Greater trusting
With more heart
Lesser leaning
On your own smarts
More recognition
At each intersection
That you can rely
On the map maker's direction

Birds come to aid of poets
who are stuck mid-air
somewhere
They'll chirp and sing
their best song
that'll guide us long
and will take off
as soon as we drop the pen
to their own nest

Grazing the edges of deep shadows
Pushing away the darkness unseen
Hoping any little light, to guide one
Through any coming Hell, between
Now and journey's arrival to then

©  2017 Jim Davis

All of these eyes on me
I want to disappear
With nothing to see
But still be here

I can feel the taping
As messages are sending
All the cameras snapping
The eyes never relenting

How can I be guided
When I can't find closure
By getting reminded
Of all my failures

Everything is permanent
And I can't escape
When I'm sinking in concrete
With everyone on tape

I want to disappear
And live how I want to
I want to live freer
Act in a way that's true

Dark, well I know
Still, a spring tide's shining moon
Guides my way to you

In a world not safe but dangerous
In a world of pride and indifference
In a world of poverty and cries
In a world where starving children die

I'm still enraptured by you
I'm still in awe about you
I'm still captured by your sweet smile
I swear to go with you every mile

Life *****, I've heard it said so many times
So many places to go over run with crime
people killing, ******, taking from each other
Children forsaken and taken from their mother

I'm still enraptured by you
I'm still in awe about you
I'm still captured by your sweet smile
I swear to go with you every mile

Every mile
The hard and twisting roads
Every mile
The precarious ones you don't know

In a world where people have no home
In a world where they're sleeping all alone
I watch them cold out on the street
Homeless and fighting for something to eat

I'm still enraptured by you
I'm still in awe about you
I'm still captured by your sweet smile
I swear to go with you every mile

Every mile
The hard and twisting roads
Every mile
The precarious ones you don't know

I woke up and went inside
It is there that I found my guide
she said everything is just a lie
she said everything is a dark sunrise

I heard the bells, I heard the sirens
i heard the tales from the strange men
They tell me all of their religions
They tell me how to degrade women

I found my guide
She said look inside
There is nothing on the out that you need
Follow love and forget all the creeds

love is all you need
love is all that survives an eternity
love is all you need
God gives us love so abundantly

She said follow where it's bliss
And to love you cannot miss
and all the wrong turns you may go
In the end you will always know

Open up your heart, slow down your pain
Look at love as the only thing to gain
Throw away the hate and indifference
Make love not war as the only common sense

I found my guide
She said look inside
There is nothing on the out that you need
Follow love and forget all the creeds

love is all you need
love is all that survives an eternity
love is all you need
God gives us love so abundantly

A
S
w e
.tread
....along
...the paths
of life,  comes
a time when roads
t u r n   to  z i g z a g s
sometimes beaten, painful
to walk on...and the blue sky
darkens to gray...and the clouds
hide from us, and the sun sets, and
we need arrows and rays to guide  us
t h r o u g h:::::
]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]
From nowhere
.........any hour
y o u    appear
b r i g h t     as
morning  s u n
your   BEAMS
ILLUMINATE
you are a light
that guides us
.....through the
[[[ D A R K ]]].

...For Timothy...

Sally
Copyright 2014
Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan

"Stars are trying to tell me
this is something like it"

The stars are trying to tell me something, but it's something I can't hear. Or perhaps it's showing me the light but it's shining on
something I can't see. The universe is singing somewhere vast and shimmering; expanding in upon itself, growing closer, still near exploding.
Reveal my soul to me


I stare into the heavens hopeful that she'll open her inky vale, shine her countenance upon me, and bless the growing glowing trail
of star dust and darkness and love and gravity, which spins beyond the precipice.
Ever in front of me.