STANDING IN THE RAIN

It was dark, I glanced out of the window and saw him,

Tall with dark hair, a sweatshirt soaked from the falling rain.

Why was he out there, by a tree he stood watching the rainfall,?

Clouds of many, darkness was everywhere, he stood drenched.

I wasn’t going to open the door as I was curious but a little scared,

Was I mean for not showing care, He was a stranger, why was he there.?

Standing In the rain, where did he come from, what was his name,?

Good or bad, I did not care, I walked away and left him standing In the rain.

Keith Garrett

SIRENS IN THE NIGHT

What is it that takes from us the quiet peace of the night,

Sitting back relaxing, sounds come screaming from a distance.

Painful to the ears and mind, not pleasant this sound at times,

Blessings of music if at this moment a life may be on the line.

Lights of beauty or lights of darkness and pain are noticed in the dark,

Different lights and sirens depending on what danger haunts the night.

A fire in a house, a soul stricken with sickness takes a team of heroes seen,

Crime in the streets, those without morals come out after the sun fades away.

Another type of man and woman steps out into the dark when bad shows up,

Sirens in the night, sirens of peace, sirens, and lights that might save a life.

Keith Garrett

SHE’S A DREAMER

She sits under a clear, starry night sky,

Praying to the night, wishing, just wishing.

Flowers all around this beauty of the night,

Long flowing hair with a body so nice, she.

She’s a dreamer, alone but peaceful, never lonely,

She’s a dreamer, happiness lives within this princess.

Keith Garrett

SOUNDS OF A LIFETIME

What have I heard, the wind blowing through the trees,

A dog barking many times in my ear.

High in the sky, I’ve heard planes soaring by,

As a boy, the voice of a person reading to me, a story.

The voices of many who speak out to a world,

From my beginning, the sounds of children crying in pain.

I’ve listened to a mother and father who have said to me many things,

The blast of bombs dropping, gunfire in the night.

Laughter from those the happy ones, at peace with themselves,

Echoes of victory from the bad that is done.

With words from their hearts, they sing out songs,

I listen with an ear, music of the world.

I listen to love, I’ve heard all the hate,

Sounds of a lifetime, my memory in time.

The sounds of a world so old, what do you hear.?

Keith Garrett

SHE LIVED IN THE WOODS

Hidden from sunlight, beneath the tall aging trees,

Deep in the woods, alone lived she.

A different kind of world, quiet except for the creatures that be,

A woman so aged, seems that she’d been here for eternity.

So far below that which grows, the falling rain can barely touch,

In a rickety old cabin, she had not much.

Only sounds of the woods kept her company,

In a dark, lost, existence, she lived to be so old, not of loneliness.

Many things did she to occupy her moments of a life meant to be,

Never a face shown to her, only memories of childhood dreams.

She lived in the woods, somewhere you see,

An old, old, woman gone and not missed, but who was she.?

Keith Garrett

SAILING THE OCEAN, JUST ME

What a spectacular voyage I am about to embark upon,

My boat is ready, packed and loaded with all that I desire.

Early morning as the sun fights to break through the drifting fog,

Everything necessary to make this a successful, adventurous, experience.

It’s time to cast off, music turned up as I set sail for places far across the ocean,

I am on my way as the sun Is warming around me, the fog will In time disappear.

I feel free, the blue sky above with but a few clouds that block my view of heaven,

Seagulls flying from here to anywhere, dolphins are noticed dancing across the water.

With the wind upon my face and the open sea neverending just like eternity,

Glide across the water, this is a whole new world out here so fascinating and real.

There is no place I can’t be, travel I can to anywhere as the ocean guides me, carries me,

Sailing the ocean, just me and a boat that will never again be seen unless you can dream.

Keith Garrett

QUALITY OF LIFE

When we are young for granted we take running till day is done,

Strong legs and energy, so fortunate if you are without sickness.

Adjust do we our every day in different ways as we wear down, decay,

Push on through, never surrendering to age or time, we do let go.

Quality of life, that’s how we wish to live, pain free and happy,

We all live a different lifestyle, our individual way of living each day.

Quality of life, it can change in a flash, an accident, disaster, disease,

Life is a special gift, our quality of life means much to us, to live or exist.

How good is life when you feel sick or can’t enjoy your daily activities,

We all have or will one day acquire those things, ailments that will limit us.

Appreciate the health you have and run, play, see everything while you can.

Keith Garrett

SHADOW ON A CURB

A boy I remember once sat on a curb,

On a warm, sunny, day almost fifty years ago I say.

Listening to the airplanes going by, fly so high,

Hands rested on his face, a street and a place far away.

He would stare from where he sat, a thinking child,

I remember him well when he lost that smile.

A car that no longer moved, the life in it lost,

Now the memory of a man who sat at the wheel.

A place and a street that exists till this day,

A curb where once a boy no more dreamed and played.

What has faded now is a man and a car,

A boy who has aged more than a father whom at one time

Carried him on his shoulders.

Now from the trees, only a shadow on a curb you’ll see,

A memory of a boy who sat and stared at a car driven

by a father whom he can no longer see.

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

TAMMY

It doesn’t matter whether you give a shit about me or me about you.

You have done so much evil against many people in our family and others.

Taking your ex-husband’s life insurance money instead of giving to his family

is bad enough. Do you ever look into the mirror and say: why am I like this?

Treating a handicapped person like shit, especially when she’s your sister is

a most horrible and pathetic deed. What you did to our mother is the worst ever.

Tormenting and harassing her while she was sick up until she died is so hateful.

I hope you can live with yourself as you can remember it forever.

Her specific wish was that Cheryl never live with you and she is never around you.

Mom was so disappointed in you as a daughter, she told the family that you are a liar.

I don’t care if you believe it, everyone knows it and it has been going around.

You try to preach God but you are so fucked up and mean, definite sociopath.

You must be so secretly miserable and unhappy to be the way you are, the things you do.

I just thought you should take a look at yourself as you are not a pretty sight.

My sister, Tammy Keener Leal.

Bakersfield, CA.