You would be happy every time if you could tear from my hopes.
If you could possess my rosy lips with your white feathers.
I sing as I turn from you now, knowing I will pay in ways that
will make me wish I had died.

A spider makes a journey to pick out his flowers before the city
gates partake what he sees.  There, his life-blood wanders into
where his fame lives, yet leaves him only kissing the air.  What
does his rage have to do with me?

I remember a looking-glass I brooded in once.  I could see a
giant living bravely in sorrow, while the sounds of the world
kept their vigil. In came the spider whispering, “Have no fear”
while he plucked the petals from the giant’s flowers.

You would be happy every time if you could tear from my dreams.
If you could possess my soul with your velvety shadows.
Spider my friend, your journey’s come to an end…….the city gates
are closed and you are kissing the air.

Between two worlds unknown
I walk without fear
Ever searching for what's true
The wisdom of the years

The steps I take are true and steady
My heart is proud and strong
As I come and go between the two
Fighting every wrong

Seeking justice is my purpose
Yet revenge is not my own
The reaping will be had
By the seeds that you have sown

If you are living by the sword
You'll be dying by the same
You best be sowing something different
Or you'll lose at your own game

If I asked you what you see in me
Would those rivers
Flow the same
A vessel for to hold the sea
Or a levee for to claim

Would you see walls you can absolve
A tree with no leaves
A riddle
No man could ever solve
Or a truth you can believe

Tell me true, what you can see
When your sky
Is not blue
A web interlacing what cannot be
Or one that ties my heart to you

Would you tell me you celebrate the jewel
You’ve found
For a kingdom of your own
Kept as a keystone
To create a harmonious sound
You cannot compose on your own

I place the key to my heart
In the palm of your strong hand
With an innocent trust
To use at your wish and command

I trust that you will enter with care
As if my heart were your own
Treasuring the contents
And exploring the unknown

I am counting on you to handle with care
Everything fragile you find
Leave nothing broken when you close the door
Just leave your heart behind

I hold to that which knew what was
Before this came to be
Seeking answers for what is
And what it has to be

I inquire of that which saw first
What was before it changed
Going backwards into time
It's all been prearranged

What will be has come to pass
And no one questions why
Seeking answers from the past
And time goes quickly by

Knowing less than before
I sought the answers true
Backwards forwards steps retraced
I seek it now from you

Finding myself within a language
that lives inside
the grain of spheres
containing spirits of desire.
My pulse raced with a freedom
not caring to resist
the deliciousness of fire.

I traveled through rooms
where love songs
echoed from the roar of lions.
Sometimes I wandered as a lady fair
who steadied herself
only to disappear
on the horizon.  

Descending from speech,
each breath I took
was cast upon the swift currents
where hearts
are often drowned.
I came face to face with fire
collided safe and sound.

Can you hear the words I speak
in this language
known as the spirit of desire?
Does your pulse race
as my own,
not caring
to resist the fire?

You ask if as a child
I had dreams
Things that I aspired to do
Such a question brings much to mind
And I will share with you

When I was young I wished to fly
Like an eagle soar
I wanted to grow up so fast
And be a child no more

In the dark of night
I looked up
At the starry sky
And wished and wished upon each one
That time would fly right by

In my youth I yearned to live
Completely on my own
To answer to no one but me
And be left alone

Now that I am grown
And I can see
How quickly youth does pass
If I could do it all again
I would dream that youth would last

Three of you come to me
You speak in different tongues
You are the same
You are one

When each of you seeks
To find for the one
I feel you there
Before you've begun

One by one
You show me your gray
I only see in black and white
No change will you bring
To this heart of mine
I am a Child of The Light

You have come as three
Now leave as one
Leave nothing here behind
As what all of you seek
To change in this place
The one will never find

You came and stood in silence,
never said a word.
I felt your pain so loudly
what you never said I heard.

What is it that you are afraid of?
It cannot be the light.
It is what you are drawn too
clearly in your sight.

I feel everything you don't say
as if you have spoken out.
Don't just continue in your silence
you need to let it out.

