Under layers of faces there exist journeys held in silence
Constantly unraveling inside as heart strings
Pulled to the surface they can quickly shift these layers
Into smiles, tears or a burning anger not predicted
Instantly changing everything

Memories held within the layers of faces never disappear
What the heart has gazed upon remains
Deeply engraved in the tender fibers of our souls
As burning embers buried under time’s ash
Sparked……becomes a flame

What is banished often still exists under these layers
Inside the spirit of all our heart strings
Our journeys may leave vivid scars held in silence
But they will also leave lessons in layers
Used to change everything

You appear as an image of beauty through a smoky haze
One true thing no impossibility can deny
Making thunder echo with the grace of an angel
While you delight in the lovely sound
Of my sighs

Then careful indeed, you drift before my eyes as a vision
Quiet as a dear offering of perfect silence
******* my soul as you pull on every string
Connecting the fabric of my heart’s
Very own eyelets

The moment I find I am a breath away from pretending
I see your face clearly as a fresh-water spring
Softly smiling, I lie listening to your echoing thunder
Resounding inside my perfect silence
Surrounding everything

You linger in love letters and sleep deeply within souls
Often, observed in the look in one’s eyes
Those windows where shadows hold time will reveal
Spirit’s of feelings, nameless and faceless
Yet, not to be denied

You rain on the fields of a forgotten melody so sweet
As soft feathers from a time standing still
Dancing on the toes’ of the soul, you sleep within
Kept alive in the touch of a teardrop’s salt
As master of all will

You hide quickly away within the warmth of a smile
While your sweet music continues to play
To be held as an unforgotten scent within a soul
Whose eyes have pulled down the shades
On those feelings today

Slide your feelings into mine, under the fire I breathe
Embracing all the highs and lows, you behold
Keep me safe and warm from the winds that blow
Around moments when this heart forgets
You are a gift much too precious
To ever let go

Allow the wilderness of your soul to run with mine
Loving the taste of our own freedom
Upon life’s stage, we will explore our inner depths
Together collecting pieces to fill spaces
On the elusive silver screen
Of knowing wisdom

Come return kisses of light from a passionate moon  
With the radiance of our hearts’ desire
Slide your feelings into mine, my precious gift
Hold me when the winds come knocking
To take the eternal flame I breathe
From my air’s fire

Slide your feelings into mine, here together endlessly
Embracing the differences, we behold
With an understanding, that keeps both our hearts
Ever mindful that our love is a precious gift
Running in a wilderness of freedom
Within our souls

*For My Heart

On this day, my beloved, we travel to the slopes of happiness  
To feel the warmth of golden butterflies again
We will listen to the wind’s laughter without a single care
With open arms that reach like roots of a tree
That will always remember
Where they began

We will build our house upon grasses of peacefulness
Bid farewell to those boughs that break
Plant red poppies where a fence once stood
Creating two separate paths to walk
Between your heart and mine
Mending our aches

When the clock strikes, time will mean nothing at all
Resting our minds in each other’s shade
Our names written in the memories of leaves
That may fall and change their colors
But never lose sight of happiness
When they fade

Can you see the smiles engraved in stone, which lie
Before our beautiful bed of poppy flowers
Displaying a shield of protection from the floods
That we both know shall one day come
They are the foundation we built
All these hours

As my heart surrenders to this place of hours
I give my thoughts new fire to rise
To tender whispers of honesty from lips
I trust in curves I cannot see
With my eyes

One rare pleasure comes in as never before
Driven beyond my pulses beat
Borrowing beauty from inviting sighs
For my own tribute of solitude
Bittersweet

I would wait on the sands of time for release
From this place my thoughts linger
Surrender up this poet’s peace eternally
If my heart surrendered to whispers
Of tender honesty