Canadian Poet

I,  Canadian Poet offer to you:    Rhythm, Rhyme and Reason
Poetical essays and concepts of dark and light

This album is an ongoing project. A great thanks to all the amazing musicians who have contributed to the project and I look forward to future collaborations.       Collaborate here.

The Existential Truth

We are all part of this moving wheel
Small cogs in a massive machine
Blind…unable - to see the road ahead
Just trying to make some….. Some sense of it!

Trying to make some sense
To understand the world 
And what it is
And what the fuck it all means

The universe…and its mysterious magnificent’s. 
Radiant energy courses throughout you
Your soul and senses guide you
On this journey, this gift, this adventure….called life!

It’s your life, it’s my life and it’s ours
We belong 
To this time and place
Time is now and there is only the future

Quick, grasp on, to–the-morning-sunlight
Daylight’s fleeting before it’s begun
Stretch…your-imagination-skyward
It’s much bigger than you can…comprehend!

What little is known
All of its complexity 
You’re naïve to think you got it all worked out
It’s just beyond…….just beyond

Embrace the dark night…for it equals suns light
Affix your gaze… to where… no eye sees
Solus…silence…obsidian-skies-stars light
The Mysterious beauty … of the…jet-black-night!

The dark night 
Absolute brilliant blackness 
Nothing to be afraid of
Envelopes your body and embraces you

Release the rocks that you’ve clung to
Set your spirit adrift on celestial seas
Fears released that restrain you
Gravity-may-impede-the body, but…not the mind!

Expand your knowledge
Be creative…Not destructive 
For the forces of the positive
Or the negative

Open your eyes…you can see it in the stars
Listen…. You can hear it on the wind
The air is saturated with it’s taste and smell
Throughout your body and within your soul

You know it’s the truth
You can feel it, see it, hear it, taste it, smell it
It’s apprehendable, indisputable, and undeniable 
It’s existential….The existential truth

You know it’s the truth…. The existential truth
Tangible…. Existent…Presence
The existential truth
The existential truth

We are all part of this moving wheel
Small cogs in a massive machine
Blind…unable - to see the road ahead
Just trying to make some sense 

Misanthropy

Go take your filthy hands
And go wash your shit
Carelessly down the sink
The water goes on downstream
To where the… people drink

It’s only human naturrrrrrre 
Poison the water…then drink it on up

It’s only human naturrrrrrre 
Consume or be consumed

Devour everything
Eat it up and spit it all out
What you don’t consume…You

Poisonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 

You dream of the dread
As you soil your own bed
From all the toxins you’re fed
You’d be better off dead

Human natures sick and senseless sight is sucking insane
We’re all to blame
We’re all insane
Misanthropy


Crooked fingers clutch the money
Bought and sold your soul
Filled your heart. …With pretty shiny things
Diamonds, silver and gold

It’s only human naturrrrrrre 
Hoard all the money…buy the pretty things

It’s only human naturrrrrrre 
Sickened selfish…money…worshipping

Bought and sold your soul
Diamonds, silver and gold
The truth of truths be told… You suck the souls for the

Moneyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

I use you
And you use me
Money grubbing, greedy grasping
Piggish pigs that we be

Human natures… feeding frenzied fight… is fucking insane
We’re all to blame
We’re all insane
Misanthropy



Politian’s possess the powers
To enslave the souls
Infecting minds with falsehoods
Manipulate propagate controls

It’s only human naturrrre
Lust for the power… to control the souls

It’s only human naturrrre[back up vocals
Possess the power to control controls

Manipulate and stole
To dominate the souls
Sickened lust to control… preaching, leeching for the 

Powerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
 
Allow the truth to be told
That your mind has grown cold
And soul has been sold
Your spirits left to erode

Human natures cold corrupted bent is sick and insane
We’re all to blame
We’re all insane………You
 
Poisonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 
You dream of the dread
As you soil your own bed
From all the toxins you’re fed
You’d be better off dead
Human natures sick and senseless shite is sucking insane
We’re all to blame
We’re all insane…for the

Moneyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

I use you
And you use me
Money grubbing, greedy grasping
Piggish pigs that we be
Human natures …feeding frenzied fight… is fucking insane
We’re all to blame
We’re all insane….preaching, leeching for the

Powerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Allow the truth to be told
That your mind has grown cold
Souls has been sold
Spirit’s left to erode
Human natures cold corrupted bent is sick and insane
We’re all to blame
We’re all to blame… We’re  all to blame…we’re all to blame 

Catharsis

There is nothing I can do
Nothing I can say
That folks don’t criticize me
So I wrote this… song…for you

I really don’t like you
I’ll say it to your face
You’ve infested my home 
With your negative tone
And I don’t like you

You’re the worst kind of coward
The back talking fool
You’re a waste of good time
I give this negative rhyme
That I don’t like you

You’re the verbal rapist
The disrespectful disgrace
Remove your face from my face 
And get out of my place
Cause I don’t like you

I suffer your insecurities
Purvey your poisonous pills
Necessitate your bad will
You’re the ill of all ill’s
And I don’t like you

I really mean it
I know you don’t like me 
And I really
Don’t like you 

Rationalizing Blues

Dictionary describes it; to reason away
A means to justify ones actions with a sugar coated lie
Call it what you want.  Rationalize…

I pocketed those pencils; school didn’t need them anyhow
They got plenty of them; they don’t cost anything anyway
Obscured explanation. Rationalize…

