I like to watch Tom Selleck as Jesse Stone
A man of sorrows living life alone
A lawman in a place called Paradise
Where sins are just as naughty and as nice
As anywhere you care to call your home
A thoughtful man thinking all the time
Where’s the reason how to make things rhyme
Knowing right from wrong is not so hard
Most of us could write it on a card
But doing it that’s no five and dime
Doing right gets complicated see
By moods and worries upsets rivalry
But inside we always know what we should do
Conscience is the gift to keep us true
Confess the sin and then you shall be free
Out this morning grandsons to a park
Up the road and talking, talking talk
Found a hill to play at running down
Catch them twirl them let them to the ground
Simple pleasures on a morning walk
Be as little children said the Lord
Let your life be simple in a word
Keep connected do not lonely run
Stay away from anger and the gun
Then Jesse Stone can rest in his own yard
Brian Fahy
15 August 2021
Erris Poetry 