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"LOOKING BACK THROUGH THE YEARS"
"MY LIFE'S SONGS"
Looking back through the years
Today I opened my ‘2023 my life songs’.
Through all the tears of
All those years of fears and tears
And laughter, joy, pain
To gain,
Working towards the top.
What is up?
What is down?
Is always the same?
No everyone lives to see the rainbow
For all the good seeds they sow
As they drive the freeway of life.
The freeway goes up.
The freeway goes down.
We go on through life.
Its never all about me
And all my strife
Of tears and fears and tears
And laughter of dancing all night long.
The candle burns at both ends
As we all begin our life.
Every song in my 2023 life’s songs begins
A new decade of love.
I shout out every decade,
“Who will I be with this decade?”
as I
Pull up the shades and peek
Out the window at the tree?
The tree stands among the leaves
Of autumn headed to winter
The decades of dreams of scenarios
Of love and heartache and to bake
Love into hot blooded spirits
The young days
I say
There was a song
I always sang
“I’m Sorry”
By Brenda Lee.
As today the hip hop
Calls out for s spot.
The decades of rock n roll
Blues, country, classical
And jazz
All that jazz
Tells the story
Of my life as I lived a movie life.
Up and down the boulevards
Of Sunset and Vine
As I began
The climb
Of my life
Of every decade.
My songs were laid across
The milky way
Of stars and moons and suns
From whence we all come and go
To from.
Lights, camera, action were my decades of soul searching.
Movies, music, boys were my goal
Every decade was a different soul
Work, college, music, art
Not farts
Were my game
"This Girl" by my late friend Maureena. I miss her!
If it’s all the same
I have a few more years
Of rock n roll
Its good for the soul
As in the days of old
Or new or not
Let’s trot
Across the earth today
Here what I say
Democracy is on the ballot.
I voted BLUE.
So, it’s true.
Let’s cruise the boulevards
Of life with freedom
To dance
To romance whomever, we fancy
Girl, boy, or straight or gay.
Life is about love.
Smile!
Let’s dance the night away.
Here what I say.
Come 2025, we are sure to still be free
As can be
Expected
As we drive life’s freeways.
See you guys and dolls
On the Santa Monica freeway
Or another street
Just dance for freedom
Looking back through the years
Today I opened my 2023 my life songs
Through all the tears of
All those years of fears and tears
And laughter, joy, pain
To gain.
I will end with a documentary I produced in the 1990s in North Hollywood.
About the Creator
Vicki Lawana Trusselli
I worked for the music and film industry in Los Angeles, California and Austin, Texas. I studied nursing, journalism, art, film, and computers in college. I was in the first computer class in 1981 at The LA Times. PEACE OUT!
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Comments (3)
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