Allurements of progress maintain a stranglehold
Increasingly cunning, increasingly bold,
Traditional realms overshadowed with strife
Malfunctioning systems disguise family life.

Beyond a facsimile of God's true will
Flagrant abandonment of social skills,
Inverted expansions of future cares
Lessening of consciousness. Beware! Beware!

Systematic contamination of body and mind
Unpolluted innocence most difficult to find,
Integrity increasing with an intangible stride
Creating a tattered web of un-illuminated pride.

Evaluation of self, occurring less and less
Mutilation of values intertwining a mess,
Atrocities revisited time and again
When will we learn that no one will win?

The years have passed so quickly
The memories are shadowed by time gone by,
Yet the hurt stands out like
The cold sting of a windy, wintry day.

Mama was always there to prove her love
Oh how I loved to show her my special things,
To know she was within my reach
Hearing the songs we struggled so hard to learn.

Daddy's face always seems to slip away
Never really being able to remember his smile,
Nor quite feeling his warm brown eyes
As his voice seems to echo in a never ending darkness.

Oh, Dear Daddy! Why were you always too busy
To give yourself to me and my special things?
If only you had tried, one time would have been enough
To help your smile linger within my memories.

A peaceful energy has come my way
The movement of nothing this fine bright day,
Leaves on the tree dare not sway
As birds in the air pass over this way.

Calm is a luxury in this excuse for a world
Red, white, blue left unfurled,
Accusations abound, hateful words hurled
My stomach is churning, knotted and curled.

Peace is a memory, hard to find
Out of sight and out of mind,
This old world is quick to remind
Peace comes to those who are deaf and blind.

Within a land so diverse
Created by God's hand,
Stand gentle giants
Guarding this Texas land.
Timeless Texas Treasures
Dancing in the wind,
Welcoming all strangers
As if they were friends.
Through freezing winter nights
And blistering summer days,
Witnessing through the ages
Such glorious displays.
Among sunrises and sunsets
Spectacular colors are cast,
Paying homage to the present,
The future, the past.

Translucent shades of orange laced with spun gold
Resurrection of a story, the best ever told,
Embellishing details among colors so bold
Remembering a Texas journey, a wondrous life to unfold.
Kindness and goodness courageously walk hand in hand
With unwavering certainty traveling through this great land,
God's architectural glory of light so grand
Enjoying the euphoria of one lone grain of sand.
As unforgettable Texas memories abound
Pleasure can be experienced all around,
East to west, north to south they are found
From salty coastal regions to the desert night sounds.
The Texas experience is one of a kind
Nothing quite like it you will ever find,
Enjoy each moment with a Texas mind
Extremely diverse, forever sublime.