SEEING HAPPINESS

Happiness seen is a friendly day with no anger in the way,

The way it is when laughing children play, no worries today.

To see happiness with your heart is a smile on a woman’s face,

One to be remembered in your night’s dreams, happiness seen.

A beautiful song that touches the heart in a moment, happiness,

Seeing two with love in their eyes, a vision of happiness.

Seeing happiness is seeing a very special miracle created,

Happiness every day a prayer that this light may touch another.

Keith Garrett

SHADOW OF A MAN

For so long, from the beginning man stood very strong,

He would come and go as age would take away his strength.

Throughout time we are all related to others, descendants,

Our lives carry on, we live in the blood of family forever.

There is forever something left behind, a part that lingers,

A shadow, not like any but the shadow of a man always and forever,

The wandering shadow of a man always standing.

Keith Garrett

SAIL AWAY WITH ME

A slight breeze blowing across the bay today, the sun will shine,

A few passing clouds but a great day to sail away with beautiful you.

Free to wander a different part of life, escape together across the water,

What a beautiful day, such a pretty smile on a beautiful face ready to sail.

I brought wine and cheese and If It gets chilly something stronger you see,

A blanket to cover up with as the day loses the sun, some music and some love.

Sail away with me beyond all that we every day see, just you and me, the sea,

Remember our day together, our time In the sun sailing Along the horizon line.

Sail away with me, forever we’ll sail together until go away forever.

Keith Garrett

RENDEZVOUS

Love taken for granted, desire and temptation so sinful,

A smile, a glance from a stranger not yet known, danger looms’.

One who has everything but yet nothing at all cries Inside,

Another whom seeks’ the attention, In return attention finds’.

Two smiles, two different hearts’ wanting adventure without thought,

A soul with nothing to lose but will lose, she who chances to throw It all away.

Rendezvous, secretly meeting, passion destroys’ many hearts’ In a circle,

Pieces of a life scattered, only a misguided feeling from being forever shattered.

A body that sins’ as another whom loves lets out tears’ of forgiveness,

Does also sin with the life taken from a man with nothing to lose but everything.

Rendezvous,

Keith Garrett

REMEMBER THIS MAN

He lived in a time of war and pain,

A knight of a King, a warrior with a name.

On an Island that rests across the sea,

Remember this man who fought in old England.

Centuries ago, stories of old, a time of blood,

Lived by the sword, a fighting man on a horse.

What was his name, does it matter this day,

Did he sacrifice, did this man make a change.

What was accomplished by the blood on his sword,

He killed for a King, a man on a throne.

Tears in his eyes, perhaps on the day he did die,

With his last breath did he ask forgiveness to the sky.

Keith Garrett

RAGS TO RICHES

He went to rags after some unexpected events,

Wandering the streets with not so much to eat.

Down on his luck with not more than a buck,

Things would change in a most unusual way.

A chance to prove he was smarter than a fool,

He rose from the dirty ground, smarter than he knew.

On top of the world, a financial breakthrough be told,

A story of losing all you have, rags to riches, maybe back.

Keith Garrett

I’M ALIVE!

My heart beats’, Each breath taken Is a breath to be not taken for granted,

The blood runs’ through my veins’ as every moment Is a moment I’ll see.

There’s a fragrance of herbs’ In the garden, life lives around me, darling,

The wind Is felt upon my face as I watch the sun move across the open sky.

Something lost and something gained as another day slips away,

Never knowing what to expect from another morning born, I’m alive!.

The air we take In Isn’t for free, the price we pay to live In Gods’ mystery,

Love holds’ no promises, love comes to stay and love drifts away, I’m alive.

We are the fortunate ones’ If the chance Is for us to laugh or cry one more time,

share a kiss, a hug, take that last walk with a love along the ocean shore, once more.

I’d just like to say I’m alive!, “yes darling” every day I’m alive!.

Keith Garrett

QUITTER

He gave up on himself as he did on others,

To try something of a challenge gave him much fear.

Instead of standing tall and helping a fellow human being

He gave up, it was too much trouble for him,

He did not understand the worth of either one.

He did not become strong by facing his fear,

Nor a good and decent man because he never cared about much.

There was good in him but he took not the time to work on

Or overcome difficult tasks,

The path he walked became quiet and lonely.

Because he was known as a quitter and never gave,

In return, not a soul cared to help him,

They also in return gave up on him.

He was quit on, as he was the quitter.

Keith Garrett

QUIETLY LONELY

Into the mist, through the trees, walking barefoot,

Leaves beneath my cold feet, leaves of brown and green.

The sun does not shine as the fog creeps across the land,

Making its way through these lonely woods deep in nowhere.

What is alive as the morning awakes to a quiet day, this day,

So old are these woods, what tales they may tell of yesterday.

Ghosts of the past, people whom once were, they who lived here,

Quietly lonely as I think and dream, just quietly lonely.

Keith Garrett

QUIET SOUNDS

A butterfly floats through the air,

Up the tree, a squirrel climbs high.

A far off plane, hear it far away,

The meow of a cat, water in a stream.

The whisper in the ear of a loving girl,

Ticking of a clock, time of the world.

A flag slowly blowing in the breeze,

Leaves falling from a tree, that’s what I mean.

Slowly a fire burns, crackling of the wood,

Quiet sounds of peace, these things that are good.

Keith Garrett