I want to tell you that I love youbut you don't know who you aremaybe you're nearbyor maybe oh so farThe reaching of your soulacross the waters deepthe sounds of children laughing of the memories we keepSomeday we may forgetall the beauty we enjoyedonly focused on the painthat pulled us to the voidWhen disconnection comesand... Continue Reading →
Unremarkable
I will die unremarkable,that’s the way that it must beBecause I’m generally so helpful and special at no thing Accepting this to be my truthIn this one of many lives Where I touched a thousand soulsAnd then faded into light Some may say it’s sadThat I never did much more With this mind and body... Continue Reading →
What is
Good things don’t goThe good always staysPeople aren’t around so muchcommunication stopsyou grieve the loss of intersection but the good is never lostwhat was was thereand it served youthrough pain and pleasure and surprise because it was something new and the space it took up in your life oriented you to this vast world if... Continue Reading →
A New Day
When the dawn comes And the new light of a new day enters What will we see? Reflections of the past Or possibilities of the future Or allow in the illumination Of the here and now Of the truth we don’t want to bear Because our minds would judge to harshly Our hearts would weep... Continue Reading →
Choosing
If we are choosing to operate through love Then fear can not have a voice Our truth can not be clouded Our anxiety can not close our hearts If we choose love We choose to show up With courage Even to say we need silence We need space Even to say I’m suffering And I... Continue Reading →
The River
There is a river of pain within meAnd it’s full of all of my tearsSometimes it rushes violentlyCrashing on rocks, tearing down the branches in my mindI’m not a strong swimmer,or so the story goes,And yet I swim there oftenAt one with all my fearsIf I flail and grasp as I am rushed downThere is... Continue Reading →
Spirit
The pull and the push of Spirit The sound cannot be touched Yet it has color in the mind It has vibration in the chest It whispers when the water flows It yells when the storm is near It carries light through the heart One presence in the breath One heartbeat in the chest One... Continue Reading →
Keeping up
Do you ever feel like you can't keep up? Like the world has sped up And you turn your head and whoosh… Another day Another dollar Another night Another bother And it spins and circles And faster it moves As our legs start to give out As our minds we start to lose... Continue Reading →
Waking up
When you wake up in the morningThat moment that arrivesWhere you body and mind openEven before your eyes And the inner world of last nights dreamsThe thoughts of yesterdayOr maybe 10 years ago it seemsCome flowing in to play What day is it today again?When do I have to rise?As I catalog my have tosHave... Continue Reading →
Is that our kind of love?
Is there a way we must awake? A deep commitment we must make? The steps we know that we must take To dive in deep to true loves lake The kind of love we won’t let break The kind no circumstance can take When God decides to up the stakes The love that makes us... Continue Reading →