Since a sea of unsmiling glass
was caught by my lover,
his sky has shifted
oh so dark
and I watch him
taking cover.

He takes the rose of winter,
wonders why
it doesn't bloom
and it’s too bad
he doesn't know
he never gave it room

Now all hope he has
of home and hearth
and my consolation
drifts across the land
as the wind……….
of all of his frustration.

A few hours have forgotten the sky
as they tremble in their sleep.
Truly they are delicate,
you can hear them softly weep.

Water becomes unwanted
as it's blown across and battered.
Yet, the water keeps on  praying,
as if it really matters.

We drown in the reality
that every day brings us in the night.  
Still,
regret sees you and I,  
and our skin forgets to fight.

Now, fire drips from all we hear
and the wind begins to howl.
We ask if this is heaven or hell,
and to the music
we all bow.

A shivering wisp of distress follows lingering footprints
Until its concern is no longer felt within
As a balmy wind of companionship blows content
Sighing shades of peace under my skin

I stand in the presence of a restless sea of coming bliss
While my lips dream of a single day
When this restless sea rewards me with a kiss
So sweet, it takes my breath away

Light and shadow call upon my wait by this restless sea
Leaving a touch of distress once again
To follow lingering footprints there in front of me
Until I feel this kiss on my skin

The softest light of the moon melts into our hearts
Bending them into remembered meaning
Softly calling us back, so we can stand apart
Passing into our spirits’ open doors
The essence of its being

We hold this light, clasped within our hearts embrace
In an everlasting picture we can recall
When the sun begins its journey upon our face
The softest light of the moon
Our soul enthralls

When we walk within our day on a troubling course
The softest light of the moon remains
Quietly calling our spirits back to reinforce
An endless light into our view
We can easily obtain

Should we happen to find that it’s dark overhead
The light of the moon has disappeared
If we will quietly look into our hearts instead
Our souls will find the softest light
Is still right there

The journey ends with no delightful kiss of comprehension
Yet no harmful injury has visited the mind
A challenge is acknowledged without any hesitation
As every single visitor who travels there will find

Uncivilized pandemonium reigns in as the mistress
Yet she is never seen as vicious or unkind
Always zealously providing a retreat of lively chaos
To visit on your unsuspecting mind

The mistress is delighted when your journey comes to an end
Stands smiling at the amazement on your face
As she shakes her head in denial to any questions asked
Only offering another visit, to her confusing space

You quietly depart in such a wondrous display of silent confusion
Satisfied to leave without comprehension’s kiss
Knowing you have enjoyed the challenge and the visit
Never caring that the journey was amiss

We are living in a time of immense transformation
Evolving with our Earth at lightning speed
Tremendous change is ringing in the air we breathe
Often times planting a fearsome seed

Every occurrence, moving in these winds of change
Is safely wrapped in the arms of love
We need not have any fear of the changes we see here
Flying in to rest upon the wings of a dove

We are able to rise to the challenges we meet
Carrying a wealth of strength inside
Setting a fine example by displaying a still tranquility
Into the empty fear that change provides

Open up your glorious hearts with overflowing love
Reflecting all the joy you know is here
Reach out your extended hands to everyone in need
Showing change, need not bring fear

You softly light upon me unannounced
Offending all my tranquility
Sly and cunning in your swift approach
As you creep right up on me

I watch your quest with breathless interest
Yet, silently in increasing fear
Submissive to your persistent touch
As I wonder why you’re here

Do you see me as a frustrating hindrance  
Or am I  part of your life’s crusade
Are you taking delight in my fearful plight
Or merely wishing I’d go away

Have I become your latest amusement
To incapacitate with dreadful fear
Or would you prefer I assert my valiant pride
And vanquish you from here

I am not quite sure of your intentions
Perhaps you are not sure of mine
But I’ve grown weary of this wondering
And all this rising fear is asinine

The time has come for one of us to finally make a move
Regardless of the reasons you are here
As I know the pain you can inflict is powerful and strong
You can watch me run along in all my fear

You quickly passed into the crystal wall of reflection
To marvel at inciting bits of temptation
Found yourself lost and intoxicated in false delusions
While your energy dissipated into frustration

You looked upon treasures just out of your reach
Sadly crying out in dissatisfaction
Continuously attempting to hold and pursue them
Thinking they held satisfaction

