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Attention is the air I breathe

November 15, 2025 

No memory of having starred
Atones for later disregard,
Or keeps the end from being hard.
–Robert Frost

You're the water 
I'm Narcissus 
You're the source 
Of all my wishes
When the pool
Begins to dry
That's when I 
Begin to die

Everybody, look at me 
Attention is the air I breathe

When my latest
Book won't sell
It's like the deepest
Ring of hell
People won't
Return my calls
Like Icarus
I fall and fall

Everybody, look at me 
Attention is the air I breathe

I used to be 
Among the guys
That everyone 
Would recognize
Invisible
And seized with pain
As seasons turn 
And fashions change

Everybody, look at me 
Attention is the air I breathe

by Richard W. Bray

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There’s lots of hurt to go around

October 18, 2025 







She scrambled up my insides pretty good
I drank myself past crazy, knock on wood

I grabbed my hounds and packed my sled
And prayed for better days ahead

I never cared for that old town
There's lots of hurt to go around

I thought she'd be the one to make me true
I end up sad no matter what I do

The best laid plans don't guarantee 
A life that's free of misery

I tried so hard – I let her down
There's lots of hurt to go around

We did the Tallahassee do-si-do
Then she left me bleeding in the snow

My chariot is flying low
I guess it's just my time to go 

Harps and horns make lovely sound
There's no more hurt to go around 

by Richard W. Bray 






									


				
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A little heaven big enough for two

				September 28, 2025

				

					












A funny movie on a rainy day
Things we’re feeling but we cannot say
 
I say goodbye to all the gloomy doom
Just by knowing that you're in the room

A gentle symphony of you and me
Dissolving into simple melody
Greatest beauty that could ever be

Like a fire on a frozen night
You bring the heat and keep it burning bright 

So many hurts and stings and scary things
Shelter me with all the love you bring

A gentle symphony of you and me
Dissolving into simple melody
Greatest beauty that could ever be

More contentment than I ever knew
A little heaven big enough for two

A gentle symphony of you and me
Dissolving into simple melody
Greatest beauty that could ever be

by Richard W. Bray

									


				
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can we listen? can we talk?

				September 17, 2025

				

					












can we listen?
can we talk?
can we walk around the block?
can we solve our problems
with words instead of rocks?

can we listen?
can we talk?
are we able to be free?
can we plant a garden
without a Poison Tree?

can we listen?
can we talk?
can we ever be certain
it's not a big lie
not the man behind the curtain?

can we listen?
can we talk?
can we walk around the block? 
can a man have an opinion
without losing his job?

can we listen?
can we talk?
frustration festers below
keep it out in the sun
and let your flower grow

by Richard W. Bray

									


				
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Ain’t nothing on the outside that’s gonna make you whole

				August 21, 2025

				

					











To fight aloud, is very brave —
But gallanter, I know
Who charge within the bosom
The Cavalry of Woe —
–Emily Dickinson

You always loved the thunder 
And you're scared of the light 
Hiding from your insides
So you pick another fight 

It's time to shut up 
And listen to yourself 
Your neverending squabbles
Are ruining your health

Scrolling through the profiles
And it makes your body burn
Life is not a scrapbook
Some people never learn 

It's time to shut up 
And listen to your heart
Stop flailing around
Or you'll tear yourself apart 

You're over there and everywhere 
You're talking on the phone
In everybody's business
You can't stand to be alone

It's time to shut up 
And listen to your soul
Ain't nothing on the outside 
That's gonna make you whole

by Richard W. Bray

									


				
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Before the truth puts on its pants

				July 9, 2025

				

					











Before the Truth puts on its pants
The Lie begins its grim advance
Honesty ain’t got a chance
The world is just a Devil’s Dance

I lived a lie called you and me 
In a world that cannot be
So many things I could not see
Now I’m blessed with misery

Before the Truth puts on its pants
The Lie begins its grim advance
Honesty ain’t got a chance
The world is just a Devil’s Dance

Don’t believe your lying eyes
Don’t fall for tales from spooky spies 
We’re running out of alibis 
When murder falls down from the skies

Before the Truth puts on its pants
The Lie begins its grim advance
Honesty ain’t got a chance
The world is just a Devil’s Dance

Nations skid and empires fall
The crazy pity of it all
Don’t bang your head against the wall
When the Devils start to call

Before the Truth puts on its pants
The Lie begins its grim advance
Honesty ain’t got a chance
The world is just a Devil’s Dance

by Richard W. Bray

									


				
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Don’t deny a helping hand

				July 1, 2025

				

					
















Bring it all back home
Enjoy the bounty of the land
Bring it all back home
Cast your buckets where you stand

Bring it all back home
Put a feather in your nest
Bring it all back home
Wishing everyone the best

Bring it all back home
Put your shoulder to the plough
Bring it all back home
Feel the sweat upon your brow

Bring it all back home
Don't deny a helping hand
Bring it all back home
Love every person in the land

Bring it all back home
Plant a garden in your heart
Bring it all back home 
That's the place to make a start

by Richard W. Bray

									


				
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They can talk and they can talk

				June 21, 2025

				

					












You're my where 
You’re my why
You’re my supply 
You get me high 
Times are tough 
The well is dry
But we're gonna get by 

They can talk and they can talk
They’re lying
Up and down the block
They know we got everything
We don’t have to say a thing

Their bitter lives of misery
Don’t wanna know 
What they see
When they look at you and me
It’s what they’re never gonna be

They can talk and they can talk
They’re lying
Up and down the block
They know we got everything
We don’t have to say a thing

by Richard W. Bray 


									


				
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A Kitten’s Nursery Rhyme

				June 13, 2025

				

					
















In the vagaries of time 
When Al Green explores your mind 
Just a kitten’s nursery rhyme
Of a single chorus line 
Where the dancers hope to find 
Another dream of wealth and wine

All of the hippos at the zoo
Have got a pebble in their shoe
And the trickster’s happy crew
Is eating crocodile stew
The unicorns are dancing too
With a song that's just for you 

I found a refuge in your eyes
Refreshment under rainy skies
Where my stupidity is wise
You were too sweet to realize
Out of a world of better guys
You really thought I was a prize

by Richard W. Bray

									


				
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There’s not a wrong road or a right road

				May 23, 2025

				

					













You did the things you did
And here is where you are 
The future pulls us forward
Like the engine in my car

Since you were a kid 
You've been wearing out your luck
And now you're feeling empty
Like the gas in your truck 

There’s not a wrong road
Or a right road
There’s just one road to live
What you gonna take?
What you gonna give?

You can't fix the things you broke
Can't take back what you said
When your dreams go up in smoke 
You gotta make your own bed

The world is changing every day
And you can do it too
You can build your own road
You can create your own view

There’s not a wrong road
Or a right road
There’s just one road to live
What you gonna take?
What you gonna give?

by Richard W. Bray


									


				
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