I took his money; I just know he cheats on his taxes
If I didn’t take it; Government would have anyways
Reason what’s right. Rationalize…

The fabric of truth integrated with a coarse thread of lies
The deceptions lay hidden, tainted reason disguised
Don’t be fooled by misconception. Rationalize…

My fist met his face; smash that look of irritation all away
Judge and jury served, without hesitation or delay
Aggression answers reason. Rationalize…

I fucked his woman; bring a little sunshine to her soul
He never took care of her anyhow; Cared for himself
Her and my needs met. Rationalize…

People, people, peoples, I know you all rationalize
Each and every one of you, unwittingly, Fabricate the lies
You convince yourself anything. Rationalize…

Government instructed me to kill them
Provided with the means and the cause
Told what’s right and taught to kill
Messenger of death… by will of god
Authority dictates reason. Rationalize…

[12 bars] solo lead guitar

You convince yourself anything. Rationalize…
Don’t be fooled by misconception. Rationalize…

You can criticize the creature
Both the sermon and the preacher 
Rationalizzzzze

There You Are [Souls First Meet]

There you are
Here I am
Strangers                                  
Cross pathways we stand [stand, and, and]
                                                     [And I say]
Hello. 
How are you? 
What’s your name? 
Where you come from?

Want to know.
Where you go? 
What you do?
Where you going to?

You do not see.
It is me.
Passing you.
Through crowded streets.

You are you.
I am me.
We are we
And I see that……….


There you are.
Here am I.
You don’t know me
As I’m passing you by. [By, by, by]
                                           [Eye meets eye]
Are you friend?
Are you foe?
Full of fight
Will or woe

Are you mean?
Are you bad?
Are you happy?
Or sad

Intelligence
Or Ignorance
Do you sense?
My presence.

On this Day
Or this night 
That we sight
And I see that
There You Are.....

[Backwards guitar solo]

There we are                  
Passing by
When souls first meet 
Glance eye to eye [Eye, I, I]
                                  [I wonder why]
Are you shy?
Or are you bold?
Fiery hot?
Or frigid cold

Negotiate the stare
If you dare
With smile or frown
Look up or down

With meek or might
Brave or fright
Wrong or right
We sight insight

Do you believe?
What’s your belief?
What you perceive.
Can you conceive?

This soul of me
Meets soul of you
Choose what to do
When you face

Up to the face 
Our senses race
With souls in chase
And bodies grace…

This I to eye
This you to I
Passing you
By and bye

At this time.
In this place.                        
Feet to pace
We Face to face

I see you 
You see I 
On crowded streets.
Our eyes meets eye

It is me                               
That you see                     
Be or be
We are we

Eyes meet eyes                
You meet I                        
I meet you
Choose what to do

Look away or stare         
This way or there           
Souls Passing by
The Spirit’s fly

At this time.                 
In this place.                
Feet to pace               
We Face to face        

I see you
You see I 
On crowded streets.          
Our eyes meet eyes

Run way with me

Run way with me darling for fields afar
My souls become restless, my bodies a fire
Run like the devil, through grasses we race
Star lit and moons light shine down on our face
Caressed by clover, quenched by the dew
Stars bare witness, make sweet love to you
Run way with me darling for fields afar

Swim way with me sweetheart, the wild sea awaits
Freely like children, we play with the waves
Bodies suspend weightless, souls with the sea
Gentle the waters surround you and me
Sensuous the saline, swayed by its grace
Two become one within its embrace
Swim way with me Sweetheart, the wild sea awaits

Fly way with fair woman, crossed wind, air and space
Feet free of ground, cloud at our face
Swiftly crossed landscapes, flash over great seas
Suns light arrival, as darkness recedes 
Time moves backwards as forwards we race
Bourne to the skies and destiny we chase
Fly way with fair woman, crossed wind, air and space
                                              
Run way with the girl with the sun in her smile
Her eyes speak of stars light, soul of the wild
Your hand in my hand we break from the crowd
Free from the madness that humanity has allowed
Journey awaits us, our pathways aligned
Life’s an adventure of the heart and the mind
Run way with the girl with the sun in her smile 

Run way with me darling for fields afar
My souls become restless, my bodies a fire
Run like the devil, through grasses we race
Star lit and moons light shine down on our face
Caressed by clover, quenched by the dew
Stars bare witness, make sweet love to you
Run way with me darling for fields afar

Run way with me darling for fields afar
Swim way with me sweetheart, the wild sea awaits
Fly way with fair woman, crossed wind, air and space
Run way with the girl with the sun in her smile 
Run way with me darling for fields afar

Live To Learn

Teacher: Good morning class
Student: What are we going to do?
Teacher: We’re going to learn how to live

The teacher is a preacher leading lessons
We learn at school
The lessons that we’re learning lead to knowledge
The golden rule
Learning, living, loving is the life
We all… Live To Learn

The Song About The Song

I’m standing… Here before you
To offer you…The Song
Really-don’t-care…if you like it
The reasons right…..or wrong

Going to rise…. rise…high
Fall back down to low

Just standing…. Here before you
To capture and release…this time
The-beats-that-I-bare…rhyme to rhythm
The rhythms write…the rhyme

Going to rise…. rise…high
Fall back down to low

I stand…. Here before you
To cant these words I’ve wrote
The words that I wrote…lull to rhythm
Chord, color, line…. and note

Going to rise…. rise…high
Fall back down to low

I’m standing… Here before you
To offer you…The Song
Really-don’t-care…if you like it
The reasons right…or wrong