You've drawn your curtains
And pulled your shades
Turned all your lights down low
Wishing after yesterday
Wondering where'd it go

You get on stage and take a bow
As you recall your youth
When everything was new to you
And dreams could still come true

Those were the days you can't forget
The world belonged to you
As you looked down from the clouds
And enjoyed the view

Challenges you took up quick
You stuck by your guns
'Til you grew tired of it all
And began to run

The beliefs branded in your heart
Were burned inside so deep
And you'd not go down without a fight
Your beliefs you meant to keep

Remove the shades from your eyes
Throw caution to the wind
All your curtains open wide
Turn your lights up once again

Stop wishing after yesterday
You've only grown older
What you were, you still are
Just wiser and much bolder

You see through me right into me
I cannot hide from you
Recognizing same but different
In everything I do

You know how I think
And why I do the things I do
Your mind and heart work the same
So mine you see into

My feelings I can’t hide from you
You’d recognize the sham
As you can see right through me
Knowing who I am

How can two be so much alike
Know each others hearts
Each move is countered with the same
As if we aren’t different parts

If I’m not you and you’re not me
What are we together
Two who understand each other well
Birds of a Feather

Just to look into your eyes
Heaven it would it be
To feel your breath upon my cheek
Would mean the world to me

To sit with you and stroke your hand
Entwine my fingers 'round yours too
I could think of nothing else
I would rather do

Gentle kisses from your lips to mine
I dream of and I need
This desire inside I can't confine
To your love I must concede

Beneath a sea which keeps the names of all that whirl in grace
Far from the pages between your face and mine
Not because I came near to this place
Do I tremble at the beauty
Here I find

On the one hand the looks of lovers call to me in fragrant rains
Whispering from a melodious harp with no strings
On the other hand, I see you in everything
And I tremble at the beauty
Which you bring

Not because of lovely flowers that float gently on the winds
Falling as the sweetest sight to joyful tears
I tremble as I watch each petal descend
Filled with beauty so like you
Yet unaware

I thought I had told you, I have never
loved someone like this,
or felt the touch of a spirit
like a thousand winds
wrap around my moments in this way.

Look me in the eye and taste the passion
of this wine that pours from my heart.
You will then know the chemistry
that makes up the rhythm of truth
in these words I speak to you.

Listen to how much easier the rain falls
because we hear calmer waters
when we sail on the river
of our sweetest emotions.    

I thought you knew how I dream
of drawing the curtains of love’s intoxication
across our windows
and calling off our search for different skies.
I was sure you understood
how my fingertips trace one hundred places
on your face that I love more each time
I seek them out with my eyes.  

I thought I had told you,
I have never loved someone like this,
but perhaps I merely spoke these words in my mind.
So I tell you now, I speak them aloud,
to let there be no questions
running in the meadow of everything we feel.
I have never loved anyone
as I love you.  

Take my hand
and let’s draw the curtains
of love’s intoxication across our windows.
  Let us shut out the world
and sail on the river of our sweetest emotions.
I will trace those places on your face
that I adore with all I am.
Come wrap me in your spirit
of a thousand winds.

Sometimes I can't see you and I can't feel you
There is nothing but emptiness in my air
Once I felt you all around me
Now I wonder if you're there

I feel so cold and all alone
Not even your shadow's in my sight
And all my heart can think about
Is giving up this fight

With all I have inside I pray and try
To get you back into my life
To feel that I'm a part of you
And stop this pain that's causing all this strife

How much longer do I think I can continue on
Pretending nothing inside has changed
When all I hear is empty air
When I call your name

Then I recall all the promises in your Word
That will fill up this empty space
And they are enough to fill my empty air
And all my tears erase

The way the world should be
Is not often what we find
But do we try to change what is
Among humankind

When it comes to acceptance
Of what goes against our grain
Some find it such an easy task
Never trying to refrain

Ignoring someone's suffering
Is an easy path that many of us find
We'd rather turn our heads
Than give a minute of our time

