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
New and old
The day is new
But the air is as old as time
The ray is new
But the sun is as old as time
The loss is new
But the grieving is as old as time
The wish is new
But the longing is as old as time
Speak
You speak silence with such fervor
I stand rooted….rendered speechless
Should I
Should I turn my face to the sun
In case it has carried a message from you
Should I close my eyes and feel the wind
In case you are feeling my presence too
Should I sit quietly and listen to the silence
In case it speaks to me for you
Should I leave the light burn on tonight
In case God has lost his way too
Light
I am ablaze
I urge you to try
Become a thousand suns
Or the lone firefly
I shine through the broken
I create…..I destroy
I am The Light
I know my why
And so it is decided
The galaxies whirl in silent glory
And in silence, shines the moon
The prayer lamps burn in silence
And in silence, flowers bloom
A God is carved into silent stone
And in silence, sparkles dew
And so it is decided then
You and I speak in silence too
I want to meet
I want to meet
The one that pours with a smile
To turn the drunken into dancers
I want to meet
The one that silence speaks to
To turn questions into answers
You Don’t Have To
You don’t have to tell me why
The earth will never touch the sky
Why the waves rise and fall
With the moon’s lonely sigh
You don’t have to say a word
For the ocean to be stirred
For the longing to be seen
For the silence to be heard
A half moon
Unlike a half open bud
that waits to come into glory
Unlike a half taken breath
that longs to tell a story
A half moon is silent,
Is silent in knowing.
It is always full.
Just shadows showing…
Don’t envy me
Don’t envy me
Says the sun to the night
I burn to be free
Like the bird in flight
–
Don’t envy me
Says the oak to the leaf
When you are gone
I will stand rooted in grief
–
Don’t envy me
Says wisdom to longing
When the cup of wine breaks
You will become me
In the end
Now it remains to be seen
Can I love me like you did?
Now that you are gone
Silent inquisitions, I forbid
–
The broken, fights the whole
But what does it defend?
Is grief the price we pay
To love fiercely til the end?
Elusive Silence 