Author Archives: ElusiveSilence

Let there be a purpose to the hate Let there be a purpose to the storm Let there be a purpose to the screams Let there be a purpose to the frown For there is no purpose to love None whatsoever to dance No purpose to the smile In a silent glance

I wandered the streets Ragged and lost Asked every pebble Every tree, even the frost Whirling and seeking Running in a maze Searching for my North star Gazing through a haze The need to find home The seeking, the longing The never ending quest To feel a belonging Someone must laugh At the fool thatContinue reading “Lost and found”

This being alive This being whole This walking toward This lighting the world Is mine Is sacred Is tender Is fierce Aflame with wonder This being enough It is a reflection This being love This loving what shines This loving the broken This being the mirror This being human

The body walks The mind runs The soul flies In the silence Of the rain I seek I find I fall in love In the silence Of the rain The colors roar The white is quiet They all wash away In the silence Of the rain I whirl I smile I am enough In theContinue reading “The silence of the rain”

I look up in despair You throw a brilliant red at me Teasing me Smiling You cover me in a brilliant green Still smiling gently I am regret, confusion, fear You shower me with a brilliant yellow Laughing And You say – Now Covered in your colors I pause I gather my colors And IContinue reading “Let’s play”

In and out of the shadows The crest and fall of waves The seeking and arriving The reaching and withdrawing A half moon Like the half taken breath Seeking to be full again Dying to be alive again

The flow is seeking Gathering of all Taking it all in Yet clear and pristine I seek and I quench I give way and I cut through I reflect and I absorb I am me and I am you I am home in the mountain Just as much as in the ocean I am homeContinue reading “Rushing”

I am all that is me I am all of my instincts My Rights my wrongs My Dark my light My passions my fears My sorrows my joys My pride my shame My lows my highs I am a band A band of rebels I don’t need to crawl Or seek redemption Or climb upContinue reading “I just am”

I have no need No desire Self-reliant Rivers merge in me Storms rise from me You can not give me You can not take from me For I am complete And yet I seek the sun To be my witness To affirm my being The mirror to my fire And when the sun sets IContinue reading “Fire and Ice”

From inside out From outside in Created by a drop From hot to cold Appears on clear. Taken out of suspension In air. So bold Yet humble To stay clean To allow anything To be drawn on To be wiped away Into invisible again Easy…comfortable….untethered