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James Daniel May 6
What is it to commit to freedom
To allow it, to be it?
What would happen?
If you'd let it be?

What would you lose?
What would you find?

On the opposite side
Of freedom?
James Daniel Apr 10
Dear peaceful morning

I was angry last night

But it was just for play
I must be far away

But not as far as you, peaceful morning

Thanks for taking me away

Softly into a new day

Even the cat is quiet, for a change


I want to tie a string around the world
And make two ends meet
I want to be two people at the same time

But I can be only one
with one heart
One smile
Here and now

Knowing is trying to destroy me
Knowing everything
Like rusty hinges

So thankyou peaceful morning

Thanks for taking me away

Softly into a new day
James Daniel Apr 1
I am so confused
What is the point of all this?
Me and you?
I used to know truth.

There is so much horror
And beauty too
Full of people, doing what they have to do
Like me and you

The birds at softest sunset
Sound bittersweet

I'm travelling thru
On a Nightflight blue


Under it
All the mistakes I've made
The suffering
It's there
The truth that keeps the world turning

I don't live in the world of changing absolutes
Of hard lines
Mine is a feeling
A feeling far and wide

In the morning I know you'll come true

I'm travelling thru
On a Nightflight blue
James Daniel Mar 5
I have to go back home
It's for the best

I couldn't do what I set
And the man who was a mountain, stood in my way and said

It's love your in need of
Nothing else

And I know you tried
But my shell is hard dried

But thankyou

I've grown
I've deepened and learnt

And this isn't the end for me
Or you

For us makers
Of skies blue

It's impossible to be in two places at once
My family is back home
I hardly call
Here the days are solid like brick walls

But I am agile
Creative and smart
So it's ok

But still, time goes on

I have to go back home
It's for the best

I know I'm bringing myself as I am

But I miss the place
The people
The new ones I haven't met
And it won't be there forever

Now that you remind me
I'm looking forward to it
It's been too long
James Daniel Mar 3
Would you keep my dreams awake before I go to sleep?

The sun is setting quickly
Soon another day will be over
The mud is rising darling
And I don't want to get stuck
Call me crazy
But I can't help it
All my time
I've devoted to a moment of grace

Would you keep my dreams awake before I go to sleep?

Like scripture that needs singing
Or a puppet being brought to life
Breath some air into this fire
And keep it burning thru the night

Would you keep my dreams awake before I go to sleep?

I know it's not so plain and simple
The way I want it to be
Trying to build a house
In the middle of a shifting sea

So I give it all up
Every last grain of salt
Every atom of energy
Every trick up my sleeve
Every piece of my soul

Would you keep my dreams awake before I go to sleep?
James Daniel Feb 26
Maybe I'm not as weak as I think I am
A maybe it's not that I can't
But that I can

Somehow I understand
That anger's dagger
Points inwardly in my hand

Even Rumi said
Close those eyes that see only faults

And today I want to say I'm happy
Or more, that that's the road I'm taking

The one on which you'll find me

And so I've set the horizon
Taken away the clouds
Disappearing from view
James Daniel Feb 26
Girl, I've alway had holes in my hands

When you came running
I wasn't there

It's funny how you're all the same
The world over

That same face, when something happens to your children
Just like when we were kids

You stopped waiting for me
Saw thru me

The world has taken my power
A power I know I never had

Girl, I've alway had holes in my hands

And still I want to catch you
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