it quickly Early on in childhood Ninety houses on one street I was one of the few […]
Before focusing on ourself Consider what we are projecting That our unique ability Indicates we are the very […]
I mean Look at all I have done You stay on my ass But won’t let me pass […]
Sometimes Just sitting here Just writing it all out All the things I should say Everything that I […]
Experiencing things Differently As if different choices were made Imaging the differences as reality Now I’m stuck on […]
Prayed for rain, Now I’m standing in mud Really thought I knew what I wanted. It was dry […]
Faint memories Devastated me The fallacy of belief Holding onto fiction Artistically describing Each and every interaction Remembering […]
Midst of the grief Fighting the belief Everything has its place So must this pain In my face […]
Counting up missed opportunities Somehow they didn’t become dear to me When you were here Life was forever […]
Staring into this subtle breeze Continuous cloud blocking the burning sun Endless sand finally touching my homeland Left […]
I can see into the future There are no mics to drop Nothing spectacular to convey The first […]
I don’t know what to do Everything was happening And the happenings That just kept happening And no […]
Final time to say farewell Now I’m supposed to pretend That all is well Remembering that exact building […]
If I could write out everything, Maybe it would be something new to sing. The stories of the […]
Just Writing Putting words down Nothing else works Only way to get these words out Let these feelings […]
Sy Bryant 