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No Time

If in Heaven all truth does lie
And one has no choice but to die
So speed the day so I might see
All the love that’s been lost to me.

If love being lost is to close that door
And Heaven is not my answer nor my cure,
Then a shattered heart will never mend
And my decisions are ones I cannot defend.

In pain with desperation and disbelief.
I seek the Heavenly answer to bring me relief,
But will that relief bring an end
To a heart that’s broken with no chance to mend.

Because mend it must before time be
Completely over and closed to me.

© 2018, Danny Kemp All rights reserved.

The sun had disappeared in a distance sky,

As a woman walked home with a tear in her eye.

A laugh shared at work, but there’s no one at home.

Few understand what it’s like to be really on your own.


Home to thoughts of weakness, desolation, and fear.

There's no consolation to find inside that tear.

Regrets and confusion with things that have past.

What should have been forever failed to last?


Loneliness lives within a troubled mind.

Nowhere to hide, no safety to find.

Alone at night without a helping hand.

Life is suspended by the merest strand.


© 2018, Danny Kemp All rights reserved.

No Time For War

In the silence in the shadows
In the deepest grave that’s ever been,
Lives the voice of all reason
In the world no-one’s seen.

Memories will be rewritten with no pain left inside.
Tears will be forgotten. There was no time when you cried.

In the valleys deep and darkened
In the nightmares, in the screams
Lives the Devil that needs fighting
Fill those shadows with your dreams.

Memories will be rewritten with no pain left inside.
Tears will be forgotten. There was no time when you cried.

From the dawning of the sunrise
To the dwindling dusk of night
Think not of inky skies above you
Fill those shadows with your light.

Memories will be rewritten with no pain left inside.
Tears will be forgotten. There was no time when you cried.

In the world that’s been constructed
In a life you can claim
There’s no darkness of the memories
There’s no memories of the shame.

Memories will be rewritten with no pain left inside.
Tears will be forgotten. There was no time when you cried.

Persecution is forbidden
Hypocrisy is no more
Love is unchanging
In the dream you’ll be living there’s no time for a bloody war.

© 2019 Daniel Kemp All rights reserved

As a thrush does sing and the wind can roar,
So now I wish ‘tis only love I saw.
As the sun does rise and the night descend,
So the love that started would not end.
Slowly the love became our destiny
And that is how it should always be.

But what of death when it calls our name?
When that occurs, there's only life to blame.
Death does take the passion from love
But did we not touch the sky above?
We share no thoughts of desperate regret.
Ours was a love that no one could forget.

by Daniel Kemp
Endless

Give me something of what I need
Give me a reason to stay awake
Give me the love that I gave to you
Give me rage till my body does ache

Show me the scars and tell me why
Show me the memory of that pain
Show me the love that you gave
Show me the feeling when that man was slain

Ask me if it’s true what I have told you
Ask me how many times I told you a lie
Ask me if I knew the difference
Ask me if what I told you I would now deny

Tell me why you are so angry
Tell me why you never believed
Tell me why you never left him
Tell me why you were so easily deceived

When did you lose your faith
When did you first feel lost
When did you first feel alone
When did you draw a line at the cost

Why was it we met too late
Why was it we could never be
Why was it we were left behind
Why was it you could never see?

© 2020, Daniel Kemp All rights reserved.

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To Pay the Price

I sit and wish for silence bereft of any sound.
But echoes of saddening voices are resounding all around.

I hear people in the shadows that pass noisily in the night,
They make me wish for anonymity and be hidden out of sight.

Is loneliness so full of sadness that it’s so hard to recognise,
Or is the taste in the tears of sorrow that are waiting to be cried?

It feels as if pain waits in every doorway, every place I go?
Does it lurk on every corner? Does know what I know?

Will staying away from shadows make the evil go away?
Or can solitude be the answer if the price is not too high to pay?

© 2022 Daniel Kemp. All rights reserved.

To be humble, to be grateful, to be caring, to be kind,

Are four small words, but huge qualities to find.

Politicians give us promises. They tell us what they want us to hear.

They manipulate our trust. They orchestrate fear.

Politics create the dead. Politics doesn’t care if others die.

Power is the politician’s God. My truth is the politicians lie.

© 2022 Daniel Kemp All Rights Reserved

Maybe!

It’s maybe in the shadows when life is at its darkest.
Maybe it hides in the mind when you’re feeling insecure.
It’s maybe only there when you’re at your lowest.
Maybe that’s when love will find you and offer a cure.

© 2023, Daniel Kemp All rights reserved.