You lived in your imagination in a castle built with sand
Forgetting to lay a strong foundation
Upon a shore in a land full of tumultuous storms
Where it rains without cessation

So still you became as if you could no longer move
All your energy expended for naught
Soon, forgetting who you were and all that you stood for
Everything that you had been taught

You are not trapped inside the crystal wall of reflection
You are free to leave most any day
Stop living in your castle of crumbling sand
Because of wrong choices you made

In lucid drops of quietly flaming rain
Messages pour across the sea
Stirring kingdoms
And calling forth feelings
Fluttering from mysterious places
Deep inside of me

Atop the crests of misty waves of royal blue
My thoughts are spun into whispers
Sending out truth
Within the softness of a dream
In quiet echoes
Of transparent amber

A breath uncaught, appears to know me
My unbroken passion it reveals
I know not what rushes across the sea
Only that the feelings
Which this flaming rains whispers
Are inside me still

Drenched in these lucid drops of flaming rain
I know not what comes over me
Yet in this softness I will here remain
Pouring out my feelings
Spun in whispers
From deep inside of me

You can see a fiery stream of delayed concern
Scattered carelessly in the emotion
In the exaggerated encircling of compassion
Shown as false proof in bits of devotion

Spontaneous flickers of suspended movements
Oblivious to thought or care
Briefly promise to abolish the damage imparted
Yet never quite honor anything there

You question the sequence of disgraceful events
With a pleading silent look in your eyes
To find yourself under siege by the fiery stream
As your honesty discloses their lies

Create a severing of ties with the fiery stream
By the slightest move of your hand
Shunning the counterfeit display of compassion
Placing your protective shield in command

The strings were pulled of a bitter signal
Erratically hateful in their draw
Commencing the judgment of her mental state
As a bloodthirsty crowd looked on in awe

All her pleading notations were met with objection
By all their unfeeling eyes
Who merely wished to bear witness to the surrender
Of sanity and to see its quiet demise

Suddenly without warning an onrush of light
Blinded the probing eyes of the crowd
A curve of great decision was suspended in space
As they began to read her crimes aloud

Guilty as charged a voice rang out from the light
For moving against the grain
For not following behind the shadow of others
She is guilty, she must be insane

Completely unnatural, no control of her faculties
She cannot possibly be competent, the voice loudly rang
Daring to be optimistic in the face of grievous pain
She holds no resentment, she must be insane

Her sentence was pronounced for the entire crowd to hear
Claiming her incompetent and unfit
All the eyes in the crowd remain blinded by the light
Yet she doesn’t mind at all as she smiles and sits

She smiles into the faces of the blinded crowd
Knowing she has not changed a bit
****** she may be to the unfeeling eyes of the blind
However, they can never take her own happiness

I gave myself to the winds, but still I loved you dear
Within the gardens of my waking heart
I care not to watch my days go by
Without you here in my life
As a part

If I had but the loss of these winds under my wings
I would still see the wildest blue oceans
Right here within your lovely eyes
Reflected in the clouds
Of devotion

Although I find favor in the winds, I love you my dear
With a love that cannot breathe on its own
I care not to watch my days go by
Without you here in my life
Your love unknown

You hold all the wind beneath my wings, I will ever need
I care not to fly within the wind alone
Although I find favor in the winds
With you here in my life
I am home

Serenity infuses an unbounded peace that flows within
A refuge in unwavering tranquility
Possessing an intensity so luminous and warm
Breathed into the very soul of me

As I reduce the rate of speed, in which my world spins
A calming glow emanates from me
Enlightening my very essence from the peace, I feel within
Releasing all my fears into the breeze

I look into the evening’s glow as the sun sets in the West
While crimson shades of amber flood my sight
And I release the stresses of my day with the setting sun
While breathing in the peace of the coming night

I have found my refuge in unwavering tranquility
In the calmness of the ending of my day
Serenity, which is boundless, has infused my very soul
As I quietly watch, my worries slip away

So obsessively self-reliant
With eyes that are instruments of power
To the norm of society so incredibly defiant
Refusing to live in the hour

So much time wasted, surrendered and stolen
Like tiny feathers brushing the glass
She trembles on the edge of revelation
As she sits and looks at her past

