SOMETHING SO STRONG


 For so long now a crushing pain, out of darkness, 
 I find my way,

 The sky I see above, rests over the mountain I 
 Must climb.

 A glow of light finds' me as I make my way up the 
 Endless giant,

 There's a faith that guides,' I am not afraid fore 
 Many will stand with me.

 Inside this body lives a spirit of neverending fight 
 For survival,

 Something so strong, It conquers' the force of doubt 
 In another man.

 I may not reach the top but I will try, I will get  
 There, i'll touch the sky,

 Lost was I this man of many sorrows,' a change In myself 
 Is discovered.

 Such a long road on my own to follow, travel It with me 
 Now and forever,

 I've seen the mountain, I've climbed high with blood 
 And pain, To the top.

 Many have come to watch my flight from the mornings' 
 Light into the dark,

 With me they stood strong, they helped me climb when 
 I weakened.

 Something so strong as I would not fall, their strength 
 Gave me courage,

 The mountain still stands,' again I will climb stronger 
 Each time.

                                Keith Garrett

                                                                                                     
             AN INSTANCE IN TIME



 Life is but a flash, just as a lightning bolt strikes 
 And is gone,



 The earth is a speck compared to this never ending 
 Universe.



 If each one us were even given a great gift of one        
 Hundred years,



 Like a particle of sand compared again to the age 
 Of our world.



 Like the wind blowing past and gone in the blink of 
 An eye,



 An instance in time is what we are given to see and 
 Realize.
                            Keith Garrett

                   I REMEMBER JACK


 He was a wanderer, a young man seeking peace,


 War tears many families apart, a mystery was Jack.


 Appeared did he on a roadside one day, I did change,


 Something strange about a man who came from the past.


 I remember a man named Jack who granted me a wish,


 I did not make that wish and Jack had to go far away,


 He made it for me as I saw him again one day.


A much older me, I did not know happiness was for me,


 Jack died in nineteen forty four, long before I was 
 Born.

                 Keith Garrett

                                                                                   
                 BEGINNING TO AN END    


 I had walked the streets in a certain town,    


 For so many years, familiar faces and sounds.    


 Everything I did, all that I knew very comfortable, 


 It was my home but now it has gone and ended indeed.


 Once again in life this is my new beginning, strange 
 It is,

 I feel lost, a strange place with faces unknown 
 To me.

 Street names are just that, only names but not 
 Recognized,

 Strangers are only people who have not yet become 
 Friends.

 My new home has neighbors who have not yet become 
 Known,

 Street names I will memorize so I will not get lost 
 And all alone.

 I like my new yard, yesterday has made many a change,


 I now have a spot where I can be alone, I hide from 
 The insane.

 There is life that traveled with me, some that I have 
 Left behind,

 I swim in a pool, this is my new day, I heard some new 
 Voices, Walk a new way.

 I'm an inch away from heaven, a lifetime from where 
 I belong,

 I can hear my father calling me, In my head there is 
 Always a song.

 Beginning to an end, the world is for us not to really 
 Understand,

 I am here where I am, this is my new beginning,
 I am where I stand.
                                     Keith Garrett

                   ALL IN A DREAM


 They call me old Dan tucker, jack of all trades,

 There's a lot of love of the common people, we are 
 Alive.
 I didn't see the light of day for a while as I was 
 Shackled and drawn,
 This depression was getting to me as each day was a 
 Lonesome day.
 Life itself is a blessing but I need something to 
 Lift me up,
 My family is missing and my hometown burned to the 
 Ground.
 I told my wife just recently O' Mary don't you weep,

 We shall overcome, we'll find our paradise.

 With a wizards magic we left this horrible Kingdom 
 Of days,
 We wouldn't be the last to die as we were sent through 
 Time into the future.
 We found our lucky town, now my Oklahoma home,

 I'm going down to a place called the pony boy that's 
 Open all night.
 It'll be a long walk home but i'm on fire with energy,

 With this little light of mine I walked in the dark.

