I imagine the eclipse of the moon

where you stand is paradise

I bet the breeze carries you

I imagine you’re in the arms of heaven tonight

I swim in the seas

And I hear the waves

I feel the rain

It washes me clean

The power is in my hands

I am in control of my destiny

Oh my sweet love’s charity

I can breathe

I have my own set of lungs

I can fly

I have my own set of wings

Mend your wings my love

And fly away

Into the night

Into the eclipse

Of the moon

On view from paradise

The garden was bliss

The nakedness came

And covered in leaves

I hide my pain

Of loves

That have come

And of loves that have gone

Fly home

Fly home

Sweet love’s charity

Love visit me

Come back

To me

Sweet charity

Remember my cries

To see the eclipse

From here to eternity

Free me

Oh Sun

Cover me

Take away the pain

Of the dark

Take it to the moon

I pray

To see the light

Of dawn

Open me up

To be Love

Pure

Innocent

& Light

What is and what is not

Is neither here nor there

It is everywhere

In everything

It waits

In peace

In harmony

In pain

To have knowledge

To turn the page

To drown the rage

Enjoy the breeze

Let it surround your heart

Let it bring you ease

Don’t mind my broken heart

The light of the moon

Will carry me

On the wings of love

I will fly

Homeward bound I fly

I fly

In search

Of truth

In search

Of light

Oh how my heart

Weeps tonight

My sweet love’s charity

Is gone into the night

Rocking in the breeze

In the arms of heaven tonight

5/23/1997

Outside the air is thick

Gray clouds from here to there

Wondering if you care…

Is your love from a fantasy land

Is your heart in your command

Or does the mind unwind the find

Is the reality not what you seek

Painting lovely pictures

On the waves of your voice

Yet in action reality chokes

Fantasy land forever will be

Unless you hold my heart

At the core of your desires

To respect diversity

To honor the duality

To come together

Man and Wife

No games of superiority

To nurture divine equality

To face the truth

To love our lives

To cherish what is

The dreams can live on, yet

A divided mind cannot stand

To have a vision

To walk together

To share each other

Good and Bad

To be humble in our flesh

To rise above in spirit

To take the knife of hate

And put it in its place

The senses flourish

On memories based on fact

The fantasy embellishes

And can lead us into a trap

Your dream cannot be my dream

When you keep it in your heart

My dreams cannot die

As I cannot live a lie

Do we share a common vision

Or do you wish to chart my course

Without asking my heart to speak

In silence my heart will break

I want to give and share

I want to be known

I want to know you

I want to understand

I want to be understood

I want to be valued

I want to value

I want to be nurtured

I want to nurture

I want to be loved

I want to love

I do not want to be seen as inferior

I do not want to be told to be silent

I do not want to be lectured to

I do not want to be taken for granted

How can I give and continue to give

When I am not given what I need

My heart cannot continue to bleed

I want a home in your heart

A warm shelter of love

One that does not differentiate

And try to dictate to me

On how I am suppose to be

For I am me, do you want me

March 21, 1997

An arranged marriage of sorts…

God bless the innocents through time

As generations unwind the damage must stop

And the innocents wounded will be the ones with this task

The innocents the martyrs

What an evil deal

The universe wields

To challenge the wounded

To heal ourselves

We take it all

And still stand tall

Unless we fall

Into the sins of our abuser’s deeds

The pain it kills

to the core of our ills

When we instill

The perpetuation of these seeds

The abusers cannot help us

For they must heal themselves

We have a choice to end the blame

Erase the memories of the pain

Rewind the tapes

And rewrite the way

God bless the innocents in this journey through time

All were pure until the damage was born

And now through generations the damage must stop

The pure weakened must become strong in this universal task

God Bless you, God Bless me, God bless us all

We have a choice

We must be mindful of that

Even when the pain

Is awakened from deep within

We must keep it buried in the grave

So that a treasure will replace

All the past mistakes

God Bless the innocents

For when we enter this world

Our innocence begins its loss

And few will find the way

To claim what life took away

November 21, 1997

IN THE WIND

The winds of love swept in

Carried on the wings of time

The search of many lives

The dreams made in the night

Magical moments lit the path

Heaven bestowed showers

Of glorious miraculous baths

To flood forth a Sea of Dreams

The wind came to me

Too blind by self induced misery

I drowned in the storm of destiny lost

The wind blows

The sky it glows

I steadfast

As it comes and goes

