Your life story is your own
Different from mine, different from his, different from hers

Though our stories aren't the same
As our life journals that we write take different turns

Autobiographical
Individual experienced tales to tell

Your life notebook is special
Just as my life script is special, we are walking

Our footsteps both important
Together what we ink and what we print will shine

Your stories filled with moments
All their own and so are mine, not less important

Share with me your legends of
Your life, I will share with you the legends of mine


© tHE tERRY tREE

Nature is ancient
It is in everything we see
It is the chair your sitting on
It is the air from which you breathe

Nature is paramount
It is the beginning of our climb
It is the mother of technology
It is the father of all time

Nature is nurturing
It is a gift from the eternal one
It is the moon and all the stars
It is the flames of our great sun

Nature is magnificent
It is the essence of our days
It is the dawning of our future
It is the child that we must raise

Nature is nourishing
It is in all the food we eat
It is in every song we sing
It is in every heart that beats

Nature is branches
It is the spirit of family
It is our sacred roots
It is the seed becoming tree

Nature is powerful
It is the storm under the sea
It is the whirlpool in the sky
It is the hand I'm offering

Nature is friendship
It is the promise that we keep
It is the colors that surround us
It is the bed in which we sleep


© tHE tERRY tREE

Feel this through me
Heal this in me
This dream of
Am I awake or am I
Asleep?
I want to keep
You close to me
In and out of this
Dreamscape
A carousel of colors
Raindrops are
Rainbows
As your love
Flows in and out
Of the pulse we
Create and bow
Together

Turn over
Toss my head am I alive?
Is this the end?
Am I only dreaming
That the
Feeling is so real
Like you are here
With me
As above
So below
Oh

There you are
Sitting on the star
I left you on
Where did I go?
I remember we were there
Sitting in a chair of love
Spinning in a swing
Winning, swimming
In the depths of our
Buried treasures
Deep in our
Hearts
The
Sacred
Parts

There are good feelings
And there are bad
There are joyous
And there are sad
Good people to befriend
And bad ones to be had
You are my glow
You remind me of home
The breadcrumbs of my soul
Lead me back to our
Original form
Comet-driven
Bold and unforgettable
Brightness
A clamor of ocean tides
Spread wide throughout
The crevices of
Every salty sea that hides
Our Dead Sea scrolls
Of unbelievable
Heralds
Angels that choir
A dance in the sky
Am I losing
My mind?

Feel this through me
Heal this in me
This dream of
Am I awake or am I
Asleep?
I want to keep
You close to me
In and out of this
Dreamscape
A carousel of colors
Raindrops are
Rainbows
As your love
Flows in and out
Of the pulse we
Create and bow
Together

Above the waves of love
Beyond the song
In the cave of our
Eternity
No right
No wrong
In the serenity
Of our reality
My sunlight
My starbright
My out-of-sight
Dreamscape
Delight

Our island of
Disbelief
Free from
Grief
And the
Midnight
Love
Thief

I thought I was asleep
I thought it was a dream
The electronic shock
Of lightening
Pulsating through me
Moving at speeds
Of light
Incalculable to
Conceive
But I can
Feel
Feeling
Real
I feel
You
Feel
Feeling
With
Me

This is our
Dream


© tHE tERRY tREE

Child comforts mother
Both comfort one another
Time passes through
A backwards path into
A place where
She is there for you
And you are there for her

This child that she hath
Given life unto
This child, you
Sacrificing of her own
Freedom

As she will teach
And you will learn
To teach her too
As she taught you

To be her baby born
For it to mean so much
That she would give you
Life to touch

Between the two

Yes in this life
Discovered light
To shine so bright
A lovely power
Of self-being
Sharing
Ever
Baring
New

Together both are seeing
Together both are breathing
The essence of a truth only
Old age and youth
Build meaning
Up into

A celebration
Of creation
Mother and
Child


© tHE tERRY tREE

I want to sing the right words
I want for you to rest your pretty head,
hurt-less.

I will pet your cheek.
So smooth I will comfort
your sensitivity.
I will connect you
Little pieces by pieces
I will paint with thickness
I will sew the stitches-
In love

Unsettled your eyes with tears
give back, I will give back
the gentle kisses that you spent
I will hammock you
reborn
Everything destroyed in you
I will put back together

With angels you will be
With wings to set you free
With angels you will be
With wings…

© tHE tERRY tREE

Crack in my heart
I feel a break begin
A start to fall apart
Not yet these things

I am so happy
In this newfound place
This grace
I am not ready

Though I have known
You yes for years
My soul cries out
How long it's been
That I have known you

In this length of time
Yes our souls have
Known the other
I have at many times
Considered
Even called on you
As brother

Now I cry when I
Am happy
Not tears of joy
But tears of pain
Remind me of the rain
Of which I love

Play with me
And mine old memories
In a sandbox
For all time
Which to consider
Every feeling of sublime
Fluttered forgiveness

As my heart wants not
In-two be broken
It craves only
That which heals
Out the unspoken

Still unreal
Has cause such thinking
When connection
Meets with sinking ships
Emotional equality that drips
Away, it melts and frays

As plucked each thread
Bright colors dead
Beholds the canvas of our painting
Torn to shreds
With the passion of a feather
Quill once bled

Upon the pavement
Of our wings
In the bread of our concern
Here lies instead my
Heart's forgiveness
As gifts the benefit misled

Exonerate this feast
At table and at seat
And for the sake
If not our friendship
At least for every
Other that would glean

If not to grow
Then why to bend so
In the end?
If not to bend so
One cannot mend
Such cracks
My friend

© tHE tERRY tREE

Those who have love, be strong with your love
The ones we have left are the ones that have kept
Their hearts with their homes in their chests

Yes the world that we live in makes it clear from the start
From the moment you're born, hold on tight to your heart

For to love and be kind will not keep you alive
To be cruel is a tool many use to survive

My prayer, as we gaze into life's riddled maze
For Dear God, those of us left behind...

