Fern leaves mirrored light is bent
Dewdrops glistening heaven sent
Dry lands drinking sky borne rain
Again the echoes sound so strange
To be tomorrows yesterday
Sitting quiet living in today
No past no shadows now of grey
Wondering now what made us stray
From things so common to the plan
Altered fabrics change of brand
Voices echo through the night
Stalled by sunrises warm soft light
Ash damped down by dying fire
The hopeful press and never tire
Spurred on always by lifes hope
Seeing always the ways to cope
Mirrored images waterfalls pass
Crystal pinned diamonds on the grass
The seasons casually spinning wheel
Meeting lifes terms meeting lifes deal
Seeing things for truth what’s real
Heartbeat constants knowing feel
Believing now it’s worth the cost
Warm sunrise banishes night’s cold frost
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Illusions scattered throughout time
Gaining depth and colour as they shine
Ghosts of spirits laid long to rest
Shining stars made the most of us
Yet even in the darkness before the dawn
To mankind each minute newborns cry
Propagating plants in forests high
Treetop dwellers pass silently by
Leaving nothing in their wake
The gamblers raising up the stake
As mirrored reflections paint the past
Treasures buried unearthed now at last
Bones long fossilised to rock
Worn down mountains valleys top
Seashells washed upon the shores
Lifes avenues with unkeyed doors
Shattered fault lines run askew
Remind the earth of all that’s true
In ages past the impact craters
From space the end of dinosaurs
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Never knowing to be free
Collecting dew drops all to see
Raindrops pooling through the past
Seabird sits atop tall mast
As if in answer echoes float
Beside tall reed banks so remote
Mainstream life it floats on by
As ripples washed like tears do cry
Smooth lake surface shines like glass
Soft breeze rustles thought the trees
White caps dance on muted seas
Whilst each new day brings its reprieve
Watching sunsets all alone
Wishing for those times unknown
Where now the chance the road to see
Who now to share this place with me
Knowing only time will tell
Patiently waiting fates soft bell
Somehow hopeful through lifes storm
One day we will hear each other’s call
And when we meet in bright sunshine
Your reflection matching mine
Upon this very day you seek
The wasted years will seem less bleak
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Raindrops falling to parched earth
Bringing now growth flowing forth
Jesters brightly dressed dance to the court
As waiting wine brings on the thought
Past echoes with there canyons wide
Divided thoughts they soon take side
As waiting in lifes open wings
The monkey waits and patiently he sings
Never realizing his time is now past
Never to again bring chaos to the pass
Addictions shadow lingers still
Choices now mine for good or ill
Chained and caged in times gone past
Forgotten memories of the kind that last
Fleeting freedoms visions of warm sunrise
Rebuilding worth from times gone by
Relapse options used too many times
Years stretching ahead to realize
Where we can be some years from now
If we but tap lifes higher power
All things now within our grasp
No longer slaves to our wasted past
Bringing only those good things
Forgiving all those broken dreams

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(Trigger warning on this one for those who may have suffered or those who know those suffering in addiction )
Belief beginning between crossed lines
Roadways leading through lifes times
Again the echoes called on through
Wondering again how much be true
Chemicals chains as manacles be
Searching forward to be free
To wake in mornings with clear eye
Making decisions that don’t make us cry
Finally willing now to try
Against the odds of times gone by
Walking with addictions shadow close
Believing soon it to be a ghost
Hoping of life to make the most
No more just voicing the same idle boast
About the things that now should be
Not caring should my addiction disagree
Making life now just for me
And if in this passing friendships be
All too well through the fog now I see
The clouds of addiction lift to leave me free
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Cotton wisps of clouds do scuttle by
Newborn babies first voiced cry
As if believing in the earth
The willow bends and dips with mirth
Collections gathered over times
Possessions bagged stand all in lines
Deep held thoughts released in breath
Towards our future with one step
Tomorrow fades to today’s yesterday
As upright do the faithful pray
Gathered spirits once thought spent
No longer even anger do we vent
For casting eyes from shadows deep
White sunshine dawns horizons creep
Bringing warmth to solitude
No longer to self do we delude
Visions splashed across clear skies
Forward progress banished lies
Treetops skimming at first try
No longer do we weep or cry
As if in being crystal scene
Life taking shape within our dream
Sorrow banished to the past
Eyes looking forward thoughts we cast
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Soft as calling the breeze through springtime trees
Sunshines warmth cascades through early morning trees
Beachfront waves lap quietly to their last reprieve
Sometimes places in in memories such as these
Of times so long in ages distant past
Thoughts gathered in the nets our imagination casts
Of dragons and the middle age mountain dwelling folk
Twist round the fireplace our thought we stoke
And as in embers stirred n ow to the night sky
Beyond the beliefs of those we one did try
Then finding grass touched by the rain so green
True light spills from dawns first sunrise echoes as a dream
By and large the clouds across the vaulted sky
To enhance the thoughts that gave us hope to try
Ignoring now the voices of those that said we could not try

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