Author: Laura

Syllables

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She writes music that catches in your soul
As if all the waves have to do is roll 
And midnight comes before each dawn
So don’t lament what’s gone
Because it will come around again anew
You can’t miss what is destined for you
And I hope that’s true coz he’s all I see
What if he was never meant for me
I wonder and I pause and I flip through the prose
What if he is the one that fate chose
To hold my hand and be the One
I see him like he’s the Son
Of God in garden grass
And I wonder if all I had to do was ask
Would you maybe wanna be my guy
I know I’m quiet and I didn’t try
But do you think you could take a look
And read me like your favorite book
And it’s fine if you don’t know my name
I’m gonna love you all the same
And wish you the wealth of wisdom and heart
I never thought we’d be so long apart

Awesome

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Cheers to you Stephen O’ Brien
You made the days feel like they were flying
When I was stuck in a peculiar hell
And you were the one that I’d tell
Now I’m raising a glass to your sincere
Your beautiful and held dear
With your rugged ways and your intone
We’re just talking on a video phone
And I catch myself then laugh out loud
You are something to be proud
Of now the days are short
You’re something yourself I retort
As we’re held in this glance for a moment or two
There’s just something about you
I wonder if space and time
Would ever repaint your days as mine
And I know you could call this therapy
But you’ve got to know what you mean to me
As I throw asunder all the folds
And creases to be brave and bold
You can’t believe this is all I am
There’s more to me and I know you can
See beyond the apparent face
To the depths of profound Grace 
To the love that’s held between us both
I’d wear you like an overcoat
As you just laugh and crease your eyes
And I’ve got no time for goodbyes
Just the moment that’s held in a stare
I love you coz you were there
And made me feel like I was home
Instead of in a room all alone
I gotta know, you gotta see
What would the days be like if we
We’re to make this something else
I know I’m getting ahead of myself
But you’re magnificent and perfectly prose
And I’d walk down any of your roads
If it meant that I could catch your eye
You’re alright, man, it’s worth a try

The Sky’s A Sea

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It’s rumbling up a storm at the heart of me
Like tumbling through the dawn that’s a part of me
As the sun breaks the sky open in half
And we stare at the stars just for laugh
As it’s six am and internally
I’m screaming where the hell have you gone to be
Coz I’m in need and you’re the cause
I hit the diff and it says pause
As I wait on all your errant air
There was a time you were really there
And what was it I saw in your stare
That convinced me of an answered prayer
Coz you are the rhyme and reason
And every springtime is just a season
Where the new and green get to grow
I was flattered and I know you know
That that bird could think to alight
On my shoulder to put all things right
In growing up and getting sane
Come on now, brother, can you feel the rain
As it’s pouring through the veil
And, man, I am not for sale
For a pretty word and a smile
But for your depth I’d walk the mile
That it takes to reach back to you
I’m not a function of what you put me through
Only speaking of the light that shines
I watch you as you move with the times

Mutual Appreciation

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It was mutual appreciation 
As I happened upon your station
And my eyes flick to yours
It’s nothing really, he demurs 
As he blinks his eyes
Trying to calm my stormy skies
But my words fall silent
As the sea is calmed by the ultraviolet 
Light that is
And for the moment that light is his
As he breathes in air
With a Presence that’s really there
It reflects my own
And he notices the change in tone
I can see him stare
As if he knows of all that’s there
I hold out my hand
Do you want to dance coz your looking grand
And he smiles askance 
Like the earth is ground to hold our hands
And hesitate 
“Could I really pull her out of that state”
But I’m not really in
And I think he knows as I’m looking at him
And bursts out laughing at something I say
And I feel the waves he holds at bay
Like oceans of hair that lap his face
And there’s not a single one out of place
Do I decide
To finally come out of the place where I hide
Shur, looket, I say, amn’t I fine anyway
I’ve been saving my courage for the journey 
But would I make it with two
I’d sure as hell take that chance with you
And he pauses, then stares
And I can see that he cares
About everyone that comes his way
He really listens to what they have to say
But I love you, could I let that escape
Confess to the hero without a cape
Like some secret utterance to the stars
And I see us in different circumstances in bars
As you buy me a drink
But it’s more than that, I know, I think
Could we be friends?
He holds his hands out and I make amends
With all I’ve been keeping somewhere inside
He smiles at me and I am alive
But how do I let him know
The gratitude that suddenly flow
From my heart to yours and back again
One of the beautiful, born again men
Oh, to see the city
With you by my side, so sharp and so witty
I just smile
Then see you’ve been watching this whole while
Reading the book
Of the passing phases of my look
That you may see love
Coz you’ve been gifted from above
With those beautiful eyes
Heaven’s on Earth, I surmise
As you tell a little tale
Of something you love that isn’t for sale
I would that I could lend you my soul
So that you could know peace when the waves roll
Or maybe you do
I just want you to see the beauty that’s you 
The masculine
The quintessence of the Divine

