You have now left an inefficient existence in the dust
To greatly savor a newborn energy
No longer looking at life with a dreary cast
You can see the truth with clarity

A vibrant glow has been gently summoned forth
Brightly illuminating the darkness
Boldly restoring resilient confidence to your waiting soul
Removing dark shadows from your countenance

Go forth and now sow the seeds for your life’s garden
Attentive, with painstaking care
Step back softly and smile with sweet satisfaction
As you, carefully watch them growing there

Continuously bathe your garden in the vibrant glow
Ushering new growth into the light
Then stand quietly still with the proudest adoration
Inhaling the beauty blooming in your sight

Has unquenchable wanderlust taken you places
You had never intended to see
Down paths of misadventure apart from your nature
Which separated your honor from reality

Has this old world and all its material treasures
Called you away from your home
Seducing you with the idea of instant gratification
Until you left stability and comfort to roam

Do you now find the need to focus on practicality
Your world to better understand
As you no longer wish to chase unrealistic ideals
While building straw houses on sand

Then take this moment of stillness and quiet your soul
Embrace the melody of your song
Turn your eyes inward to seek your balance
Be still and you will find home

Contentment reigns in the freedom from restraint
In your radiant, creative light
Warmth rushes in as you achieve what you hope for
Upon this wondrous night

You have so cleverly withdrawn to fight another day
Disengaged and retained your hope
Turned the pages and the tide in your own favor
Along the way, you have learned to cope

Confusion once lead you to feel a powerlessness
A bitter sorrow for your past
Now you have learned to focus on the bottom line
Gaining a strength inside to last

Irresponsibility and indecision you have laid to rest
Along with frustration and inner strife
As you release the hold of all the gray skies
Shadowing the light in your life

Wonderful surges of vitality, wash throughout your soul
Heralding a new day to begin
You have found your inner spirits, truth and balance
The gray skies hold, has come, to an end

Come closer, said the softest whisper in your ear
Listen quietly to the gentle flow
Of the tranquil waters running through your spirit
Providing peace and healing for your soul

Dive and swim into these peaceful cleansing waters
They are pristine and clear
Feel them wash away imbalance in your life
Relinquish all your fears

Deeply inhale the essence of sweet moderation
A lovely aroma so divine
Drifting into your spirit from the tranquil waters
A soothing solace for your mind

Listen to the rhythmic flow of these healing waters
Releasing balance into your soul
As you look inside yourself and take inventory
Of what you must let go

Now stand up proudly in the peaceful waters
With one foot settled on dry land
As you ground yourself in mind, body and spirit
Harmony takes your hand

You sit quietly under the powerful tree of introspection
Looking inside your own soul
Seeking to find what you hold deep inside
Sacrificing precious time for it all

Not a single move do you make for hours on end
Watching the world pass you by
You see that old sun rise up in the morning
Never closing your eyes

Familiar faces and voices you know all to well
Pass right by your quiet space
However, you do not speak or nod your head
Although, you feel their eyes on your face

You hear the melodious sound of the birds in your tree
Singing their sweet, lilting song to you
You never think twice about moving along in the day
As you are still seeking to find the truth

The light of the radiant sun no longer visits you
He has went away to rest his eyes
Yet, he sent his friend the glorious moon to shine
To watch you from the midnight sky

Still there you sit in silence, looking inside yourself
Contemplating ever so quietly
  Until the coolest breeze softly touches your face
Releasing your soul’s mysteries

You can quickly transform with a quiet resilience
Remaining deeply grateful to be standing
As feeling sorry for yourself, is merely an excuse
To hold back and accomplish nothing

Educated by the spirit of meaningful experience
One can change and adapt in a flash
Merely seeking out pity for the sake of affirmation
Is buying an excuse to stand back

You can call up the strength deep inside of you
Overcome the struggles you face
Stand up proudly, knowing you survived the battle
Gladly take your rightful place

You may appear weary and worn to the masses
Yet deep within you have more fight
Silently standing up for what you believe in
Steadily on the edge of the right

