30 Years

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I wrote this for my friends
Joey & Carmen (Delia)
for their 2015 Christmas gathering.
Which also happened to be their 30th
year together as a couple.

Yes... I actually wore a suit.
And as I arrived through the hall doors,
Joey promptly walked up to greet me
and...
straighten my fuckin' tie... LoL

It was a really fun time as the night ended with the entire room encircling the family... singing along to an emotional Billy Joel... "Sing us a song you're the piano man...
Sing us a song tonight.
Well we're all in the mood for a melody...
And you got us feelin' alright!"

--- The pink is Delia talking ---
--- The blue is Joey talking ---
--- The black is both talking together ---

30 Years

To my dearest Joseph... you are my husband

To my dearest Delia... you are my wife

Together we've lived... together we've loved

Together we've given each other... such a wonderful life

Just look at us now surrounded by family...

embraced by friends

We're 30 years now from the start

Can either one of us have ever envisioned such fulfillment

Our hearts are warmly melting from an abundance of love

In God we trust... that it never ends

I have to say Delia...

I never thought I would ever find true direction

and consoling comfort

And within you my Joseph...

I have found my protector... my warmth

Only one word... one emotion...

Can ever tell the tale of us...

and that is of course... triumphant

30 years

Yes 30 wonderful years have brought us to this point

We've had our hands full at times

Yes but somehow we've always managed

to find those rhymes

Those rhymes just beyond our sight

I can honestly say my Joseph

And I can honestly say my Delia

That having you...

And also you...

In my life has been such a miracle... simply a blessing

And without hesitation I say to you

That every second together you have truly been

My shinning star... my inner strength

Always and forever... my guiding light...

I love you

Joey Marsh... The Nucleus

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Found a bunch of things I wrote over the years and just wanted to post a few.
This one here, I wrote for a friends 40th surprise birthday back in 2001.
We're still friends after so many years.
And if I'm not mistaken, the last time we hungout was after playing golf this past summer 2016. We drank tons of sangria while THE WHO's Quadrophenia was
filling up the entire restaurant...
too fuckin' cool!

Joey Marsh... The Nucleus

From the beginning it's been this way

And from the beginning it's been our pleasure

To hangout with you from day to day

And gather up memories...

That we will always treasure

It's weird...

But somehow it seems that when you're there

That we're okay...

And a reassuring calmness appears

From stickball to Strat-o-matic to drinking beers

If Joey Marsh walked in...

Out the door went any fears

Somehow you have the ability to make us all feel safe

I can't explain it...

You represent where we all came from

And I know you don't even realize that it is this way

But just ask any one of us about these thoughts

And I'll guarantee that they would agree...

With what I say

40 years have now passed by

And friendships are still alive

While the nucleus that you are continues to glow

It's a proven fact that you'll soon witness...

When you arrive

As you walk through those doors

Watch our camaraderie grow

Believe me when I say that you are special in some way

And that I'm speaking here for us all

Be it just hanging out or on the field of play

You being here with us... softens any fall

Daltrey screams what Townshend creates...

"How many friends have I really got"

While Entwistle glances up at the Moon above

Their music has always helped us express our feelings

Enough for us to say to you...

That you truly do

Have all of our love

Happy birthday Joe

The kids are still... alright!

Love... all of us

3 seconds... maybe 4

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Man... I just keep finding so much depth

inside a single breath!

This time it hit me while I was sitting

on the beach down the shore

in Spring Lake, New jersey.

It was just beyond the throng

of Labor Day beach-going mayhem.

So I actually had room... to breathe!

Here goes...

3 seconds... maybe 4

Sit upon the sand... take a breath... inhale

Fill your lungs with potential

Reach that point of full capacity... 3 seconds... maybe 4

Then begin from the very top of your... head

And slowly commence... ever so slowly... deeply... to exhale

This is where you can find... you... your home

Yet another chance to start a new

Before you lies... yet another... welcoming opened door

As you release

Feel the Tension & Anxiety simply liquify

And drain from your body right down through your feet

Absorbed into the billions of thirsty... thankful... grains of sand

Exhale... release

Sense that line of T & A descending down within you... leaving you

Reaching your neck... chest... waist... your legs

Until the line of T & A is gone... completely... gone

Don't move... 3 seconds... maybe 4

Do you feel your life once again awaken inside of you

Go ahead and smile at the site of that wonderful...

Welcoming opened door

You've earned the moment for sure

The calm... the precious... most precious calm

This is... you

This is... home

Dont'choo dare inhale... replenish... no not yet

Eyes remain closed... lids softly touching

Calmness... well... that full throttled calmness continues...

Wide open within you

This is how you can feel... for the rest of your life...

If you choose to

That exhale... that release...

That life restoring negative energy... released

Is easily the thing I most look forward to

And at times... is simply the one constant in my life

And the reason for that wonderful welcoming door

To remain opened... unlocked

Without a doubt... my exhales... my release... my breath...

Not only awakens me... but...

Also doubles as my very own personal...

Wooden wedged-like doorstop

I wish I never had to breathe again

And lose this weightless freedom... but hold on...

Perhaps instead of just digesting yet another meaning-less...

Empty breath

But a pathway towards oxygenating a hungry flow

Of red and white cells

I transform every single one... every... single... one

Into this freedom

A natural and most effective defense to battle back...

And even attack

The daily pitfalls in which we encounter... aka...

The dreaded and uninvited... T & A

One after another... and another... go ahead take another...

Meaning-ful... breath

This could quit possibly transform... so effortlessly

Your entire... length of stay

Okay now... take that next breath... 3 seconds... maybe 4

Will it lead you towards a glorious calm

Or will it send you back out into a raging... relentless...

T & A storm

Meaning-less... or... meaning-ful... the choice is yours