Music how oft' to you I have run
you have been many times my safe place my solace
I embrace you I cover myself within your warm embrace
Regardless of what  the world....life
may throw my way in your arms
how often have I found refuge
and also the answers I seek
To you have I so oft' run
and you always seem to know what I seek
whether classical, liturgical, or even rock and roll
and if I don't find the answers I seek
I always return relaxed, and with a new perspective
and can return to my world, my life, renewed

The time is late
the darkness
like a shroud
covers the last light
of the day
my body yearns
for rest
for repose
for sleep
and rest
but the mind rarely agrees
if not the cares of the day
my imagination
often refuses to rest
until it's travels are complete
or the un-resistible
power of sleep
finally wins
and the imagination
lays dominant....for a while

Many would have said
that I was a difficult child
and with age
I've only got worse
their assessment
and I must admit
mine as well
Even as a kid
I needed to know....WHY!?!
I didn't even then
accept something as
right, ethical or true
until I could through
study, experience, or observation, agreed
Obviously I spent many
hours in the:
woodshed
detainsion
the principles office
but also in thought
study and reflection
From those who had been
placed in authority
I accepted what came
learning from it
but never from those
who just thought that
they had authority over me
Obviously I was a
difficult child
and haven't changed much
after over 70 years on earth
well at least in some peoples "learn'ed opinions"
and you know they're right
but that's their problem never...mine

body exhausted

demands sleep

desires rest

repose

but the mind

runs around aimlessly

from one thing 

to another

nothing of any import

just random

trivia thought

who will win

eventually the body will win

and the mind will rest

but for now the question is
when?