NEVER FAR AWAY

I have seen
Just about everything in life
I have laughed
I have cried
I have snuggled with the one
And I have regretted
Ever knowing her
The one
And there are days
Unhappy days
Lonely days

Days that I wish could die stillborn
But they live
They survive to torment me
But peace
No matter how hidden
I will find it
It may elude me
But
It cannot do that forever
And my dreams
My ambitions

They are not far away
And
I have spoken to them
My dreams
They have agreed
To my lifelong pleas
They are not far away
They will come to be with me soon
Never far away
These things

Composed by Michael Ifeanyi Akuchie

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MY MOTHER

You sat and watch over my infant years

Gave up a life time worth of sacrifice 

And your comfort so for me you can be there
Today, I know you to be an angel

In your bosom I found
Love, care, compassion and hope
I grew up a humble man from a godly home
Taught me to stand upright when ever I fall

Told me moral stories under the moonlight
Why I don't need to fight to prove I am right
Because of you mother, I'll never lost my path
For you're my author and my guide

I've vowed to be a better man to my children and wife
And to love you the rest of my life
If I will write a song over and over again
I would say without mothers like you, the world would be disdain

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TALES OF A DRUNKEN SOUL

 

Behind the under-brushes of this place
Is a mass of quivering flesh
That was once my soul
My heart has risen from it's stupor
And has woken for it's reverie
I hold nothing but pieces of my soul

Consumed by beer
Burnt by the nerve racking effects
Of wasted nights at the bar
My tale is of a broken man
 Who kept his family close
And drew his drinking closer to himself

A wave of tumultuous vomit overtakes me
And I purge out years of regret
In my tale of sorrow and anguish
I release a lifetime's collection of bottled up
emotions
That has been shown the way out
From my sober self

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