Questions For God

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I trudged through the snow
I am miserable or don’t you know
No reply
Why on earth does everyone die
My feet crunch the ground
I savor the essence of unreciprocated sound
I mumble aloud
And relish the silence away from the crowd
And grumble two tone
Why do you always leave me alone?
It’s always like this
Together for a moment and then you just miss
All the ways you felt complete
The gravel groans beneath my feet
As I haul the bin up the hill
If only love was an effort of will
I could turn this around
But emptiness is the only sound
And I cherish the day
He looked in my eye and then looked away
It’s in a video reel
And for years anger is all that I feel
How dare you take him away
There’s no point reaffirming that he cannot stay
But the eyes are all empty as I look for a reason
A kind of vacancy that is all out of season
Perhaps my misery
Will prove how much he meant to me
But the anguish just twists
And I merely coexist 
With the essence of death
Counting each in and out of my breath
Or heartbeat
It’s iambic pentameter against my feet 
Anyway
I don’t believe in what they say
They’re all crying
And then proclaim Heaven is for the dying

Flashback, it’s been twenty years
So I question my thoughts and dry my tears
To the age of youth
And the darkness of day the sun didn’t suit
But I found him there, among the ashes and the rubble
He looked at me and burst my little bubble
And I give thanks to what once I hate
The God of Love to make me irate
By stealing all I could call my own
I’m lying in bed and praying for home
But it never comes
Oh, the trauma of being young
I’m undone
And somehow I feel this song has been sung
By someone
Years before I begun
It’s getting old
Like the body I hold
And the days are all long
Then suddenly short
And all of the principles that I exhort
Prove to be vain
And I stand outside in the pouring rain
To catch the air
Do you believe in the power of prayer
To let go into
Can I be
Something more
Than destiny
Because this body I wear
Is all athletic and long brown hair
Do you resonate
With what is only a temporary state
We’re all on the move
From the moment of spark to the point that I prove
What have you got to lose
Only the worldview you live to excuse
What don’t you settle here
Under a tree as it breathes you clear

I snap out of it
Is to give in the same as to quit
And I’m going with it
A sort of defiance I never admit
But the beer bottle’s empty and I’m reaching for wine
I am the queen of a helluva time
But really it’s empty coz I cannot decide
Which stop is my own if this life is a ride
I breathe in the air
And think of the way he suddenly stare
A moment out of time
Like immortal just stepped out of line
And my gumption and war
I don’t know what this is for 
As I twirl his name
On my fingernails like it’s just the same
As yesterday
He pierced the veil then went away
And I love him so
But goodbyes around every corner, you know
And I wish and hope
He’s found someone real, something cool, something dope
But anyway
Returning to that which I cannot say
It hit me like light
And set a fire to ignite
And I’m all the trees
The wood of could you ever believes
And I see his face
A recognition no time could erase
To be angry at God
Give him back to me again, oh Lord
But it doesn’t work that way
Apparently and what I say
Falls on deaf ears
And is it just temper to coax the tears
Until I can’t stop them and they pour as rain
I’m awake in the night all over again
To be left behind
Is to spend some time trapped in your mind

But He woke me up
And He called that love
Though I can’t express
What I’m thinking of 
Caught in a decider
So perfectly fate
And the present moment
Means you don’t wait
But I’m always counting time
On the watch, on the clock that isn’t mine
Do you think it could be
That we all live eternally
In some dimension
In a realm of time that by extension 
Means we don’t have to suffer
And I’m always thinking of her
And what I’ve lost
I sob til the tears exhaust
My futile will
It’s everything that must fill
The pail of water to the brim
I remember when it was the two of them
Under the sun
By the gate
They wouldn’t approve 
Of me in this state
But how am I
To know the reason that they die
If I don’t weep
It’s kind of like some bargain I keep
But it’s letting me go
The pain and the suffering you know
And pay testament to
The Heavenly I found in you
And remember quiet
That I don’t have to try to defy it
Only surrender
Maybe love is what I engender

