Whats It All About?

What’s it All about?
Tell me,What’s it all about?
As we cry and scream and shout
Tell us what’s it all about?

From when the World began
And there first became a man
We have cried a trillion tears
In less than a million years

From the tears that we’ve all bled
and the blood which we’ve all shed
from the rivers to the oceans
Like the fish we’ll soon be dead

when the seas all flood our land
We take our heads out of the sand
but by then it is too late
Mother Earth’s been killed by hate!

When the Apocalypse does fall
Because we’ve killed us all
through our selfishness and greed
sown from Adams scattered apple seeds

Will God then raise his hand
In the face of his images demands
Will Jesus come to call?
Will Mohammed care at all?

Will atheists start to pray?
Because their religions gone away
Jews and Arabs,will they still fight?
When Holy land is washed from sight

When we’re poisoned to the core
from the chemicals we’ve stored
maimed children in the street
from bomb shrapnel at their feet

what will our children say
As we poison them each day
with our bigotry and hate
have we left it all too late?

Film the End on the t.v screens
The Reality show to End All Dreams
As planet Earth disappears from sight
Someone please turn out the light

Tell me,what’s it all about?
I don’t want to scream and shout
Let that small voice in your mind
yet,be the saviour of mankind

ask yourself on this new day
Can there be a better way?
Is the answer there to find?
lying there waiting in your mind

What’s It All About?

Rod Macfarlane

When it is easier to reach the stars

A man can land on the moon
He can chart the furtherest star
He can sail the seas, float on the breeze
He can travel near and far

He can reinvent the wheel
make iron steel
be a president of note
be a scientist,an anthropologist
you can read all the books he wrote

But out of all the things he does
And all the invention he can do
There is one thing that’s beyond him
although he lives a million lifetimes through

He never could,and never will
understand a womans mind
he can categorise and theorise
but that leaves him far behind

What she says and what she means
Is incomprehensible to him
He can try his best,or do his worst
train like an athlete in a gymn

No matter if he studied for a hundred years
The answer is impossible to find
quantum physics,micro biology
are much simpler than a womans mind

Women are from Venus
They think and work in different ways
And if she says he doesn’t listen
He never understood her anyway

And so it is,and how its been
Since life on earth began
A womans mind is too complex
for that uncomplicated man

Rod Macfarlane

Making It

I have a dream
and I’m going to make it all come true
There is nothing that is impossible
There is nothing that we can’t do

If life were easy, we’d never be challenged
with nothing ventured, nothing gained
and if it all came along too easy
we would throw it all away

There is nothing called Impossible
that we can’t change or move our way
a few shovels lifted at a time
Will move a mountains rocks away

If the dream is worth the fighting for
then we must take the challenge up
for to lose through lack of trying
makes every dream corrupt

Sometimes we need a helping hand
we call our friends to encourage us
we shouldn’t let our doubts and fears their win
nor make a dreadful fuss

We can make it all together
we don’t need to do it on our own
a gentle word and helpful hand
means that we need never be alone

And when fear and doubt overwhelms us
when life just seems too much
take a break and take a rest
use patience as a crutch

Every day is a new day
It need not be as the one before
Each brand new light is a brand new start
So whatever are we waiting for?

Nothing is impossible
a field of hope is never green
It is full of dirt and full of seeds
before our vision sees its dream

But when that dream is wakening
and there are obstacles where we stand
we plough our field and we move our rocks
till our future is at hand

Dreams come true if we want them to
We just need to make them come about
put away our troubles, stow away our fears
and never ever succumb to doubt

When we reach that new horizon
and our battles lost and won
We have achieved the impossible
when all is said and done!

Rod Macfarlane

Tell Me Why

Tell me why?
Tell me why!
What are they fighting for?
Tell me why?
Tell me why!
I’m sure someone told me once before

I saw some politician
on some t.v screen
he looked the camera in the eye
I wished it was some awful dream
when the words came from his mouth
when he told the world his lies
he seemed so sincere
like some truth was near
but the truth was boys would die!

Tell the truth!
tell it all!
let the world just stop and listen
Tell the truth!
let lies fall!
upon the ears of our derision!

the weapons of destruction
are not the missiles from the gun
the war on terror had been lost
before the terror had begun
the terror came not from some alien men
but much closer yet to home
when the power of greed did make its seed
on a presidential throne!

Tell me how?
Tell me now!
what are your excuses?
Tell me how
Tell me now!
how you suffer such abuses?

To have your say upon the deed
I assume you chose to vote?
Democracy in action?
gives the power to those of note
Noted for their dishonesty
Noted for their greed
Noted for taking you for granted
when they have found their seat!

Tell me Now!
Tell me how?
You hold your tongue at such abuses?
of your word
of your deeds
misused for others uses!

