Cousins

Whenever I am down and out

I call you on the phone

We laugh and cry and scream and shout

Without caring who’s home

That’s how I know we’re family

Because you always care

And drink tequila shots with me –

What else in life is there?

The Morning

Once more I am awake at dawn

I hate to go to bed at night

The man who recently has gone

Creeps with the sun into my light

I pray that he will go away

Across the globe is not so far

Yet better still than yesterday

There just remains the smallest scar

Now lips do kiss where it once hurt

And laughing I’m a fool once more

Remembering how to smile and flirt

Feels better than it did before

The morning comes, now I can sleep

For night has passed quite wickedly

And though I may be falling deep

I’m doing so quite happily