A CHAMPION YOU ARE


 You tee off at dawn with club in hand,


 Swinging for your target, you take your stand.


                                                                                      Giving up is not what you do,


 Eighteen holes, whatever it takes to make it 
 Through.

                                                                           Walking the course no matter how tired,


 Strength and fight are in you to win this match.


                                                                                On to another day, one more tee off,


                                                                               Again swinging that club till the end.


 Every sunset under par,  Always a champion you are.

                 Keith Garrett

                                                                                                      
              A BRIDGE I CROSS



                                                                                         
 Far it reaches through my time,



 My travel across it a neverending journey.



                                                                                     
 Obstacles are sometimes in my way,



                                                                                   
 I'll hurdle over or push out of my way. 



                                                                              
 Moving along searching, always searching,



 For just a little more of things not to hurt me.



                                                                                        
 Not ever knowing what's ahead,



                                                                                            
 Stop I will not until the end.

                                                                             
 Keith Garrett

                A BOAT LOST


 Slowly floating, adrift In waters' so calm,




 Why does It have no travelers, alone.




 Fog and mist surround this shape of wood,




 Where has It been, where does It travel.




 No answers' does It give to questions,




 Drifting, slowly drifting to a place of nowhere.


              Keith Garrett             

                   PAGES


 My life starts' out like a book, not yet 
 A cover,


 Nothing Inside, page one still not printed.



 My story constantly being written with every 
 Breath,


 How many pages there will be not known till 
 The end.


 This title was Imagined before my creation,



 Cover to cover Is mine to write as I walk my life.



 With each turning page I Illustrate my own time,



 The one before this just a memory In my mind.



 Stay open It does until my story Is told,



 Until I've been published, this mans' book 
 Will not be closed.

                Keith Garrett  

               MOTHER, DON'T LET ME DIE


 I'm a child, only a child who lies here 
 Under rubble dying!

 This I did not ask for but my fate rests In 
 God's powerful hands.

 I'm afraid fore I'm In such pain, why,! Oh 
 Why! must I die,

 The Earth exploded with a thundering sound 
 All around.

 Lord, as I lie here It Is that I think of my  
 Mother, oh! mother,

 Please take this from me, the fear and the
 Pain, I'm coming.

 "Mother" don't let me die! I need you tonight 
 At my side,

 Tears run down this little girls face, mother! 
 Don't let me die.

 If I must go then please In heaven make It so, 
 Let me go,

 " Mother" " mother" please don't cry, mother! 
 Don't let me die.

                  Keith Garrett

                  HEART AND SOUL


 Everything I've got, what's Inside of me 
 Strong,


 Pours' out with energy, stopped I can not be, 
 Give up I will not.


 Stand and take notice as I conquer what 
 Invades my spirit,


 Emotionally grow do I, strength and power 
 Absorbed within this soul.


 Heart of the lion, oh! I do possess, listen 
 To me, Hear me roar,


 Weakness stares at me, such a pathetic coward 
 It is, Look away.


 Fear and sorrow attack and Intimidate who I am, 
 Rise up and fight,


 Walking away, turn and gaze over my shoulder 
 Leaving it behind.


 Hear what this man has to say, do you know 
 That which lives in me,


 I grow and grow fore I have the heart and soul.


            Keith Garrett 

                 "JUST AN ECHO"


 If you listen carefully your memories can 
 Be heard,

 Words' and phrases spoken or listened too 
 Are recorded.

 Thoughts' In your head feel at times louder, 
 Just an echo,

 Sounds' and scenes from a lifetime played over, 
 Can you hear.

 Noises from children playing back when just a 
 Child, Just a child,

 Friends' from long ago, just an echo In time,  
 Listen, they can be heard.

 In the span of a lifetime like the wind moving by, 
 created in an instance,

 An echo In time we will be, just an echo In time 
 For you and me.

                 Keith Garrett                                       

               IS LIFE BUT A DREAM?


 When we go to bed do we go to sleep,


 Are we already dreaming of the life that 
 We believe?

 Are the things' that we see Imaginary or real,


 Is there another life that we live and feel?


 Is our reality here and now,


 Are we a thought of someone else somehow?


 Could It be that we are In another ones mind,


 In some other place, In some other time?


 Maybe In a coma for a period not known,


 When we wake up to a life not our own.


 What does It all mean,


 Is life but a dream?


                                                                                                     Keith Garrett

                                                                                            
                   BOARD GAME


 Watch the world as the pieces move never 
 Ending, the world turns,

 We start from a beginning moving with a roll 
 Of the dice, a card chosen.

 Does God watch as we play, is he in our every 
 Move?

 Round and round we go as this board game of life 
 Takes us away.

 Is the game played right, do we understand the 
 Consequences of our choice?

 Are we the players or are we being played, is there 
 A point to the game.

 Could the game be everlasting or does it end in 
 A moment for some,

 Spin the wheel, flip a coin, take a chance and 
 Walk your own path.

                    Keith Garrett

             BETWEEN DARKNESS AND LIGHT


 The sun shines bright, it then fades into 
 The dark of night,

 Just as the heart and soul of a human crawl 
 From the light into dark.

 To hide from the pain and sorrow of a tragic day, 
 Hide inside and go away,

 Try and forget in ways that at the time seem fine 
 To a broken mind.

 Trauma is a most unpleasant visitor as it has no 
 Sympathy or kindness,

 Steals from one the smile and sometimes brings 
 forever scars. much fear,

 Falling, a deep hole in which a soul believes    
 No escape, hurting the self appears the way,


 A path of destruction with no turning back, 
 But wait! there is surely a chance.

 You found your way lost, between darkness and light,  
 You must fight to make it back,


 Something has happened that ripped you apart, not 
 Fair but it was God's will.

 He knew you would fall, your test would be to 
 Find your way back from the darkness,


 You climbed out of that hole and with his hand  
 You also found your way back to the light,


 Today holds a piece of yesterday, forever a thought, 
 Life does move ahead, another day.

                Keith Garrett