When a soldier boy lies dying
on some foreign field
It was you who kept your tongue still
despite the revulsion that you feel
at the failure of your government
that they resort to this
bang the drum and fly the flag
19 years to meet deaths kiss!

When they all come back in body bags
From beneath the Afghan sun
fighting for corruption
when all is said and done
Heroes one and Heroes all
They never asked for this
Betrayed by those who sent them there
Betrayed by a Liars Judas Kiss!

The war is closer than you think
Not fought on some foreign soil
In the war of truth and dishonesty
we are all embroiled
Close your eyes that don’t want to see
your ears hear all they choose to hear
Watch your dumbed down shows of reality
For Armageddon now is here!

Rod Macfarlane

By the side of the road

By the side of the road
Across from the stream
A little bird lay wounded
with broken wing ,so it seemed

She lay there not moving
trying hard to lie low
defenceless and helpless
as the traffic did flow

So many went past her
No-one saw her at all
with her broken wing hanging
beneath an oak that stood tall

The tree it watched over
the poor helpless dove
but it could not intrude
could show her no love

I came upon her
On that path where she lay
as i tried to help her
she tried to flutter away

with broken wing dragging
and fear in her eyes
she could not see my intention
as she let go a cry

she feared to be captured
she feared to be harmed
every part of her being
was filled with alarm

I tried to speak gently
I tried not to rush
with care and attention
her wing not to brush

In my hands I did take her
and tried not to hold tight
as she struggled and fluttered
filled with fearful fright

I wanted to nurse her
with my love and my care
but she could not trust me
She would not dare

She flew from my grasp
she fell to the road
a car came upon her
and now she’s no more

Sometimes when were injured
we forget how to trust
our fears drive us onwards
of hope, not a crust

We would rather lie injured
like this wounded bird
with our injured wings dragging
we don’t want to be heard

Our fear takes us over
no chance will we take
of love and compassion
we would rather forsake

When Life runs us over
and inside we do cry
from the wounds of our past
with fear we do fly

Instead let us take courage
face our fear in the face
let us not remain broken
but heal with good grace

Let us take time
Let us leave our dark place
take our life in our hands
and set off with one pace

Rod Macfarlane

Say Hello to The Child Inside

Say Hello to the child inside
take her by the hand and walk beside
Its been too long now,since she was locked away
kept in the dark by the light of day

I heard her cry,just the other day
she sounded so alone,to be left that way
She had been locked up,in velvet bonds
for her own protection,when all went wrong

But you’ve kept her bound,with no release
No sign of hope,no word of peace
No Trust , No Love,Just fear and doubt
In her prison cell,while you work it out

Can you remember long ago
When she would play, in the winter snow
How she cried, when she skinned her knees
And how she laughed at your fathers tease

A wild teenager in her youth
Having fun,in a feisty mood
Where did she go? Where did it all go wrong?
when she lost her voice and you lost your song

So take her by the hand,and hold her tight
Kiss her to sleep,On the cold wet night
Then take her out again to play
Sing and dance on the next new day

Close the door on the stormy past
Let it go,for it didn’t last
Don’t let the sorrows of yesterday
Spoil your childs new future,and her Today

she knows you hurt,she felt your pain
But she’s talking to you,like summer rain
So light, so warm,her refreshing smile
she wants to dance,won’t you stop a while

Hold her now,feel her respond
stroke her hair,put a new dress on
play skipping ropes,play peever too
Feel the hope which she brings you

Rod Macfarlane

Paint a Smile

Paint a smile on your face
Before you know it,You’ll be happy
Paint a smile on your face
And let it grow inside
Paint a smile on your face
Until you feel the sunshine
Paint a smile on your face
and life will just be fine

When you smile at others
Others smile at you
A smile is so infectious
In everything you do
So Paint that smile on your face
and then just look around
People you don’t even know
have forgotten how to frown

Take a walk down every street
In any part of town
Watch the people passing by
They are frowning for they’re down
The day is dark , the day is long
And so much to get done
They hurry here,they scurry there
and woe have they become

when you walk in to a shop
For you’ve gone to buy some thing
smile at the assistant
when tills begin to ring
exchange a word,some pleasantry
and watch their spirits start to rise
You’ve just made their day brighter
Watch it twinkle in their eyes

A smile, It costs us nothing
And it’s free for everyone
And when someone smiles back at you
You realise what good you’ve done
You may not have been at your best yourself
when you painted on your smile
But when you’ve finished up your work
You are smiling with good style

Now of course at times,we all feel sad
when things are just not working out
And the last thing we feel like doing
Is letting our smile just come about
But thats the time,and thats the place
When we should let it grow
Let it work it’s Magic
dispel our darkness with candle glow

