Mike Shanahan

After the storm comes sunshine..
Then the Rainbow..
Dressed in its finest colours
To amaze my mind
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Far across the Ocean
In the “Land of the Free”
I met a Laughing Flower
And then life changed for me
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I found it drifting in the wind
I saw its vibrant colours in my mind
I found it soft and hurt and picked it up
I held it to my breast and felt it breathe
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Awakening to the rays of sunlight
Stumbling from a Tent
On one deserted island Paradise
Disbelief on faces of friends gathered
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I come with constant Drum
Through Corridors of Time eternal
In my new Array I move
To sate my appetite.
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Should you ask me on a Summers’ day
Which rose I pick for you
I pick the one with deepest red and dew
The red is for the passion and the love
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Have you ever waltzed amongst the stars
Travelled through the milky night,
Seen a moonbeam dance,
Been to heaven for a night and then dreamed of romance?
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For all the time I knew you
And all the times we smiled
For all the times I held you
And all the times we’ve cried
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Coming upon a silent wooden scene I thought
To address a smallish bush of lemon scent
And as I succomed
My mind sent reeling
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If this were my last day
What would I do, say, think?
I would fly to be with you
I would say I loved you
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Walking dead in the night
Thinking on the wisps of steam from the gutters
Learning about myself and the devils in my mind
Screaming at the lights to end it
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The fiery orb slowly disappears
Leaving tiny traces of past glory
As you disappear out of my life
Tiny remnants still remain
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Daddy daddy please tell me why
That spider ate that little fly?

That spider ate the little fly
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I heard her crying through the mist of time
Her voice so mournful, sad, no hope to find
I heard the locked- in misery of her mind
A melody so pleading, tearing, so bereft of rhyme.
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The song, it echoed sweetly
This melody of purity so fine
To cause this bud to life
To cause this rose to form
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There was a whisper in the wind
A breathing.. as if by nature sent
To tell the lovers, of a child
A baby girl, that God had sent.
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