I hear you calling.
Your beckoning to me.
You don't want me to leave.
Your want me to stay.
You tell me how you'll miss me,
Then question my loyalty,
Ask what you could say
To convence me to remain.
I can't turn away
From my destiny.
I'm following the light
That comes to me in dreams
In the hours of the night.
It's rare to see beyond
The scope of one's existence.
I want to live
A life that is enriched
With wide-splayed experience.
There are oceans I want to see,
And parades that honor life.
I want to beat on drums
And stroll along the boulevard.
You grab on to my arm,
As you say you won't let me go.
I sat up last night
And thought of how you wield control.
Now see the blood in my eyes
With the lack of your faith.
Baby, I know it,
Your love is a wraith.
Blood in my eyes,
Slack in my faith,
Baby, I honor,
I commemorate
Those who follow
Their dreams evermore.
Live the dream,
That's what it's for.
The day has come to reconcile
Yourself to what is to come.
The power that you had
Over my life now is gone.
I won't wish you sadness,
And I know I won't reflect.
I put the past behind me,
We never could connect.
I hope your dreams come true.
And your life won't make you blue.
Accept that I am leaving,
And there is nothing to say or do.
Watch, if you want, I'll glisten.
While I'm dancing down the lane.
I'll be a speck of light.
There will be no refrain.
Another piece I started in the mid 1990's, but put the final touches on just recently. Originally titled "(I Can't Turn Away From) My Destiny", it was writen from an emotional place. The cadence is irregular. Sometimes it rhymes sometimes it does not. It is what it is.