Never-ending, incessant inspiration, is welcomed by the hand
Sweetly held treasured from the very start
As a silken caress of soothing persuasion, stirring the steady flow
Of your imagination, nestled gently in your heart

A release of cherished wonders, splendid in their course
Dignify the expression in their flow
With the breath of enticing bits of passionate emotion
Gratifying in their bliss, pleasing as they show

Deeply captivating is the gravitation to incessant inspiration
Ensnaring and hypnotizing the consenting soul
To express admiration with a measure of immense flourish
As an exhale of unrestrained emotion with no control

If you find you are intensely drawn into this sweet continuum
Of fascination gently rippling in the flow
Treasure the inspiration nestled gently in your heart
Express your imagination in the show

I can hear you speak, even in your silence
Blending forever into the way I feel
Until all my thoughts burn into eternity
Within a flickering picture I hold
That dazzles my senses
And my heart steals

I will tell you where the radiance shines
To make all the clouds disappear
When I feel the warmth of tomorrow’s dawn
Tie a string of silk around my heart
Because I know you can see
Me standing here

I need not speak as you can see me tremble
At every turn your silence takes
I will tell you where the radiance shines
When I once again see the hope
That dazzles my senses
And my day makes

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

The chains that bind have shattered now and rusted clean away
No longer will they hold your life or you
As droplets formed upon the grass, they have dissipated
Leaving freedom’s bell to ring so clear and true

Look yonder to the great blue skies and spread your tiny wings
Soar high and free upon the whistling winds
Journey far away from here and discover who you are
While learning how to exist in your own skin

Perhaps you will learn as days go by and hold this truth to you
Those chains that bound you never did exist
Except only in your mind, along with your inhibitions
And the views, which you have now dismissed

A day will come when you may fly right back here to me
Perhaps you will gently light upon my hand
Stay with me for a while and watch me proudly smile
As you fly off,  with your life at your command

An unfading melody fills my life
with a beauty
that covers my scars with ink
of a rhyme's desire
I can’t dismiss.  
And  I remember,
some things, move smooth as silk
like  laughter filled words
of a lover’s kiss.

The ink
which is burned upon my name
sleeps with my every hope
searching only…….
for happiness.  
It looks at me with an expectant face
in those moments
when my mind can’t rest.

The slightest touch of this  melody
leaves me waiting to shine  
with outstretched hands.  
My heart overflows with the beauty
of a thousand lights
changing color
at my command.

I can feel
the ink of my soul
writing……
on each and every breath
this melody breathes.  
While the ink burned upon my name
finds the happiness
it needs.

In my dreams, I travel places, far away from here
Where you and I run hand in hand
Full of laughter and midnight kisses under starry skies
In a turquoise ocean touched by ivory sand

Our turquoise ocean is filled with gentle waves
Sparkling under a smiling moon
Swirling slowly around our bodies as we dance
To our hearts, own blissful tune

This place of beauty held only in my dreams
I visit every single night
Knowing you will always meet me there
Underneath our smiling light

When I close my eyes and drift, off to sleep
My heart begins to roam
Hand in hand with you in our turquoise ocean
The place that I call home

Free what is drawn in a few moments from your speech
and our two  forces.
Come find the lover you leave behind
in the ancient black and white.
Are you scared of heights
or would you rather be turned
into a man
as black as light?

No guilt
when you look at your dreams
and they spark
and mirror the poison apple you sense.
They bleed when they can't be seen
no matter their essence.

Are you willing to embrace the wonder that you find
Following your innermost feelings
Look deep inside, and come to know yourself
What you find, will send your senses reeling

Do you walk the path of life guided by your intuition
Attuned to the light in your heart
Refined not by logic, or what is known as common means
Proud to be different and stand apart

Do you search deeply in the midst for hidden undercurrents
That which is not obvious to the eye
Searching for the truth in what is not openly shown
Never hesitating, to ask the question why

If you walk this path of intuition lighted by your heart
Ever searching, for the living truth
You will find that your path is filled with bountiful wonder
Great curiosities will be staring back at you

A miracle finds each morning
Draped in skies of blue
With pillows of downy clouds so light
Which take the breath from you

A sunrise of majestic splendor
Bursts in brilliancy
To warm the faces of the trees
With leaves of deepest green

Grasses fine with flowers fair
Wild and blooming free
Fill the air with fragrance rare
As I breathe in ecstasy

Such beauty found beyond compare
God’s gift to you and me
All left in trust to our loving care
To rest in gentle peace

Angelic sounds fill the earth from every side you see
Lovely music made to thrill the soul’s desires
A lilting melody played upon the harps of purest gold
That melts your heart and lifts your spirits higher

Melodic strains of beauty rare float upon the skies
Contained in each soft sweep of angel wings
Brushing hearts once so cold and bare
Now inspiring them to sing

Lyrical passion thrills these souls with the softest shout
Racing through their hearts like darts of fire
The sound which only new love can bring
From a heart that’s been inspired

The quiet hum of fragile wings of burnished gold
Gently races through a hollow ring
Whirring within falling leaves of ancient trees
A sudden change of season brings

Astounding measures softly wake unchecked lists
Found in all your distant memories
Skating along a lucid sea of hazy dreams
Inside unvisited shades of history

Could we all be listening with enchanted hearing
To the wings lovely whirring hum
Softly waking our most distant memories
Of seasons that did not come

How fragile are those wings of shiny burnished gold
Can they fill the emptiness of the ring
As we recall those unchecked lists of hazy dreams
When those wings of gold come a visiting

In the evening of our minds, we hear the fragile wings
Racing through our list of things to do
We lie wondering if we will ever fill the hollow ring
Before all our change of seasons, say adieu

