The many paths of Life offer
Each of us a different tour
On journeys, at the same times
Each living our walk through our own minds

As I sit worried that my boys
Will have to soon play with war's toys
Others I see live in love's grasp
Stepping into wedded bliss at last

People becoming moms and dads
Others crying they've lost all they had
Children in slums dancing to
Their little drums made of buckets, who

Don't know where their next meal's from
Still others live high lives upon
Their own mountains in castles
The rest of us only dream of

A father buries his child today
A daughter sends her mother away
To be tended to by others
A teen stops a bully from another

Attack on an unsuspecting foe
The teacher wrings her hands and shows
Emotion she'll be criticized for
As she receives a pink slip out the door

Caring for the children of
Moms and dads who work, not love
Mom and dad scream their frustrations
At each other over admonitions

From their broken children who
Will probably end up like them, too
As the circle of life goes
We are born into the dark throes

Of whatever our fate is here
As we must learn year over year
Who we are as compared to others
Finding our ways through this life's doors

To a state of mind, not place
As we cannot hide from our own face
That stares back at us in mirrors
Holding the eyes of our souls' terrors

So in a sky full of countless stars
What does it matter where we are
Our problems seem so small
When we consider other's plights, all

Dwarf our own despair as the
Arc of Life does guarantee
We will walk on other's paths
And never see the Footprints that

Show up beside our every step
It is we who won't accept
That we are held up in our lives
By Angels who keep step with our stride

Are we so consumed by selfishness
That we won't accept God's promise
To never give us more than we can bear
Trusting beside us He's always there

How hard life is speaks of our minds
If we don't surrender in kind
Of how we think things should always be
Not having faith that He loves each

Of His children, He does not give
Us the torment we Choose to live
He is only by us to balance
Our faltered steps when we chance

To break out of ourselves as we
See others live more miserably
He placed us there so we can see
We've so much to treasure gratefully

My grandmother said "In hard times,
Don't look up in dark envy,
Shield your eyes from coveting
What others have that's inviting

Always look down and you will find
Others who need you to mind
Their deeper losses, as you'll see
Life isn't so bad for thee"

So each time I start to cry
About the problems in my life
I remember Great-Anna's words
My consciousness seeks other worlds

In which I'll find another who
Needs me to hold them up, too
For who said God's Angels aren't we
The ones who He sent to set others free

Yes, we'll always need a hand
Up on the ladder to His Eden
But if we haven't reached behind us
To hold another's hand as we climb up

We'll only go as far as we
Helped another up gracefully
As we are here to be Light to
Others in darkness who need us, too

We are His gentle hand offered
To touch others in devoted Love
For without us, Who is God
Does He exist without Us

Hold back the Veil for me a time
Allow me a moment on the Vine
Of Life's Sweet Fruit grown ripe for me
The Spirit of One, Eternally

From the Springs Eternal
The Spheres did sing
The Hues would ring
The Melodies paintings

On my darkest, most lonely night
After hours of the saddest tears I'd cried
I'd begged of heaven to answer my pain
To ease my sorrows or let me die

There was a full moon above mountain cliffs
Endless empty roads I drove
Through my tears I traveled in circles
As with my pain I'd no where to go

Then in a bright flash in my mind
A Lady appeared in front of me
I only saw Her flowing white robes
And a Blue sash cover Her crown heavenly

The kindest gaze I'd ever known
Showed me the loving care in Her eyes
Her arms outstretched to welcome me
Into the fold of Her warmth and smile

Her presence begged my heart to let go
To release my mountain of ache to Her
Allow Her to simply rock me gently
Feel Her love wrap me as would a Mother

I don't recall the road I drove on
Or how my car stayed between the lines
I was so enraptured by Her
To all else I wanted to stay blind

I no longer felt my age
I was as a babe again
Never wanting to leave Her embrace
Never wanting to feel alone again