New treasures I find

As I face my own wrath

To be free eternally

In faith I will walk

Through rain and pain

To face the dark abyss of my soul

To turn away and claim the breath of light

Come what may

The spirit leads the way

Lifted up

I’ll never walk alone

1-09-1998

A FLOWER

A flower in the wind

The blossom of destiny

The love came in

The wing’s of heaven’s send

Stuck in the storm

The garden drenched

All fruit was lost

The wind it came and went

The desert waits

For love to come again

1-09-1998

WAVES

As the currents descend

I build an ark

In hopes to ascend

To sail through fears

On the waves of love

Should they pass this way again

1-09-1998

NOTE: Three different versions of something I was trying to put into words…some times thoughts, like the arrow of time is hard to capture…

Such a fucking tease

the progressions we all go through

one day we’re in a dream

the next a nightmare of sorts

that thing in your pocket

what is it really for

a lonely pill to deliver

that comes knocking on my door

it’s only fair intention

to ask what for

just a ruse

I tend to think

sometimes this life

is nothing more

than a trick or treat

really now think about that

a rejection or a parlay

yeah a parlor trick for sure

some times you have to understand

what’s at stake

to keep your heart

from landing upon one

don’t ya think

You can’t really obtain a goal

if you can’t even claim it

For certainly if words cannot

describe it, actions always do

in one way or another

life is but a dream we make

yet if you shudder at the quest

and slip away

into unrest

you’ll find you’ve shied away

from finding you

so easy to go into denial

and vain subjectivity

yet without peering through the looking glass

what’s true is never seen

and what could have been is just a dream

to stand alone is powerful

yet to stand united is profound

in thought and deed

where soliloquies of the soul

are echoed silently

reverberating

within the chambers

of two hearts

11/15/2017

Come with me in the night

in the wee morning hours

we shall set sail

through the mist

navigating through sharks and rays

embarking toward isolated shores

on a blanket we shall lay

and when the buzzing will not cease

a fire you create is born

the heron in the pine nearby

a witness to our landing

the sleep lulls you in

as wildflowers are collected

and the Sun rises in the Eastern Red Hot Sky

Another heron looking on walks slowly by

No fear

we trek

into the blue

Looking back I see

the breath of air my soul needs

has left me all alone to weep

it is not my mind’s choice

for it keeps its distance

yet it is my heart

that draws near

and is burned again

as natural as it is to nature

to be cloaked in innocence

it does its own bidding

of painting beauty all around

where there can be no attachment

when one with love

its a wave to ride

as we part ways

again my friend

the tears of missing you cloud

my day

and fill my heart

oh how must I step

out of this dream

and back on dry land…

for to love a man like you

leaves me drowning

in my dreams

shattered long ago…

by you,

now by me…

11/10/2017

The cold has returned once more

and into winter I proceed

to keep my hearth fire

warm and lit…

Like a lighthouse

beacon

my heart

to chart my course…

Love strips me bare

takes the flesh off my bones

naked I am there

with nothing but

my heart in hand

a portal to my soul

shining through

to invite you

into the energy flow

into simplicity

where heaven abounds

and divine mystery

surrounds

the purity

of motive

to love and be loved

to touch upon

the sacred ground

the thread

never severed

for eternal

in truth

no demise

can penetrate

or circumvate

celestial time

out in the void

as one

to be so enamored

and raptured

within your heart

as my cloak

to hide me there

within your desire

to find me there

hidden in

your heart

outlaid

within your grasp

naked and bare

you stand

and clasp my hand

and take us there

the twilight and the sinew

bind us tight

flesh of my flesh

and bone of my bone

for what more is love

if not of one’s own

to be cherished and adored

held in esteem

wider than the sky

a true love forms

and shelters us from all the storms

for in the air we breathe

and out love we perceive

to give it all away

for love

lest we fall

from vulnerability

into a pit

clothed in ash

feathers plucked

and turned to dust

a love foregone

on broken trust

naked and bare

there is no sin there

when one with love

free from despair

for on silent wings

under the protection of their shade

if our soul be true

and full of light

Naked and bare

my flesh is torn off my bones

my heart in hand

with soul shining through

to find you

11/14/2017

Interesting reference to circumvate, for that is the word my mind wrapped around to use…the angels who encircle the house of God in worship in the seventh heaven….interesting…no doubt.

