Author : Deborah Coss
6/30/2004
Jimmy Finnegan Died -
With a needle in his arm,
Cuz he could not take another day.
And so he left us behind,
And followed his sweet poppies all the way.
I once thought of him, like a leprechaun,
With a boyish grin and joking way,
But he tried so hard to not let you in.
And if you got too close,
He'd add another dodge and spin.
Always one step ahead, just so he would win.
He tried hard to act like he was having a ball.
But it was just a show, cuz he had already lost it all.
11 Years prior, he lost his sweet Mary to the same disease.
Then he lost his kids, and all his worldly things,
And next was his will to carry on and get healthy and strong.
He loved to drink and raised all kinds of hell.
He'd like you to know, he played the mouth harp pretty damn well.
He was a builder and he could build just about any damn thing,
Except a life for himself, that would give him some kind of peace.
You know, I'd like to say he was a friend of mine,
But he was finally getting lonelier and lonelier and more and more unkind.
Well, where I come from today, we say the ones who give us trouble,
Are the ones who need more love, so love them twice as much -
Love 'em double!
I know that he does not hurt anymore,
His spirit is finally at peace and no broken heart - no more.
He's up there, dancing a jig, cuz he finally got free from the curse of the rig.
Jimmy Finnegan Died - with a needle in his arm,
Because he could not take another day,
And he followed his sweet poppies home, all the way….
For James Patrick Finnegan ~ Ventura, California & for all the people who loved him.Deborah Coss, has been writting since 8 years old, getting published off and on since 15, and finally realized her child hood dream, of carrying press credentials, working for womanmotorist.com. A diverse writer, publishnig several business type sites, she now publishes her own site, 1kindthing.com, creates some fine arts, and loves photography, commenting she is a social portraiture photographer and prefers the medium of black and white. In art, she has a very constructionist attitude, and enjoys making masks, and other 3 dimensional objects. On a personal side, she survived an extremly violent childhood, some serious trauma, including being crushed by a car at age 3 and half. Thus, her site 1kindthing.com, tells of overcoming hardships, in her many styles of writing. She is a baby boomer, raised in Southern California, bi-lingual in Spanish, descened from French, German, English and American Indian bloodlines. Coss finds words fun, and communication an art.
Keyword : Deborah Coss, James Patrick Finnegan, poppies, died, needle in his arm.
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