Words & Music

by Mike Power

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  • The words we were afraid to say…

    Nothing that elicits or inspires desire Is welcome in the place anymore The wind that you hear crying Isn’t crying out of hope or need The hottest we can get is warm But there is no bottom to the cold cold cold cold The impossible, that became the unthinkable, Became the impractical before becoming the Read more

  • First Impression

    I try to make a lousy first impression to avoid heightened expectations and other forms of complications There will be time for explanations later later later later Read more

  • Different Kinds of Artists

    We’re different kinds of artists You and me in both our aims and our results We see the same things but through different pairs of eyes and the color you call green is the one that I call black The fingers I use to hold my brush has been broken for long years The smile Read more

  • Let Me Sleep

    Let me sleep and wipe away your figures from my heart Let me hold your moments tight while others fade away Let the wobbling walls all fall and bring the ceiling down Let the rain fill up each cup until it’s overflowing Let me sleep and dream away the time that I have left Let Read more

  • OK, Boomer

    There is something that happens between every generation when the younger one begins to supplant the older one. And it’s not always pretty. Especially for the older one. The older generation for me, when mine was the younger one, lived through The Great Depression and World War II, witnessing horrors I couldn’t understand. Horrors that Read more

  • The Roaring Twenties

    The first couple of decades of a new century are like a hangover: the opposite of a fresh start. All the mistakes of the recent past are still festering in the blood, making us sick and stupid, and bringing out the worst in us. The third decade brings with it the roar of the new Read more