I truly do believe
That if we wish to rearrange
What is,  to what should be
Our thinking must be changed

What is this fixation that you have
This you came here for
Don't you know that what you seek
Is what was yours before

You have looked and you have longed
Mistaken all these years
Never knowing what was wrong
Crying many tears

What you miss and what you have
They are not the same
What you find here it is yours
Hear it call your name

It sings out softly to your heart
No end in sight it seems
Answer now or you will always
Hear it in your dreams

Who you truly are is exposed by your words
So don't just say anything you think
Listen more than you speak
And before you speak, rethink

Unguarded speech often draw's rebuke
So think about what you say
Or you may find yourself making up an excuse
Or laying blame in another way

All your careless words can't fix another person
Instead they build up walls that you can't scale
Look inside and take your own inventory
And let cautiousness prevail

I remember everything you've written me
All the words you've said
Looking back, they come to me
From deep inside my head

Sweet memories they rush back to me
And I relive those days
I feel your love all over me
It never goes away

Recollection of the time we've spent
And how for us it stands so still
Brings such a joy inside of me
And my heart with love for you
Is forever filled

If I've a compass and a map
How can I be lost
When there's a star to the North
That's there at any cost

How can I not know which way to turn
When I'm given every tool
And how do I find myself in this state
When I know all the rules

Why do I cry out "Please help me now"
When I can't find my way
When I know You show me how
Every single day

It makes no sense at all to me
Why I keep running blind
When I know all I have to do
Is call on the Sweet Grace
I know is mine

Turning pages back in time
To days of long ago
Seeking to find out who I am
And which way I must go

Looking over what has been
And what has yet to be
I see a heart in my mind's eye
Calling out to me

Worlds of wonder not of this time
In a place I'm not from
Call out to me and I want to run
Find my way back home

Home is not this place called here
It is what I seek to find
I don't belong here where I am
I belong with the heart that's calling mine

I have wandered into an amazing sight, with movement at will
Lying behind a long sleep of my pure listening breath
Clouds break forth that were once charming
In all their melancholy words of patterned distress

Much kinder skies press lightly against the chest of my spirit
Life encased in silken petals, exiled now from grief
Just to know the touch of a healing heart
Has become home to rushing waters that seeped

I sit in a room containing a subtle touch of my future dreams
That I believed did not exist outside of mere images
Are they apparitions that dare lie to me now
Come to lick my wounds with beckoning messages

Sweet joy scatters where cold arrows of fragility once flew
Amid numberless embraces introduced with care
Shining on ripples of pain, bringing change
Into the one breathing space where I now stare

Now I stand inside a circle of stones with my eyes closed
Surrounded by possibilities with qualities that spin
I am now quickly approaching faith anew
Inspiration to step outside this room once again

Eradicate these feelings
Running deep inside of me
Please take them from my heart
As they won't let me be

Return to what was here at first
The way it was before
As what this has become
I cannot ignore

If nothing can be changed
And this is how it is
Then show me what to do
Show me how to live

Please strengthen my resolve
Tear my fears apart
Take all this weakness that I feel
And remove it from my heart

I know you always hear my voice
Please help me hear yours too
At times I fail to listen
Sometimes I get confused

I lay my requests before you
All upon my plate
But I don’t listen when you say
That I need to wait

Sometimes I rush into my day
At full speed ahead
Not taking time to slow down and hear
Your gentle voice instead

Then I find myself so angry
Frustration running round my head
That’s when I stop and ask myself
If I heard anything you said

For an hour in my time, blow between the sails of my ship
Yet do not pass by my senses for too long
Look into my eyes; they are the life of my lips
Giving place to the verses
Of my song

Do not be the hunter, causing me to run to my resting place
Distant and high is the mountain I will climb
Just for an hour in my time, look into my face
Blow between my sails
Hear me chime

Perfumes of sweetest scent will flow from my sails
You will find in this hour in my time
Yet I will depart to sing, once you have exhaled
The rhythm and the meaning
Of my rhyme

For an hour in my time, blow between the sails of my ship
See the flags of my freedom lift away
Look into my eyes; watch the movement of my lips
Giving place to the music
My heart plays

One mustn't take what is beautiful and pure
And taint it with ugliness profane
From tarnishing its beauty
Can one not refrain?

