Hold me embrace me never let me go
Dance with me under the stars
Hold my heart in the palm of your hand
From your side I’ll never part

Kiss me caress me look in my eyes
Hold me close to your chest
Listen to the sound of our beating hearts
With such love we have been blessed

When we grow older I’ll rock by your side
On life’s magical porch of dreams
There in our minds we’ll be young once again
Dancing under the stars as they gleam

There were days
I fell into a whirlwind
where sunlight glittered
then escaped.
I was proud  
to count each move made
as a gift.
Sometimes, underneath my eyes
I could see a kiss
deep inside an ocean
of a thousand stars
looking up
at my lips.

Often, I wished
to be still
inside my soul
find a shelter
where I could dance
just one more time,
to verses I wrote
just for you.
Thinking,
perhaps then,
I could fade hypnotically
into your thoughts,
find the sweetest truth.

For endless days now,
I have stared at empty paper
trying to remember
your voice
and capture how much I love you
inside a metaphor.
I found I only fell back
into a whirlwind
where sunlight glittered
then escaped
my heart
only loved you more.

Last night, underneath my eyes
I once again
saw a kiss
deep inside an ocean
of a thousand stars
filled with your face
and my own.
There, I danced
inside the stillness of my soul
within the shelter
of your arms,
found in your eyes,
my home.

Misty moonlight falls on dancing waters
Shimmers as it plays
Lights the fall of a gauntlet’s challenge
Called the sunrise
Of the day

Straining beams of iridescence quietly appear
Changing in a glow
Accumulating dust from a starlight’s sphere
A brilliant sparkling
From long ago

A splash of velvet is the midnight sky
Cradling our moon
Softly singing the sweetest lullaby
Knowing the challenge
Is ending soon

Streaks of crimson, fiery red appear
Across the velveteen
The moonlight's dancing end is near
As the sun again
Is seen

Last night we danced upon the moon
Cheek to cheek we two
No gravity to hold us down
Through the air we flew

All the stars they did surround us
All the planets within our view
Down below us our beloved Earth
Looking back at us two

Our bodies light as feathers
Spirits lighter still
I felt closer to you than ever
So much love I did feel

I cried out for you on my darkest night
Praying that you’d hear me
It seemed my cries fell on deaf ears
You were nowhere near me

With outstretched arms I reached for you  
To have you take control
This was the worst night of my life
The dark night of my soul

I thought you had abandoned me
I cried for you all night long
You said that you would never leave
But I was all alone

I made it through my darkest night
Never was I alone
You were there watching over me
As you made me strong

An amber glow softly visits your face as the new evening washes in
To bathe you in a new light so fair
While distinctive patterns of the lovely day’s end
Are dancing through the highlights in your hair

An onrush of divine sensation lights in your eyes
the day has ended in glee
You smile as you watch the sun leave its place
Over the edge of the glorious sea

A fresh faced moon illuminates the air
a million stars dance in the moon’s glow
A bright new world finds a home
In the depths of your delighted soul

Those memorable days have long been forgotten
Haunting those stairways, we climb
Convincing wondrous places of mystery again
To stare into the ribbons of time

Yesterday’s chapters of dreamy faraway passages
Leading to rooms filled with slivers of light
Dance nimbly across pages of spatial vantages
Disappearing on the edges of night

A rumbling of recollection drifts into our flesh
Striking chords of chronicled accounts
Felt in the heartbeat of time we have meshed
Into our souls for a reminiscent recount

Forgotten no longer, remembered once more
Heartwood regaining its core
Blooming within those stairways, we store
Those memories, of days of yore

I walk among the dead each day
I see it in their eyes
Although they breathe the breath of life
Inside they've all but died

They've given up on living life
And chasing their own dreams
Going through the motions
Emotionless it seems

Their eyes are dull they've dimmed their light
Let their passion slip away
No matter what you say to them
They just turn away

Their hearts can't beat, I think they've stopped
They must be broke in two
No longer caring about themselves
Much less about me or you

Deep waters run
They flow through my soul
Renewing my spirit
With their ebb and flow

Deep waters inspire me
To see what I say
To keep it and share it
With all that I may

My heart is opened
By this cleansing flood
And released by my spirit
It runs in my blood

There are no windows and no doors
Here inside this place
There's no way in and no way out
So nothing is misplaced

