Father

Take a drink from that

Burning that calls you

washing down

us

Pour your life 

from that Bottle

I push it down

Swallow Life

Don't things matter?

Washing down

All of us

Marked your grave with that

Bullet that called you

Took you down

Into the ground

Poured your life

From that bottle

Tell me now

Are you drunk?

Swallowed life

Did things not matter?

It took you down

Drink to dust

Swallowed life

Did I not matter?

It took you down

It took me down.

Joni James 2007

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