Here on earth, Divine Mother
Teach us how to uncover
To encourage and nurture each other

Oh Dear Love, with what worth help us pave and rebirth
What a new generation of thought will behold, without doubt

A Kindness shall rise, cruelty fall away
Goodness-
Find a home in the beds that we lay

© tHE tERRY tREE

There is a window
In your soul
Like the window
In your home
You cannot see it
But you will know it
When you feel yourself
Begin to glow

Your soul is in your heart
It radiates
It’s in your hair
And every part
Of you that bleeds
In every part of you
That dreams

When you are angry
When you are sad
When you cannot even
Think to begin to stand
When you have fallen
And it’s useless to get up
Open up the window
In your soul
Like the window
In your home

Turn the latch
Lift it up
Push it out
Let the panes
Open you up
With love

Feel the rush
As you let go
Feel the power
Of your soul
Your secret key
Your special tool
It’s always there
Do not be fooled
You can almost picture it
Perhaps just like a window
A skylight where you can sit
Believe in it

This is a place that you can go
A place for you nobody knows
And this window
It has wings
It helps you fly away
From things
When you accept things
As they are
Your soul becomes
This Shining Star
The Star
You’ve always been

Don’t try to be something
You’re not
Attempt to be the thing you are
When you find it
Hold on tight
Attempt to actually Be The Star

It doesn’t matter what you’ve done
For this has shaped who you’ve become

You are a present of great worth
You’ve been God’s child
Since your birth
God does not make mistakes
God does not throw things away

From the moment you were conceived
This is when the window
Of your soul
Grew into you
This part of you inside
This place that you can go
A place for you
That no one knows
Just how to get to
Without you
And this window
It has wings
It helps you fly away
From things
When you accept things
As they are
Your soul becomes
The Shining Star
You’ve always been

And in the end
This is the cord
That links you to
ALL of creation
Through and through
To know this place
Is to be guided
Into the wealth of
ALL existence
To be with God
To be In the arms
Of your Divine Mother
Forever

Your spirit always knew
Even when earth’s distractions taught you how to
Forget the truth, to be something else
To be something you were never born to do

Do not try to be something
You are not
Just be the special thing that you are
Attempt to actually Be The Star

It doesn’t matter what you’ve done
For all of this has shaped
The beautiful spirit
That you’ve become

When you look inside yourself
And you find the thing that makes you sing
You’ve found your soul
You’ve found your window
To God and to your truth

And yes this window
DOES have wings
And it WILL help you
Fly away from things
That have hurt you
When you accept these things
As they are
Shining brightly
You Are The Star
You’ve always been

Find your soul
Find your window
Spread your wings
And let your spirit’s path
Begin

tHE tERRY tREE

Spirit Mouse

Invisible Mouse
Discovering quietness
Your wisdom small
Examines places
Uncovering truth
Underground
Truth uncovering places
Examines small wisdom
Your quietness
Discovering
Mouse invisible

Balancing are details
When we analyze life in
Simple tasks those become harder
And feel overwhelms
Reminding that power is
Tenacious
Is power that reminding overwhelms
Feel and harder become those
Tasks simple in life
Analyze we
When details are balancing

Timid and shy make
Anxieties risen when
Everything falls out of order
Tell the mind to calm down
Observed what's around
Perception
Around what's observed
Down, calm to mind
The tell order of out
Falls everything when
Risen anxieties make shy and timid

Magic of adaption
Resourceful at hand
Originalities are key
Existing in difficult moments
Surviving, thriving, spiritually diving into
Connection
Into diving
Spiritually thriving, surviving
Moments difficult in existing
Key are originalities hand
At resourceful adaption of magic

Alchemist is journey
Your medicine and science
Teaching with logical alliance
Trustworthy is earning and
Proven is nature
Authenticatable
Nature is proven
And earning is trustworthy
Science and medicine
Your journey is
Alchemist

Bold and lively
Resistance to capture
Ruthless to meet needs
Finer details meaning chaos
Lost within walls of
Fundamentals
Of walls
Lost within chaos
Meaning details' finer needs
Meet to ruthless capture
To resistance lively and bold

Careful best are words
Listening and thinking
Consideration for safety
Brings happiness and light
In darkest of holes
Illuminating
Holes of darkness in
Light and happiness
Brings safety for consideration
Thinking and listening
Words are best careful

Spirit our Mouse guide perspectives
Step away dream to attention
Open mysterious doors
Carving escape to
Plan the adventure for
Prosperity
For adventure
The plan to escape
Carving doors mysterious
Open attention to dream away
Step perspectives
Guide Mouse our Spirit

© tHE tERRY tREE

So many times I doubt myself
I ask myself what life's about
I feel something bigger
Than I could ever be
Something watching
Over me
Is it
You?

