Shining Stars

"Shining Stars"

So far away yet you shine so bright

Cold is the time as it swirls around me

Bundled tightly holding my warmth

I close my eyes for my still waters

The thought of your warmth comes to me 

Holding back the knives, oil begins to rain

Though lost your reflection is in the pool

Waving with the current you call me home

A bitter taste swells in the back of my mouth

The scent of burnt dreams are in the air

As an old door shuts, creaks and cackles echo down the hall

Still your bright light calls me home

Stranded in the desert drying like a rock

Marooned on the island crashing like the waves

Peace holds like a pillar of marble

Standing strong unmovable beauty

Strength to hold against any onslaught

So are you within me 

My shining light, my hope of home

A pause, a breath and check of direction

And on I move towards you

When Is It?

Here we sit 

Holding in the knowing 

How to move mountains. 

How to get the water flowing

Over all the years now

Over all the hate 

Over all the love 

To make what we can make

Still some seem to cry

Each and every day

Over all of the hunger

Over all of the pain 

Over all the hatred

That never seems to fade

Who's looking for the answer?

Does anyone seem to care?

Is the release far from starting?

Or has it started and no one is aware?

"Something Fades"

"Something Fades"

My love swells and rolls out my eyes 

Pooling on the ground you walk through it

The trail you leave I follow

The further you go the less that's left behind

Your footprints fade the farther you walk

What are you chasing? 

Perhaps the sun thing undone

Alone in the night I am cold

As dawn rises so do you over the horizon

Like a wind you blow the leaves of tasks blow down the road

Over cracks and potholes they roll

A lonely bird takes notice, chirps twice then soars to the sky

The sun arches through the sky

With its warmth so does yesterday's tracks fade

Onward the wind blows

Onward the leaves flow

And again tracks made fade to nothing 

“Reflection”

Outside the rain falls 

Inside the floor is cold

I wonder about the summer breeze

And the warmth that it does hold

From waking dawn

To pitch black sleep

The screaming dogs nip at my feet

The trail fades

The light is dim

The slender man he calls again

I will reach back and hold my heart

For it is anchored in all that’s seen

And what is left and yet to grow

It holds the key and shoulders none

“Reflection”

Outside the rain falls 

Inside the floor is cold

I wonder about the summer breeze

And the warmth that it does hold

From waking dawn

To pitch black sleep

The screaming dogs nip at my feet

The trail fades

The light is dim

The slender man he calls again

I will reach back and hold my heart

For it is anchored in all that’s seen

And what is left and yet to grow

It holds the key and shoulders none

"Inside My Heart"

Hold me tight 

I won't push back

Your whisper in my ear

Your everything is I need 

Holding off the lust

Waiting for your call

Everything I have

Is yours after all

My arms are open

I am falling fast 

I hope you are around 

To hold too sweet for telling

All my fingers open 

Waiting for you touch

Sliding down a slippery slope

My love needs no anchor

My eyes are now wide open

It's oh so plain to see

Of all the things in everything

Your all is just for me 

“Climbing Out”

The dancing clown is chasing me

Smiling with that grin

He offered his sweet potions

To try and pull me in

I look away everyday

To keep safe what I have

But he is oh so persistent

And his lies don’t seem that bad

I try to shake my head so hard

To get out of this house

The mirrors are confusing 

And time is running out

Each turn I try to holler

And reach out for some help

But all I hear are echoes

Of the screams that I shout

Deep inside I find some peace

A second at a time

Without it I would probably fall

In chains I would reside

And most of all a shining light

That clown hates oh so much

Thats why he hides my matches

And my candles and the such

For all my aches and pains 

That slow me down each day

I gladly bear all of it

So that I can get away

“Alone at Night”

Stuck down in the dark

No light in sight

Just cold black nights

The leaves are rolling down the walk

No one is listening 

One voice will sing

Some eyes now peer from round a corner

A curious mind

Where devils hide

So true a line that wonders by

A shining light

For the cold dark night

Here again they wonder

Here again some feed

Here again she’s crying

Alone inside her deeds

Some say she’ll last forever in and out and by and by

A chance to take

A lonely ache

Some say there is no way that she is one of a kind

Too cut too pure

Too old too blind

Some are blind to whats in store

Ambivalence

A broken shrine

Some will fall and some will soar

So flip the coin

Sit back and ride

Here again is the wonder

Here again is some feed

Here again she’s crying

But she’s not desperate on her knees

Hope, Where Are You?