He Did Achieve His Dreams

He did achieve his dreams of great wealth and fame

And far beyond his hometown his became a known name

But like many who have achieved in life the dreams they did pursue

His dreams did not bring him happiness when for him they came true

Wealth and fame can win you friends he came to realize

But in retrospect it is easy to be wise

Your accumulated wealth others may well impress

And though money may buy you many things it cannot buy you happiness

With a son and three lovely young daughters and a beautiful wife

Things one would think were going well for him in life

But money from him could not keep unhappiness away

And he only did grow sadder by the day

A year ago his own end he did decide

He drowned in the sea a victim of suicide.

No Business Of Mine

Since this is their business  this suits me fine

For what is their business is no business of mine

The favourable opinions of the judgmental i do not desire

Good luck to the people that they do admire

Between the value of people they only differentiate

And big egos in the World they does create

I am one of those people who enjoy penning rhyme

It is something i have been doing over decades of time

Without the staus of any money for doing it as pay

My sort verbal fodder for the judgmental in this judgmental World of today

The Human World with their sort could well do without

Since change for the betterment of humanity they never bring about

And what they think or say of me does suit me quite fine

For what is their business is no business of mine.

The Greatest Of Beauty

The greatest of beauty i do not pay to see

Everyday it is everywhere all around me

The beauty grown by Earth Mother that Nature helps to create

A beauty that lovers of things natural celebrate

The beauty in Nature to view and hear is free

A wildborn songbird singing on a sunlit tree

Nature her beauty with everyone share

Anything human made with it cannot compare

Her wonders are many and her secrets not few

And every day of her we learn something new

The artists and writers she does inspire

And of singing her praises it does seem hard to tire

Her besuty is all around us every day

It is something for to view we do not have for to pay.

On The Judas Sheep

In every abbatoir they have a judas sheep

For her right to life she must work to earn her keep

By leading her kindred up the slaughter ramp to their deaths every day

Unbeknown to herself them she does betray

For saving the slaughter house workers work effort and time

She will be alllowed to outlive her physical prime

Her ticket to life is she was born to lead

Of heroic sheep stories one never does read

The poor judas sheep she does not realize

That doing what comes natural to her to betrayal of her kindred gives rise

Her leadership role in life the only reason she remains alive

Whilst her followers not one of them ever survive

For our own gain us humans animals manipulate

The followers of the judas sheep end up on a dinner plate

For her natural leadership role a pardon from death she receive

But unbeknown to herself her own kind every day she deceive

Named after Judas Iscariot who betrayed Jesus centuries ago

But that the judas sheep is an innocent creature happens to be so

She is only doing to her what does come naturally

And of any sense of guilt she is one who is free.

Joe

On his last birthday Joe turned ninety three

Old enough to be my dad and much healthier and fitter than me

The hair on his balding head may be silver gray

But he jogs five or six kilometres every day

Twelve years ago his wife Linda passed away

He is twenty times a great grand-dad quite a lot of descendants as one might say

He began jogging seventy years ago before his physical prime

And this is going back many Seasons in time

One who has never taken part in a competitive race

He says i just like to jog along at my own pace

He does not smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol and is a vegetarian by choice

For clean and healthy living he is one who is a voice

Quite a likeable fellow of him one can say

He turned ninety three on his last birthday.

For The Sake Of Your Dependents

The lady of luck is not smiling your way

For you it has been quite a miserable day

Your boss has knocked back your request for a raise in pay

And though you would like to quit in this job you must stay

Many are unemployed and job vacancies are few

That it is an employers job market is not saying what is new

But with a wife and two young daughters financially depending on you

To stay in this job is the best you can do

For the sake of your daughters and their mother your wife

To you the most important people in your life

You will stay in this job though the weekly pay is small

Even a poorly paid job is better than no job at all

Though your greedy boss is a user and known as not good to pay

For the sake of your dependents in this job you will stay.

The Silent One

A group of loud talkers in a bragging display

Trying to outboast each other their tongues wagging away

Of their latest achievements and success of the day

With just one amongst them with nothing to say

The silent one did not partake in adding to the din

He just sat there in silence taking in

The competitive bragging to him boring to hear

That he was not impressed with their waffling by his body language seemed clear

Not his sort of party he seemed out of place

And of any emotion he did not show a trace

For to join in the babble he did not have the will

As is said of quiet waters they are deep and still

Of any party his sort not the life

But since the host of the evening is a good friend of his wife

To be a rude person he is one not known

And he came with his wife since she would not come on her own

The silent one where the babble was loud

Not the one to add to the volume of the crowd

Silence is golden as a truism remain

The meaning in this it's own self does explain.