Are you my Spirit Guide?
The air that comforts me at night?
Down dark alley ways?
In hallways without light?
Are you my Spirit Guide?
The fire in my soul
Cannot deny
The way
You make
Me feel

Whenever I'm alone
I know that I can turn around
And you will be there
You never make a sound
But you are with me
I have found
Peace
A piece of me
Is peace with you

Are you my wings?
The hope that brings
Me life when everything
Is dying all around me
Is it you?

I know I could not
Take another step
Without you there
I feel you everywhere
I turn my head, I lift my hands
I touch the sky
I am yours
And you are mine
My Spirit Guide
I Love You
With you
I am
Alive

Thank you for holding my hand
Helping me to the door
Of my heart
Understanding the pain
Breaking it apart
Molding it back again
Into
Something
More beautiful
Than it intended to
Be

The wind on my neck
The hairs that rise
Just like the sun
Are you the one?
Sent here to comfort me?
How could I be so lucky?
I have you
And you have me...

Does everyone else feel this way?
I want to tell the world
I want to shout it out,
I want to say
LISTEN! Someone's watching
Over you
I know it's true
I'm just not sure
What I should call you...

The bus that should have hit me
The step that would have killed me
The thing that keeps me here
When all I want to do is disappear

I know I could not
Take another step
Without you there
I feel you everywhere
I turn my head, I lift my hands
I touch the sky
I am yours
And you are mine
My Spirit Guide
I Love You
With you
I am
Alive

I pray Heavenly Father
Divine Mother
Holy Spirit
Saints
And
Sages
Of ALL religions
Bless us, help us understand
What it means to be on this land
This earth that we call home
This place where we all roam
I want us all to make it
To heavens gate
I pray for love
I pray for light
I pray for
Spirit Guides
To come to everyone
To be awake
To lead us to do the work
That will become
The legacy of your love
Dear God above

Send us your Spirit Guides
Let our arms be open wide
Let our hearts no longer hide
Give those the strength
That want to die the lightwork
Patience, unconditional love
And the courage to rise above
The darkness that wants to ****
The life out of us every day
Dear God I pray
Show us the way
In you we are humbled
Everyday

My will is yours
Your will is mine
Our love Divine
Send to us your Spirit Guides
Make it known
The power of
Your flame
Is shown

All positive energy
Is welcome to stay
All negative energy
Is commanded to leave
It is not the people
It is the disease
And we are your warriors
Of light
Ready to take flight
Hear my battle cry
Projecting LOVE
Call my name
I will be here
Just as you
Protect us
Dear One
Above

I know I could not
Take another step
Without you there
I feel you everywhere
I turn my head, I lift my hands
I touch the sky
I am yours
And you are mine
I Love You
And
With you
I am
Alive

© tHE tERRY tREE

O how you shine
My lovelight
Divine

I'm diving into
A cosmic flight
Of forever
Please don't 
Hold me 
Back

I have a 
Wheelbarrow
Of light
I've collected
For you

Reaching out
To connect
The two
Roses and hearts
Fields of crystals
Stars apart that
You've been
Shooting off
I caught some
I gathered 
Others
I harvested
Lovelights
Yes
Every
One

I hold them up 
I kiss them bright
I send them off 
Into the great
Divide
Of your 
Blue black
Midnight
Purplish
Sky

Return to me
Return to me
In every dream
My starlit kite
There will be 
Many days 
Between
When you
And I
Will crave
To hold
One another
Again

But until then
I'll play catch
With you
Send your love
Down to this earth
In forms of shining
Bright-light-birth

With gentle
Hands and
Glowing mirth
I will capture 
And return to you
The love you
Send
From outer space
The beauty
Of your
Milky Way
I will treasure
I will embrace
O how you shine
My lovelight
Divine

I can see the
Constellation
Of your face
Shooting stars off
Like the tears
Of Grandmother Ice
I am always with you
Right by your side

Meet me on a glacier
Or on the countryside
I will gladly sail each ocean
To be close to you
To ride, to gallop
Beneath your
Light giving
Astrological tree
Be here with me
As I am with you
I can hear your
Heartbeat
I can feel
You say

"Rest your weary head
On the grass below
May my sun be your blanket
If there is snow
And always 
May you always know
I am always with you
Wherever you
Go..."

O how you shine
Your love is so bright
O how you shine
My precious 
Lovelight


© tHE tERRY tREE

There is a
Welcoming without
Spiritual coaxing
Between us
Natural and wonderful
Wherever I am
This is my home
Wherever you are
You are never alone
How can I leave my home
When it is everywhere
And you are there?

Would it be
That we are
Matter and energy
Combined in our
Consciousness
Of one
Protected and
Wrapped
Into a bouquet of
Infinite potentialities

As every star in very shape
And every color
Is discovered
In the universal playground
Of our outer space
Shooting across the skies
Of our inexhaustible
Vision from within

We are
Resonating from behind
Our human disguise
Coexisting in
Every ripple of water
Glimmering without
Exception
Melting
In every grain of sand
That shines
Beneath the sun
We are
One

And
There is a
Welcoming without
Spiritual coaxing
Between us
Natural and wonderful
Wherever I am
This is my home
Wherever you are
You are never alone
How can I leave my home
When it is everywhere
And you are there?