Are you looking out the window of effortless perception
Glancing with no interest at the ordinary land
Planning a concise method of astounding metamorphosis
Exacting some excitement in the plan

Do you envision spaces filled with elegant contemplation
Titillating predictions of delight
Then polish and enhance your wings of gossamer
Seize the very moment and take flight

Soar into the gilded heavens with an optimistic smile
Seeking out the challenge of the rare
Flourish in the glowing essence on the edge of reality
Taking hold of the potential, you find there

A transformation of your spirit will unfold in conclusion
As you soar into the depths of your plan
An astounding metamorphosis has taken place inside
Sculpted by the imagination at your command

You can see a fiery stream of delayed concern
Scattered carelessly in the emotion
In the exaggerated encircling of compassion
Shown as false proof in bits of devotion

Spontaneous flickers of suspended movements
Oblivious to thought or care
Briefly promise to abolish the damage imparted
Yet never quite honor anything there

You question the sequence of disgraceful events
With a pleading silent look in your eyes
To find yourself under siege by the fiery stream
As your honesty discloses their lies

Create a severing of ties with the fiery stream
By the slightest move of your hand
Shunning the counterfeit display of compassion
Placing your protective shield in command

A cool breeze lulled the trees to sleep
The wise old owl did cry
All the forest creatures looked at him
Shook their heads and sighed

Their eyes are closed, can’t you see, he said
Not a single one has moved
They all smiled back in response
As if they all approved

A complete rush of stillness fell upon the air
Like one had never felt before
Nothing moved at all or stirred about
Upon the forest floor

The wise old owl sat completely stunned in wonder
Colossal eyes, searching all around
Thinking perhaps the trees were not the only ones
Who were sleeping sound

Suddenly the earth began to move and tremble
Shaking everything within his sight
All was stirring in the quiet forest
Trembling now in fright

The wise old owl no longer felt the breeze
Which lulled the trees to sleep
Now afraid to even move one inch
His stillness he did keep

Such awful terror filled his tiny heart
Off racing went his mind
Wondering if the trees were now awake
Angry and unkind

Countless pages are silently turned in unread books
With quiet secrets passed through the ages
Mysteriously holding inside, wisdom passed down
Deep thoughts of the sages

Sensational scenes of marvelously profound dreams
Lie patiently there waiting upon the fading ink
The rich abundant thoughts of great men of worth
With an innate drive to uniquely think

A gentle breeze of knowledge blows across one’s face
Softly calling out a sweep of welcoming hail
Tempting minds with a voracious need to learn
To come and read their untold tales

Take a moment out in your life’s seeking journey
To rest your eyes upon these unread lines
Read and treasure the wisdom offered in measure
Satisfy the hunger you hold in your mind

If you find your mind is hungry and seeking appeasement
Driven deeply, by a powerful need to learn
Take a taste of the great wisdom left there in earnest
Satisfaction waits, in those pages you turn

The strings were pulled of a bitter signal
Erratically hateful in their draw
Commencing the judgment of her mental state
As a bloodthirsty crowd looked on in awe

All her pleading notations were met with objection
By all their unfeeling eyes
Who merely wished to bear witness to the surrender
Of sanity and to see its quiet demise

Suddenly without warning an onrush of light
Blinded the probing eyes of the crowd
A curve of great decision was suspended in space
As they began to read her crimes aloud

Guilty as charged a voice rang out from the light
For moving against the grain
For not following behind the shadow of others
She is guilty, she must be insane

Completely unnatural, no control of her faculties
She cannot possibly be competent, the voice loudly rang
Daring to be optimistic in the face of grievous pain
She holds no resentment, she must be insane

Her sentence was pronounced for the entire crowd to hear
Claiming her incompetent and unfit
All the eyes in the crowd remain blinded by the light
Yet she doesn’t mind at all as she smiles and sits

She smiles into the faces of the blinded crowd
Knowing she has not changed a bit
****** she may be to the unfeeling eyes of the blind
However, they can never take her own happiness

