LITTLE BELL

  

Little bell

The sounds of your songs

You ring out

The music we need to hear

 

You hang in church towers

And on trolley cars

You travel upon the rails

Because you own the day

 

You talk to our hearts

And you know our needs

Your rings are so proud

That takes our fears away

 

Ring on little bell

That rings in the darkness

And you bring dreams to life

For time is your friend

 

We’ll put you on the shelf

There you will sit in silence

And wait for directions

But you know your duty

 

Then when it’s time

We’ll pick you up with care

And then by choice

You will call out unhappiness,

 

And little bell in our hands

We’ll call all to dinner

Where joy will sing and dance

 

“Ring! Ring! Ring on!”

 

Thomas Theophilus© December 21, 2025

 

CAN YOU IMAGINE

 

Can you imagine sitting all alone?

Can you imagine the loneliness I feel?

Can you imagine being abandoned?

Can you imagine the pain that my heart feels?

Can you imagine someone giving you a bath?

Can you imagine someone dressing you?

 

I sit in silence every day!

I sit with my memories of yesterday!

I sit and stare out the window!

I sit and long for my family!

I sit and wonder if anyone cares!

 

I remember when you were conceived.

I remember when I first saw you.

I remember your first smile.

I remember your first toy.

I remember your first birthday.

I remember your first day of school.

 

Can you imagine the memories I hold of you?

Can you imagine all the hugs and kisses?

Can you imagine the sacrifice I have made?

Can you imagine if this happened to you?

Can you imagine being tossed away like trash?

Can you imagine the love I still have for you?

 

Thomas Theophilus© December 11, 2025

CRY ALL YOU WANT

“I want to be me,” said my heart!

    “Oh!” so that is unfair,

As though my world just fell apart

   I need a fresh breath of air!

 

“Through your dress I see your figure,”

   O that negligee you have on –

Causes something in me to trigger,

   And to your heart I am so fond!

 

“Loving you has become a habit,

   I want your body from head to toe!

So, don’t become a Lorena Bobbitt!

   That would have to hurt so!

 

So, cry all you want, I do understand,

But remember, I am still your man!

 

Thomas Theophilus© December 4, 2025

WHAT IS LIFE’S PLOT

 

Along the back streets,

   The buildings stand tall,

Dirty concrete with graffiti,

   And I have seen it all!

 

Pigeons are everywhere,

   They have no place to go,

Lost in the maze of time,

   And their sadness shows!

 

The clouds move on by

   You see time waits not –

As the days turn into years,

   But what is life’s plot?

 

There is no time to think!

   So, I just let it all be

I have troubles of my own,

   Through my eyes I see:

 

God watches from above,

   And to the world I recall –

Everything God has created

   For man, big and small!

 

Thomas Theophilus© December 3, 2025

 

PLANS I HAVE FOR YOU

Time is moving so fast,

And nothing will ever last –

So here I sit in church

On the oak pew I perch . . .

The preacher’s sermon I heard

Teaching of God’s precious word:

“So, what was the Lord saying,

Are you a sheep that is straying?”

The message was simple and plain

Nothing will ever remain the same!

A whisper, then I turned around,

And in the quietness came a sound –

The sweetest voice I’ve ever heard

(The spirit of God’s holy word)

“For I know the plans I have for you,”

declares the Lord, “plans to prosper

you and not harm you, plans to give

you hope and a future.”

 

Thomas Theophilus© December 1, 2025

SING EVERY DAY

 

I strolled down the walk,

And in my mind’s eye I saw:

“Life is what we think”

Then I heard the birds call:

 

“We worry for nothing!”

We wait upon the morning dew,

And God feeds us daily

So, tell me, what do you do?

 

We choose to sing every day,

And we depend upon Him –

What does worrying change?

So let your life’s troubles be!

Then I listened to them . . .

As they sang from the tree!

 

Thomas Theophilus© November 30, 2025

 

WORRIES PUT TO REST

 

It’s heaven on earth

When I’m in your arms –

Here I can find a safe place

To put my worries to rest,

And dry the tears on my face!

Life’s troubles I can erase,

And know your gentle charms

That only a woman can birth!

Yes, my life is a mess,

But with you I have no sorrow,

With my head upon your breast

I will wait for tomorrow

Knowing I’ve passed life’s test –

And put all my worries to rest!

