Ernie Cordell's blog: "Verse"

Thanks for Thinking

My apologies that this wasn't smoother

It was a matter of now or never: Now won

So clever in expression 
And with no apprehension,
She reeled off some barbs
Without the slightest pretension
That's how I found a good friend
From back in my old neighborhood.  

Madame de Lafayette
Had to go for a cigarette.
Voltaire never knew the pleasure
Of discovering this treasure
Reeling off his tournure 
in all the French salons.

The wine is fine, but I need some company,
Someone must see the smile within my frown,
And find something to pick me up
Without letting me down.  
Nothing gets me through the night
Like just stayin' alive.  

You have been heard
And all I did was listen.
So only whisper now,
And show me some forgiveness --
You've explained living in the moment
So I'll hear your voice echo forevermore.

After staying for so long,
I don't need a minute
I've seen this world
With all the mystery in it,
Sometimes today is all you need,
What we are now is what is to be.