Let me take you into the rains which stream into my heart
Show you the lightning flashing in my veins
You can listen to the thunder as we stand a world apart
Then I will bring you inside me
To remain

Inside of me you will find the silence of hills and valleys
Places you can wander in peaceful bliss
But you will still see that lightning flashing wildly
Hear crashing thunder in the magic
Of my kiss

You can tell me about the rains that stream into your heart
Show me the rocky mountains in your eyes
Together we will stand watching rain clouds part
As the lightening in our veins
Paints our skies

Take me inside of you so I can climb your mountains
The very thought brings me peaceful bliss
Together we will seek to fill love’s own fountain
With the rain in our hearts'
Streaming kiss

Let the clouds up in heaven watch the wings of time
While our hearts pull down our shades
Listen as they claim them as their very own
Forgotten like flowers in the wind
Our petals will not fade

Time will stand still and there will be no change
Our hearts will stand in youth
Walking softly within a tender strength
Bright lanterns that will silence
Time’s wings of truth

Our eyes will sweetly smile at silver threads of life
Knowing they will never ever age
Rewriting our own history on either side
Without those heavy wings of time
Brushing on the page

The wings of time demand; tirelessly they seek
A taste of life upon their tongue
Let the clouds up in heaven watch them fly
Our hearts pulled down the shades
Once again, we are young

All of this is fantasy
Held captive in our minds
Our own reality
That we seek to find

What lovely imagination
In this tangled web we weave
A magical illusion
Is all that we receive

Perfection in all we see here
We know cannot be true
A perfect world does not exist
And will not ensue

Awake arise and realize
Reality does set in
Time will change and tarnish
This fantasy will end

Silently waiting near the halls of years that have passed
Is the beginning of lost and confused
Calling farewell to yesterday’s river of tears
That ran deeper than a mystery
Left unproved

A promise does its best to save the life of a memory
What more noble an expression exists
When there is barely a beginning before the end
Of another day that is born to smile
And dismiss

The tick of a clock changes so much in these halls
Brings the beginning of enlightenment
Bidding farewell to the end of lost and confused
As the memory of the life of a promise
Is infused

Will you run for the highest mountain, when all goes wrong
Roam unlit streets, like a roving lion
Or stand here by me and sing our song
Will you dry my tears
When I am crying

Will you hate me for all my faults and weaknesses
Let floods carry me where they may
Or bring to me your peacefulness
Hold me close
On my worst of days

Will you be that fiery dragon, who sets my heart aflame
Fiercely, burns my free spirit down
Or my noble knight, who returns honor to my name
Before another night  
Comes round

Will your feet wander where the winds may call
Leave me wondering, never knowing
Or will you catch me before I fall
‘Cause the same way
We are going

If you hear a cry of battle, will you run safely for the hills
When you see me raise up my spear
Or will you place in front of me your shield
Will you be my guide and my protector
Here, on Life’s Own Battlefield

Since life first whispered from the balcony, I could hear him
Opening doors and windows of mystique
While my heart leapt at every whim
He placed in front
Of me

Life shook out a prayer in vain to still my passion
But his pleading voice was heard by none
As my heart raced in aching fashion
Life was not to be
Outdone

He made haste to turn my eyes away from seeking
His chalice full of the sweetest wisdom
Knowing full well that I would be peeking
At my reflection in the bottom
With my lips upon the rim

Life whispered from the balcony on the day I was born
Thinking that my tender ears were asleep
Now he is a’ wishing he had been forewarned
His windows and doors
Shut to keep

All of my existence, is spent running like the wind
In and out of these windows and doors
Life never had a chance to gain the upper hand
When he placed his mystique
Upon the floor

Light a candle when you wonder where my heart has sailed
So you can see that my promises lie unbroken
This heart of mine has a soft voice that never fades
A spirit your heart will always hear
In words unspoken

Do you recall those secret places where we saw eternity
Within a world of silence all our own
How the stillness of the morning kissed our love’s face
There was no need of conversation
All answers were known

Light a candle when you wonder where my heart has sailed
In your mind you will see we have just begun
You will hear the soft voice of my heart that never fades
When the stillness of the morning kisses
The face of our sun

When lightning strikes the coolest clear
you can see me standing
in my own skin,
not playing with the sky
to get a different song or dance.  
Still, Darkness places his fingers inside me,
encourages me to write,
to respond as if my name is without
life's second chance.

I think of asking why
my eyes relentlessly search
for lost time
through a window
I should have forgotten
before my eyes
even took it in.  
Instead, I leave the view
to face itself
swim into the ocean
I call Serenity,
softly sing my song of peace
once again.

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

You ask for truth
I speak it freely
I tell you how I feel
You say you hear me,
Yet I think you never will

Why does it always have to be your way?
Do my feelings make a difference to you?
Our friendship means so much to me
As I know, I mean to you

One should not attempt to hold onto
A heart one does not freely give
However, give wings to what they cherish
Moreover, smile and watch them live.