The images there are weathered and worn
Yet still savored without distraction
So she smiles to herself and no more will she mourn
As her tears brings her no satisfaction

Self-reliance she will hold close to her heart
Defiant she will be to the end
The images will remain there alive but apart
As she let’s go of the past to live again

This self-imposed darkness I have put in place
Runs like wildly tumbling water in my veins
Expressing itself as I release in words from each pore
All of my self-imposed pain

This proud isolation that I hold myself captive within
Contains no flowers to brighten its view
Only my infatuation with this sentence I’ve imposed
On myself and these chains I wear too

In fleeting expressions of freedom to be found
I stare longingly at a windowless door
Then tremble in fear and confusion at the mere thought
Of even walking across the floor

My idealized image of how my life should be
Holds me captive here in my own war
I am the only one who can release me from this space
Untie myself and walk out my windowless door

Through all the thunder breathing from the past
A peaceful glow I will retain
Like a babe slipping into dreams at last
This gentle smile
I maintain

I greet the sweetest sun with this gentle smile
As my tasks I take to hand
Unshaken by that thunder breathing
Or the space in my heart
It demands

I would stir dry leaves if need be each day
If this glow I could not find
Searching for that which my peace arrays
To leave this thunder
Fast behind

So come on thunder breathing from the past
This gentle smile you cannot steal
Breathe upon me and you will find at last
That your breath
I cannot feel

She fell sound asleep there on the crumpled sheets
With her latest book in hand
No longer able to stay awake and read
“How to Keep Her Man”

A book she has for learning everything in life
Instructions on how to live
Even for the simplest matters of the heart
That she is afraid to give

Shelves upon shelves full of hardbound leather
Containing knowledge of her world
She has been learning from these books of hers  
Since she was a little girl

Answers plenty she has found for so many things
In the pages of all her precious books
She’s discovered how to instructions for everything
Even learned to be a decent cook

Yet here she lies asleep on these crumpled sheets
As her man is walking out the door
Unaware that he is wondering if she will ever learn
That there are some things in life like hearts
There are no instructions for

A sword of awareness can be drawn to deflect all sides
Averting misleading deception
Striking immense fear into the heart of those
Who can see your apparent perception

A razor-sharp discernment will cut straight to the chase
Shrewdly seeing all in undying motion
Rendering powerful blows to break down a charade
Bringing a swift end to chaotic commotion

The spirit of instinct wields your sword of awareness
Sharpened by the vision of your third eye
While knowing rules the heart of the sword bearer
Gallantly fighting through chaos and lies

Do you have hold of the hilt of your sword of awareness
Lifting your blade of discernment up high
Are your edges of perception sharpened and ready
To slice through the chaos and lies?

In a cold world that fell to the persuasions of a crown
Their lights went out aside the other way
Feeling a primal wish of renown
They looked up into the sky
To find a brighter day

It was said that they pulled a string along the ages
Dipped cautiously into the stars above
Slipped open the locks on cages
Filled everything that could be felt inside
With love

A drift of a thousand years had cursed them with a fate
Bitten into everything they had become
Yet when filled with love’s update
The sweetest glances filled their hearts
And they succumbed

Constrained like trees they waited, bending in the wind
Truthfully their hearts never bowed
Into the fields they were born once again
Tall and straight, free and proud
Released were they
From the crown

You in yourself,
treasure your secrets
inside a trance,
as your greatest work of art.
You lay them down  
as your reality
among the colorful leaves
then let them lie….
to your heart.

I simply wait
as your diamond
for you to turn the pages
of my body
while you sing.
I’m left dreaming of your smile
within a roaring tide
believing your time….
is everything.