What's inside you'll never see
As you cannot look in
But does it matter anyway
As it can't leave again

From this place you may not leave
As there is no way out
But have no fear in coming here
To get in, there is no route

Stand outside and strain your eyes
Trying to see what's here
Or walk away while you can
Before the way in or out appears

Consideration took into account
Conditions to be deliberated
Planning in advance
Kept a count

Their intentions set in mind
Way ahead of time
If compassion, were to be
Handed out

Sympathy checked in with feelings
Seeking out the strongest surge
While sorrow and misfortune began reeling
Within an
Empathetic urge

Frightened panic cried out in dismay
At sympathies fearlessness
While unkind words unmercifully
Shook the day

Mistaken ideas that we can love someone
Enough to make them change
Will only cause grief for ourselves
And unending pain

We can only change ourselves
That inside we hide
So listen to those words
Coming unbidden from inside

A quick and spontaneous reaction
Unplanned and unrehearsed
Will tell one what’s inside themselves
And so often will hurt

Let’s take a good look inside ourselves
I’m sure there’s much to do
And I will work on me
While you go work on you

The darkness it has faded
A new song my heart does sing
The sun has risen in my life
Such a glorious day it brings

Once my life was full of darkness
No light was there ahead
I felt nothing at all inside
All my joy was dead

Now my eyes are open wide
A smiles upon my face
As I now know what is true
And see it put in place

I now have a life that’s changed
A heart that is brand new
A new song plays inside of me
As I find faith anew

The world I cannot change alone
It’s firm and can’t be moved
But I can share what's changed in me
As I sing to you

I know you always hear my voice
Please help me hear yours too
At times I fail to listen
Sometimes I get confused

I lay my requests before you
All upon my plate
But I don’t listen when you say
That I need to wait

Sometimes I rush into my day
At full speed ahead
Not taking time to slow down and hear
Your gentle voice instead

Then I find myself so angry
Frustration running round my head
That’s when I stop and ask myself
If I heard anything you said

A butterfly of rare design
flutters within these walls
a spectrum of colors unknown
Manifested in a spirit
never seen before
Flying freely
on its own

Each time you look
upon this rarity you will see
New colors
changing like the wind
This butterfly you see,
changes at a need
Known only by the spirit
held within

Watch the wings as they fly,
shifting side to side
A butterfly
that doesn’t quite fit in
This rarity of design
you will not recognize
Blink once,
look back,
it's changed again

I see you in the distance shining like a star
Your beauty calls out to me
It beckons from afar
But what you are, my heart does not see

I am captured by your magical essence
Pulled in close to your flame
I forget everything that I value
When I hear you call my name

You offer to me gifts and treasures
They are of the rarest kind
All if I let you into my heart
And your bidding I do with my mind

You pull me into you closer
I am drawn like a moth to a flame
But your gifts will just tear down my spirit
And place marks upon my good name

The gifts that you offer I find
Break each and every one of His commandments
I will hold on to His gift of discernment
Now I see, and am no longer blind

I cannot change the way things are
Alas my heart does sigh
No more than I can take the moon
From its place on high

That which I love brings so much pain
Of which I cannot express
The joy I feel in this pain
I cannot suppress

That which I love and holds my heart
Brings pain and joy the same
As I so love the joy it brings
I can overlook the pain

That which I love will never see this pain
When I look into his eyes
Just a smile to show my joy
And this pain disguise

I laugh into the face of doubt and questioning
As they dare to knock upon my door
As I know all the reasons
They have come here for

Thinking to put what I do in reserve
Doubt thinks I'll give an inch
Dust your shoes off and take a walk
Doubt you've been benched

Questioning I have no use for you
Here in this heart of mine
This that I believe in can't be touched
No power here you'll find

Both of you get back on your path
One that leads elsewhere
I have no need for either of you
You're not welcome here

Dreams of unknown melodies become my companions
When the moon sits upon her throne, my love
Far away, more gravitating
Are the quivering stars in the heavens
Up above

My life floats within the sun in a blissful perfect peace
Blazing there, high above the tallest trees
In lines, my soul can name
Running ceaseless and as fair as fair
Can be

Within all the perfect strength I find from these two
There lies this land, where breezes blow
To chase away the fog
That softly creeps across my heart
With woe

The cares of life are swept away in unknown melodies
Into that place known as wilderness, of sound
My eyes are turned to touch
Upon their ancient realms of hope
Once again……….
My world is spinning round

My secret thoughts reside
in the backyard of my existence
where darkness cries out in shivers
clear to my bones.  
I wake up to find them
packed neatly on shelves in my mind
and wish I could just crawl away,
be left alone.

