Category Archives: Small

Only You Can Say Two faces in the shadows of a mostly darkened room, Content with anonymity and keeping hid from view, We hover in our reticence on the dim edge of the night, Afraid to make the first move to the light. A circle lies between us where the light falls on the floor. [...]

I’ve Had Enough Chorus I’ve had enough of this religious stuff. I’ve had enough. Leave me alone. I’ve had enough of your mythology, So don’t sell it to me. I’ve had enough. I was driving to school, and though it isn’t that far, You know the bus isn’t cool. I’ve got my own car. I [...]

He Doesn’t Have A Prayer (But I Do) I said, “I’ll pray for you.” He just smiled and said, “Go on and try.” He wouldn’t ask me to But there’s something like a thank-you in his eyes. He’s been down so long He can’t get to his knees. He isn’t hopeless, But that’s what he [...]

The Glory Of The Field On the prairies where the fields grow tall With grain and grass for grazing There’s an ocean made by windy skies And wheat forever waving. You can stand and watch the breakers come Horizon to horizon. I’m waiting, watching for a home That I never have laid eyes on. Chorus: [...]

Mercy Me Mercy to the man standing on the corner. Will work for food. will take a dollar. Mercy to the man who has no education, Breaking his back for nearly nothing. Chorus: Mercy me. O mercy me. If I don’t do it for the least of these, Then I don’t do it for you, [...]

Dancing On A Moving Truck We were four days in Haiti. We’d been driving every day. We were all out of stories. We were tired of talking anyway, Tired of crazy drivers, dodging potholes in the dirt In a race without a finish line where somone’s always getting hurt. Almost at the hotel when by [...]

That’s Why The Sky Is Blue The Garden was green And so full of light, A rainbow of colors For the man and his wife. The serpent was black With temptation and sin, And the world has been dark Because they listened to him. Chorus: That’s why the sky is blue Sometimes you know I [...]

Out On The Isthmus Out on the isthmus where the storms rage with gray fire, The ocean boils in black and white. Out on the isthmus where the wind shrieks with laughter, Hurling herself against the night. And the rocks stand cold like broken graves Of the wayward souls who would walk this way With [...]

Small Sitting on my porch swing. Sun is coming up. Johnson grass is waving At a passing pickup truck. There’s a sweetness as the morning Blows a kiss across my face. And the little things get better When I just slow down the pace. Chorus: Bigger might be better, But I don’t think it’s true. [...]

The Night When The Chameleons Started To Sing Perhaps it was the color of the moon that night As she peered down on the zoo with a purple-golden light. All was still and quiet under the watchman’s keep, But the blue-vermillion glow awoke the animals from sleep. Something got them wound up tighter than a [...]