Would you appreciate beauty
when you're hungry?

Is there a deal
that is ideal?

Delete the 'I'
life will treat
you right:
in this wipe-out
you'll grow
and expand
you'll understand
you'll thrive
you'll see things
in a fresh light
you'll acquire
a new mind
and the world
will always be
on your side

Every day-
a page
in the book
of life

how should
I live?
What can
I give
to a world
soaked
in tears
and suffering
stifled
with endless strife?

Wherever
I step
let me be
on the side
of the caring
the peaceful
the noble
the humane
the just
and the right

let me
have the courage
to stand up-
every form
of injustice
and cruelty
to fight

let me
lift up
the hands
of the kids
in fear
hunger
in pain
each in
untold plight

if my life
were to bear
any meaning
let my heart
and mind
be bent
towards  the woes
of my fellow beings
and if
to this cause
I sacrifice
without pause
I'll die
feeling
satisfied
with nothing
missing
fulfilled totally
fully worthwhile

Words--
they confuse
silence
is no abuse

within
is the intrinsic
the outer
the unauthentic

Living life
in passion?
I'll go further-
to live with defiance !

Pale leaves fall silently in the dead of winter
I realise I have lived far too long
I was once a bold and outgoing singer
but no longer has life left me any single song-

in the night's thickest snow I wander
the heartless winds they blow loud and strong
tears of forlorn love on icy rocks they flounder
in this chilling hour I weep,  to none do I belong

Give me someone who has NEVER lied to themselves
I would regard such a saint or a charlatan

"Peace and Love"

To the Source
all things return
it was the First Cause