What is looking
Out of your eyes
Is in me
You are the flower
That praises
The spirit that travels
Up my spine
With the fragrance of
Forgiveness
Fervently

You are the
Pure light that flows down
In streams upon every single hair
Of my enlightened crown
Igniting the everlasting soul
Of this human being
With the windswept
Potions of scientific
Insurmountable measures
Beakers of tenderness
Carrying our undeniable
Unconditional love-treasures
Toward a paramount presence
That free will floats
Into a cloud of what is
Eternally wise and
Unbroken
Free from damage
Cradled in
Supernatural
Light

We are not asleep
Or awake
We are the silent
Earthquake

What is looking
Out of your eyes
Is in me
You are the flower
That praises
The spirit that travels
Up my spine
With the fragrance of
Forgiveness
Fervently

In sweet
Serenity
Arise as
I surrender
To thee
And
Inner
Peace

© tHE tERRY tREE

Let me sing you to sleep
Let me have you to keep
Let me let you go
Help me let you know
You are free to fly
You are free to go
Spread your wings
At anytime
My butterfly

Let me caress your wings
Let me share with you the finer things
No one else ever has
Let me take the chances
Everyone was afraid to have
With you
Sing you
A song
Of love
A lullaby
A coo

Your fluttering flight
Through life to fight
To spread your wings
To greater heights
I am humming
To the beat of your heart
To let you know
You are safe here
You are home

Your colors never
Have to compromise
Your excitement
Will be not dampened
Your light
Will be not hampered
Your cup
Will be not empty
You are free to fly
Any time that you are
Tempted

Life is too short
To prevent you
From living it
That's why I'm
Giving it
All to you
A song
A chant
A lullaby
Of truth

As your wings develop
May my love envelop
You
Careful not to suffocate
Gentle is your transformation
Changing, growing
Becoming your
Incredible
Hue

Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the Lord your soul to keep
My butterfly, my lullaby
My sweetest sweet
If you should ever need to leave
Ever feel the need to breathe
Take my hand
Feel the release
Of being free
Free to return
Free to adventure
Just as I mentioned
Into the wild
The great abyss
I will give thee
A butterfly kiss
Twice on your cheeks
Once on your lips

Follow your heart
Around the world
My love will never wane away
My feelings will not shift for you
Tomorrow, Ten thousand years, or today
This unconditional vein of love
Will always be here
Waiting for you
To sing this
Lullaby
Of truth

Let me caress your wings
Let me share with you the finer things
No one else ever has
Let me take the chances
Everyone was afraid to have
With you
Sing you
A song
Of love
A lullaby
A coo

Remember the sound
Remember the song
Remember the humming
The drumming, the buzzing
The one that I've been singing
All along, your lullaby, your song
Flap your wings, feel the beat
Let the rhythm be the wind
Beneath

A song of liberation
Embracing the
Freedom within you
A lullaby for my butterfly
Fly away if you must go
As you spread your wings
Remembering
You always have
A home
Here
With
Me

© tHE tERRY tREE

You are the fabric
Embracing the outside of my heart
You resonate Your drumbeat
Wrapping Your pulsating streams
Throughout my spirit's cage
Around my holy gate
You are the light in my veins when
My mind wants to shine darker
You will always be
The first melody I can remember
My hands were empty
Until I knew that I could touch You again
I send a message to the celestial heavens
Swimming through angelstars
Dear God, with You I am soaring in
A never ending roaring echo of love
Both awake and asleep in Your
Infinite dream lovequake
Forever burning in this lustrous tree
Of Your eternal life
Esprit, You set me free
Espíritu, You carry me

I am Your wings
Take my love
Show me how to breathe
A gift to Thee
Everything that I am
Is Yours to mold into
The formless spirit
You would have me be


© tHE tERRY tREE

In this
Trapeze of love
As the absence of light
Streams off
Into the x-ray
Of this smiling canyon
The empty chasm
Of my soul
Is fulfilled in the gut
Of a spiral galaxy
That you enlighten

My precious
Star cluster
My eternal light
I am forever
Shadow dancing
In the lucent glows
That seep through
The cracks of your
Kerosene lamp
Into the outer space
Cabin of my heart

Human problems
Sway on the
Edge of light because
The island universe
Speaks of an
Ancient text
Which is only
Fossil philosophy
Here on earth

Shapeshifting
Through the night
Coexistence with
My dreams
Out of body
Spiritual transcendence
An inner lighthouse
Only means that
I am awake and
I am free

O how I love thee

You fill my super nova
You complete my emptiness
My highest consciousness
Sweet splendor
Your Infinite Presence
Winds up
My unfastened ends
Painting this still-life portrait
Into kaleidoscopes
Of endless cave-like
Love abyss

Thank you dear Spirit
For cosmic breath
Thank you for life
Thank you for death
Thank you for blessing us
With every day we live
Thank you for nature
And all the beauty
Mother Divine
Has yet to
Give

© tHE tERRY tREE

Imagine how low
Uncharted this flow
My love
Immeasurable
Depth of seas below
Think of
Oceans that we know
The deeper we go
My love

Limitless long streets
Send me home to thee
Above
Where sweet sun retreats
Bright moonlight completes
Our love
We challenge beliefs
And dance with our feet
Above

