Rebel

A rebel with a heart of gold

she never would be tamed

A woman from an early age

her passions often flamed...

Her life was like a flaming torch

was burning from the start

The fire that she lit in me

still burns within my heart

Jon Arno 2019

Hurricane Michael

So much was lost in just a day

the storm that changed our lives

We never thought this day would come

somehow our town survives...

Gone are all the lights and trees

debris is everywhere

What's left is now a sorted heap

we sift through what's still there...

We're going to make it all come back

the promise we all say

How do we heal the troubled minds

that can't get past that day?...

Jon Arno 2018



Music by Peter Kater

Home Town

I'm back to where it all began

but all my friends aren't here

How the memories come to me

they all now gather near...

We always said we'd come back home

I waited far too long

The old home town looks much the same

but something's very wrong...

So many faces I don't know

they give a passing glance

I search each one in hopes I'll find

a kindred soul by chance...

I still can hear the music play

the parties at the lake

The many times we gathered there

the friendships we would make...

Jon Arno 2018



Music by Deuter

Fate

I still remember what you said

so many years ago

Had fate just waited one more day

a shame we'll never know...

Sometimes a memory comes to me

and tears begin to fall

Oh the many times I've sighed

we could have had it all...

Every time I reached for you

the timing wasn't right

And when at last you called for me

our chance was gone that night...

I hope one day you'll read these words

and know just how I feel

A lifetime knowing I was wrong

a heart that still can't heal...


Jon Arno 2018



Music by Pedar Helland

Back Then

How profound the deep regrets

that haunt me to this day

Even after all these years

they just won't go away...

My mind keeps wrestling with my heart

what could and might have been

If only I had not been blind

when I was young back then...

Jon Arno 2018


Music by Peder Helland

Michael

The clouds grow darker by the hour

there's madness in the air

We should have left when we had time

debris blows everywhere...

The howling winds begin to cry

a haunting diatribe

Bands of water strike with force

as winds and rain collide...

The trees assaulted mercilessly

they're shaken to the core

They're caught up in a frenzied state

they bend and bow some more...

One by one they start to fall

the roof begins to tear

Fear begins to take control

we huddle now in prayer...

For hours much uncertainty

and then a sudden calm

I hope up the closet door

and everything, is gone

Jon Arno 2018

  Music by Peter Kater

Storm

I'm growing weary of the storm

the lightening doesn't stop

Winds are howling in my mind

each day another drop...

I keep on looking at the sky

but all I see are tears

Oh that rainbows would appear

a calm to all of my fears...

Jon Arno 2018



Music by Peter Kater