In the midst of a journey within a look of the sweetest eyes
I would imagine flowers as the mightiest giants
When I smelled smoke
I would know there was a fire
And my name would be written in sunshine
Instead of words of defiance

I would never be lost or glance behind me at dawn
Blankness would never claim my day
With gladness I would be filled
I would recognize the swords of those
Who were friend or foe
When entanglements came my way

My time would move ever slowly on the best of days
I would hold all the keys to change
And could tell the difference
Between promises made by the way
Without having fear of my life
Being rearranged

Instead in the midst of a journey within this life of my own
There exist giants who are certainly not flowers
Nor do I always smell smoke
When there is fire
My name is not written in sunshine each hour
Yet to the clouds
I will never give power

Our hearts skip a beat
when fed with the delusion
that we have time in this world
to possess.  
Like a child
we think we own the burning flame
of the candle
standing with no attention
to arrest.  
We are content to be lured in every season
And still yet,
the skies of ourselves
never rests.

We keep our eyes closed,
looking for some other way
to find
everything there is.
Irrespective
of how the sun holds our hands.  
Still,  gently we leave in place
an ache
that prepares us
for the broken windows in our lives
to be like feathers  
with a present
of living free
without demands.

Reality slipped right under my door tonight
Breathed on me and woke me from the deepest sleep
I opened my eyes and there she was
Staring intently back at me

The truth delivered was right in my face
Changing this life that I know
When reality slipped under my door tonight
I knew exactly where I had to go

She showed me visions of that which I miss
Of two arms that held me close
The reflection I saw in her eyes was of you
Telling me all that I needed to know

Then I looked even deeper into her eyes
Seeking to see the same
And I saw your face looking back at me
Calling out my name

Is there a law against being alone
To not have a soul in sight
As all this time I spend by myself
I’ve been told isn’t right

Is it so wrong to just shut my door
And not open it for days
To ignore the ringing of my phone
As I’ve nothing to say

Is there a rule somewhere in the books
Of which I’m not aware
That says I have to socialize
If so, then it’s not fair

So I will  continue in this state
Of solitude I love so
Until I see it written down in law
Ordinance or code

In between the realms where my eyes shine like the rarest stones
I call and you come promptly from places far away
Yet never could I seize the full embrace of your secret sorrow
When it arrived in new disguises from all ages passing
On those crowded streets of yesterday

Like always, you wear a robe of desire that softly whispers to me
Of a comfort that will never turn away in discontent
Seen in the soft muted colors of a promise keeping rainbow
Is now what I believe to be all I need to embrace
When seizing what is and is not meant

A soft fire dances in the pleasure of a circling gleam of pursuit
I trace its spin barely visible with my fingertips
All that I may learn still lies here to be discovered
When I knock upon the doors of heaven
With gentle kisses from my lips

In between the realms where my eyes shine like the rarest stones
I am caught in the full embrace of your secret sorrow
I called you and you came to me within what is meant to be
When my heart knocked upon the doors of heaven
I walked in and your heart followed

Look out where the gravel road is winding
See the wandering hills above
This is the place I lost my one desire
My heart,  my soul, my love

When the shining moon is full above you
You will hear the lonesome trees whisper to the breeze
Then I will call him home again to feel my love
He will once again be back with me

Come and whisper so soft and low my wind
Blow your breeze so wild and free
My moon fly high and glow above the trees
Bring my love back home to me

The night is old and leaving and still I am alone
There is no moon to glow no breeze to blow
I hear no whispering from the trees
Yet still I wait to see my love
As I will never go

Look out where the gravel road is winding
I am on the wandering hills above
Here I will be forevermore
Waiting for my love

Your words are heard throughout my changing mind
Saturating every part of my senses
Profusely renouncing all of my kind affections
Can you not see me building my shield of defenses

Your exasperation with life itself crushes my resolve
To see this world with you in a better light
As you seem to distrust each one who crosses your path
When I know each dog I see does not bite

All your subtle insinuations, unbendable points of view
Places a shadow on the light here in my heart
Yet, I will not permit you to ever steal my joy
Even if from your presence, I must forever part

I have always been in awe of your judgment and your wisdom
Deeply respected your opinion as your own
However, I will not be forced to think and act as you do
So for now, I will leave you alone

Rumbling thunder is heard in the East
Lightning strikes in the West
The rain cascades down my back
But I feel no unrest

This hill I’m climbing is so steep
I’ve been here for years
I can’t remember where I’m going
But I will cry no tears

I’ve not seen the sun in days
Everything is dark
Can’t see where to place my feet
But I will hit my mark

No matter what may come my way
I’ll make the best of it
I’ll put my best foot forward
And I will never quit

Gentle raindrops fall like velvet kisses
On my windowpane
As I look at shooting stars while making wishes
I hope come true once again

The moon above shines down on me
With his lovely face
Sometimes I wish that I could fly
Up there and take his place

This world is spinning round I know
A bit too fast for me
At times I wish it would slow down
Before its face I leave

Last of all I make this one wish
Upon a star or two
To hold you in my arms once more
And tell you I love you

Independence has run the race and is the victor in my soul
I am always free to be the one I choose to be
No ties that bind wind round my heart
Yet in this victory won, I have no one to hold

Alone I am and standing tall and proud
My head I hold so high
But when I lay me down to sleep
Are these the tears of freedom that I cry?

A choice I have made to live this life
Of freedom without chains
To go and do as I **** well please
With no one to call my name

Most days I smile and thank my lucky stars
For this freedom I have pursued
But sometimes when all grows quiet here
To myself………I wonder what I do