Prance the curving moon
Space exploring views
My love
Unmapped oceans brew
Moonwaltzers canoe
Our love
A zillion stars shoot
There is no end to
My love

Measure if you can
Bottomless heartlands
Think of
White moon dust and sand
Boundless is our end
My love
Hold onto my hand
Behold our wingspan
Of love

© tHE tERRY tREE

Spirit Rabbit

Untold and infinite stories of love
Brief moments will arise for us to grasp
Rays of moon and sun light gleam down above

We are humbled by our need to unclasp
Unpredictable life heeds no warning
Often we are left all alone to gasp

Day and night, evening and in the morning
We purr forward persistently beyond
While painting life a picture that's adorning

Still understanding sadness will be dawned
Gravitating up and down we manage
Cultivating the pool of heavens pond

Healing bits within that have been damaged
Carried deeply within for far too long
Awakened to this powerful advantage

We hop, we bounce into what we belong
Untold and infinite stories of love
Written in the stars our journey's song
Rays of moon and sun light gleam down above

The power to face our fears lies within us
We greet ourselves by accepting new ground
There is no limit, new growth is endless

Moving through life with stillness in our sound
Balance becomes an act that we perfect
In every moment courage will be found

There is no rhyme or reason to direct
Life plans now lay before our destiny
As we open up our hearts to connect

Spirit receives us with faith willingly
Every aspect of the universe lives
Awoken to our nature instantly

No longer terrified protection gives
An inner light to walk the path with springs
Now we are free from being held captive

Our souls uncaged can feel our bodies sing
The power to face our fears lies within us
Our arms open to receive what God brings
There is no limit, new growth is endless

tHE tERRY tREE

Happy endings are
New beginnings when
I look into your eyes
Celestial sparks
A giant surprise
Of knowing
Life isn't actually over
It's only just begun
My one
My love
My heaven

In everything we face
Every scar we make
Every risk we take
As Spirit guides us
I feel myself falling
Into a great escape
Of wonder
And disguise
No more hate
No more lies
Only love
From above
Be with me
In my pain
My surrendering
Our Torchlight

We live in a world
That is so confused
Incredibly abused
My butterfly
Our whisper of eternity
Calming us down
Raising us up
Introducing possibility
Giving a serenity
Nothing can take away
A tranquility
Nothing can break away
A peace
That no one
Wants
To hurt

The prayer in our forever
Hearts
The promise of protection
Alarms
Bells in our heavens
Happy endings are
New beginnings when
I look into Your eyes
Celestial sparks
A giant surprise
Of knowing
Life isn't actually over
It's only just begun
My one
My love
My heaven

The pulse in my blood
Streams like the rivers
In the beautiful scenes
You have given us
To receive and breathe
Together
To actually
Seize the understanding ways
That you teach us
Every day

To see through the haze
The earthly daze
And feed us
The eternal truth
Of unity
Without judgement
Which is
A cruel and ugly
Imposter
Facing us away
From Loving
In another
In the way that
You have love in
Every child
You have
Fostered

Running through the fields
Of your affection
I ask myself
Are your arms not yet sore?
How you receive my heart
My love my treasure from above
Our heaven
Oh how you never tire
Oh how you never bore
Ever beating
Ever believing
Never retreating
Heaven's door
Watching over
This
Us

Never growing old
Of what we become
How we try
You watch over us
Like your favorite
Movie
You listen to us
Like your favorite
Song

In the face of every beast
In the touch of every animal
Like an army of love
From heaven above
Protect us
From darkness
The sadness of
Confusion
Abusing
Each other
One another
You are
The ultimate
Lover
Of
All

Born before the moon
Conceived before the sun
In every heaven
In every sky
In the womb of every galaxy
Ever born
I am yours
You are mine
And
Happy endings are
New beginnings when
I look into your eyes
Celestial sparks
A giant surprise
Of knowing
Life isn't actually over
It's only just begun

Our One
Our Love
Our Heaven


© tHE tERRY tREE

Do you know how incredible you are?
I didn’t think so.
I told you once.
I think you forgot.

When I look into your eyes
When I feel your heartbeat
With all your insecurities
Every one
Your beautiful purity
Your soft light
The aura of your miracle
Is truly
Blinding
Us

Let me look at you
Ah, there you are
Like a blast from the past
Like the thing
I’ve always been looking for
Waiting for
Waiting
No
More
For

That smile is something else…
Where did you get that?
God must have given that to you.
It certainly looks as beautiful as God makes me feel.

Do you remember that time
When we were dreaming together?
You held my hand and we were running
Through the fields of our love
The light was so blinding
Exactly the same way
That you’re blinding
Me now

If I promise to hold you
To be there to unfold you
When the emptiness
Remains
And the clouds
Settle in
Could you promise
To smile at me like that
Everyday?
What if I say
You can be however you want?
Would you drop your insecurities?
Would you drown me in the purities
Of your love?
Could it be
Our love?