 I went in places to drink, one called i'm a rocker,

 Jacob's ladder, and ramrod.

 I met someone who said she was the queen of the 
 Supermarket,
 Strange as it was all in a dream.

                                                                                                         
    Keith Garrett

                     A POEM TODAY


 Thoughts, many sights from my mind, visions 
 From the past,

 Dreams about tomorrow, what may be, a poem today.


 To write is a beautiful thing, whatever you want 
 It to be.

 Change the world with a stroke of a pen, fact or 
 Fantasy begins,

 Share with those who do write and dream, those who 
 Do see.

 Share our stories together as we travel the world and   
 Universe,

 We have the ability to take ourselves and others away 
 To unusual places.

 A poem today about the love between two, the sun 
 And moon,

 Hopes and dreams, struggles and pain of life, what 
 Keeps us strong,

 A poem today that puts a smile on a face, comfort and 
 Strength for a moment.
                     Keith Garrett

                   A MOMENT IN THE SUN


 Has it always been mine since the beginning of
 My time,

 I was born to run, I was born to chase the wind, 
 So I run.

 I've walked along the shore, my feet wet in the sand,


 Holding hands, by myself I stand alone, a man.


 There's been at times much fun, I am not done,


 Friends and loved ones vanished as the hourglass runs.


 When will it come I ask! this moment, my moment in 
 The sun,

 It was yesterday, appeared again today, did I not see,


 Tomorrow will I wonder when it is to be as it lives 
 All around me.

 I had dreams of a girl once upon a time, she came to 
 Visit me,

 She came to say hi, for just a moment in time, a moment 
 Gone by.

 I've had a moment in the sun, a moment to run, to 
 Chase the wind,

 I've had a love who went away with the passing day, 
 She flies.

 My journey takes me to a place but who follows behind,


 On another day will catch me, slow down to that which 
 May be.
                                     Keith Garrett

                   IMPOSSIBLE?


 Impossible things, are they to be Imagined,


 To walk on the moon, travel to mars.


 See and touch the oceans' floor,


 Climb a mountain and reach for more.


 It can be done, walking from coast to coast,


 Break the sound barrier, faster than the speed of sound.


 Travel in a balloon, across the world you go,


 Fly in the sky, jump from the highest height.


 Impossible things, Impossible you say,


 To rid the world of disease and cancer,


 Can this be a possibility one day.


 To love one another, hold hands across this world,


 Terror put to an end, war only a bad dream.


 To all Impossible things, to the next one who 


 Can make it a reality.


                                                                                        Keith Garrett

            I'M HEADING ON DOWN THE ROAD


 I get dressed in the morning and pack my bags,


 Open the window to look outside, the rain is nomore.


 Through the clouds appear a ray of light just a little,


 Wind blowing strong enough to close an open door.


 A cup of coffee to get me going, breakfast really fast,


 With my things in my hands I head for the car, moving 
 Along.

 Saying goodbye, leaving this place, i'm going away today,


 Nothing left in this town for a poor lonely man, i'm 
 Walking away.

 I'm heading down the road to a place I don't know, into 
 The sun,

 Along the way, to me many things of sight, driving night 
 By night.

 What's left behind lives now only in a poor mans' mind, 


 I'll be doing fine, i'll be doing fine, i'm heading down 
 The road.

 I'm heading down the line.


 I'm heading down the road, i'll be searching for you, 
 Moving along,

 I'm heading down the road, i'm coming for you, i'm coming.


                          Keith Garrett 

              I HAVE NEVER SEEN YOU BEFORE


 Together every day, we worked, side by side,



 We saw one another but never looked at all,



 Our names familiar and our faces friendly strangers.



 I have never seen you before, never sought each 
 Other out,


 As if the light has been turned on, the sun shining 
 Through.


 I have never seen you before but today is something new.

                        Keith Garrett