The LINE (Life Is Never Enough)


They say the shortest distance.between two points.is a straight line,

We all hoard existence, it’s hard to accept when its your time,

The eternal drama is closing, my forever is winding up,

The line never stops moving, you can never have time enough,

Time to make amends for your sins, time to commit another,

Time to say goodbye to your friends, or reconcile with your brother,

Time to see the world change, embrace love and give to one another,

Perhaps there’s time still that I might live another summer,

Wanna live to listen to Midnights,

Live for another chance to say I’ll make it happen on this night,

Wanna live to see LeBron take the court with his sons,

Maybe live to see my script made starring my girls, you know the ones,

Live to go back to the night of that day, I’m still trying to figure a way how,

But fate designed it this way, maybe it’s just too late now,

Despair is the fate that you meet in the twilight of your last hour,

Repair the mistakes that I made in that suite at the Trump Tower,

And the Aria lobby, although I think she’d be disgusted to see me probably,

I still love you, Molly, I’ve never broken my promise, 

I know that it wasn’t your fault, it was me and the world that caused this.


I stand ready for judgment, smell the metal scent of the coffin nail,

A man is a tricky subject, his best intentions so often fail,

But I remember the others before me, and all that their struggle cost them,

So I stand up and fight on, ‘til the breath of my life is exhausted,

Mohican type, last of my tribe, like Noah I witness the flood,

No need to type, my books just show up written in blood,

Red type like the words of Christ, but my crucifixion’s different,

Read otherworldly rites, Rosicrucian scriptures,

Studied words from the Buddha and Lao Tzu, international mystic,

I’m a warrior for justice, like Dan Sheehan when he founded Christic,

In prison or maybe hell with thugs who one time were disobedient, 

Silent prayers in cells, wishing one-time would stop just beating them,

I’ve been resurrected twice, dare I ask for a third time? 

Maybe see world with my wife, share our dreams for the first time,

You always want more when you get here, Life Is Never Enough,

You don’t know the score til the bench clears, I can never give up.


Heard all my life, “Just be patient, your day will come”, I was naive and believed it,

I’ve been waiting anxious, and now my life’s twilight has turned into evening,

Line in the sand, journey to the line between life and death,

Line of the shots that hit JFK and Malcolm X, 

The line that goes on forever, the line in the circle of life,

The line that unites the lost souls wandering the streets in the night,

The line around the food banks, the line waiting for justice,

The line at the border crossings of refugees fleeing destruction,

The line waiting for housing, the line waiting for Jesus,

The line of our people before us and those yet to come who will need us,

The line of my lost dreams, the dream that my lines will be heard,

It’s out of my hands now,

Flat line and my last words.




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