
Look up
See yourself
How can you not fall in love
Every time?
Musings of the half taken breath……
Look up
See yourself
How can you not fall in love
Every time?
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
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
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
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
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
Tired
But not lost
Hurt
But not defeated
Let me lay here
For just a moment
Cover me up with a blanket
Of ice and snow
Let me breathe and remember
The sound of rain
In my ears
The touch of raindrops
On my face
The warmth of laughter
In my chest
I will rise again
To love again
But until the snow melts
Let me lay here — quiet
Until the snow melts
Stay by my side — quiet
I seek
For in my seeking is my offering
And in my seeking is my claim
I seek
For in my seeking is my fire
And in my seeking is my rain
I seek
For in my seeking is my dance
And in my seeking is my restrain
I seek
For in my seeking is my love
And in my seeking is Your reign
When the time comes
You will know
You will step out
Onward again
But until then
Rest
Let me hold you
While you hold my heart
When the time comes
Promise me
There won’t be good-byes
You won’t look back
My heart grows restless
Wondering when I will hold You
My eyes tire from not blinking
Lest I miss seeing You
My ears hurt from straining
To hear Your voice
I look up and
I tell myself
Hush dear soul
This is a game of eternities
A dance of forever
If not the breath in
The breath out
If not today
Tomorrow
If not this lifetime
The next
For right now—
I am enough
I breathe in
I go away
I breathe out
I have arrived
There never was a door
There never were walls
Silence drowned the thunder
I step over the line I had drawn
I breathe in
I am fire
I breathe out
I am embers
I seek nothing more
Than to know You
I want nothing more
Than to come home
You speak to me in a hundred ways
Your silent pause-
Wistful eloquence.
I am listening
I swallowed a cup-full
Of hot blazing stars
Almost choked on one
An extra bright giant
They went down
Burning a fire trail
Before they settled
In my inferno
I am one with them
Fire and dust in pride
I am a little singed
But I am warm inside
How do I reconcile
The darkness under the lamp
How do I offer
The holy water murky with mud
Do I notice
My cup is broken, many times over
Can I tell
My hands are not always steady
Do I weigh my soul
In a balance, against my actions
Do the sins
Weigh heavy, and sink the scale
Today I sit
And be silent in my presence
Lower my head
And my ego and my mind
Count every infraction
Like the beads on the rosary
Mend my cup
With flakes of gold
Let the mud settle
I can see my reflection
Accountable, but forgiven
Made whole
Smeared in ashes
But embers inside
Sharp and jagged veil
Hides symmetry always
Thunder and rain clouds
Over a calm ocean
My drunken whirling
Shrouds my stillness
My words encase
My silent surrender
My appearance a beggar
And my essence – You