Always True

I want to be your private dancer tonight
Baby, bring you over here and
I'll make it alright
It's when I'm with you, the
Future is bright,
Gonna make you smile tonight.

Kick off your shoes, Babe
Let me get you a drink and
Listen to what you think.
Go get you comfy, my Mate
I'll begin serving something
That you'll appreciate
Just what you like, served on a plate.

Turn on the TV, Love
Early in the day, I recorded that
Allstar game you wanted to see.
I'll be under the table, if you need me.
Under one wood, yet tasting another.
So proud to love this fine ass Brother!

I love the way you hold me tight
I love the way you love me,
Throughout the night.
The way you make me feel, each day
The way you whisk my fears away.
What you do, how you make me feel
Let's me know your love's for real.

I want to be the one who comforts
Your umbrella in the rain.
No matter what, through thick and thin
I pray our love sustains.
Whether fully charged, or
Stepped back a notch or two,
I pray we can always hug and
Call our friendship, a love that's
Always true.
I love you.


Kahala Lei
Always True
Blood Money Poets
copyright 2012

Surrounded By War

Survival of the fittest is what it's about
While they were trying to fit in,
She looked for a way out
Will someone just tell her
What all this fighting is for?
It seems to be that she is
Surrounded by war.

Surrounded by war
Gunshots, night and day
Where the fighting persues
As she slips away.
Riding the train
Off into the night
A bit of serenity
A lifetime of plight.

She continues the journey
Year after bitter year,
It begins to look like the
Journey is clear.
Why all this pain?
Why choose with me?
She asks these same questions
For what seems like infinity.
All of this fighting, and
What is the fighting for?
Seems to her that we are
Surrounded by war.

Surrounded by war
You say that it's not the end?
Explain that quaint theory
My precious friend.
God says the higher your blessings
More hatred you'll endure
And this could be why
You're surrounded by war.
[Revelation 3:11-2, Matthew 10:32-38,  7:13-4,  11:15-21,  13:37-43]

Kahala Lei
Blood Money Poets
Surrounded By War
copyright 2011

Under Darkened Skies

Fade out
Give me my space
Let me choose my route
I still can't figure what the fighting is for
We are all that's left of our family
Why are we at war?

Take five
Maybe call back in ten
Because I'm not sure that
I can do this again!
I don't care if I lose you, if
That's what sets me free,
But take time to realize that I'm
Going to be me.

This is mine.
My journey, my life
My one chance to do it right.
But when I am not given freedom to
Think for me,
How do you expect results that
Would properly please thee?
C'mon now people,
It's time to live for me, and
Those three children
Who came out of me.

Quit trying to take what's rightfully mine,
My dignity, my freedom, my responsibility.
I've been silenced, forsaken.
Robbed of all but insecurity.

Thank you, world
For the hand I've been given
Violated by man, can't wait
To leave this world, to begin
Eternal living.


Kahala Lei
Under Darkened Skies
Blood Money Poets
copyright 2011