Acceptance persuades the release of a wavering spirit's decision
Deeply invading the majestic powers employed
With a false caress in a soft hush of a trusting notice
Swiftly crumbling into a distinctive void

Manipulation clearly receives delight in the pleasure
Provided freely as a marvelous ploy
To confine the wavering spirit in a restraining desert
By the distinctive void containing no joy

Alone and isolated in a twist of silent acceptance
Fate begins bartering with a radiant light
To command a truce without any persuading acceptance
To try and avoid the coldest of desert nights

A triumph disguised as failure has persuaded the release
Of the wavering spirit trapped in the void
No truce is accepted, still the radiant light has brought
The wavering spirit such incredible joy

You can strikingly feel the magical migration of ions
Controlling the electricity you breathe
All the pleasant sensations of silken charges
Sharing in your sweet ecstasy

A very slight whisper of the purest sensitivity
Skillfully washes into your pores
Releasing a smooth rhythm of tempting delight
Promising your senses so much more

You yield in response to the rhythm of the migration
Cherishing sweetly the spellbinding sound
Of each breath as accepted by your willing spirit
Infused with the taste of the whispers you have found

Is this just a fantastic illusion, unhinging your mind
This migration you now find you embrace
You ask your spirit in a fit of rising rebellion
With a satisfied smile on your face

There is a smoldering fire beneath the coldest ashes
Hidden quite deeply underneath
Which burns uniquely with a vibrant blaze
That few have felt or seen

Your heart is able to feel the glowing warmth
Which your eyes cannot see
As it is able to sift through the coldest ashes
Setting the fire underneath so free

What glorious reward awaits the patient heart
Seeking the vibrant blaze
A remarkable warmth to flood their soul
And hold them close always

Patience is a virtue, which carries a great reward
For the patient heart so true
Is your heart willing to sift through the coldest ashes
To find the fire that will warm you

A kiss of promise, brushes your dispassionate composure
Gently opening your silent heart
Inviting possibilities, you had decided never could exist
Resulting in a fiery burning start

A spirit of harmonious splendor has gently grazed your hand
Inspiring you to open up your eyes
Daring you to attempt objection to its lovely graceful plea
Leaving you with only joyful sighs

A kiss of promise leaves one breathless to the possibilities
Of following their former heartfelt dreams
Stirs you in anticipation of a journey you thought lost
With the setting of yesterday’s sunbeams

Return the kiss of promise, with an open invitation
Explore all the possibilities it holds
Hold the hand of the spirit of a gentle harmonious splendor
Do not let your heart remain empty and cold

Sculpting peace from the clouds of disarray can often be impossible
As all of your resolve is shattered at the door
To pursue essential seclusion to gather your own thoughts
You find have been hopelessly cast upon the floor

You are stretched beyond the point of a state of transparency
In your attempts to be all to everyone
Finding all you can provide is the smallest glimpse of warmth
Because your clouds of disarray, hide your sun

You find in all your faithfulness, there is loyalty to none
Without stillness for essential introspection
You are drowning in the rain from your clouds of disarray
This transparency has left you with no protection

You will find it is impossible to be everything to everyone
Eventually the clouds of disarray will move in
If one does not take time for essential stillness and reflection
They will drown, when the rain of disarray begins

The journey ends with no delightful kiss of comprehension
Yet no harmful injury has visited the mind
A challenge is acknowledged without any hesitation
As every single visitor who travels there will find

Uncivilized pandemonium reigns in as the mistress
Yet she is never seen as vicious or unkind
Always zealously providing a retreat of lively chaos
To visit on your unsuspecting mind

The mistress is delighted when your journey comes to an end
Stands smiling at the amazement on your face
As she shakes her head in denial to any questions asked
Only offering another visit, to her confusing space

You quietly depart in such a wondrous display of silent confusion
Satisfied to leave without comprehension’s kiss
Knowing you have enjoyed the challenge and the visit
Never caring that the journey was amiss

