Music is built in my soul
Ingrained, instinctual, a calling.

Always has been there for me
Comforting, therapy, my home.

Why is music growing dimmer?
Uncertain, fearful, stress-driven.

The musician I thought fate was calling
Is this who I am meant to be...

I find myself at the top of a mountain
Looking out at the peaks
Below and above
Some I’ve climbed, others I never knew existed.

In the blink of an eye

I find myself in the open sky
Winds roaring around me
Rushing past
Am I falling or flying or even moving at all.

I found you when I was lost
Both of us young and full of fire
Not knowing what it meant to love
We were found in the wrong time

I found you when I was lost
Scared and alone trying to navigate change
Powerfully emotional and dangerous
We found pain

I found you when I was lost
Far to young for how deeply we loved
Gentle souls that didn’t know how to live
Then we found change

I found you when I was lost
You with experience and me fighting scars
Powerfully mismatched
We found abuse

I found you when I was lost
Kindness in spirit and soul
I could not keep up
We found stagnant air

I found you again
New circumstances and a new depth and fire
Like dry kindling we burned fast
We found time that cannot heal all

I found you when I was lost
A refreshing change of pace
A love fueled by summer air and peace
We found fall and winter and lost the path

I found me when I was lost
Grasping at the air
Clamoring to the surface
I found love, cycles, loss

Exploring a maze in the fog
Unpredictable turns,
Dead ends creep up with no notice.
A larger opening, more peaceful;
Some unknown garden waits ahead.

A place to sit and for a time
Find peace among the plants.
Leave something, gain more.

Eventually some urge forces
The traveler along their journey.
Ever older, ever forward
Winding toward some
Other unknown garden.