Sunday, January 19, 2014

38 Nooses



38 Nooses
©Dan Sullivan 2014

38 Nooses swinging in the wind
The hangman checks his watch again
A few clouds drifting across the sky
And 38 Dakotas  waiting to die

Soldiers torn  by lead and steel
Ghosts departing  the battlefield
Into the smoke they disappear
Just as if they were never here

Husbands, wives, sons and daughters
Some were spared and some were slaughtered
The news spread like a prarie fire
Riding east on the telegraph wire

The thunder dies and all is still
Except for the creaking of the wheels
As ambulance wagons carry away
Ten thousand dead Blue and Grey

Justice  mixed in the blood of revenge
Weighed on the scale against the dead
The prarieland  is vast and cold
No one  knows the secrets it holds

Can you feel that December wind
It’s grey as shame and cold as sin
From the Land of Lakes the cold wind blows
All the way to Cashtown Road

38 Nooses swinging in the wind
The hangman checks his watch again
In the distance a coyote calls
And suddenly the  trap doors  fall

Saturday, January 11, 2014

Refugee


REFUGEE
© Dan Sullivan 2013

I am just a Refugee
I have no place to rest
I’m hungry and  I’m tired now
I have but one request

Won’t someone spare a Refugee
Some water and some bread
And perhaps a place upon the  floor
To lay my weary head

The fever  took my mother
I have no family
I’m lost and forgotten
There’s no one left for me

No vagabond am I 
I  did not choose this fate
To stand outside the city walls
Begging at the gate

I am just a Refugee
I have no place to rest
I’m hungry and I’m tired now
I have but one request

Won’t someone spare a Refugee
Some water and some bread
And perhaps a place upon the  floor
To lay my weary head




Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Can We Give It One More Try?





© 2014 Dan Sullivan


It’s the New Year
It’s a brand new start,
I’m alone here
With my old broken heart

I need to feel
Your sweet heart next to mine
Is there a chance
We can give it one more try?

I know they say
Everything will heal in time
But have they ever
Had a broken heart like mine ?

I was a fool
I never meant to make you cry
Is there a chance
We can give it one more try?

Once I had your love but I let it slip away
Now I'm missing you more and more each day

It’s the New Year
It’s a brand new start,
I’m alone here
With my old broken heart

I need to feel
Your sweet heart next to mine
Is there a chance
We can give it one more try?

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

When This Burden Is Lifted From Me

©Dan Sullivan 2014

Like a leaf I am blown
Back and forth, to and fro
Helplessly adrift on the breeze
But Angels will rejoice 
And they’ll sing in one voice
When this burden is lifted from me 

I am trapped in this life
Between darkness and light
Where temptation won’t let me be
But Angels will rejoice
And they’ll sing in one voice
When this burden is lifted from me

In this world I stumble and fall into sin
I repent then I fall once again
Sometimes I fall to my knees in prayer
Sometimes my weakness is too much to bear

I am trapped in this life
Between darkness and light
Where temptation won’t let me be
But Angels will rejoice
And they’ll sing in one voice
When this burden is lifted from me