WHERE THE GODS STAND


  Looking to the sky I saw light and darkness of a billion 
  Nights,

  Dark were the clouds, through them billions of years of 
  Light.

 Somewhere beyond are gathered many lifetimes, souls 
 Of the departed,

  From my eyes seen, a stormy sky like so many storms 
 In time.
 The crack of thunder heard by ancestors that rest in 
 Eternal peace,

  I watched the sky move, the energy created was felt 
  From inside.

 The sky is filled with all that use to be traveling 
  Around  And in between,

  There is music in the sky, neverending tunes of laughter, 
  Long lost cries.

  The wind swirls and runs forever just as the first day 
  Had begun,

  The blood of all men and woman are mixed together 
  With all time,

 Where the Gods stand in a kingdom of many beliefs, 
  Spirits From a thousand lands.
                                         Keith Garrett

                           MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE


  I've drifted across the open sea, I wait for you to find me,


  In a bottle I have been placed, a message that I am 
 Alive.

 You are no longer there anymore but I let you know I 
 Exist,

  A thought of what you meant to me, a thought of what I 
  Once meant.

  If my message gets to you yet then again how can this 
  Possibly be,

 You are a memory from yesterday, I am a thought that 
  Sails The sea.

  Time does not stop, It has no sympathy, it makes what 
  Is What was,

  Life and all that's within it is reduced to memories, 
  Things  Of yesterday.

  Message in a bottle is what I am, If you find me take me 
  For What I am,

 You are forever now, I am something that will one 
  Day Fade Away.

                                Keith Garrett

                LOVE TRAVELS A DISTANCE


  A boy and his dog, love between two,

  Each day he waits at the stroke of four.

  Soon they will be separated by circumstance,

  Strength and courage will be tested, a faithful friend.

  A boy cries in the night, a tear from a dog's eye,

  Love travels a distance to see the smile on a face that 
 Cries.
  Hundreds of miles traveled, across land and time,

  Across a river swam, to the other side, love in a dog's 
  Eyes.
  He'll meet many on the way, conquer with every stride,

  Back home a boy waits, a prayer and wish in the night.

  Struggle and pain, hunger or cold, will not stop mans 
 Best friend,
 Something so strong lives within this four legged friend.

  At the stroke of four he lies in wait,

  Love travels a distance, together again.


                                     Keith Garrett

                  LISTEN TO THE DRUMBEAT 


  Thump, thump, hear the sound that makes the 
  World go around,

  Feel the pounding of its rhythm, the drum 
  Beats hard, The heart beats fast.

  Listen to the drumbeat that lives inside, listen to
  Music, The drumbeat cries,

  Boom, boom, echoes through the sky, thunder is 
  The drum, It beats out loud.

 Wait for the rumbling as the shaking earth trembles
  With an Awesome fear,

 Bang, bang, listen as the sleeping child's heart comes 
 To life In the dark of night.

 Bombs and gunfire sing through the war beaten land, 
 Thump, thump,

  The drum beats slow, the drum beats fast, a mother's 
  Terror  As her son dies.

 The dancing boxer, hard hit as he is dropped to the floor, 
 Beat of his heart,

 Thump, thump, boom, boom, goes his heart like the 
 Drumbeat so slow.

  Listen to the drumbeat, too the sound of wandering feet, 
 Like a drum,

  A first breath of life, a slower, and slower beat of the 
 Fading, going away.

                                       Keith Garrett     

                             IN A WESTERN TOWN

  Walk these streets, sidewalks of wood,


  Where men wear boots, hats, and guns.


  Women wear dresses of an earlier time,


  Some of morals, others work men for a dime.


  A sheriff, a deputy, to keep peace and order,


  Jail is for those who can't follow the law.


  A school house, a church, places of good,


  Children learn lessons, a house of God.


  A saloon is a place of drink and games,


  A piano heard, upstairs, women of the night.


  In a western town there are many things,


  A stable for horses, a gunfight to end one's day,


  Once upon a time in a western town.

                                       Keith Garrett

                                  UPON YOU I FALL

  Up so high, I'm created there,


  Above the earth, up In the air.


  I lie and wait for the clouds to cry,


  Down on you, I fall from the sky.


  Throughout time, I've been found,


  Sometimes I'll make a different sound.


 The sun will shine, I'll go away,


  My time will come another day.


  There Is no pain when you feel my touch,


  Down upon you, sometimes I am much.


  I must fall for you to live,


  To mankind, It Is this gift I give.


                                Keith Garrett

                              A WALK IN THE FOREST


 The time is now, Autumn is alive with a different feeling,


 Darkness is longer in the morning, slowly the leaves are 
 Upon the ground.

  Plants and trees grow slower, nature never gives up on 
 The day,

  Animals are busy preparing as Winter is not far away, 
 Earlier the sun fades,

  A thought of a walk in the forest to escape for a moment, 
 Everything.

  Tall trees that cover much of the sunlight that warms 
   The Land we wander,

  Leaves that have piled for many years make a sound 
  Beneath These traveling feet.

  A walk in the forest, so many times I have dreamed of 
  This While trapped elsewhere,
 
  Quiet, yet not quiet as there are sounds in a place as 
  This Like There are no other,

  A walk in the forest, a dream that I have not yet 
  Discovered,  A reality discovered.
                       Keith Garrett

                            A LIGHT IN THE FOREST


 Traveling together were myself and a friend, a 
 Getaway,

 Down the long highway we went, weren't sure 
 Where we were going.

  We started out driving, searching for that unusual 
 Place of discovery,

  A forest, that would be our destination, we're on our 
 Way into the day.

  We travel along talking and listening to our favorite 
 Music getting close,

  Further ahead of us in the distance they appear to our 
  Eyes, trees so high.

  We'll be going up a ways, where everything is so green 
 And darkness within the tree


We make our camp for the night, ready in the morning 
  For  Our walk below the hidden sky.

 Tonight a campfire, some food, laughing with a friend, 
 And sleeping under a star or two,

  Morning light shines down upon the land, we pack our 
 Things and head into the forest.

  Dark, very dark as we make our way deeper among the 
  Ancient trees, where are we,

  There's something up ahead, can you see, a light in the 
   Forest, we'll be okay.
        Keith Garrett

                                A HEARTBEAT



  Listen to my heartbeat, thump, thump, It beats,



  Blood runs through it, listen to me as I breathe.



  A heartbeat means life, It beats fast or slow, 



 Thump, thump, it goes, a heartbeat that slowly grows 
 old.


  It speaks of who I am, only one of a kind,



  Listen, thump, thump, with a hand to my chest feel as 
 I am alive.


  A heartbeat lets us know that this moment is still ours,



  Hear it pound, listen to its beautiful sound.



  Thump, thump, thump, thump, one beat at a time,



  A heartbeat so precious, thump as it beats one more 
 Time.

                                Keith Garrett

                                      UNIVERSE


  Created within me Is the answer to the beginning of 
 Time,

  Is there a start or finish, an end or beginning to 
  What's  Mine?

  In many a direction I must be,


  Everything travels' through my darkness, who knows' what 
 There is to see.

  Older than anything, how long have I really existed,


  Where do I come from, Is the answer a mystery never to 
 Be discovered.

  All things' that live within my space,


  Rotating forever, will they always be In this place.


  I am the universe, not knowing what I really am,


  With no air or much light, not a visitor from your land.


  I'll stay here, who can say just how long,


  Perhaps till an end comes to my time.


                                       Keith Garrett