Please listen to me--
I have been listening to you.

It is the little things in life, which mean so much
They are very quietly innocent
Like the wondrous feel of a clean bed sheets touch
Infused with an April Fresh Downy scent

Waking up startled at a quarter past eight
Jumping up straight from bed
Thinking worriedly that I am going to be terribly late
Remembering, it’s my day off instead

Coming to terms, that to my name, I’ve not a dime
Accepting my usual penniless lot
Then there in the pocket of my faded jeans I find
A crumpled up, forgotten five spot

Sitting down now with my paper and pen
Searching for words to write
Thinking to myself, my mind has gone blank again
Then finding the ones, perfectly right

To win the lottery or an all expense paid vacation
Would be so incredibly nice
However, I will settle, for these small sensations
Any ole day of my life

It calls to you in your sleep
Whispers from afar
A sweet familiar melody
Reminding you of who you are

It sings of dreams that you have lost
The future you had planned
Reminds you of another time
As a younger man

Feel it pulling at your soul
The spirit that's within
Daring you to sing along
And live your dreams once again

Freely falling from my hands
Watch it as it flies
Everything that has been done
I'm erasing from my mind

Watch it wander aimlessly
See it fade away
No longer in the heart of me
To live another day

See it sailing off to sea
Its back is to the wind
Taking all of this away from me
Not to return again

Sweetly smiling as it sails
Anew it all begins
Taking back what is mine
Living once again

Lonely brown leaves lie scattered round my door
While crickets chirped triumphantly
My entire mind suddenly slipped to the floor
As the wind blew those lonely leaves
Around the soul
Of me

The first sound I heard was overwhelming cares
Spreading to the face of a sun
Seeing great anguish flying through the air
Wondering where it ended
And how it had
All begun

I felt lost at sea in the depths of their crashing grief
Wishing change would prolong my breath
So I could blow life back into the lonely leaves
Return their green anew
Steal them away
From the face of death

I know that such great longing itself alone
In the deepest shadows can lie buried
Speaking of a beauty known
Willing to be seen
And carried

In infinite forms it has always breathed
On shores in scarlet leaves
Murmuring that you should go and see
If the beauty’s time is near
To receive

I slip into its tender spray, moved by my sighs
Then fall into the deepest sleep
In the wonder of it all, I began to cry
Inhaling all the beauty
It keeps

If longing itself alone should depart from me
Would I be laid in silvery dust
Still longing for that which I cannot see
Or would I forget the beauty known
Just because I must

Take a look into these inviting eyes of mine
Tell me what you really see
Attention uniquely reflecting back at you in kind
Or a surprising mystery

Do you see yourself in the reflection there
Shining sweetly back at you
Or the brightest shimmer of a stranger’s lair
Impossible to subdue

Now look away and then quickly back again
Never falter in your stare
Do you know where I start and you begin
In this love so real and rare

When I look into those inviting eyes of yours
I see only you and me
Reflecting love undefined by any words
Our own true destiny

Transparency of your soul looks me in the eye
and I can see the weight of the world
breathing possessively
as you whisper why.  
I can read your thoughts better
than I can read your lips
and there is no question
as to what the words mean
delivered.........
with your each and every sigh.

I believe someone told you
the world wears a veiled smile
and attempts
to cling deceptively to your every breath
like a warrior breaks all stillness.
Yet, I see that you are not afraid
to sit and think
about how great men can fall in a moment
when preyed upon...........
by life's unwillingness.

Come with me when your heart aches
from standing in the shadows
of those thoughts
that have been tucked away
in the air you breathe.  
Always remember that our time
waits in a path of sunlight
lying beyond the stillness
that will never fade
from all.........
that we can feel
and see.

Yes, the fingertips of happiness
strum my words
setting fires ablaze
so you can see me looking
into the transparency of your soul.  
Everything is well-defined
even if it seems out of your control
and there is no need to apologize
when the weight of the world
keeps you.....
from feeling whole.

You admire this strength I have inside
The strength you see in me
How I stand my ground and not give in
But do you understand how this came to be

Do you have any idea what I have put myself through
To become the woman I am today
The scars I have upon my heart
Is how I got this way

My self-respect is something that I hold dear
I keep it close to my heart
The standards and values I have set for myself
Are such, that from them I cannot part

I've been through a lot of heartache
To become the me that I'm supposed to be
If I ever forget what I have learned
I stand to lose me