The Ties That Bind

The Ties That Bind
by Bruce Springsteen

You been hurt and you're all cried out you say
You walk down the street pushin' people outta your way
You packed your bags and all alone you want to ride
You don't want nothin', don't need no one by your side
You're walkin' tough baby, but you're walkin' blind
To the ties that bind

The ties that bind
Now you can't break the ties that bind

Cheap romance, it's all just a crutch
You don't want nothin' that anybody can touch
You're so afraid of being somebody's fool
Not walkin' tough baby, not walkin' cool
You walk cool, but darlin', can you walk the line
And face the ties that bind
The ties that bind
Now you can't break the ties that bind

I would rather feel the hurt inside, yes I would darlin'
Than know the emptiness your heart must hide
Yes I would, darlin', yes I would, darlin'
Yes I would, baby

Oh, you sit and wonder just who's gonna stop the rain
Who'll ease the sadness, who's gonna quiet your pain
It's a long dark highway and a thin white line
Connecting baby, your heart to mine
We're runnin' now but darlin' we will stand in time
To face the ties that bind
The ties that bind
Now you can't break the ties that bind
You can't forsake the ties that bind

Found here:   https://youtu.be/Y45YyJYF30s

One Way Ticket

One Way Ticket
By Langston Hughes

I pick up my life,
And take it with me,
And I put it down in
Chicago, Detroit,
Buffalo, Scranton,
Any place that is
North and East,
And not Dixie.


http://smsgreatmigration.blogspot.com/2010/02/one-way-ticket-by-langston-hughes.html

My Triumph

My Triumph

by John Greenleaf Whittier

 

The autumn-time has come;

On woods that dream of bloom,

And over purpling vines,

The low sun fainter shines.

The aster-flower is failing,

The hazel’s gold is paling;

Yet overhead more near

The eternal stars appear!

And present gratitude

Insures the future’s good,

And for the things I see

I trust the things to be;

That in the paths untrod,

And the long days of God,

My feet shall still be led,

My heart be comforted.

O living friends who love me!

O dear ones gone above me!

Careless of other fame,

I leave to you my name.

Hide it from idle praises,

Save it from evil phrases:

Why, when dear lips that spake it

Are dumb, should strangers wake it?

Let the thick curtain fall;

I better know than all

How little I have gained,

How vast the unattained.

Not by the page word-painted

Let life be banned or sainted:

Deeper than written scroll

The colors of the soul.

Sweeter than any sung

My songs that found no tongue;

Nobler than any fact

My wish that failed of act.

Others shall sing the song,

Others shall right the wrong,—

Finish what I begin,

And all I fail of win.

What matter, I or they?

Mine or another’s day,

So the right word be said

And life the sweeter made?

Hail to the coming singers!

Hail to the brave light-bringers!

Forward I reach and share

All that they sing and dare.

The airs of heaven blow o’er me;

A glory shines before me

Of what mankind shall be,—

Pure, generous, brave, and free.

A dream of man and woman

Diviner but still human,

Solving the riddle old,

Shaping the Age of Gold!

The love of God and neighbor;

An equal-handed labor;

The richer life, where beauty

Walks hand in hand with duty.

Ring, bells in unreared steeples,

The joy of unborn peoples!

Sound, trumpets far off blown,

Your triumph is my own!

Parcel and part of all,

I keep the festival,

Fore-reach the good to be,

And share the victory.

I feel the earth move sunward,

I join the great march onward,

And take, by faith, while living,

My freehold of thanksgiving.

 

 

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174756