A new face emerges bearing the name of a familiar flower
A soul unlike any other
One I swear I'd seen in a fantasy
A vision of a brighter day
We chase the same dream
While dancing through the same hardships

Our greedy worlds take most of our time
Just so we can a way to get by
Until a better dawn arises

In the time that passes till that day
I long to see her face
We speak in our freedoms
Trying to piece together a painting of the future
When the stroke of each brush are worlds apart

It almost feel like I've made contact with another world
Yet the distance isn't so far
With each word
A more beautiful woman appears from the heavens

I thought I felt something like this before
But this is something new
And driving me to insanity
The summer winds push my head further into the clouds
The world already knew my words
But she brings out more that lay dormant inside me

Words in poems
Notes from my old guitar
Entire new stories to piece together a new world
It all is emerging with each heartbeat I spend with her on my mind
Yet she seems worlds away

The starlight in the heavens at night give me hope
For a way to better target my path to take
She may be worlds away
But I've always wanted to travel through space

This is new for me
To want to meet someone this much
At this point
I would not care what she looks like
Because with just a few words she was already the most beautiful to me

This is new
This is rare
This is something extraordinary.

My heart feels ache
For souls I hardly knew
Our boundaries we had to break
In order to see our hearts grew
Into orchards of Cherry Blossoms

Never have we before taken this journey
To have the chance to cut through
The social stigma our lands placed
On a country know for the power of its army
Regardless of the Problems
We Faced

Our adventure knew pure excitement
and Serenity
Even in our darkest hour
Many were surprised I was one of enlightenment
Which only makes the essence of my identity
Much deeper

This power
We feel sheds tears
To Allow for Magnolias to Grow and Wave
For a Chinese Goodbye
In hopes we meet again
When the tree has grow

Bound for lands far in the East
Never have our hands touched
Our eyes barely knew each other
Only a couple of us knew another's name
Fewer recognized our voices

In its Land of Power
As we wandered the grounds
Of a city hoping to earn the winter 5 Rings
We knew joy
We knew laughter
We knew beauty
Unlike what our home lands held

But in our final hours in the city of Beijing
A poison seeped into our morning feast
Which quickly took its toll
A few thousand feet in the Air
As we fell into the city of Western Peace

Our plans became shattered
Few of us barely survived
As our own bodies lost control
We were at the mercy of our own insides

Somehow the two state namesakes were the Worst

Taken to the hospital
If it were not for the group mothers and guides
We would have been among the dead
We saw rolled in front of us
As our medicine was entering our blood
Through needles in our hands

In the midst of what we've come to call
The Xi'an Incident
I saw a glimmer of a rare soul
One full of kindness
Intelligence
And freedom
A type of rare Golden Soul I've come to admire
That lied within the body of the other state

My actions may have been interpreted as
The essence of the White Snake
On some level, maybe it was
But in truth
My gift from Shanghai
To whisper an appropriate goodbye
Was to thank her for pushing me along when times were rough

I am thankful for all that were with me on that trip
And I do hope to see her, and everyone again.

Like I told her in a note I left,
Maybe Hoopa will help make sure
We meet again

Isolated in academics
To finish my final days
Honored with a chance to fly
To an Ancient World
For a journey unlike any other with friend
Of New and Old

We all gather to the skies
From points of two
Dependent on which part of the pan
We originated

Many seeing each other
In the flesh
For the first time
Immediately we become friends
Unified by simply excitement a nervousness
For something entirely new for all of us

We each gather for the skies
To wait six hours short of a day
To begin our journey
In the oldest of lands

Many of us resting
Some simply lying back
We talk among our members about our paths
Leading us to this point and where we hope it goes

We come closer to our destination
Excitement grows among tired minds
Our blood rushes through our veins for what is to come
As or passage in the sky suddenly changes and burns



To be extinguished by the salty cries of Ryūjin
And swallowed whole to gain passage to
a New World

Seven Years Have Gone

Since the search for her began
When our little girl appeared
In the Blue Dawn
When a man
In a white robe
Showed me our little girl
Who had yet to be Born

The Blue Dawn
Saved my life
And pointed me in the direction
Of an old lover
With a flame that had yet to be ignited
Though it was tempting on several accords

She was one who actually thought I was awesome
Despite knowing my imperfections
Someone whom I'd love to see as
My Wife

The stars and dancing lights of the sky
Show in her eye
We both had admiration
For one another
For taking the chance to find our dreams
And actually making it

I have learned she sees me in the same light
Making me yearn for her smile
Her Eyes
Her Spirit

To once again see
The Blue Dawn

Emptiness
Nothing but the stillness of all
That I see
I've always know these streets
I see both faces of new
And ones I knew
From Long Ago

Sometimes
We reminisce about the Past
Smiling about what was
But it is hard to find that same pleasure
Paths may have grown
In each direction
For my friends to settle
In strange new lands

I took a path in which
Helps me see farther into the Past
Than I have walked on this Earth
And nations have formed to my feet
Every step I took

I try my hands at arts in every form
And flora begin to sprout
The tears of those I helped
Are now rivers which nourish the land
And wash away every worry

I come home
To show those I thought of family my work
Show them the lives I helped
The buildings I *****
The fossils I discover

Yet
By their presence
It all erodes away
In rains of starved acid
And disappears quicker than I can see

It has yet to stop
I have tried to keep the peace
But
I crave to watch them burn

I seek lost family
They tell me to stop
I build fortresses
They tear down the wall
I go to fly to new lands
They ******* out of the sky

I guess it is time to say
Goodbye

I hear them
Each day that passes
Gentle words from which there is no source
In each direction they come
Some of them joyous
Some of them hateful
Some of them scream
Few of them ever sing

I know few of the sounds
As the kind words of family and friend
Taken too soon
I hear them each day
I carry a part of them with me each day
I always am reminded of the two that pushed me furthest

The first an old man
Who I knew as a father
Took me in as a son
Only to be taken by his illness
When it got to be too strong
He was the only person I felt pushed me forward
As everyone else judged my mind

The second an young girl
Just a year behind me
We only spoke a few times
Through masked medium
Her life taken in bullets and blood
By her mother's side
Just before the man that hurt them both
Took his own life

I hear them both
I see them in my dreams
They push me forward
To help others in any way I can
I hope that soon, and with their help
I can bring the songs of the voices in my head
To The Voice