Look up
See yourself
How can you not fall in love
Every time?
How can you not…
I live happiest
In your thoughts of me
In your prayers for me
In your words
In your laughter
In your mind
Where you make me
Who I have always wanted to be
There
I live happiest in your thoughts of me
Just a little longer
Slow down my dear soul
Learn to slowly sip the wine
Let it burn as it goes down
Let it take it’s own sweet time
Slow down my dear heart
Fall in love and fall real hard
Then sit still and slowly break
Gently touch each jagged shard
Slow down my dear mind
In your rush to win each war
Learn to savor each drop you bleed
Win at home, don’t go far
Let me sit in the fire more
And slowly get a little stronger
Let me learn to give time more time
And be still, a little longer
No other
A sip to remember
A sip to forget
Pour me one more
No regret
I have tasted the best
And no other is same
I keep drinking and hoping
To get drunk again
Green
In the radiance of green
Hides the hint of the gold
What is young right now
Hides the hint of the old
In the clear blue skies
Floats one gentle cloud
Against the brilliant laughing blues
The tears wear a shroud
In the still waters of time
Flow the rivers of age
In the mirror’s reflection
Hides the perfect sage
In the thunder of silence
Are the answers to my why
We gaze intently at each other
My mirror and I
Be kind
I love
Not knowing if you need it or not
But because my heart desires
to abide in love
–
I pray
Not knowing if there is a God or not
But because my mind desires
to abide in hope
–
The longing in my heart
Tells the derision in my mind
Listen to the silence
And to myself — let me be kind
Blue sky
For every storm that comes
And every sun that sets
There is a blue sky behind
That never frets
It longs for no rainbow
Or the breaking of dawn
It rests in knowing
The light is never gone
Set the sun free
It matters not
How dark the night
It matters not
How long the fight
It is enough
To be here right now
It is enough
For a head to bow
On this one day
Set the sun free
It’s light is in you
For all to see
Rest
Hope drags like a weight
Shadows stand at the gate
–
May I set it all down?
The smile, and the frown
–
May I rest here in the shade?
Let the sound and silence fade
–
Will the ground hold me up?
While I mend my broken cup
–
In everything I see
As my body grows old
My sight blurs slowly
I see through a mist
You start to look like me
The ravages of time
My hearing gives out
If I strain just a little
Your whisper becomes my shout
With the passing of time
My memory starts to fade
But I dwell in making up
Love stories that never made
As my light flickers out
I sit back in silent glee
For I become another you
And you become another me
Blasphemy
I had notions abundant
About life and love
About man and this world
About God above
You showed me the way
That led only to me
Find my own answers
What blasphemy
Friends and lovers
No demand No need
We stand together
Each one complete
Grateful
Let me not be defined
By what happens to me
Neither vain in victory
Nor dejected in defeat
Nothing is inherently good
Or bad… as it may seem
For sorrow defines joy
Where hell and heaven meet
For all the storms
And the rainbows along the way
Let me abide in gratitude
…In quiet stillness I stay
I am
I am significant
Said a speck of dirt
Another speck came along
Smiled and sat with it
Witnessed it
….
And made it so
Lost and forgotten
I have looked everywhere
High and low
I have searched all over
And I still don’t know
Where did I slip
When was I remiss
As if the comedy was not enough
Now, there is this
I have lost my God, you see
Somewhere along the way
Go on, laugh at me
I also forgot how to pray
I gaze into the mirror
Long and hard, dare I say
Silence speaks back
Games it won’t play
….
Nothing is lost or forgotten
Redemption is just this…
For now, and forever
It is, what it is
Light a candle for me
Until I can feel warm again
Let me sit by the fireplace
Until I can find gratitude again
Let bitter tears streak my face
Until I believe in luck again
Can I call this cardinal mine?
As eleven goes past eleven
Will you watch the face of time?
Until I can stand up again
Let me lay here silently
Until my heart meets prayer again
Will you light a candle for me?