They come from my emotions,
dressed in sadness
with no intention of ever  comforting
what they transform.
There are days
when they make a decision
to rearrange the places I stand
until I am left without hope,
forlorn.

My secret thoughts are the lyrics of my being
which bid my heart
to walk on a white canvas
of the purest snow.
Oh the damage
that could be done
if I spoke them aloud,
my true feelings revealed
with these eyes full of woe.

I cannot bend or I'll break
so I hide on these shelves
in my mind,
packed neatly away
from all that challenges
my tree of life,
such as falling leaves.
My secret thoughts control
how my tongue refrains
from speech,
So my true feelings,
you will.....
never see.

When your fingers dare to take the wilderness from this land
A breeze will play in your thoughts
For a hundred years
All the flower’s hearts will ache to stand
And watch the leaves
Dry my tears

Apart from the cobwebs spun in my name forevermore
You may perhaps believe I roamed
In and out of sorrow
Yet if I could make you see heretofore
You would know I only cried
The tears I borrowed

When your fingers dare to take the wilderness from this land
I will spin cobwebs in your name
For a hundred years
Your heart will always ache to stand
So you can find the leaves
To dry your tears

What an illusion you think you create
Playing the games you play
So why can’t you look me in the eye
When you say the things you say

Look at the things that cannot be touched
Touch what you cannot see
Try and remember what you said
And was it said to me

I see your shadows dance in the light
They are not hidden from view
My heart can see them
The same as it sees through you

She often fails to listen to what I say
Quite a mind of her own
Therefore, I usually just let her have her way
Even when she is running wrong

Quite a scene she creates in some places
Where others attempt to rest
Often, I see such agitation in their faces
Shamefully, I confess

I am sure they think I should control her
Calm her spirit down
However, I think I will wait until she’s older
A much easier way, I‘ve found

What harm could come from holding out
On teaching her discipline
As you should hear how loud, she shouts
When made to wait to have her fun

Now she has started school, as have the notes
Sent home in her little hands
All those things her teacher actually wrote
I cannot believe or understand

Surely, my little angel waits patiently in line
Until it becomes her turn
Raises her hand before speaking her mind
So the others can hear and learn

Filling and fading with a soft caress
My playmate by the deep
Our memories diminish into effervesce
Held upon the sands of time
They keep

We bind and softly lay them all along
Like small sparks of fire
Yet out of the mist they are burning strong
As our soul’s  
Deepest desires

The dusk of evening, breaks into light
Filling with a soft caress
Memories are found through clouds of night
In the surging foam
Of effervesce

Those sands of time will unbind the fires
My playmate by the deep
Found in our soul’s deepest desires
The smallest spark
Will keep

Only through your tender initiation
Does my life become whole
As You pour and I receive
Your spirit in my soul

My victory is your own
If it’s your will that I choose
Knowing against this I can rebel
But our victory I will lose

I will always have
The freedom to make a choice
Between a life that is false
Or a true one with your voice

I can face this life alone
With a mask of braveness on my face
But there will be no peace
Until You in my heart I place

Sometimes I can't see you and I can't feel you
There is nothing but emptiness in my air
Once I felt you all around me
Now I wonder if you're there

I feel so cold and all alone
Not even your shadow's in my sight
And all my heart can think about
Is giving up this fight

With all I have inside I pray and try
To get you back into my life
To feel that I'm a part of you
And stop this pain that's causing all this strife

How much longer do I think I can continue on
Pretending nothing inside has changed
When all I hear is empty air
When I call your name

Then I recall all the promises in your Word
That will fill up this empty space
And they are enough to fill my empty air
And all my tears erase

Encased castles wouldn’t hear
what might have been
or a promise of immediate loss.  
When thank you becomes like raindrops
falling from the cost.

So I will say
the sun forever rises
because it was torn away
from the bones of an amber moon.
Until the day my face is woven
into what is mine, just not too soon.

Just think about what you do
when you want to be alone,
of course not because
you are broken.  
Let it go and become framed
with the tears of a family unspoken.

Reflect what is understood
and let it go
like a language of chills
contained in every second of surprise.
Then thunder from those encased castles
can be seen in my eyes.