 

Thomas Theophilus© November 29, 2025

 

ONLY I KNOW

I heard you, little broken heart,

Like shattered glass against a wall!

From the darkest corridors you call –

Sadness lingers in my soul, so sad!

And there is nowhere to start . . .

Remembering the love you once had.

 

The room is still just before dawn

These memories are tearing me apart,

I heard you, little broken heart –

(As I lie here all alone)

Never another love like hers, dear soul,

And now this pain only I know!

 

Thomas Theophilus© November 29, 2025

WINTER, O WINTER

 

Winter, O winter,

   Sing me a song, please!

A song of wind, and time,

   Of empty fields, and Barron trees,

I will sit and not complain,

And feel the coldness of your pain!

Of animals curled in their caves,

And mountains of white maze.

 

Winter, O winter,

Sing of things that stir my heart,

Like frozen lakes of perfect art –

And upon your lyrics I will write:

“I lie in the darkness of night

where moonbeams give me light,

and only here my world seems right!”

 

Thomas Theophilus© November 28, 2025

 

A PERFECT LOVE

 

Kisses gently upon her feet

The perfume was so sweet,

As I touched her skin –

Now let that moment soak in,

A moonlit night – spirits high,

A passion that makes one cry!

Then, a thought came to me,

“I will never sadden thee!”

Feeling goosebumps protrude

Satisfaction I must conclude –

Luminous shadows on the wall,

As I hear her voice call:

“Please don’t let this night end

(A perfect love) is never a sin!”

 

Thomas Theophilus© November 27, 2025

TEARS IN MY WHISKEY

 

The room is filled with smoke,

And the music is so damn loud!

I’m a lost soul dying in a crowd

With a heart, some woman broke!

The ice in the glass slowly melts

As I drown in my own sorrow –

She was just a notch on my belt.

I will find another by tomorrow!

The answers are in this glass,

And I will drown her memory!

Here is to them all, “Kiss my ass!”

If only her spirit would let me be –

Then I realized, this is about me,

And all the tears in my whiskey!

 

Thomas Theophilus© November 22, 2025

WISDOM HAS NO BOUNDRIES

 

Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.

 

“Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live.

 

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.

 

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

 

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.”

 

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness so that we can be equipped for every good work.

 

The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul;

the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple;

the precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart;

the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.

 

The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge.

There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard.

Their voice goes out through all the earth,

and their words to the end of the world.

 

Call to me and I will answer you and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.”

“Let me hear what God the LORD will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints; but let them not turn back to folly.

“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.”

 

Thomas Theophilus© November 18, 2025

IT’S NOVEMBER

 

I was thinking of you,

And something came up!

“Do you remember that night

When the stars shined bright?”

We were lying upon the grass,

And just letting time pass . . .

I remember to love in your eyes,

As the whippoorwill made her cries –

I was thinking of you,

And something came up!

“Why today that I now remember,

I mean, it’s November!

Maybe you were thinking of me,

And your spirit won’t let me be!

I was thinking of you,

And now I’m feeling a bit blue!

 

Thomas Theophilus© November 13, 2025

LYING IN BED

 

Alone in bed

   The night is so still

Silence surrounds me

   Like shadows on a hill,

 

And a feeling comes over me

   Pounding in my head,

Why am I alone,

   And why is it truth I dread?

 

Thoughts of her

   My heart is filled with desire

O this loneliness

   Burns like a raging fire!

 

I feel the coldness of night

   Like snow on a hill,

I lie in this darkness

   Knowing love broke my will!

 

And I know that I

   Will have to face tomorrow

The sad truth

   Only I can bear this sorrow!

 

Thomas Theophilus© November 10, 2025

MEMORIES HURT

 

The Violin player came to the mic:

I’d like to dedicate this song to my wife –

Her name is Marilyn Monroe Reese,

And I’ll have to admit – she is quite a piece

(Of work) and to think of her my heart hurts!

I close my eyes – I can hear her voice,

And my spirit begins to rejoice –

Looking at the paths of life, we take . . .

But it’s her memory I can never hate!

I guess I can say, “She was a perfect lover,”

And the times we had under the cover!