The things you don’t believe
About yourself
Are the things I will encourage
Everyday that you attempt
To travel backwards
And discourage it
I will be there
If you trust me
If you take my hand
We can move this
Mountain

Someone forgot to tell you
How beautiful you are
I am only grateful
Because I get to be the one
To say it
In
This
Moment

Do you remember that time
When we were dreaming together?
You held my hand and we were running
Through the fields of our love
The light was so blinding
Exactly the same way
That you’re blinding
Me now

Shine on
Glow
Even if you truly
Do not know
One day
You will
And I will be here
To soothe the pain
To face the fear
To add a feather
On either side
To find you
When you want to hide
To help you
Extinguish your insecurities
To Spread your wings
To help you blind the world
With the light of your love
And
Other
Things

tHE tERRY tREE

No material possession in the Universe
Could bring forth the richness
I receive in the flame
I know to be as
Your love

The joy of my soul is consecrated in
Your ability to strengthen me
You are the courage that
Transcends all
Weakening

My intuition and my will grasp onto truth
To beckon You, to wish for You
Is my immortal request
To be at rest with
Your existence

Your ever burning Cosmic Spirit enlightens
Holistic brevity in me, a manifestation
That embraces nature ever
So ardently, with waves
Of ocean light

I have known You all my life my great protector
My thoughts about You cannot exist without
The intoxicating reality of Your love
Prayer and meditation bring
Me closer unto You

Without the pleasure of making others happy
Sharing the Divine blessing of Your peace
I would not know that I am
With You and that You
Are here with me

To understand You is to ***** a temple of flowers
In Your name, to know You is to plant a tree
Inside my heart, make me Your vessel in
That I might share Your Spirit through
My words both day and night

I offer You my humble heart a papyrus in which
To scribe onto the blue horizon bonfire of the
Dawn with You my guide, Your prolific
Message for all time both
Infinite and Wise

You are my maker, my creator, my beautiful
Initiator I share my love for Thee in every
Single heartbeat, every corner of the
World, every intelligence of
Pearl, I am Yours


© tHE tERRY tREE

Every single day
When you wake up
Let the first thing that you think of
Be something that you LOVE

A Flower,
A Friend,
A Favorite Song,
The list goes on,
And on-
And on.

If you cannot
Think of a thing in sight-
Hug yourself,
Hold on tight
And say...
"Everything will be alright."
Because it will
All you need to do
Is just sit still
Sit quietly
With your mind...
With your soul
Be gentle with yourself
Be kind

Sometimes we have to open our eyes
To see the light, no matter how dim,
No matter how bright
For even on the darkest night
The moon still shines for you

Embracing you with light
Right where you're standing
With love in Spirit,

tHE tERRY tREE

Amidst these
Dancing sparks
Sent out into
The canyon of the soul
There is a
Galaxy of Bright Waves
Deep within
That makes us whole
A beautiful
Bloodstream
Flows like a
Whisper of
Burning Light
Oh so brilliant
With a
Heart of
Gold

The
Patchwork
You have made
From all the pieces of
Our pain is an
Incredible
Masterpiece
I am in awe
Of how you
Gleam

Your aroma
Is an
Echo of
Unspoken shadows
When I breathe you in
I can see an
Ocean of stars
Behind my eyes
Shooting
Plumes of light
Blossoms
Feather out into
The realm of our
Horizon where
Every Day meets
Every Night

My Temple-heart
My Beloved
Dwell within me
Forevermore
Activate the power
Of our
Cosmic friendship

You are
The greatest
Spectator
You are
The ultimate peace
Initiator
I am drunk with your
Aurora
Your natural
Deathlessness

You are the
Immortal blaze
That my spirit craves

There is no drug in the universe
That can satisfy my cup
In the way that
You do

You are the truth
You are the light
You are the stars
You are my
Hold on tight

You are ever loving
Always receiving

May I be with you
As you are with me
May we be as one
Eternally

I see your never ending
Story of love in everything
You bring me to a place
That only you can bring
Even things I fear
I cannot face
And I sing to all of those
In colored sunlit dreams
Who would listen
It's my heart's mission
To share your love
As above
So below

May every heart and every soul
That I am ever privileged to touch
Feel the warmth and joy you bring
Teaching we're not here to judge

My Temple-heart
My Beloved
Dwell within me
Forevermore
Activate the power
Of our
Cosmic friendship

And like the dove
The eagle, the wings of love
May we soar

My arms are open
You are the center
Of attraction
The bottom line
Our glorious
Satisfaction
The roots and
The foundation
Of our planet's
Nation

You are the nucleus
The origin of all being
In everything that I
Am breathing
In everything that I
Am seeing

You are the beauty
That awaits at heaven's door
You are the heartbeat
You are the Core

© tHE tERRY tREE

I cry for the world tonight.
For all the love
that aches to deserve.
I cry for the world tonight,
and every voice that
deserves to be heard.

We stand on a tiny moment
that astounds our ability
To understand
it’s intensity, fragility
and sensitive nature at hand

This is my cry,
This is my comforter
My bonfire

If one scrapes to find
A solution for
Every complex mathematic
He or she escapes the meaning
While the true soul sings ecstatic

I cry for the world tonight
For all the love
that aches to deserve
I cry for the world tonight,
and everything that deserves
to be loved.

