I’ve always wanted to have a friend
Someone who’d be there until the end
A companion through moments of hardship
Not a deserter who just decides to skip

I’ve always wanted to have a friend
Someone who’s loyalty would never bend
Together with trustworthiness and honesty
He’s not a deceitful liar who just manipulates me

I’ve always wanted to have a friend
To have a bond no price could comprehend
For neither money, nor jewelry could ever replace
A friendship’s bond, an everlasting embrace

At least when my breath leaves the last
I know which way to go

I was in a dream I heard them singing
I walked through the walls of the yard outside
I followed and there they waited for me

The path was a little track 'tween banks of moorland high
Not desolate but filled with flowers
I stepped gently so I didn't disturb
Voices in sweet harmony

I joined in the song and they twinkled brown eyes
As I finished they all began to rise
I went with them along the little track
To a wide open space in the moonlight at last
Follow, follow

We danced, I jumped, my feet sank into springy snowgrass
It was fun we were laughing in lovely dark shadows
Deep ultramarine and stars then I left them at last
Found myself sleeping on hard stones birds chattered above
With a song in my heart of unconditional love
What a gift

In love I fell, within me,
With the void, the vastness.
In love I fell, I learnt to just be,
With my silence, the emptiness.

In love I fell, with space,
With the cosmos, the writer of fate.
In love I fell, needed no symbol, no face,
With spirit universal,the natural state.

In love I fell, with nothingness,
The truth I realized this way.
In falling in love with that which is not,
In love I fell with everything there is.

In this love I can simply be,
Without a point, without a trigger,
In this love I am blissfully me,
No reason, no person, no figure.

True love is always unconditional
Not possession of another being
It isn't ownership of property
There's either love or not no in between

True love is when you always love
Love is light that warms not hurts that sigh
Hormonal crave can't match the feeling
Of that belonging in another's eye

Whatever paths of mind you wander
That which you truly love will be within
Will travel with you never leaving
Warm you with fondness never pain

A wise man once said that if you are hated by the world
As not belonging
Then you are loved by heaven

If you are hated by the world, not belonging
And heaven is a non existent Shangri-La
Then it is the universe itself who enfolds you
The whole appearance, cosmic mind

You are the streak of sunshine
   that breaks through the clouds on high
You are the ripple of laughter
   from happy childhood days gone by

   Without your caring smile
I would be a hollow shell
   with nothing left to give
 
You are the glimmer of moonlight
   serenading a lovers' embrace
You are the murmur of forgotten dreams
   ricocheting into outer space

   Without your unwavering support
I would be adrift
   in the ocean of life

You are the flicker of flames
   dancing on paintings on an ancient cave wall
You are the echo of drums
   beating to the rhythm of the heart inside us all
  
   Without your unselfish love
I would remain alien,
   heart beating, only just alive

When god died in my heart forlorn I wandered
The Other said, "There is no God" the nettles bloomed
I sat upon the high hills in the beauty
Of oranges and greens and reds and blues

The Other took and showed me then the meaning
I saw that gods and death are intertwined
"There is no death" the words were gently whispered,
"There is no other moment now or passing time"

Into the realms of death I burst in fury
To save my child I saw them take away
I followed there in greyness skyless country
Determined full of anger unafraid

We traveled back along the path together
Where tangled roots soil clutched and skies of gray
To walk that green path few have ventured
The others watched us guiding danced and played

I know there is no heaven for I have been there
There is no end in endless energy
No gods or rulers in the place beyond us
Only Others who are wild and free.