 

Then he begins to sing and play:

 

          “There will never be another

          A beauty that was like no other

          Oh, the passion in her eyes . . .

          Hear the Violin – hear its cries

          But it’s this you must know:

          The angels came – she had to go!

          Marilyn Monroe Reese was her name,

          But why God, is it You I must blame?

          Sometimes life can do us wrong,

          That’s why I sing this song alone?”

 

Thomas Theophilus© October 29, 2025

BROKEN HEARTS

 

   Under the Sycamore tree,

   Jenny loved to lie with me,

   And to that I’ll make a note:

   “I loved you to”, I wrote,

O lover! O lover! O lover!

      This heart you didn’t see,

      So please let it all be –

Broken hearts never recover!

 

      I thought you were the one,

   Looking back, I should’ve run,

   But loving you I don’t regret,

   And I’ve not replaced you yet,

O lover! O lover! O lover!

      This heart you didn’t see,

      So please let it all be –

Broken hearts never recover!

 

Thomas Theophilus© October 28, 2025

A NEW BEGINNING

 

 Once, a man was given his call,

We all take for granted “What he has done,”

So many times, his back is against the wall,

Patriotism beats in his heart as he bows his head,

And he is not a man that turns and runs!

Fear is something he will never dread –

The liberals, and all the little snowflakes,

But this he knows, “Some people will always hate,”

His heart is broken from all the games they play,

But truth will always drive them away!

He will never back down – he knows what it takes,

And with God’s help he is never alone –

Some in his own party have done him wrong!

But we all see the love of this nation in his eyes –

“A loyal man,” let’s all get it straight!

Once again, we are proud as Old Glory flies . . .

“America,” do the right thing – it’s not too late!

Look at this nation and where we have been,

This is a new beginning, and not the end!

 

Thomas Theophilus© October 27, 2025

SURELY YOU KNOW

 

These are more than words

they come from the heart

and not said lightly

as tears well in my eyes

I love you

 

I know I don’t say them enough

to you, and I’m sorry

but you must know

 

If it were not for you

my life would have no meaning

and for that it’s simple

I love you

 

Thomas Theophilus© October 21, 2025

 

A HOUSE ON QUAIL

 

I once lived in a house, on quail,

But the house burned down –

I tried to put it out, but I failed!

Oh! Yes, it burned to the ground!

We lost pretty much everything –

Looking back, I just wonder why?

I’m still alive – so I don’t complain!

And little good it does to cry –

My heart is still filled with guilt,

As thoughts race through my mind!

It was like watching memories wilt,

And only helpfulness I could find –

I once lived in a house, on quail,

But regrets never serve one well!

 

Thomas Theophilus© February 22, 2025

CAN NEVER REPAY

 

For your love I can never repay,

And it’s to our God, I pray!

Your sweet love I don’t deserve,

I’m sorry I got on your last nerve!

 

To be in love comes at a price,

And we don’t always play nice!

Love is quite a stretch as well

And it can be worse than hell!

 

I will reach for you in the night

The clock strikes – darkness cries,

And I know my world is right

Seeing the passion in your eyes –

Brings all the goodness to light

A love this heart never denies!

 

Thomas Theophilus© October 20, 2025

THE WEIGHT OF TRUTH

 

This weighs on my heart heavily,

   And I’m sorry that I did you wrong

   It reminds me of a sad song –

An awful memory that won’t let me be!

   There’re always consequences for a lie

   And we cannot always explain why!

We make excuses, and blame other things

But in the end, it seems the same!

   In the depths of our soul comes the sound:

   “The sadness of letting someone down!”

This weighs on my heart heavily,

   The things we say we can’t take back,

   We don’t know why – my mind I rack!

But it’s the truth we all need to see.

 

Thomas Theophilus© October 19, 2025

A KIND SPIRIT

 

Why the need to bloviate

Is the soul filled with hate?

It takes all kinds of people

Some worship a Devil’s steeple!

A humble person is kind

With goodness in their mind!

Mother Teressa knew what to do

She believed in the Golden Rule –

Why the need to bloviate

Will you do this at the pearly gate?

Just look to God and you’ll find

Then, let kindness fill your mind!

In your heart you know it –

So let it in and have a kind spirit!

 

Thomas Theophilus© October 17, 2025