© tHE tERRY tREE

You call to me through your moonlight beams
You are in every stream
The river is your hair, the clouds your floating dreams

You call to me through your sand grain shores
You are both soft and coarse
The ocean is your tears, the tide your cosmic force

You call to me through your starlit skies
You are the twinkling guides
The lightening is your word, the comets your spark of life

You call to me through your trees
You are in every leaf
The branches are your arms, the roots your inner peace

You call to me through your flowers
You are petals filled with power
Pain lives in your rose thorns, the fragrance lasts for hours

You call to me through your sunlit rays
You shine throughout our days
Without you we are freezing, the light you shine does blaze

You call to me through your birds
You are the song I've heard
With wings of joy you flutter, the winds of love are stirred

You call to me through your rest
You always know what's best
I lay my head upon your lap, the answers are expressed

You call to me through your morning
You are what I'm adoring
I say good-night, I close my eyes, and feel my spirit soaring


© tHE tERRY tREE

It happened six seconds from now
When you found it, a note
With your name on it
Floating about
Cross the parkway it sang
Towards the bridge
in intervals
As a musical undersong
in lucid refrain
As birds might take flight
Upscaled whistling wings
Toured and glided
Generous words filled the sky…

“You are a magnificent spark,
glowing deep in the belly
of your disfigured heart.”

You began to
Unshell yourself
Of the places that drowned
Your pitch
Places that resemble the traces
That linger around
In a ditch
To destroy you
Just to surround you
Just to employ you
with empty
infertile dreams
“I love me not” sounds
In a chorus of
Breath crushing screams

Now teeming with light
Everything you lost in the river
Replaced to quench your thirst
Now beaming you fight
To feel yourself again as blood bursts
Through everything that you hate yourself for
Every morning and night
Erased, no longer abandoned
By the ones you thought
Would be there the most

This is a toast
Of water
Of love
Of strength
From above
From below
Incoming between

Entering
Arriving
Approaching
And diving
Into your soul

An explosion
Of forgiveness
In the form of an ocean
Released
No longer tied to defeat
Swallows of love
Sweetly teach
You to sing
With soft bellows
You wear the song
Like a ring
Wedlock of water
You walk into the fire of life

© tHE tERRY tREE

This is a gift
that cannot be wasted
our breath to it pass
through our lung
it is tasted
and in matters so scantly
do our questions unanswered
sleep quietly at the footrest
of paradise

We are moments awaiting to happen
a gift that can hardly be wasted

© tHE tERRY tREE

When you don't feel like you
Have it all together
A little bit of a lot is enough
You don't have to be tough
You just have to get up

Find the strength
Within yourself
Through prayer
Through nature
And whatever else
It takes to get you there
Your beautiful, radiant
Temple-heart wealth
Your priceless worth
Your favorite Self

Since childbirth
You have been meaning to go
Places far and wide
With your feet and
With your mind
In your dreams
You are meant to find
The answers that you seek
Take a peek...

Glimpse at what
You have
With certainty
The good stuff

Don't give up!
It's not the end
Until the end
My friend
So in the interim
Let us make the
Best use of our
Time

We have so much to
Look forward to
In the afterlife
There is no
Rush

The longer you hold on
The more that you can do
When you cross over
With light into
The chasm of
God's love
And Spirit's
Truth

Heaven isn't going anywhere
Spirit is with you now
Love and Light will
Always be waiting
For you
There...

Somehow

Every day is a new beginning
Let go of yesterday
With all of your strength
Embrace today with
All of your heart
The lessons learned
Will never part
They will never
Be forgotten for
These are
Written
On your
Soul

On your heart's door

They are always with you
These experiences
Complete the whole
You will see
Come with
Me

Let's fulfill our destiny
One step at a time

Hold your head up high
We can touch the sky
Swinging from the clouds
You and I
We can fly!

When you don't feel like you
Have it all together
A little bit of a lot is enough
You don't have to be tough
You just have to get up

Show up

No expectations
No judgements
Just pure acceptance
And unconditional
Love


© tHE tERRY tREE

Sometimes I wonder
What it is about life
That makes me love it so much?
Skipping, laughing, singing and such
Enough has sure happened
It seems that I couldn't
There are plenty of reasons
To tell me I shouldn't.

But I do

Sometimes I wonder
Why did he have to go?
Why's it her time today?
How on Earth, Mother Earth
Does the good Lord know,
That it's her time to stay
And his time to go?
How in tarnation
am I still here, you know?
How in all the stars
could it be so...
That I should stay here and live
While others should go?

But I do

I'm friendly enough
I suppose that's a perk
Yes, I'm quite a bit nicer
Than you're regular ****
But still it sure seems
There is more to this maze
This puzzle of why
I'm still able to gaze upon life
Clearly I'm no more important than he?
Certainly not of more value than she.
I scratch my head pondering
I haven't a clue
But stay here and stay here and stay here

I do

A thought came to me
What do I have to give?
This must be why
I've been chosen to live.
So I smile at anyone,
Total strangers in fact
Although folks seem to find it
Pretty hard to smile back
Yes I smile with a healthy
"Good Mornin'!," "Good Day!"
Even though I get looks that say,
"Hey go climb a tree!"
"Stay there awhile!" "Don't look at me!"
It seems that I shouldn't even want to say "Hi!"

But I do
Can you tell me why?

