you know what i was thinking about last night?

i was thinking about heaven
whether it exists or not…

i think the reason
i want not to believe
is because I’m scared
so terribly frightened
by the thought of eternity.
how could i keep waking up
day
      after day
                     after day…
what could possibly make me keep going?

but then i think about you..

and i think about exploring this beautiful, wonderful world

and then i think
how long it would take
to see every
imaginable
beautiful
piece

you know…

i could have plenty of time for that.

and then i think about other things
like far distant worlds...
millions of planets
and billions of miles
and still all the time in the world


what if i had the time?...
and the millions of miles
to walk through the oceans
and swim through the land
and watch thousands of sunsets
endless in setting
and rising
and falling
again

and what if i had the endless ages
of stories on pages
or actors on stages
and just could sit by, eons on end
watching the riverbeds flow?

what if i had forever
and then ever and ever
and maybe i had it with you..

thats my only real heaven, and surely i'll go
i just hope that you'll come with me too

Gimme the keys
I’m good to ride

Over black or white
It's all good to me

I’ll take you someplace
You’ll wish you’d remember

From roaring rapids
To rolling thunder

From ivory coasts
To charcoal sky

From dusk till dawn
Till the music starts again.

Meet.
Smile.
Talk.
Learn.
Like.
Laugh.
Ask.
Kiss.
Hold.
Hope.
Love.
Live.
Give.
Plan.

Cheat.

Cry.
Claim.
Blind.
Blame.
Hope.
Smile.
Strive.
Live.
Learn.

Love.

a poem a day keeps the doctor away
and helps you write
like maggie, molly, and mae
and use more complex words when extending the rhyme
but still keep it sparse and succinct and sublime
so the reader will smile
and hold on for the ride
and realize the connection you’re feeling inside
so withering willows and pestilent pines
and the dark in the back of the light of their mind
will be rupt and distorted like sun through the blinds

and then they will find
thru your stanzas and lines
that nothing is over
if you learn to make time

she beds down with the most dangerous snakes she can find
and waits for the bite

she swallows the venom
then slides back in to me

give up the ghost,
don't look behind


i couldn’t help it if i tried

this world's cold and she’s a fire

when tomorrow starts without me
and i'm not there to see
if the sun should rise
and find your eyes
all filled with tears
for me

i wish so much you wouldn't cry
the way you did today
while thinking of the many things
we didn't get to say

i know how much you loved me
as much as i love you
and each time that you think of me
i know you'll miss me too

but when tomorrow starts without me
please try to understand
that an angel came
and called my name
and took me by the hand

and said my place was ready
in heaven far above
and that id have to leave behind
all those i dearly love

but as i turned to walk away
a tear fell from my eye
for all my life id always thought
i didn't want to die

i had so much to live for
so much yet left to do
it seemed almost impossible
that i was leaving you

i thought of all the yesterdays
the good ones and the bad
and i thought of all the love we shared
and all the fun we had

if i could relive yesterday
just even for a while
id say goodbye and kiss you
and maybe see you smile

but then i fully realized
that this could never be
for emptiness
and memories
would take the place of me

and when i thought of worldly things
i might miss come tomorrow
i thought of you
and when i did
my heart was filled with sorrow

and when i walked through heaven's gates
i felt so much at home
when god looked down and smiled at me
from his great and golden throne

he said this is eternity
and all i've promised you
today your life on earth is passed
but here life starts
anew

i promise no tomorrow
but today will always last
and since each day is the same
theres no longing for the past

you have been so faithful
so trusting and so true
and there were times
you did some things
you knew
you shouldn't do

but you have been forgiven
and now at last
you're free
so won't you come and take my hand
and share my life
with me

you get so alone
sometimes
especially at night
when it's just you
and your thoughts
regrets
fears
aspirations
the stifling silence
can be so loud
overbearing
that you have to
turn over
and flip on
the light
to remind yourself
that you're still
all there
sometimes
it just makes sense.