Never-ending, incessant inspiration, is welcomed by the hand
Sweetly held treasured from the very start
As a silken caress of soothing persuasion, stirring the steady flow
Of your imagination, nestled gently in your heart

A release of cherished wonders, splendid in their course
Dignify the expression in their flow
With the breath of enticing bits of passionate emotion
Gratifying in their bliss, pleasing as they show

Deeply captivating is the gravitation to incessant inspiration
Ensnaring and hypnotizing the consenting soul
To express admiration with a measure of immense flourish
As an exhale of unrestrained emotion with no control

If you find you are intensely drawn into this sweet continuum
Of fascination gently rippling in the flow
Treasure the inspiration nestled gently in your heart
Express your imagination in the show

A blush of former meditation lies inside the tender vision
Of a fascination portrayed in harmony
Scattered pieces distinctly measured, acquired by only faith
Divided between our hearts in unity

A spontaneous transfiguration manifests in gathered wisdom
In our mutual sharing of the mysteries of truth
As we incite in motion our thirst for the energy of life
Carried within the lines of our roots

The spirit that we divinely share in all our tender visions
Is delicate yet resilient in all ways
Unbound but clear and witnessed in the evolution
In the joining of our hearts every day

Father Time left her on her own to face the persistence of reality
Known to many as merely an illusion
Thinking if she stopped believing it would all just go away
But soon found herself lost in the confusion

She looked around in bewilderment at her dim surroundings
Wondering when the glass would break
In the window between what is real and merely an illusion
And if her poor heart the shattering could take

As she waited, time crept by and her mind began to wonder
About the anxiety and confusion she could feel
Staring at her reflection in the window as she watched
She began to doubt if she was even real

Father Time returned and took her face in his gentle hands
Showed her how to draw a line between the two
She then smiled in peaceful realization at the wisdom there
Looked into her reflection and knew the truth

The passion released in the medley of intrigue
Flows restoring as an onrush of air
Deeply inhaled as a kiss of aching persuasion
Gently arresting the heart waiting there

A resonant fascination mesmerizes the pulsation
Tempting the acceleration to exceed
The natural precision, which is known to maintain
A rush of harmony, as the heart beats

There are some who will emphatically attempt to deny
This medley of delightful intrigue exists
As they have never inhaled, the passion released
By the aching persuasion of the kiss

If your heart has never felt this deep fascination
A swift acceleration that rises above
The natural precision, the heart's known to maintain
Then you have never, truly been in love

Wake me from this mask of opaque dreams
Cryptic in their defective cause
Suspend the flutter of my pointless adoration
For all these defensive walls

Eliminate delusions and impetuous desires
Which provoke my spirit negatively
Induce exhilarating fervor in my waking dreams
Softly apportion the one inside of me

Deliver patience as you listen for my nearness
Impart no distresses here
Reconsider any mendacious notions
Do not claim me in your fears

Show compassion as my eyes are open wide
Not suspicious and yet so knowing
Take heed in your watch as sometimes I stumble
In my attempts to get where I am going

Subtle whispered streams of gentle sighs
Elate silken strands of hair
As they softly dance and weave upon the neck
Of the yielding radiance they find there

An exquisite submission sweetly lies divine
In all the welcoming allure
Felt like the velvet kisses of whispered fire
In the obscure haze of ashes they have stirred

A touch of heaven,  swiftly moves the earth
Inhaled by the single silken strands
Tempting enchantment in a fiery blaze of motion
Within the whisper of love’s command

Deeply mesmerizing in their intriguing flow
The radiance is invited, by the gently streaming haze
Yet still you wonder if the whispered streams will be welcomed
If the spirit remains unyielding and unfazed

Requisite deliverance delights impatient souls
So inquisitive in their unmindful natures
Compulsion extracts the accumulation of indulgence
Characteristic in all of their features

Marked persuasion gratifies their inflexible needs
So amusing on every occasion
Never diminishing their vigorous attempts to hold
To everything without any patience