You would think the eyes would see
The trueness of its state
And not place blemish on it one
And all of its innocence berate

I suppose one must hold in mind
That each one of us is unique
In how we interpret what we find
And how to others it bespeaks

Flying to escape what is my destiny
I have darted and dashed about
Stopping short of what I am meant to do
Frozen by my doubts

Growing stronger with each crack
Each time life dealt a blow
Still I ran and hid from destiny
Myself I didn't know

Living, learning growing wiser
Experience ingrained upon my heart
Refusing to live by what I learned
Came untied and fell apart

Torn and bruised and battle scarred
I finally saw the light
Who I am and what I'm meant to do
Is stand up tall and fight

Through a ghoulish patch of woods
I walk alone and shiver
I'm not sure what hides behind each tree
Or what lies in the river

There are candles neatly lit
Upon the branches of each tree
Fairies must have left them there
To light a path for me

Suddenly I hear a mournful howl
The wind blows the candles out
I am left here in the dark
Not sure what evil lurks about

I hear movement in the trees
The hair stands up upon my head
What I can't see, can see me
The unknown is what I dread

From the windows of my mind
I look out and see your face
Such a vision I behold
I never want to leave this place

I see those steely eyes of blue
That strong jaw I love to trace
I have memorized each feature
They can never be replaced

Each time that I look out
From the windows of my mind
I search for the one that I love best
It's always you I find

If there were a bridge I had to cross
Above the cliffs and water blue
I would cross and all fear hide
To find my way to you

Though weak and brittle it may be
I would never falter
It may swing and creak and sway
My love for you it would not alter

I may slip and I may fall
Unto a certain death
For this I've no concern
I'll keep crossing to get to you
Until I take my last breath

Come and hold me now my love
Here I've always been
As in the days of our long ago
Hold me once again

Enfold me in yours arms my love
Protect me from the wind
Let come to me no harm
Hold me once again

Come and dance with me again my love
Round and round again
Look into my eyes
And dance with me again

I have waited so long for you my love
How long this wait has been
Come and hold me now my love
Hold me once again

Within the reach of my two arms, my world is exhilarating
The earth knows I understand, why it turns
Gone, are all mere fantasies, perhaps just as well
One kiss and I saw smoke, felt the fire burn

My thoughts went out searching for God’s desire for me
On the edges of eventually and pretty soon
Found a star that sang this song into all my views
Until all that remained inside of me was you

Let me show a thousand waves from a life of happiness
A kingdom looking back in wondrous bliss
I wish to sit awhile, not speak, and just watch the tide
Stray from a few words, awakening a kiss

A piece of life’s hair is let down listening to this song
Never reaching shadows that dance along
Yet, it enters the rooms within my sight and brings
You, into the reach of my two arms
Regardless of whether
Right or wrong

I walk through this life
With no blinders on my eyes
Never looking back
Or on either side

I am seeking what's ahead
Not regretting what's behind
I walk through this life
With an open mind

I am taking every step
Rounding every turn
My heart seeks only truth
And the knowledge to discern

As I take each step
I know not if the ground is firm
Yet with faith, I continue on
And the truth I learn

How does one turn off what shines so bright
Way down so no one can see
You'll find it’s an impossible task
One that cannot be

You can shut your eyes and look away
The light will blind you still
No way that you can hide from it
Or how it makes you feel

The light will turn you inside out
Make you want to smile
Before you know what’s happened
Life’s become worthwhile

Love is the light that shines so bright
Surrounding you and me
It’s touched your heart forever
Forever it will be

When warm I love you’s join affection
our souls
cannot seem to say
it is time to go.
I can see
no journey’s end
that will ever prove to me
that forever
could ever think
of leaving this love
we stand by.

