To Run Away

  

I want to run away from home

And this boring life

While the television hums

In the backdrop of every day

I dream of places and things

I haven't yet known

As I roam these 

All too familiar walls

Where their comfort

No longer satisfies

And these floors 

Are worn with grooves

From my restless feet

Gazing now out this window

And reaching as far as my eyes can see

I can't seem to find the pull

I need to be free.

jj

Guns Make Holes

Outside our streets are crying
Young babes are dying
When you hear guns explode
Then freedom's just a word

There's a girl who's lost and frightened
There's a boy not afraid of dying
Can you hear? Have they stopped trying?
Is freedom just a word?

There's a man who's lost his son
It's a mother's only one
Do you hear? Have we stopped praying?
Is freedom just a word?

When a Child has fallen
Where have all the angels gone?
In the streets
Nobody has won
When freedom's just a word

Joni James 1995