Once Her majestic presence passed from me
My tears had dried and I felt so free
Only needing to stay awake to go home
Carrying with me Her love, Most Holy

I wondered if I'd see Her again
And She didn't disappoint me
As everywhere I looked thereafter
Blue Orbs of Her Love showed up frequently

Could I trust what happened to me
Had I gone insane or mad
I truly thought it mattered not
As tucked deep in my heart Her dear grace I had

Blessed Mother of The Holy Word
Now I see She visits often
All of Her cherished children everywhere
She blesses, smiles, begs us to repent

She prays for us that we will be strong
Live forgiveness in each soul we pardon
For only loving one another so
Can She count us in Her Sacred Garden

Every time we meet someone
Of like mind, hobbies, what if's
We find we start to fall in love
As we project on them our gifts

I love you's and My dear friend
Fall loosely from our eager hearts
Until the onion is peeled back
And we see in them our faults

Then as fast as we ran into
A friendship or a coupling
We find ourselves backing out of
All promises we were making

We fall first, question later
Why someone else again fell shy
Of the picture we carry in
Our hearts of those we wish were nigh

Idealized romantic flights
Take our minds onto the shores
Of another's precious life
And into their heart's corridors

And once there we find ourselves
In the carnival's mirrored maze
Everywhere we look we find
Another image of our own face

Once we're freed of one glass maze
We are left alone once again
Gliding through life in search of
Our hearts in other loves and friends

With each sunrise and each nights fall
We are born and die again
As with another Dawn to be
Risen, we new women and men  

Each night when we fall into dreams
It is a form of death we find
Ourselves are off to other realms
Whisking through the Dreamer's Mind

Then with each new Dawn we wake
Back into this reality
Wishing we'd slept just one more hour
To fly among the Eagle's fields

I'm not afraid to fall asleep at night
So why do I fear the day
When it is my soul decides
It's time for me to go away

A life lived in constant fear
Of what kind of death we'll meet
Is no Life at all, no cheer
Why bother waking up from the

Dreams we trust will return us
Back to our world of light and dust
Why do we not understand
Each death is a rebirth for us

As we know we'll wake from the
Nightmares that make us writhe at night
Why don't we trust to be gently
Placed in a new Dawn of Light  

How many times are we all told
When it is death will find us
Our Spirits will have already soared
Reborn in Surrender and Trust

I'm learning, Lord, please  be patient
I know I have prayed countless times
For forgiveness and repentance
Yet I keep falling to my mind

Help me, Lord, to see that you
Are forever by my side
The journey through this darkest night
Begs that I pray for your Light

I know I fall short often, Lord
But love me anyway?
Don't ever give up on me
As I'm but a child led astray

Yes there is grey hair on my head
And lines upon my face that say
I should be older, wiser now
But I'm More of a child today

Life's hard lessons have worn down
The thickest walls around my heart
Bearing to this crueler world
I am but a babe at its start

So hold me up, tight, and so near
I cannot walk this world alone
Please help me take my first steps to
Sit beside you at your Throne

Yes my ego made me believe
I need nothing and no one
But I now know I was so wrong
And beg you not leave me alone

I admit I know nothing
Yet crave to Feel Your precious love
Please take my hand and walk me to
The God I was I was created of

I'll be Your pen, Your truest heart
I've given up on defining
Myself by lies of this world
It's in You I've found everything

Let me rest now for a while
Walk through my dreams of finding Thee
Still walking in glades of Eden
I'll join you in Eternity

Prepare for me a place at your feet
I give You me willingly
I've much to learn if I hope to
Be worthy of Your forgiving

Sitting high upon a hill
Watching a dancing painting of
A rhapsody of regal hues
Splashed across the horizon

Springtime's trying to debut
Precious flowers around my feet
Grasses wave in a balmy breeze
Trees' branches tipped with Spring's new green

Trees filled with swooning songbirds that
Sing to me twilight's melodies
Before they gently tuck their heads
To fly off into heaven's dreams