Some individuals so much want to find the one,

yet often pass by the diamonds in the rough

enticed by all the shiny ones.

Never able to look too deep

dancing always in shallow streams

all the while the currents of love

are taken away by the tides of their pride, the mask

they wear leaves them stranded

wondering why life’s passing them by.

Their affairs they come and go

like the ebb and flow,

yet their ship sunk long ago

anchored to things of this world,

their eyes caked over

by the slumber of their sleep

leaving them in a fog of delirium,

scratching their head

wondering where they belong.

Their ride of desire was fast and unbridled

ending with them in a field of waste to face.

Their hopes and dreams dashed on the rocks

so long ago left to the jetties of circumstance.

Uncharted course into territories of the undertow,

to strive for air is akin to the soul to thrive

when at last they see their drowning is at hand.

When tethered to one’s beliefs

the shore is always safely nearby

no matter how deep you plunge into the abyss

to seek that which ye soul’s desire,

save not for it,

lest ye drown in a sea of your own misery.

11/13/2017

What they don’t know

won’t kill them

but will it kill me

Hidden cries

as days go by

and smiles

put on to save the day

Deeply shy I away

from life

yet in the midst

it’s all around

I walk on sacred ground

yet too many times

I plundered it

and now it seems

I lay under it

watching what walks on by

somewhat still as stone

just to hear

the sounds of silence intermixed with days gone by

Seeing the Sun

it beckons me

to bask in its glow

yet here I go

into the well

of spirit outlaid

to find

what radiates

to me

the faith in my bones

it carries me

away from the place you cannot see

and what you don’t know

is burning inside

to know

I don’t know a thing

anymore

about you and me…

or what path of purpose

is lurking for me

on this path of stones

covering me…

tossed into the flame

like coals hot to the touch

tread not

the faint of heart

in fragility

I pray

within this space

you cannot see

What you don’t know

won’t kill you

but what I know is killing me

and the spirit that comes to life

is one

in the void

where all is manifest

into the holiest of wells

I am cleansed

the footpath travailed so long

the way is found from afar

a vortex

to the other side

through darkness I fear not

the stars they move so fast

and where they lead

I’ll be there

falling

for wishes

to be met

yet rarely seen

but always in the eye

the light

the way

for the soul to shine…

11/12/2017

Saw you gathering your things

it reminded me of the past it seems

I push the button of introspection

to see what is hidden there

into the open my words come forth

maybe too soon without consolidating time

yet the truth struck me in an instant

the breath I need

has been buried there

in the grave of broken dreams

is the spark you set

a flame you care to kindle

or is it something you search to know yourself

if chapters can close and pages turn

yesterdays into wine we drink

from starvation I am fed

and want more

yet to see you walk out the door

is not want my soul longs for

yet to your garden green

not sure is where I need to be seen

children have eyes

far bigger than hearts

that guard their gates

shall I lose it all

all over again

and struggle with these fates

that seem to take me

into realms

where I am found

to become lost again

into the garden we have been

and now what

a new chapter begins

as friends…

yet a captive

of the past

I’m torn

from this book

we shall not write

yet in a dream

one day

perchance

the key to trust

from within the dust

will be found

the echoes of the sound

the shimmering of the night

the heat of the fire

and the wings of waves

we ride

to escape not the heart

that beats on…

11/12/2017

Rescue yourself

then find me..

Save me

don’t spare me

as food for beasts

to play

the life raft of love

will save us all…

lest we fall to temptations

where animals

seethe

and lie in wait

to sink in their teeth…

Come out of the lion’s den

where tigers don’t belong