"FOLLOW ME"

To everywhere I start from here, where I stand I'll leave behind,

 Watch my steps and join with me, I'll walk from here and travel far.

  I'll travel by bicycle across the land, across the open road,

   Around the world, around the world, follow me so very far.

 In a driven car from here to there, Into the sun I'll make It there,

  Follow me as I wander through country of never ending horizon.

    The sounding whistle of a rumbling train catches my eye,

    Take my hand and jump Into a boxcar, ride, we will ride.

    Across the hills, over the bridge and through tunnels of darkness,

 Faster we move to where It Is we travel, follow me, follow me I 
am the captain, I will be your guide as we journey under God's sky,
 Soon we must part from this locomotive driven by the man whom cries.

   Down a grassy slope we walk many miles with the wind at our backs,

In the distance It sits, a giant balloon waiting under the stars of the night.

  Follow me, tired as we make our way through the trees, Into a dream,

   It stands so high as we board It climbing up, up beyond the clouds.

 Drift with me Into the wind and hang on to my arm as we vanish,

   This Is the best of life, down, down we fall slowly to the ground.

 Now take my hand and get ready as we begin a flight through the night,

   Fly with me above the world, hold on tight, we are In heaven tonight.

   This journey takes us on a beautiful boat dancing on the sea, follow me,

 Around the world follow me, an adventure for two, not many will ever see.

                                                                                           Keith Garrett

                            ACROSS THE SKY


           I soar through the air up In the wide open sky,



            Just myself and some wings', we fly, and fly.



          So peaceful up here, quiet without many a sound,



       Feel like I'm flying to the sun, far from the ground.



          Clouds' are floating to nowhere that I can see,



             A neverending flight, just the sky and me.



            Looking down Is another world not like here,



               Across the sky, not crowded with fear.


                 Keith Garrett                

                                                                                                  
                  THE TRUTH ABOUT REALITY



                                                                                     
        This is real, we all live in a world together,



                                                                                   
          We are in some ways trapped with no escape.



                                                                                 
       Real is that which we see right before our eyes,



                                                                      
    There are things happening everywhere that seem unreal,



                                                                    At times we do wish to hide from reality in our own fantasies.



                                                                 The truth about reality is that it is all around us forever circling,



                                                                What's among us is our reality, some get lost in their own reality.


                                                                    Keith Garrett

                        "A STRANGE"


       Cobwebs and tumbleweeds, traces of life and the past,


        A forgotten road not so often traveled, not anymore.


      Where do they go, the ones we once knew and walked with,


    More and more they become ghosts, faded faces from yesterday.


    Time slips away slowly Into my tomorrow where my memories are found,


      Friends' are now strangers, strangers are now my friends.'


  There once lived a woman whom I did not know, she lived her life without me,


 In her there was not a thought of me, for me she had no meaning.


   This stranger that I had not met would someday be the love a man could not forget,


   Like the wind forever blowing, she has drifted, a stranger I never knew.


 Where did you go,! where did you go,! A stranger I love, a woman I'll never know.


                                               Keith Garrett   

                         TRAIN RIDE

     Awaiting Its' arrival as here It comes to take me away,


     Sounds like thunder rumbling down the track, whistling.


       Puffing black smoke up Into the air, Its' headlight shining,


   This monster of steel Is here, time for me to climb aboard.


     Listen to the hissing from this steam engine, hear It,


    We take off heading through the hills' with much to see.


      From out of the window stare do I as we pass through,


       Darkness from within a mountain carved out a passage.


        Tons of rock and dirt hanging above us as we travel,


     Moving through this tunnel Into the light, sun going down.


    I listen to the sound of the power of this traveling train,


 Out of the window Is a clear sky as the light from the full moon


          Shines down, guiding our way across the land.


            Keith Garrett 

                                                                
                         TWO


   One and one create a two, In the afternoon a time of two,
  In the dark of night, early morning strikes the clock at two.


  In the park walk a man and woman, hand In hand they are two,
 Feet In the sand, once a girl I knew, we were one but we were two.


 I've loved only once as I've shared my life with few, only two,
  Now It Is that this man walks alone, he has wandering feet of two.


 In a world seen In time, time lost, the passing of time, years of two,
   Time to understand why there Is no longer us, the way we were two.


 Remember the love, a day when we were something, thoughts of two,
 I remember yesterday was today, I think of you and the passing years of two. 


                                                                          Keith Garrett 

                      TRIALS' OF A MAN


    Once a child, a small boy from many seasons' past,


       In this time and place destined to be a man.


       Through many battles I've had to persevere,


      Like heading Into a strong neve rending wind.


   I'm learning to move away from the confrontation,


      Choosing a new direction, energy not wasted.


  Struggling to do everything right as I walk forward,


 Positive lessons' to take ahead, I've learned from my past.


  At one time I put away my faith, put It high on a shelf,


      Keep living, keep moving along, and try always.


   I've had losses and love lost but this won't end me,


          In this, things gained simultaneously.


  I still seek some of what's been lost, still within reach,


             Some gone forever, forever a memory.


                                                                        Keith Garrett