A new tear parted last night from an ocean of eternity
Where it had once laid shivering and sweet
Beginning to comprehend those words of comfort
From a spirit that has awakened within
Every eye you meet

Looking up for peace of mind outside of black and white
Thoughts hold a subtle sweetness all around
This new tear stares into the breath of expectation
Seeing glory in beautiful shades of gray  
Now wonderfully profound

An old tear reveals lips that speak to us of retribution
Losing sight of what is right and wrong
Telling stories that have no place at all to go
Except dark hills carried in our souls
For way too long

A new tear parted last night from an ocean of eternity
Defining hope in feelings now recognized
In all those words of comfort proceeding forth
From the spirit awakening within
These smiling eyes

You speak to me of beauty, as you breathe what you will
Laughing when no stir of air lingers on the way
Thinking I will call you master and my eyes with tears will fill
While your fragrance, disunites my senses
In unfair play

You show yourself as mightier than storm clouds sweeping by
Yet do you love me as the water falls below
Is that sieve for your protection to sift out the tears I cry
So that you will not see them falling
Or where they go

Did you hear me say I would follow wherever you may lead
To any land where your sweet flowers grow
Perhaps I should acquaint you with this beauty you misread
She heard every word you didn’t say
About the lands of not and so

You speak to me of beauty, when you can’t will what you breathe
See me laughing when no air stirs your way
I will not call you master, when you ignore my tears you see
Smell my fragrance disuniting your senses
In my fair play

Countless pages are silently turned in unread books
With quiet secrets passed through the ages
Mysteriously holding inside, wisdom passed down
Deep thoughts of the sages

Sensational scenes of marvelously profound dreams
Lie patiently there waiting upon the fading ink
The rich abundant thoughts of great men of worth
With an innate drive to uniquely think

A gentle breeze of knowledge blows across one’s face
Softly calling out a sweep of welcoming hail
Tempting minds with a voracious need to learn
To come and read their untold tales

Take a moment out in your life’s seeking journey
To rest your eyes upon these unread lines
Read and treasure the wisdom offered in measure
Satisfy the hunger you hold in your mind

If you find your mind is hungry and seeking appeasement
Driven deeply, by a powerful need to learn
Take a taste of the great wisdom left there in earnest
Satisfaction waits, in those pages you turn

I turned the pages where I wrote down your name
Reading every line as the first time
Although each letter did not spell out the same
Your heart was in each word
In every rhyme

I read the depths of my own heart in verses
Reading every line as the first time
Although not a single word was rehearsed
Each letter spelled out your name
In my mind

I turned the pages where I wrote down your name
Reading every one as the first time
I wondered to myself if I still felt the same
If my heart still held each word close
To every rhyme

Then I turned the pages over and I took out my pen
Began writing every line as the first time
My heart began to sing as I read once again
That your heart was in each word
Of every rhyme

Such splendid music can be heard
Ringing through the sky
On the whispering wings of bluebirds
When morning’s drawing nigh

Wonderful incandescent notes so sweet
Will melt the coldest heart
You’ll be smiling at each one you meet
Laughing when you part

What a glorious  morning has begun
With the lovely bluebird's song
Now you’ll be sweetly smiling in the sun
While laughing all day long

I saw three faces within a ring of happiness
Like rays of love that sparkled so
Living only to impress
New delights
Into my
Soul

A white dove fluttered by each of the faces
Connected by a chain of purest air
Teaching them to fly in place
On their way to
When and
Where

Rosy petals floated like the tears of angels
Down each cheek in laughter
By each ear a marvel
Whirling into now
To forever and
Hereafter

An elixir of promises spilled from their lips
Flowing into an ocean of true love
I drank my fill in just one sip
To find myself laughing
And here fluttering
With
The doves

A tender heart held inside a rugged frame
You have quietly locked away
Inside a heart shaped box with fail proof locks
No one can ever break away

You float along a perfect sea of mirrored glass
No rushing waves toss you about
Smoothly gliding through your life alone
Yet I hear your heartbeat shout

I see your haunted eyes secretly peering out
When you do not know I’m there
Seeking ways to get inside your heart shaped box
To let you know how much I care

How I wish you knew that I was standing here
Holding your box's master key
That your tender heart need not be locked away
If you would place your trust in me

You have now left an inefficient existence in the dust
To greatly savor a newborn energy
No longer looking at life with a dreary cast
You can see the truth with clarity

A vibrant glow has been gently summoned forth
Brightly illuminating the darkness
Boldly restoring resilient confidence to your waiting soul
Removing dark shadows from your countenance

Go forth and now sow the seeds for your life’s garden
Attentive, with painstaking care
Step back softly and smile with sweet satisfaction
As you, carefully watch them growing there

Continuously bathe your garden in the vibrant glow
Ushering new growth into the light
Then stand quietly still with the proudest adoration
Inhaling the beauty blooming in your sight