No words left to express
None that have ever been written
Feelings inside are beyond any definition
My heart  is completely smitten

Onslaught of emotions welling
The soul can barely survive this flood
Unveiling brings such tears of joy
From a heart in love

If never to smile again
Never to hold again, as this time
This heart holds enough joy
To last a lifetime

Strange sounds quietly etch from under places
No one ever wants to chance
Calling out softly to those who can hear them
In a repetitive wistful chant

Speaking of darkness in voices unknown
Faintly crying out to be heard
Telling sad tales to those who can hear them
Without ever saying a word

Lonely winds reverberate around misty cold
Stirring the etching of sound
Seeking the spirits of those who can hear them
Wherever they may be found

A touching of minds in wistful repetitive chants
Stirring the sound of misty cold
Quietly etching into the hearts who hear them
The sadness of their souls

I would not yet look at you and stare
if ever the sun was hidden
Though so many times I answered back
untouchable
Like a silver broken vow
of your tenderness
Standing alone at my feet
Unanswerable

Does unfamiliar silence chase a heart
from every side?
Then in a strange unrest,
ask, "who are you?"
While whispering tender tear drops  
Among the crimson sheets
Of bitter truth

Within innocence or guilt,
my world will still be standing
In the place now my own feet
believe to be
Where my sun is shining
faithfully

Even, if unfamiliar silence
Were chasing me

The beat of my heart makes it difficult
not to be blinded
by the reality of my own thoughts
when they are broken down within the sounds
of my dreams.
Yet, no one hears the wind
running through my mind
and I find nothing is
as it seems.

All I do is race to hide from the smoke of lies
to find subtle truth
inside of uncertainties colors
but what I come across
means nothing to you.  
When I drift off to sleep I bleed mirrored glass
until I forget about the bruises
for a moment
or two.

I want someone to listen to the words I speak
even when breezes fill their hands
and time goes by quicker
than the air they tasted.  
No longer do I wish to live and breathe
In this life of empty rooms
where my heartbeat
is wasted.

Tonight I sit and weave faith upon grounds
where forever
I have searched through eyes
that paint my mistakes with words
of ecstasy.  
Yet still, the beat of my heart
makes it difficult
not to be blinded  by love,
even when
I know....
you lie to me.

Each time you turn and walk away
I find myself searching
for the sunny days
I know
once ran through my veins.  
Until I wish
I could dip my fingers
into the places
where your teeth bit into my heart
once again.

I think of all those conversations
where I believed
that every shadow
lying on the floor
made our lives exciting.  
Like an ocean of wine
one drinks within a dream
full of memories,
capturing all
we have been fighting.

Reality seems to lie inside
everything I forget
about loving you
when it blends inside my heart
then hides.
And I can't tell
what is black or white
each time you walk away
and leave me feeling
only........
gray inside.

I have not heard your voice
In what seems to be a million years
But it’s still here in my mind
Whispering in my ear

I’ve not been in your arms
Or felt your skin against my own
But I still feel your breath on my cheek
As if you were never gone

I miss you more than I can tell
Using every word I know
But I still wear a smile for you
Everywhere I go

I feel your tenderness underneath my bare feet;
see my face as a reflection
of a flame, in your eyes.  
One thousand teardrops
fell from your heart,
love swallowed each one.
Tasting comfort inside a smile,
a heart grows fond of drinking
love’s replies.

Your words fall as leaves
into the river of my heart‘s desire,
come to life
as I exhale them as poetry.
Each breath I take
rises against another,
creating feelings inside my heart,
ringing in tones that listen to each thought;
bringing such a lovely peace
to me.

I am embraced by breezes
stirred from a lasting love
that has grown strong like an oak tree,
it bends but never breaks.
Love now sails as notes
pouring from my lips.
My heart leaps with joy
and sings replies perhaps unheard,
but felt with each breath
I take.

Sheathed in a silken protection of blue
Shielded from new air
Hidden away from all that is true
Without a single care

Wrapped in shields of translucence  
Your vision is unclear
Unfair bias buys you peaceful silence
Yet is that not unfair?

You are softly encased in a warm cocoon
Secure from all chill
To others pain completely immune
Yet, you still think you feel

Come out from that silken sheath of blue
See reality crystal clear
If you cannot feel others pain it’s true
You are not really here