To be quiet 
and learn not 
to speak into 
deaf ears has 
made a difference 
I’m just gonna 
sit over here 
and stay away 
from over there 
sipping my coffee 
and let others 
do their thing 
be it happiness 
or their misery 

If ever
I dreamed
this just 
like this
back when 
I might’ve 
I’d done 
so with 
the disbelief 
that ever
if a
dream such
as this 
came true 
I’d tell 
the world 
and now 
I have 

So now in
this quiet night 
when lamps glow 
and piano music 
hangs like netting 
keeping out noise 
of my thoughts 
chasing them away 
one little note 
at a time 
and making way 
for this tune 

In a flurry 
happens a hurry
and plans scurry 
about like fury
where to go 
what to do
with you know 
who calm down 
smile don’t frown
wear a gown 
be a clown 

Twilight is 
daybreak’s twin
not identical 
but of
the same 
mother dusk
is dawn’s
and is
that too
but two
days down