Blues Man
Brother Ron is a natural blues man.
He’s a whitey with a midnight soul.
His passionate guitar playin’ reflects
The hard and cold suffering of our lives.
It makes you so sad that you feel good
That things aren’t worse than they are.
Ron knows misery. Misery’s like glue.
Misery done followed him like a dog.
Can’t shake Misery. It’s always there.
Like a skinny bone-thin hungry stray.
Holler “Get!”, chase it, throw rocks.
Still misery comes back, licks your hand.
Good times are few but those you have
Lift you up and sooth the tortured heart.
Knocked down, you get up, that’s just life.
Ron plays and sings songs of harsh reality.
Some things are bad, some not so bad.
Being created equal truly stops at birth.
Life isn’t fair but learn the game and win.
Strum those strings praising your mother.
Her tender love for you is worth the song,
A song happy but sad since she’s now gone.
©2023 Daniel S.Irwin All rights reserved.
Daniel S. Irwin was born, raised, and is back in town at Sparta, Illinois. His card reads: Artist, Actor, Writer, Soldier, Scholar, Priest. He has won awards for his art, acting (over 100 films and 30+ stage productions), writing (nine books and work published in over one hundred magazines and journals world-wide), retired military (Air Force and Army), graduate of Southern Illinois University/Carbondale and has attended four other universities), and is an ordained Dudeist priest with a Ph.D. in Divinity (not bad for a heathen). Once worked as a medic in an institution for the criminally insane…but didn’t notice anything strange about the inmates. Latest on-line work can be found on Horror, Sleaze, Trash Magazine and Beatnik Cowboy. He would love to move back to Europe but fears the plague.