Rod Macfarlane

The Earth, The Moon and the Stars

The earth fell in love with the moon
but the moon couldn’t leave the sun
So the earth spent the days gazing skywards
And the moon felt overcome

They all orbited each other
never too close and never too far
the pull of gravity held the earth
like a magnet to its star

Venus felt dumbfounded
As she’d been crushed by mighty Mars
She wept her days and nights
Kept pining from afar

The earth was feeling lonely
and he yearned for a true love
He heard Venus crying
In the Universe above

He wanted so much to comfort her
He vowed to try the best he can
And she in turn so wanted
a decent kind of man

So they orbited from a distance
And they felt the pull of love
But the Moon who’d grown distant
shed tears from the sky above

The Galaxy around them all
was filled with silent stars
each twinkling it message
Lost suns are who they are

Black holes came in to being
and they spread their dark despair
While jealousy was formed at night
On Loves departed cares

Nothing was simplicity
In the void of hurt and pain
Loves shadow was seen leaving
But its substance still remained

Romeo and Juliet
Star crossed lovers we are told
were born from such encounters
as their horoscopes foretold

Yet their story was an old one
First written in the skies
tragedy and compulsion
with jealousy and its crime

The world revolves,so does the moon
the sun and every star
Venus,Neptune and Orion
All captured where they are

Nothing is simplicity
No tail without its end
with heartaches and complicity
From our Universal friends

We on earth must learn and listen
We are but strangers out of time
And when our gaze searches heavenwards
We are all of Universal mind

As we chase around in circles
as we travel round our bends
let us all give grace and all good fortune
lest our broken world descends

Rod Macfarlane

Letter to a friend

Dear Friend,
I wish I could make it better
If I could, you know I would
Calm your heart of stormy weather

I can see your sky of Lightning bolts
I can feel your heart of thunder
And the fear and tears of clouds and rain
that tear your soul asunder

I know that your emotions
are like waves all running high
and your mind is a commotion
like the whirlwind in the sky

tearing up your feelings
as a hurricane prevails
your nerves are rows of houses
all shattered by the gale

If I could show some kindness
to give you shelter from that storm
you know that If could give it
I would gladly give it all

But I have felt what you now feel
And I know that no matter how I tried
I would only make your spirits currents worse
give you more clouds that would cry

Only you can sort it out
Only you can find your way
But if I could shine some kind of light
I would do so till new day

You need to rest and calm a while
till you may see your road
take to your cave upon your hill
and lay down your heavy load

There is truth and light still to be found
so wait till your storm has passed
and you may see the rainbow
hearts colours that will last

Embrace your hopes and not your fears
embrace your faith, not doubt
have courage through your silent tears
till your dawn will dry them out

Rest your weary head,in your lonely bed
for you never are alone
a guiding light is guiding you
and your love will find its home.

Rod Macfarlane

Molly Packs In,( The Bored Womans Paradise!)

She was a bored hard working housewife
But her life felt such a mess
with a boring staid old husband
who made her totally depressed

when they went to bed at night
there was no spark to her fire
No excitement,and no loving
a complete lack of all desire

each day she would go to work
her fingers to the bone
till her husband would then return
And he would moan and he would drone zzzzzzz

She wondered what had happened?
What brought her life to this?
falling asleep from her exhaustion
and comatosed with a kiss

Every day was just the same
The same old boring chores
Till she went to bed again
And a husband that only snored!

Where was the excitement
that she’d once felt as a girl
and the husband that she’d married
who once made her heart a birl

Instead a life of disillusion
and making love in the past
Some distant far reminder
In her lost and passionless fast

So she went one day to the doctor
feeling alone and quite depressed
Please doctor,will you help me?
my life’s in such a mess!!

and so he did prescribe to her
and anti depressant quite`sublime
but she didn’t read the instructions
for she did not have the time

In the side effects it listed
Here is what it said
Of the things she might expect could happen
which never entered into her head

Drowsiness and dizziness
were things she could expect
diarrhoea, constipation, vomiting
were amongst the things it said

But one side effect she did not read
and one she would soon find out!
Was what would happen to her
when yawning came about!!

So off home she went,and she took her pills
and nothing changed quite right away
But then things began to happen
which all happened on one day.

She was standing listening to a banker
and she got bored as she could be
As he explained the ins and outs
of her balance sheets accountancy

She let out with a mighty yawn!!
And it nearly blew her mind!!
Something went very strange
and she felt it deep inside!

and then when she got home again
and her husband home from work did come
On and On and On he went
Such boredom left her undone!!

She was writhing on the floor
As each yawn overtook the next!!
Convulsions rippled through her
Orgasms at their best!

Moaning there in Ecstasy
She found a husband she could adore!
For even though he was not much good at sex
He was the Worlds most successful Bore!!

Rod Macfarlane