To assume any position of charitable defense
Would be slanderous to your own name
So you laugh hysterically at the clever simplicity
Of beating them at their own game

Indignant responses from these impatient souls
Are incredibly few and far between
As they are, too busy making new impatient demands
For their minds to understand what they have seen

Patience may hinder the quick granting of your heart’s desires
However, impatience can make one look brainless
So unless you would rather be the brunt of a joke
Be patient, it will be painless

I can hear metallic words emerging from your lips
All throughout the best part of my day
Inviting all my inner focus to your bitter uproar
Endorsing all my resolve to move away

Your brash recklessness cast dark shadows down
Of great anguish and unbearable distress
As you continuously violate all of my emotions
With all this agitation you profess

You seem to find the greatest of comfort
In confessing all your misery
But I find myself totally unsympathetic
To your persistent verbal parodies

So if you stop and wonder why, I am no longer here
If you are uncertain of the very reason
Take a good listen to yourself and you will see why
My emotions are no longer in your open hunting season

You softly light upon me unannounced
Offending all my tranquility
Sly and cunning in your swift approach
As you creep right up on me

I watch your quest with breathless interest
Yet, silently in increasing fear
Submissive to your persistent touch
As I wonder why you’re here

Do you see me as a frustrating hindrance  
Or am I  part of your life’s crusade
Are you taking delight in my fearful plight
Or merely wishing I’d go away

Have I become your latest amusement
To incapacitate with dreadful fear
Or would you prefer I assert my valiant pride
And vanquish you from here

I am not quite sure of your intentions
Perhaps you are not sure of mine
But I’ve grown weary of this wondering
And all this rising fear is asinine

The time has come for one of us to finally make a move
Regardless of the reasons you are here
As I know the pain you can inflict is powerful and strong
You can watch me run along in all my fear

You softly whisper to yourself, love’s music ends right here
As you put away your tender heart’s violin
So utterly sincere in your resignation to quietly exist
To never play your heart’s violin again

You hear the sweetest music played around you every day
With no desire to join in with your own sound
So quietly existing in this world of your resignation
Such a sense of peace, you have found

Then one day when you awaken, the worlds a bit too still
You sit and wistfully stare at your heart’s violin
Think about your resignation and the peace you found within
And ever so quickly, you turn away again

The world keeps on a moving, not only quiet but so dark
No longer do you hear any music played
Makes you begin to wonder if this peace you’ve found within
Is also, what made the music fade

The solitude and peace found in this bittersweet release
Has now become your heart’s only friend
You resign to the fact that your violin you must play
If you want to hear the music once again

Sound logic has confronted your faith in all you hold divine
Stolen in and taken your precious angel’s kiss
Now you find you seek and roam to fill the open spaces
Of the emptiness of a soul that feels amiss

The deepest secrets are now unlocked from their captive hands
Spilling knowledge, your heart does not want to see
Now how do you defend that which you hold so very dear
With all the evidence now cast there at your feet

Do you merely listen to your heart and ignore your mind
Pretend the evidence you see does not exist
So you will not feel the need to roam and question anything
Even though you know the soundness will persist

You listen to your heart and rest your mind therein
Continue clinging to that faith you hold within
Follow the path you were on as there is no need to roam
Never allowing logic to steal your kiss again

Fading stains record the tender scheme of flagrant deliberation
Transparent in their defense of the illusion
Depicting careful consideration of honesty and reserve
While shattering the picture of your delusions

A saturation of recollection, distinctive in its eloquence
Briefly coercing the eyes to conceive
The continuation of a scheme hid in a shroud of confusion
Which refuses to change or ever leave

What would ever stain, yet without any imperfection
Expressing clear in all of its defense
Completely raw and uninhibited in the purest honesty
Yet leave your values standing on the fence

A love beyond comprehension is your tender scheme
The stains are your records of transparency
A continuation one cannot deny, when looking in your eyes
No illusions, just the pureness of honesty