The gentle arc of Gaia pulls
Us all into another night
But not before we're enraptured
By the Star that bids us goodnight

The cold chill of Winter is gone
Gaia awakes another year
Nothing ever delights me more
Than to be witness to Spring's cheer

All quiets as the Golden Orb
Dips behind the vast Blue Ridge
Then the troubadours of night
Come out to begin their chorus

I cannot make myself go home
I want to take in every scent
Every shadow, every light
Each sound, Spring's every sentiment

The floral heavenly landscape
Replaced now by a canopy
Of Diamonds strewn across the night
Clusters of souls, signs, dazzling

Still I must bid this day goodnight
And fall into dreams of my own
Perhaps I'll find there the sweet birds
Who serenaded me with song

Then Awaken to another
Day, in childlike awe of a new
Dawn, in which the Golden Star will
Create a masterpiece anew

With its sunbeams dripping hues
That God will compose for me
Another day of miracles
Created by the Dreamer's Dreams

The Spirit follows to where we
Seek comfort in sanctuaries
Closing ourselves off from Time
Meditate seeking Truth's glory

But we find we can't escape
From ourselves, as we'll always be
In wherever it is we've run
We cannot hide the need that we

All have to look within ourselves
Meet who it is we really are
From mountaintops to ashrams
It is in Silence we hear the call

The Voice that speaks only of Love
That drowns out our self condemning thoughts
That washes us in cleansing fire
As we finally see the Light in us

Is not separate from the All
We are but a beam in the
Rainbow of Souls that are a part
Of Heaven's Holy Symphony

For Here Light is the same as Sound
Each note of God's Harp so strong
It's here we finally see we are
Needed to create One Divine Song

If we're always Here and Now
Where were we before
This moment we find ourselves in
And where is it we'll go

If there is no there or then
No yesterday or today
How is it we'll navigate
This realm's laws and ways

If Space is a mental construct
Of measurements in Time
Where were my feet before I stepped
Into God's infinite mind

Close your eyes to understand
The Zero-point you're in
Where everything and every thought
Whispers in timeless winds

Life is no more than the sum
Of all the ways in thought and deed
WE changed in a single Moment
In Love's Endless Eternity

We name all we don't understand
Devil, god, or son of man
Do we see through doubting eyes
It is WE in whom the Spirit flies

Our doubts are our  limitations
That encroach upon
The very Law that assures us
We are all born of Freedom

For what is Freedom, no more than
Understanding that our own thoughts
Are what keeps us imprisoned in
Time and space, all as one flock

For once we come to realize
Time is Now and Space is Here
The thick veil shall fall from our eyes
As our Perfection becomes clear

Soaring through space on wings broken
In time we measure by the hands
Of soulless clocks that we worship
It's Ours to test our true wingspan

Heed others who've come before us
Who held one foot in both
The Time here, the endless Spheres
That orbit the sun to aid our growth

We are not limited by the
Thoughts of lack and uncertainty
Once we realize we aren't the
Bodies in which we wade stormy seas

We are the eager children who
Stare back at us behind our eyes
Nothing aged, unforgivable
So long as we wake each day to try

To find in ourselves the Perfection
That the one who we call Son of God
Came to remind us we're more than
Our best defense of all we're not

So break today the chains of fear
Unlock your cage of frustration
Strike out of grey skies of boredom
Seek to Live your true Passion

For whatever your ideal is
It's when the heart flies high
That you have found your Reason for
Being created by the Dreamer's Mind

One's identity cannot be taken
Of the Soul's truest purpose
Find it within your heart to wake
To each day of Heaven's Promise

That you are Loved, and forgiven
Of even your gravest sin
As God knows what lies in each heart
Before we know we had broken

Our covenant to be our Best
Each day another fiery test
How far will we fly today
Into winds of mighty protest

It's realizing the wind is there
To create your doubt and fear
That you will come to soar above
Clouds, into azure skies of Love

