Senior Serenade

I want to be alright
For the rest of my life
Have no more fears
On my coming years

Just have a home
I can call my own
With my own kitchen
Do my own cookin’

Just to live carefree
As free as I can be
Not a care for rent
In my retirement

Just to be at peace
With no enemies
Be a caring friend
To everyone I can

Yes, I’m getting old
And my fate’s untold
But if I had a wish
My wish is just for this…

I want to be alright
For the rest of my life
Have no more fear
On the coming years

Bill MacEachern August 15, 2024

Those Days

Those days
Those days
They come to an end
What was back then
Cannot be again
Bottle it up
Sip from it when
You long for
The days
You thought would not end

Those days
Those days
Were just like that
Memorable times
We’ll never get back
It’s alright
Just dandy with me
Those days
Those days
Are sweet memories

Those days
Those days
My mothers baked bread
Still smelling swell
Just all in my head
That’s ok
For we all will see
Those days
Those days
Come back in our dreams

Those days
Those days
All those bygones
Treasure them well
They won’t last you long
Embrace what you loved
Forget all the rest
Those days
Those days
Were simply the best

Bill MacEachern December 6, 2023

School Of Life

Never travelled
’Round the world
But been
Around that block

Never really
Finished school
But read a
Many book

Didn’t chef
Le Cordon Bleu
But surely
I can cook

Didn’t train at
Juilliard
But feet danced
All they could

Never been to
Prison
But did
My own time

By building up
So many walls
In my
Own mind

It isn’t where ya
Went to school
It’s all in
Where ya been

I’ve been around
So many folks
Who’ve taught me
How to live

Bill MacEachern July 8, 2024

Town Full Of Sound

I use to live in
A town full of sound
With Roller Coasters
And Merry Go Round
Horns would blast
To sound an alarm

I use to live in
A town full of sound

I use to live in
A town full of sound
Pinballs were zinging
And barkers would hound
Foghorns were blaring
A mournful fog song

I use to live in
A town full of sound

I use to live in
A town full of sounds
Salt water taffy
Came clacking on down
The bandstand was swinging
Those Glen Miller songs

I use to live in
A town full of sound

I use to live in
A  town full of sound
Where all sorts of music
Played all over town
Screech of the crowd
As the Comet roared down

I use to live in
A town full of sound

Bill MacEachern May 2, 2024

Blackout

I sit in a blackout
What can I do
Wind is a howling
The rain's angry too

Windowsills rattle
High up on my floor
I live on the seventh
And hear every roar

I'm starting to find
A still quietness
Mixed with a thunder
Of solitudeness

I sit in a blackout
What will I do
I'll sit here and bask
In my gratitude

Bill MacEachern December 18, 2023

🎄 Ma’s Tree🎄

Bulbs, lights and tinsel
Ring memories
Each bulb a treasure
That went on Ma’s Tree

Unpacked with kid gloves
Like newborn baby’s
Kids dared not touch
Such fragility’s

Ma left the fun part
For all of us kids
Like licking the spoon
Us kids dug right in

Handfuls of tinsel
Were flung on Ma’s tree
Topped with her angel
High up on it’s peak

Bill MacEachern December 17, 2023

Guilt Distilled

It’s hard to turn away
From all of what I see
If I close my eyes
The guilt distills in me

When I write about
All I need to say
Sadly, I see
Love ones fade away

But if I turn my back
To all, that must be seen
Well, Then I risk to lose
My own humanity