I hold on tight to your soul
even after
we say goodnight.
Inside my mind, I see visions
looking back at caresses
from your hands
and no door is closed
In my heart
containing any words written
you have not read.

Sometimes life feels like a river
flowing into the dawn
reaching beyond
any love song of passion
clinging to the clouds
I am in.
However, thoughts of you
sail me higher
and higher
into beautiful colors
again.

I am left breathless when I see your hands
moving within the realms
of a thousand
I love you’s
yet to be said.
I can see no journey’s end
to this forever
I feel,
as one by one
they are heard on my skin.

When you found pleasure
walking on the bridge of night
you did not breathe in the eyes that cried.  
You gave your heart to the dreams of midnight
all for the want of sighs.

You lived beside the cause of never
in a garden beautiful as the reasons why.
I never mentioned the winds of all your years,
always trusting,
one day you would fly.

You searched for sleep
by haunting ways that no tear
first had been. Time passed
left you singing an endless song
of dreams of midnight on the bridge again.

Your world had no time
where rain fell in crystal showers.
So in vain you burned to become part
of the skies that whispered words of honey
into your every hour.

When you found pleasure
walking on the bridge of night
you found the hand of sorrow.
You gave your heart to the dreams of midnight
while the eyes that cried,
found your tomorrow.

I have not heard your voice
In what seems to be a million years
But it’s still here in my mind
Whispering in my ear

I’ve not been in your arms
Or felt your skin against my own
But I still feel your breath on my cheek
As if you were never gone

I miss you more than I can tell
Using every word I know
But I still wear a smile for you
Everywhere I go

If there were no promises ever broken
And all our dreams came true
Oh, what a world we would live in
The days we could wake up to

If one were never lied to
Never taken in by deception
Trust could be gained so easily
Without exception

If hearts remained in love forever
Never tiring never breaking
No heartaches would there ever be
Nor would any tears be falling

If there were no trials or tribulations
No deception and no pain
Where would life's lessons lie
Or the incentive to maintain

If I could only hold you close if only for awhile
A smile, it would put upon this face
I miss you more than I thought I would
No one can ever take your place

A light would spark in these eyes of green
The eyes that you make smile
If your blue eyes I could see
If only for awhile

A gentle peace would rest inside my heart
If I could feel yours beat with mine
While I hold you close and my eyes smile
If only for awhile

There are no windows and no doors
Here inside this place
There's no way in and no way out
So nothing is misplaced

What's inside you'll never see
As you cannot look in
But does it matter anyway
As it can't leave again

From this place you may not leave
As there is no way out
But have no fear in coming here
To get in, there is no route

Stand outside and strain your eyes
Trying to see what's here
Or walk away while you can
Before the way in or out appears

My Love you are so deep
And you run so wide
Your tender words of love
Have built in me a fire inside

This fire it is white-hot
It burns deep inside my soul
I fear it will consume me
If soon you I do not hold

Such a fire you have created
It has flames that reach the sky
Come and quench this fire you've started
Your love to me do not deny

I have climbed to the top of the world
I am looking down
At all the beauty God created
There upon the ground

Up above me are the softest clouds
I have ever seen
They drift by like angel wings
My soul begins to sing

It has been so long since I have noticed
All the beauty in this place
When all this time it's been here in all its glory
Like the nose upon my face

I think I will stay awhile
Just enjoy the view
Thank God that I can see this
Pray you can see it too

There are many wondrous days
When I feel you by my side
With your protection and your presence
My every step you lead and guide

Yet some are so very barren
And my spirit feels completely dry
I can’t feel you near me and I’m thirsty
And I keep asking why

At times I can’t help but wonder
If anything is planned
I keep asking where you are
And trying to understand

On these days so gray and cloudy
I find it’s best to just be still
Quietly listen for your answer
It comes and always will