Diamond tipped pen
In my hand, Writing feverishly
Wanting  so to write of
The visions I've seen

Gleaming Castles in the sky
Pyramids of splendor
And The One's All Seeing Eye
Bring generations to wonder

Atop the uncapped pyramid
In all its gold glory
Looking toward the four winds
Lined up with Soul's stories

Of colors and melodies
Our eyes and ears don't know
Within 3-D shadows
Beckon 5-D's natural flow

Of shining stars in our skies
Souls now long gone, passed
Inside every chapter we find
Myths alight our paths

The story of the Soul's day
And a long, dark, death's cold night
Are written on walls of stone
Revealing our Souls' plight

As a human family
Our past is so much more
Than we are told in history or
Books bought at any store

We feel and know from where we come
If we close our eyes
Open our hearts to ancient truths
Whence our story lies

Every myth a parable
The elders do say
Every parable a song
To enlighten our way

Who among us believes
We are all there is
When we look at pyramids
Don't we know we've missed

A large part of our memory
Some buried beneath sands
Waiting for the perfect time
An explorer digs with hands

Guided by a force she digs
Into ancient stories
One day the Hall of Records will
Be revealed in all its glory

Then every history book
Will have their empty pages
We'll All have to write again
With Truth of the Ages

Of the story of an us
Who have forgotten in time
There is so much more to us
The ancients enshrined

But it's for us to create
The spiritual energy
Before Time reveals our past
For us to come upon our story

Energies, healing methods
Hidden for too long
Repressed and sick and dying
Will be of days long gone

So open your heart, and let in
The Questions of the ages
So we can get on with
Rewriting the pages

Of a past that mirrors
Our present time here
For the past writes our future
Each year over year

Denying that there is a God
An omnipresent Life Force
Means not a thing to Him AND Her
One cannot defy their Source

It would be like denying that
One has no beginning by the
Joining of two parents who
Conceived you by coupling

Even our Blessed Brother, Christ
Needed Two to BEcome a child
The Force of Love in Mary's womb
Caused even Nature to abide

Not by laws of matter, but the
Laws of Miracles that bend
All matter to God's deep whispers
As above, below is God's intent

A single Thought caused your BEing
As the Thought brought opposite poles
To crash against the cliffs of Life
From Spirit, you became Whole

In our dual reality
Everything has a mirror
Turned inside out and upside down
To create all born in matter

The skies on high, the sea below
The ups and downs, the highs and lows
The positive and negative
Creates from rain stunning rainbows

Perhaps my words don't mean a thing
For who can really define God
In all His/Her complexities
Our minds limited by vast odds

But doesn't it then make perfect sense
Our God is Mother/Father
For we see God's reflection in
The day, the night, and each other

Each piece of matter needs a Spark
To bring poles in atoms to Life
So what else could be the Cause
But a Husband and a Wife

Strip your mind of conformity
Simply picture the battery
The positive and negative
When activated, LIGHT have we

At a summer's sunset
I sit on a pier
Alone with my thoughts
With Swans at my feet
As I dip my toes into
The lake's warm wavelets
The hues of Heaven's glow
Dance on mountain cliffs
All around me only
The sounds of summer songs
I drift into a dreamy trance
My heart's beat plays along
All grown now, but I still
Wish upon the stars
One by one shining above
Silver laced misty clouds
The sun sets at its lazy pace
Here there's no hurry
I lie back on the pier
Take in its full glory
Another day on now
Just as a snowflake
Not another like it
It's just another page
I'll turn in the book
Of memories of me
Sitting on a pier
Never once feeling lonely
Though one does tug at my heart
But he is far away
So God wraps me in splendor
Until comes the day
He finds his way to me
Brings me to this pier
We'll make love and promises
Whisper in each other's ear
That as long as there's a sunset
Mountains and summer songs
There will be an Us
Hearts, as One, beating along