Entangled in the silken ribbons, haphazard in the tinkling bells
Smiling as I twirl around the ceiling
Enthusiastically chasing, all of my wildest endeavors
To obliterate the slightest chance of feeling

A satin sash of gold winding round all of my emotions
Tickling my fancy and my toes
Swirling in my twirling, laughing as I go round
Forgetting all my troubles as I go

I am erratic in my movements, sporadic in my spins
Engagingly so charming in my play
Transported over places full of wide empty spaces
Filling them with everything, I may

My ribbons are spinning faster than I can come untangled
My tinkling bells are crashing in my head
All this enthusiastic chasing and filling empty places
Did not obliterate a single thing you said

Enlightened by the insight found in ultimate reasoning
Your emotions run as bitter as wine
Wisdom gained as you find the conclusions
Riding on the backseat of your mind

A beam of comprehension, the likeness of a spark
Abolishes the dark shadows of the day
As your dedication to leave the acts of suppression
Is slowly poured into the vessel of clay

Feel the glorious liberation, freedom from restraint
Pouring from the vessel so free
As you release your spirit from those who confine
From the clay vessel of boundaries

Pour the fire of comprehension and enlightenment divine
Into your vessel of clay abundantly
Take up your glorious wings and fly into the radiant sun
Unconfined and so wonderfully free

Will someone please stop this spinning
I am ready to get off of here
Is there no one able to make time stand still
Or at least make today yesterday again

I look around at this rushing sea of faces
Arms reaching out to me
Expressing sympathy because you are no longer here
I just want them to all go away

I do not want their sympathy, I want you back
I want my life the same as when I fell asleep last night
Asleep in your arms
Knowing I would see you in the morning

I look around at all of these sympathetic faces
Accept every condolence offered
Knowing that tomorrow they will forget you existed
The world will keep spinning and I have to stay here
Remembering, that you existed

The darkest of silent stares from embracing eyes
Can so deeply stir your watchful soul
Suspend you in a flowing river of the warmest compassion
As they take your attentive spirit in their hold

The slightest subtle glimpse of an aching heart
Calling out silently to your own
Can induce a flowing train of ensuing emotions
Stronger than any, you have ever known

Such a marvelous revelation will begin to manifest
As you open up your eyes and truly see
A standing invitation to reach out to a hurting soul
Who needs your compassion desperately

When you open up your heart to those embracing eyes
Silent stares beseeching your compassion
Take an interest in their plight, with your spirit’s sight
With a passion, only held in love’s own fashion

I am tired of writing all these words that sound so lovely
Yet do not make a bit of sense
Tired of this make believe world that I am penning in place
With sweet rhymes and innocence

I am tired of pouring out my heart upon these pages
Time after time, over and over again
Tired of exposing the places inside that are still wounded
By all these battles that I have fought in

I am tired of being vulnerable to the knives and the nails
That are driven into half healed scars
By the pen that I wield in all of my precious time
From these endlessly flowing ink filled jars

I write and I write to expel all of these feelings
Running rampant inside of my head
Yet still they pour out from every single crevice and crack
While my tired heart cannot seem to get ahead

When did you become a stormy sea of obsession?
Confining in all of your ways
Renouncing all moves in any direction
When one does not yield to the calls, you play

Attempts to govern unclipped wings can be exhausting
The very thought is so gravely insane
Yet you still despondently try to cage in free spirits
With those borders you set and maintain

You reveal uncertainty in your own validation
In the faith you hold in your own
When you desperately try to close off the sky
From free spirits thirsting to roam

Did you know that your borders are guarded by insecurity?
They are useless and protected in vain
Take a look inside the cages you obsessively provide
Not a single free spirit remains

There is the deepest river raging in my soul
Gently flowing into all of me
Roaring with a thunder over each and everything
Crashing like the rolling waves of the sea

These mixed up signals, watch them as they flow
From my gentle river’s ever fleeting ways
Come and let me sing my gentle, raging song for you
Sit awhile, and listen as I play