Each moment I live
That I'm feeling okay
I make something out of,
And sure I have days...
Like when push comes to shove
It's all over I'm through
I can't take any more
I can't bear to go on

But somehow I do

I have come to believe
To make sense of all this
That for many of us
Ignorance is not bliss
The more that we know and
The harder we grow
The hurt starts to break us
And take us below
What our standard for life
Used to be normally
Where our hopes and our dreams
To succeed and achieve
Become weighed down by life
By the bills and the truth
And the pills and our youth
That our families don't love us
And equality lies, racism, slavery
Government spies
Pets and friends die
Staying strong in this life
Makes us come all unglued

But I do

Only one thing could make me
See deep into what this whole purpose
For living is meant to be loved
Because life can take beautiful
And tear it apart
Smother and drown out
Our once vital spark
Turn reasons to live for
Into something so dark
Give credence to evil and
Break open our hearts
Stomp out the innocent
Choke out the weak
Pay to keep mouths shut
Tell us not to speak

But I do

I believe of the ones that are left to record
What takes place
On this plain we call Earth
Our reward
On this grain in the sand of our beached Universe
You and I, we protect all the wavering minds
From the hurt as we bleed
Hold the hands, hold the headspace
Of the mentally blind, kind people
Are the best kind of people to find
And for those of you out there that can't
Crack a smile
Could you make an exception
And smile for awhile?
You may not see a reason to

But I do

Give compliments, flowers
Fruit, a breath of fresh air
Take a walk in the park with a friend
If you dare
Make room in your heart
To look after each other
Bend down, look around
Reach out to your brother
This is the reason we haven't been taken
We are stronger than most
Do not be mistaken
This is your chance to be there, not to run
Tomorrow just might be too late
When the sun starts to rise
How will you live with yourself
You decide
It will hurt your heart more
To leave someone behind
If you help them
You may not know what you will find

But I do 

tHE tERRY tREE

Looking at life
From both sides shows
The dark and light
As energy flows
In waves of sadness
Emotional
Imminent gladness 
In tides that glow
A smile can be
A frown you
Know

Loving this life
Is easy to do
Feeling the pain
Effortless too
And somehow 
Recognizing truth
Gives us permission
To be confused

To savor the rain
To love the sun
To feel in ways
That we have won
Without the days
Of feeling down
Feeling loved and
Feeling great
Is such a
Flip-flopped
Mental
State

With every step 
We risk to take
Our spirit's find
Ourselves awake
We feel deceived
We feel alive
We feel defeated
Buried, defied
Our disappointments
Still reside
Keeping us 
From joy
Hiding
The 
Light
Extinguishing
What
Shines
Inside

Deep within
Our bodies lie
Our greatest guide
Our greatest stride
Resonating
In our spines
Answers to questions
God will find
If just to ask
In prayer
Of mind

Without the darkness
We are not light
Without the dimming
We are not bright
Without the anger
Where is delight?

Looking at life
From both sides shows
The dark and light
As energy flows
In waves of sadness
Emotional
Imminent gladness 
In tides that glow
A smile can be
A frown you
Know

No matter how much 
Disbelief
Sorrow, blues, 
Heartache or grief
To feel the way
In which we do
Can be another
Tear or two
Closer still
To our relief
Finding our way
Towards inner peace
Good fortune, comfort, 
Hopefulness
Is gained
With every 
Pang
And
Bliss

The eclipse of our
Doubt sustains
Our certainty
Where love 
Remains

Always


© tHE tERRY tREE

KISS THE SKY

Stepping
Into one another
Simply seeing
Our whole
Being
Life as it is
Individual
Hit or miss
Just
Like a
Kiss

They say no two
Snowflakes are
Just alike
Nor is the
Kiss between
Two lights

If we let go
Of what we should
And stop thinking
How we could
Have been
A better version
Of ourselves in
Some distant corner
Of a past life
Some unknown
Universal portal
That survived
A Milky Way
So far away
You and I
We can
Kiss
The
Sky

You and I
We have the power to
Grasp and please
The gods of every
Tree, every lake
Every stone, every sea
And every
Heart that has a home
If we can come just
As we are filled
With the truth
Saved

Of

Who we are to
Our true selves
Our true beings
Be the stars
Stepping
Into one another
Simply seeing
Our whole
Being
Life as it is
Individual
Hit or miss
Just
Like a
Kiss

Take one step forward
Feel the beat
Turn around
Stomp your feet
Now move back
Fear has left
Can you feel it?
Put your hand
Upon your chest
It IS safe to start again
Two steps forward
One step back
Why should it matter?
You're on track
Stay with the rhythm
Feel the bliss
Be the soul
Be the kiss

Kiss the sky
Open your heart
Kiss yourself
For a start
And recall
You are a joy
Through the pain
Through all the toil

No one remembers what you want
It doesn't matter anyway

Be the kiss that you are
Make the memory of
The star you were
Created to see
On the lips
The heart
And the
Spirit
You
Can
Be

Spirit
Mother Divine
Grandfather Fire
Jesus Christ
God the Father
Saints Of All Light
Paramahansa
We pray tonight
May we relax into
The stride
Of
Who we are
To
Our true selves
To
Our true being
This I recite
Everyday
For all
Of us
In every
Way

If we let go
Of what we should
And stop thinking
How we could
Have been
A better version
Of ourselves in
Some distant corner
Of a past life
Some unknown
Universal portal
That survived
A Milky Way
So far away
You and I
We can

Kiss
The
Sky


© tHE tERRY tREE