THE LAST TIME YOU KNOCKED ME AROUND  ©JewelRainbow2009

The last time you knocked me around I knew it was the last time

I kept quiet and didn’t cry as I felt those once-warm embers die

On the end of your punch, as I heard its bruising crunch

As I fell to the floor, as you slammed me into the door as I ran

Did you feel like a real man? Like Ali as you hit me?…

EQUILIBRIUM (a tribute to racehorses) ©JewelRainbow

Up and off to work before dawn, the first to see the rising sun

Each day finds you already saddled up and ready for your run

Or returning from a pitch-black gallop so your fleet secret is kept

By your rider, trainer and timekeeper who plan to place a hefty bet

Crouched along your strong neck I see the once-real world

Around us framed between your velvet ears like a movie set

Now appear to…

BABY BOOMER CRASH ©JewelRainbow2009

The stockmarket crashed last year and turned at once from bull to bear

Savaging those once flush with cash now burned and broken everywhere

Flash homes and cars and credit cards, we’ve now had to discard

Our selfish greed and excess, we’ve now had to redress

Our lazy kids, so overindulged and smugly rich

Now forced reluctantly to ditch their expensive wheels and toys

And live simply along with the rest of us…