Listen to the roaring whisper of my voice cascade
As it sweetly rings within your ears
Let me tempt and challenge all your tender senses
As I bring your eyes to joyful tears

If you wish to see, what is gently raging here
I will be thrilled to show you more
Come and let me take you to some secret places
No one’s ever seen before

Take the deepest look into these gentle raging eyes
  Plunge deeply into my roaring soul
Come and ride the raging current of my fleeting ways
Lose yourself, as my river takes control

You have a manner of speaking, without saying a word
Your silence is heavenly divine
My heart hears the message you send in your silence
As I know, your heart can hear mine

I am kissed in the morning by the words you never speak
I hear each of them in the back of my mind
Softly held in my sleep by your message revealed
Completely safe in the unspoken words I define

A lasting impression, inspired by the bliss so contained
In the loving words which you never speak
Yet sweetly heard by the soul they kiss in its sleep
An exquisite rest of contented peace

Safe in the arms of your unspoken words I define
Known to my heart to be true
I peacefully sleep and I wake in your silent state
Completed by the silence I hear from you

Crystal threads of flowing assurance, delight a thirsty soul
A sustenance of radiant light for the weary
A calming balm of delightful heaven to nourish and console
Healing respite from a world so dark and dreary

Plunge your essence underneath the flow and breathe
Inhale the sweetest solace there awaiting
As you finally find the answers to the questions deep
Your inquiring heart has been contemplating

Embrace the flow as you drink from the crystal cup
Of a comforting assurance so divine
Now serene in the knowledge that you have found
To sustain your ever seeking mind

You kiss the golden hand of time that steals your living grace
As it softly knocks upon your bolted door
Transparent through the eyes that look back into your own
Smiling, as they know what he has come here for

Behold the vision in the vessel worshiped by the grace
As it quickly secures the face of glowing youth
Bountifully replenishing what the hand of time has stolen
Yet taking more than it gives to you

You sell your soul to kneel before the vision in the vessel
To kiss the very hand that stole your grace
Never taking sight of the wisdom, you have gathered
In each line, time has etched upon your face

You can clasp the golden hand of time tightly in your own
Proudly wear the lines of wisdom on your face
Without giving up your soul to the vision in the vessel
If you do not kiss the hand that stole your grace

Release the binding embrace of sorrow in the new day found
Offering up an abundance of the sweetest joy
Inhale the fragrance of the earth after all the cleansing rain
Has washed you free of sorrow’s scheming ploys

Look into the radiant sun as your face is kissed by its glow
Dissolving all the ice inside your soul
Immerse your spirit in the warmth and treasure this display
As you feel sorrow’s presence lose control

Gently smile in the knowledge which floods into your essence
As you see this fold of your journey’s curtain softly close
Take a walk into life’s garden and deeply look inside yourself
See the blooming of the most exquisite rose

Give thanks into the morning of your first new day of life
No longer living in the fear of tomorrow
Resplendent in your glory, as you bloom and richly grow
  Cleansed free, from the binding ties of sorrow

A brilliant star fell from the ancient skies into the sea below
A fiery journey endowed upon us all
Watching the fading embers of a light from the heavens
Thrilled us to the very depths of our souls

Murmurs of the softest sounds were heard among the crowd
As many of us wished upon the dying star
Elated at the prospect, of gaining the desires of our own
Not a bit of sympathy was offered up from our hearts

A thunderous silence fell among us all as we felt the first drops
Of the warmest rain ever felt in any season
Astonishment coursed through all our veins as we looked up
And began to understand the reason

The striking face of the moon was crumpled there in tears
As he watched our joy at the loss of his friend
Our wishes we all took back inside our hearts in shame
And wished instead, he had his friend again

Profound does not begin to describe what has been revealed
In the revelation now handed down into your soul
As you begin to see the realm, you are in with open eyes
While your body feels the shadows of the cold

This adoration for the intensity you see burning from afar
Has been sustaining every step you take in the night
Now will you stand there and just freeze, staring longingly
Or do the next best thing that is right

