I/m clearing out old stuff, and I wrote this song in August 2006. I had been all pulverized two years previously and I was learning about suffering in new ways. Through it all, I learned the simple truth that Time Takes Time. Thanks Mr. Starkey.

enjoy…

No fun inside here
Out of sight
Not out of mind
A million moments to be alone
Mother Nature
Isn’t always kind
Patient indifference
To a fight
A tired a fighter inside
No way to sleep
While watches unwind
Warriors and little Braves
Gentle winds and Butterfly graves
Time takes time
Lusty breath and coma rain
Dust in a destiny of pain
Times takes time
Storms that devour a helpless sky
Hurt that doesn’t know at all why
Time takes time
All my secrets
Just to shy
To admit they are sin
Teeth in bones
She’s got a very funny grin

-john r durant August 2006

Losing things as fast as I can

Curled up like a child just how I began

Dust-bin Danny's got a crooked walk

His lonely secrets beg him to talk

Every Winter feels just like Spring

Since I died I don't feel a thing

Sweet, sweet gentle suicide

Lets all my courage run and hide

Not all that's dark is bad for me

Inky silence sets me free

Every night whispers "The end"

Dawn laughs it off, "Let's do it again"

I'm a tired fighter-- tasted too much blood

A weary little dove after the flood

A wide-eyed junkie waiting for a fix

A bruised lover just taking her licks

These wounds I was meant to own

Make me unafraid and alone

I wish that I could shine like you

Bought my halo with an I.O.U.

Keeping these ghosts alive

Something dies just to survive

Greenfields

The promise of something new

Greenfields

It's down to just me and you

May 2009