All are born,
With wings of white,
As fresh fallen snow,
In early winter,
Many become tainted,
Some even go Black as coal,
Like the winged devils,
But we can be cleansed,
With the grace of Love and Kindness.

Maybe I'm a little scared,
to really open up.
Maybe I just feel as if,
I'll never be good enough.

Maybe, baby, I miss you,
and I really want you back.
Maybe you make it all right,
when everything's out of whack.

Maybe I'm scared to fall,
into a new love.
Maybe I just want you back,
to pick me up above.

My life is falling into shreds,
and I just need you here.
To hold me tight hug me close,
and whisper in my ear.

I don't think you understand,
the tears that I have cried.
The nights spent laying in bed,
wishing you were mine.

I'm crying, I'm lonely,
will you please help me?
Come here and hold me,
tell me you love me.

All those feelings,
they didn't just leave.
Where are they in you?
where could they be ...

I miss you,
I miss being by your side.
I just want you back,
I want you to be mine.

a tree grows
where my journey ends --
in the soil

eyes locked and i knew
i have always needed you
my heart knows its true

I sit where I could get a fresh breathand somehow escape the smells of collard greens, fried chicken, man-n-cheese, and Momma’s 7-up pound cake.Sunday dinners were never going to be the same and Daddy’s to blame.***-bellied Pastor McKenzie sneezed in the same rag that he was wiping his sweaty face with. Auntie Lena brushing pasthim to avoid his sermon on ‘cleansing your soul’ putting the carnation bouquets on the dining table.Momma leaning on her callused elbows, which ain’t ableto take too much more stress. Brandy and Brittney flipped through channels fighting over the best pillow on the couch.My uncle Jo rambling on about this sweating he does in the south.Nobody even noticed the things that were coming out of Daddy’s mouth. “Sorry baby. Daddy’s so sorry,” on repeat like my Alicia Keys CDthat Kayla scratched last year in the same car Daddy wrecked. I played it in the living room, hoping to bring her back.Her frizz free hair was all that I was jealous of. Her clothes were cuter than mine and one size too big. Her humor rubbed off on me and is the reason I’m a kidder. Time to eat, but I can’t breathe.Kayla could never again help with dinner.

The heart of a Dreamer
Is as free as a morning bird
Flying through the breeze

The mind of a Dreamer
Flowing with ideas for the future
As a river flows into the sea

The soul of a Dreamer
Is open to everyone
Spreading love to abolish
The anger of hatred

The world was built on Dreamers
They take down the walls that separate us
Dreamers are leaders
Helping us to see the good in others
And the is our hearts we are all the same

Our love
Is like nothing
I have before known

Your touch
Is so warm and loving
With a tender embrace
That surrounds me

Your heart
I know is forever mine
To love and cherish

And my heart
Has been yours
Since the day we met.