Finding My Way

I don't care what you say,
It is your choice of words,
With images that slide onto my mind,
Like barbeque covers,

Keeping it clean and extending its life,
Making me think and search,
Easily starting to dig new paths to,
Potential hiding under untouched earth,

So that I can share my images, too,
Once I've emerged to light,
Eyes stinging, adjusting and now seeing,
How we all can unite.

So talk to me,
And I will listen, nay,
I'll live in your world using my own brain,
And maybe I'll fin'lly find my own way.

Bye Bye, Casino

So, the casino's dead,
With little resistance,
Ford's 'golden opportunity' 's tarnished,
By Wynne's Lib'ral province,

Because it doesn't want to share too much,
And there's no reason to,
When other city's are quick to play ball,
And give up much more of its revenue.

This is one issue I'll have to applaud,
The mayor got it right,
If maybe for all of the wrong reasons,
Or perhaps lack of fight.

What I will say,
Like David Hume before,
It doesn't matter why a thing is done,
It only matters who it is good for.

The $90K Scandal

If I was Steve Harper,
A well-known control freak,
Who ran on abolishing the senate,
If that is what he seeks,

And then my chief of staff,
A friend for decades and someone I trust,
Thinks it is a good thought,
To pay Mike Duffy's costs,

An act of poor judgement, not to be done,
Without my own consent,
By first Nigel Wright asking me outright,
Or him knowing my bent,

Which, either way,
Makes me an accomplice,
Then the next time Nigel came for dinner,
We'd laugh as Mike passed us the Hollandaise.

Personal Power

What's personal power,
And how can it be used,
To ensure that you follow you're own heart,
Even when part of groups,

Meant to create something in unison,
With others with power,
And diff'rent perspectives on how to live,
From all the other of the group members?

This is the problem we all struggle with,
Being human and all,
We need to live together in cities,
For all to stand up tall,

And be counted,
That's all anyone wants,
Not to actually become a number,
But be lauded for what others are not.

The Ford Saga

It's unbelievable,
Like the Leafs being out,
Like if Harper wore a tutu and said,
'The future is in doubt'.

It's not that I'm surprised that he'd smoke crack,
He is of the people,
And the people will still stand behind him,
Even if he's seen trolling for cheap pills.

What blows one's mind is that he's our mayor,
A fairly large city,
One of the most robust in the whole world,
Downtown or surrounding.

And here he is,
Forget controversies,
He spends time stifling debates on transit,
And wastes it getting kicked out of parties.

The World I Paint

I wish that I could paint,
Though, I've not stopped to guess,
Of what my style would be if I could,
Which makes me now digress...

When I was twenty, I bought an easel,
Some paints and a canvas,
And attempted to paint a self-portrait,
With no formal training and no practice,

I didn't get far on that eager whim,
And never tried again,
But now I think I know what I look like,
With years-long duration.

I look like me,
In a world I've painted,
And if I showed you what I'm seeing now,
You'd say, 'It's a beautiful world, ain't it?'.

The Leafs Eliminated

My son's fin'lly alive,
For playoffs with the Leafs,
Something that was common as I grew up,
Salming, Gilmour, Sundin.

And what a story they wrote for themselves!
Coming back from three-one,
To a game seven where they're up three goals,
With ten minutes left in regulation.

The two of us lived in a ree'lity,
Of the Leafs in round two,
My son went to bed before overtime,
To learn that reality can be skewed.

It's a small thing,
A team being knocked out,
But still a memory embedded in,
A mind still learning what life is about.

If You're Not Alive

If you don't have something,
To help you stop and think,
To know what you'd hold most dear in this life,
If you had anything,

If you've had no thoughts of why you are here,
That is hard to believe,
Struck by the fact that you exist at all,
In those moments without a sound or screen,

If you have never strayed from living for,
Those things that keep you live,
'Cause you've not been given an easy life,
Or been given the time.

If this is true,
Let me help you live, now,
Let me take some of your burdens from you,
So you can see the truth life allows.