The Life They Live.

Gambling Man 

Empty pockets

Drunken Woman 

Clutching her pretty locket 

Old Man 

Walks the Street 

Shuffling each step 

With time to keep 

Disturbed housewife 

Wondering why 

The walls don't talk back 

Are they shy ? 

Graceful Dancer 

Twirling to a tune 

Forgetting what happened 

On a dark day in June

Bala clavered head

Breaking the door

Will fill his bag 

With all that's in store

Distant lawn mower 

With an owner that sighs 

Bees buzzing round 

Sunflowers high

A happy child 

Looking at the Sun

In his hand 

A Cowboy's gun 

Teenagers waiting 

For School to end 

Summer vacations 

Just around the bend

We all live 

Such different lives 

Some of them good 

A few of them sad

That gambling Man shouts 

To a devil of class 

That drunken woman stumbles 

With her Demon filled glass

Life swallows us all 

With stories to be told

A legacy set 

In  a page of gold.