John Lennon
“All Those Years Ago”
December 8 1980 will live
in infamy mine at least if not yours
Forty years later peace is still to give
even when I listen through open doors
little windows breaking every seizure
heart murmurs dismissing mind and spirit
intercourse becoming only leisure
love what love if one can nimbly clear it
All you need is love love is not enough
when its meaning has been hijacked by those
who believe in God’s invisible bluff
when God is only essential to those
who refuse to die as if death’s measure
could only be dated per life’s pleasure
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George Harrison - All Those Years Ago
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Patrick M. Ohana
A medical writer who reads and writes fiction and some nonfiction, although the latter may appear at times like the former. Most of my pieces (over 2,200) are or will be available on Shakespeare's Shoes.
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Over 40 years, and it still hurts... Seriously, I just read a book on the Beatles and I'm thinking about what could have been... Thank you for this...
God's invisible bluff. Lol, I loved that! Fantastic poem!