I FOUND YOU IN THE DARK

I went to sleep last night, seemed to me that I was awake,

Clear were all things, not the same as would be a dream.

So far I did walk as seconds appeared to be a journey forever,

There were as I traveled odd and unusually mixed up scenes.

I heard your voice out there but what direction was not clear,

No control over where I am, my sleeping mind guides my way,

I was brought to you, I found you in the dark, darkness has gone.

Keith Garrett

I DREAMED I WAS A CHILD

There was a place, there was a child, was it real, why was he crying,

A street, a neighborhood, a school where laughter lived, clowns on a wall.

Duck, duck, goose and a circle of friends, round and round they ran,

A boy named Grover, swingsets and a dream, I walk there it seems.

A small boy, lonely in his thoughts, a dreamer of things not to be thought,

Monsters under the bed, who peeks in the window above his frightened head.?

I dreamed I was a child but who is it I be, a father’s son from yesterday,

A child trapped in a place that does not let go, cartoons and sounds of planes.

Reality was but a moment, childhood innocence and magic slips away,

Where were you little girl when my October drifted into eternity?

Imagination and ice cream trucks playing musical tunes for a dime,

Warm Summer days lost in a man’s child dreaming eyes.

It rests in cobwebs, it quietly waits for my return,

A place hidden from my mind, it watches, it knows what I have seen.

Keith Garrett

I DON’T UNDERSTAND

A matter of faith, yes! this must be as I don’t understand,

Many tales of bad things happening all over this great world.

Although there is much suffering everywhere, I never blame God,

Fore many things are the cause of man, piece by piece the world crumbles.

A story of a man I recall many years ago from a town, Yorba Linda,

He was the reverend of a church, the Moravian Church across from school.

Cared about people, loyalty to this church and his family, a loving man,

Never a bad deed, throughout life always a helping hand, I remember him.

I have been told of his days now, living with Parkinson’s Disease, he lives,

I don’t understand why a man such as this, devoted to doing good was given this.

A man of God, this is not that which he deserves, for a reason I suppose, God knows,

I don’t understand why some things should be for the wrong man, I don’t understand.

Keith Garrett

I CHOOSE NOT TOO

I choose not to cry when you try too put tears in my eyes,

I choose not to hurt when you are less than a person.

I will not be sad and choose not too when you give up all you have,

I choose not to be always mad just because you are a foolish man.

I choose not to be at the mercy of this land or what I don’t have,

I choose not to be a prisoner of my own fears and disabilities,

I choose not to be a most terrible me or the bad that can be.

Keith Garrett

I CANNOT BE FOUND

You will not see me because I am not there,

Even if you search for me everywhere.

I have no touch so do not try to feel me,

I cannot be found, I’m nowhere around.

Do not try to speak with me, there’s no one to hear,

I have not a face, waste no time with a stare.

I am not there, I am not anywhere,

I am not around, therefore I cannot be found.

Keith Garrett

I CAN SEE!

I can see the sky so still with clouds floating by,

I can almost see the wind as it passes by my eyes.

The trees that stand tall, their branches reaching,

I can see! life that grows around me, I can see!

They fly in the sky, they run through the fields,

I can see! I can watch as they all run so free.

I can see many amazing things with eyes given to me,

What a blessing, thank god I can see!

Keith Garrett

I CAN SEE TOMORROW

So clear to me, clear to see,

Yesterday is gone, gone away.

Today will soon be in the past,

It will be yesterday, I see this today.

Tomorrow is not yet here, this is clear,

When it comes it will turn into today,

Soon disappear into yesterday.

I can see tomorrow, I see this today,

Many things to discover, what comes my way.

What’s out on the horizon still a mystery,

It moves forward into my life, to be my today.

Keith Garrett

I CAN LAUGH WITH YOU

IF YOU WILL CRY WITH ME

I can laugh with you over a funny show,

If you will cry with me over some sad news.

I can laugh with you when a silly joke be told,

If you will cry with me over us both getting old.

I can laugh with you just because it feels so good,

If you will cry with me when life doesn’t seem as it should.

I can laugh with you when things need to be laughed at,

If you will cry with me when we start on a beautiful new path,

I can laugh with you if you will cry with me over anything anytime.

Keith Garrett

A DAY WITHOUT SYMPATHY
I awoke in the morning, I fell out of bed,

A bad headache but no aspirin for my head.

I went for a cup of coffee but only an empty jar,

Maybe some toast but the butter was at the store.

I went to get the paper in a puddle of mud,

The dog chewed up my shoes, what am I to do.

Got dressed and headed for the car, off to work I’ll go,

The car wasn’t there, stolen wouldn’t you know.

Went to call the police, locked myself out of the house,

Headed for the bus stop, watched the bus drive on by.

I flagged down a cab, please get me to work,

No wallet in my pocket, I gave him my watch.

I walked through the door, fearing I was so late,

This is your day off, you don’t work today.

No way home so I put out my thumb,

No one would stop, I walked all the way.

I had not a key, Oh! what a day,

I broke the window, the door was open all the way.

My T.V. was gone, the phone did not work,

Nothing to eat, time for some sleep.

I went to my room, the bed was gone,

A day without sympathy, on the floor I did lay.

Keith Garrett

I BELIEVE IN THE END

It never stops, this thing that’s In motion,

The game Is love and It can’t be stopped.

I believe In the end, a final conclusion,

This Is the middle of a battle, there Is no Illusion.

Love comes In many forms’ and you may not recognize,

A mind that Is blind may not understand.

There Is no quit In this fight for the heart,

Stronger am I as more difficult the task.

Keith Garrett