Roy Merchant

I was wondering through a leafy lane
Looking at the wonders of the land
Seeing all that man has to gain
And trying to understand
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Somewhere, out there, in a world so harsh
A young man wept a tear
He’d been working hard, toiling the land
For, one month and a year
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I First Met Her on the Day She Was Born
She Was Lying Down..Just Having A Rest
Gently..Trying to Focus on the Dewy Morn
Her Only Means of Survival..Her Mother's Breast
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Money..power..and paranoia
Is a dangerous mixture
To have as a fixture
In a minuscule portion
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The greatest contusion in a lover's life
Is the paradoxical confusion between..
The circular movements of the mind
And the circular movements of the behind
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Where did you go, where have you been?
You seem to be lost in the miasma of my uncertainties
If my sudden and untimely death frightened you away
Then please note that I am alive again, so please call
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Hi Mama
Well… I finally made it
Back into the void
I wish it could have been different
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The old man sat on the corner of the road
His daily work was done
He had gathered in his harvest
Ahead of the setting sun
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Life is neither logical or illogical
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I am a fifty six years of age old man
And my mind is not at ease
The messengers are coming in thick and fast
And my destiny cannot be appeased
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He watched as his mother went mental
He watched as all her dreams died
He looked on as if it was incidental
When unashamedly..she cried and cried
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How fragile the links of certainty
How tenuous the connections in time
Humanity..and all its achievements
Are simply footprints in the sandstorm
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I wonder where, along your tortured path
Did the light from your essence go dim?
Where, oh where, along this journey so short
Did you decide, you did not want to swim?
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AH..YOU COULD HAVE SAID..
YOU WERE GETTING WED
AND TELLING ME GOODBYE
THERE COULD HAVE BEEN A HINT..
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