One Foot In

One Foot In

© by Bud Lemire on Jan 19, 2020

I live my life, with one foot in Reality and one foot in Fantasy

I'm a dreamer, and imagination is what I love to see

So much, goes on inside of my head

It doesn't only happen, when I'm in bed

I have been, to so many places in my mind

If you searched, it's me you wouldn't find

Exploring everything, takes me to another place

Where I am within, my own “inner space”

Of course I do come down to Earth, almost every day

Yet, whenever I get a chance, I usually drift away

Off to the dimension of space and time

Where everything there is so sublime

Pleasure is at its very peak

Nothing ever seems so bleak

I enjoy every moment while I'm there

Without a worry or a care

It's my home away from home

A place where I love to roam

I'm a dreamer, and imagination is what I love to see

I live my life, with one foot in Reality and one foot in Fantasy

I love to let my mind take me places where the normal things

aren't normal. I love a creative mind. Reading Fantasy, and

watching Fantasy. I love a mind that goes elsewhere, and

brings us there too. Yet, I still have my feet firmly touching

reality.

Accept Him

Accept Him

© by Bud Lemire on Jan 6, 2020

“You see me as lazy, but what you don't see”

“I'm Mentally Challenged, it's all that I can be”

“I may not follow, exactly what you do”

“Yet there are things about me, that you never knew”

“I have a big heart, that is pure and true”

“I keep company, in the way that I do”

“I lend an ear, and I listen with my soul”

“The friends that I visit, they always seem to know”

He's an Angel, disguised so that you

Can open up your eyes, to see what is true

The residents see it in him, every day he's there

Why can't you see it, don't be so unfair

He does what he does, in the only way he can

It's not hard to understand, he's a simple man

Accept him, he is not you nor me

Acknowledge him, for his way holds the key

“I know exactly how you feel towards me”

“That is why I wish, you would just let me be”

“I love this job, these residents love me too”

“You need understanding, because you haven't a clue”

Why are you always at odds, and to him you say

“Do what we're doing, because it's the only way”

He's not lazy, but there are things you need to know

Why do you feel this way, no need of stones to throw

I've seen him embraced by many people thanking him for his

companionship. I've seen him put smile on people's faces where

there was none before. I've seen him make people laugh. What's

really funny is, we at the Harbor Tower know and love this man.

One thing you may not have known is, ever since I moved into

the Harbor Tower, he's been a friend of mine.

I Received A Call

I Received A Call

© by Bud Lemire on Dec 18, 2019

I got a call from Detroit, why such a place

Places can not talk, they don't have a face

Some time ago, New Jersey called me too

Cleveland called me also, which is nothing new

When I received a call from Escanaba, I thought, “I'm already here”

These places that keep calling, I find it might queer

California called me, but I had nothing to say

They never leave a message, I guess it's just their way

What can you say, of a phone call from some place

They can not talk, because they have no face

A place is a “Where,” I want to talk to a “Who”

Yet still these places call, and I'm not sure what to do

Places I never heard of, keep on calling me

I wouldn't know what to say, to a place I couldn't see

Never been there, don't know anything at all

Stay where you are, no reason for you to call

If I got a call from Jupiter, now that's a far out place

Mars or even Venus, or elsewhere in outer space

I prefer a person, to be on the other end

Not New York or Florida, they are not a friend

It always shows up on my phone as a place. But when a

person's name shows up, then it is much better. I know

they are just scams, and cowards, for they don't like

leaving me any messages. Friends will take time to leave

me messages on my Answering machine.