Your faithfulness to the flickering shadow that dances in and out
Is touching in the gallantry it reveals
Yet still you find you sell your soul to the isolating cold
While the cracks in your spirit never heal

With boldly outstretched hands you reach for the warmth
For your purpose, your reason, your goal
Yet if you will not move your feet, and leave where you stand
Your shattered spirit will die here in this cold

Your memorized replies haunt all of these hallowed spaces
Winding profusely around the precious truth
Dispersing beads of splendor into the sweetest memories
That I will always have and hold of you

The ink will never ever fade, or vanish from these pages
Which hold the words, deeply written in my soul
Engraved in these hallowed spaces of the precious truth
Completing, the other half of the whole

Glowing gifts of revelations sweetly haunt my memories
With the spirit of the Muse you put in place
As I respond to your replies in the crystal ink of my tears
With a smile of blissful joy upon my face

  No matter where I roam or where this life may take me
These engravings are etched into my heart
Memorized in spaces, of the tracks of my tears of joy
Never from my spirit to depart

Brilliant energy flows from the depths of your eyes
Striking deep chords in my soul
Radiating a sapphire glow which possesses my own
Altering my strength and control

A mesmerizing moment of time stopped in place
Takes hold, as I look deep inside
Your bottomless sea of sapphire delight
Slipping under the skin of my pride

Such shimmering echoes of primitive desire
Waves of crashing release
Captivate my soul when I look in your eyes
As they steal my breath from me

Your sapphire glow has taken control of my soul
As I swim in your bottomless sea
I have no need to rise to the surface for air
As your energy breathes life into me

Gentle acceleration secures your every need to lie unbroken
In the midst of the opulence you have found
Prompting the splendor of the arrival of mystical inquiries
Into a tumultuous ocean of feelings unbound

A deluge of fortune revered and proficiently secured
Pours in the radiant warmth of cinder
Polishing the obvious abundance of your need
With moves so unbelievably tender

Unbroken and unbound your intuition refines the spaces
Once only exclusive to a well chosen few
While all knowledge of the mysteries glowing in the cinder
Plunge deeply into the soul of you

You rejoice in the enlightenment of the opulent treasure
Which empowers the depth of the knowing
While watching from the shadows in the back of your mind
Unbroken, unbound and glowing

There once was a poetess with a thesaurus
As big as the Adriatic Sea
She hunted down words in her book so absurd
Then tortured the world with these

She wrote lavish poems about simple drivel
Using words unknown to you and me
Inspissating her plots so we would think she was not
The harebrain her friends knew her to be

A plethora of words she abused along with our minds
As she wrote of the redolent roses
Why could she not say how sweet they smelled
Before she beleaguered all of our noses

Now her poems are a panoply of quintessential bliss
If you have any idea what that means
I surely do not and have no intent of learning
So for now I will say she is keen

So tired and fast asleep you lie peacefully by my side
I quietly rest and listen as you breathe
I want so much to take you, into my own sea of dreams
Swim together on the cresting waves of ecstasy

I reach out to touch your cheek, my hand stops in midair
Remembering how tired you really are
So I watch the beating of your pulse hypnotize my eyes
Admiring your sleeping peace from afar

Soon, I give in to temptation; gently brush you with a kiss
A whisper of moist lips upon your brow
Yet you remain asleep even with the warmth my kiss induces
A bit of heaven into your sea of dreams endowed

I have let you in once again, to wrap around my heart
As I refuse to let go of anything
Once again, I find myself staring in the mirror
Unable, a single note to softly sing

The reality of these irrational notions I carry deep inside
I can see so vividly clear sometimes
So why can I not let go, of what I already know
Just move on, to another space in time

I know of life and all its meaning, the joy it should bring
The laughter that can be found in the light of day
So why will I not give in and give up on these notions
That ravage this heart of mine this way

Broken pieces of the puzzle lie scattered amid the declarations
As I erase the words that I thought would make them fit
In hope that these silly notions will flee from my heart
As the clarity of the picture I admit