A New Eon

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I can feel the panic on each TV station
The madness and the conflagration 
As they all compete to get heard
But do you hear the bird
Diamond cheep with the air
Beneath its wings as it flies in there
And it’s everywhere that is sky
I don’t think they mean to lie
But it’s like an endless repetition 
Trying to get the first edition
Of tomorrow before the dawn
Where has the present moment gone?
If it’s like a competition
And you’re fighting but you’re a Christian
Do you think the love of God means that?
And I see my own war as I balk at what they’re at
Am I any different in truth?
Have I lived the promise of my youth
Or do I just see an enemy
Trying to get the best of me
Where did brotherhood go
Or being a sister in the know
I think the silence will tell
All of the secrets they keep so well
But I see it in myself
It starts with you now the cards have been dealt
And it’s up to the sunlight to show the dawn
I know it might be hidden but it isn’t gone
The peace beneath the waves
The ground under what is paved
Do you know who you are?
Or do you just make a black hole out of a star?
As the constellations show their age
Light years away from the war we wage
Do you think it means aught to the sky
We’re born, we live and then we die
What is permanent 
Could you say the Truth is an event?
Or is it more like a scene
That wakes as we live the dream 
Thinking it’s our own creation
The defeat and the elation
Just polarities
And does it matter who disagrees
If we’ve invested thought
With the rhythm of the schism we’ve bought
But are you caught
Let go and become all that you’ve sought
And when the night arrives 
Be content with what survives
Each and every dusk
I let go the weight and I just trust


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The Tough Girl Image

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I keep it all on lock
But I can never be what I am not
I click my tongue 
I’m impervious and I am young
Til the facade cracks
And I’m all lost in I can’t have you backs 
As the days age
And I spill ink upon a page
Or burn a little sage
Oh, to demonstrate what I feel is true
Lost in a dream of me and you
Or us and them
I run the film clip all over again
When I stride through halls
Now I renovate and knock down walls
Do you love me true
Coz I found myself with all of you
And I can let the refrain
Cancel out the years of pain
Why do I hold on
To what is already gone
And deny what’s here
The water in the lake is crystal clear
As it reflects the sky
Why in the world must everything die
Only to be reborn
I was the earth outside of the storm
The solid ground
As the wind twists the air into sound
It reverberates
Like a glacier that equates
Ice with movement, don’t you know
But there are places it can’t go
As it meets the sea
I’m more than what appears of me


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Reflections

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Do I trust in thin air
Coz you are gone but you’re still there
And, man, you know how to stare
As I run my fingers through my hair
It’ll never work
And I don’t want you to get hurt
But it’s so frustrating 
Coz we aren’t even dating
But I saw you see the Sublime
When you looked away from mine
Into your own
And you know the flower’s grown
Since last you saw it
A lotus petal attempts to thaw it
As spring comes after winters cold
And though I said it you weren’t told
Coz it didn’t sink in
And you’ve just got this unearthly grin
And I’ve stopped staring at the diamond mines
Dunno what you’ve been doing all this time
You could be married or have a child
D’you remember the days we both were wild 
It’s long gone now
And you’re conventional somehow
As I skip stones to prove I was right
You said you just didn’t want a fight
But it all dissolved
And, fuck it, you know it’s never solved
As I rest my head against a wall
Trying to forget my own freefall
Into open air and space
I wouldn’t have known if I didn’t taste
The honey sweet in the jar
But I still don’t know what you are
In your mystery 
Could we be more than history
Some kind of friends
Coz I’m in a canoe, you’re the riverbend
And I just sail
In the wind and in the hail
You’re the one true light without fail
You kinda broke me outta jail
Into open fields
The wind blows and the wheat it yields
It just gives way
There’s so much that I didn’t say
But owe to you
I don’t think you know what to do
But neither do I
Though I’ve seen that which doesn’t die
The deathless realm
It’s its own ship and at the helm
Are all the things you didn’t do
I meant it when I trusted you

Supernova Dreams

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All I know about you is your page
And that you used to love rage
But I don’t know where you’re at now
There’s a distance between us somehow
And I don’t want to start a war
Do we even know what this is for
As the dew falls on the grass
Was it just that I didn’t ask
To be your friend 
Now I’m sailing round the riverbend
To open fields where the grass is green
I won’t forget your supernova dream
But I see beauty everywhere 
Like it was mystical in your stare
And your look could never be beaten
You look thin, have you eaten?
And you grew strong with every word
And I am flying like a bird
In open air
I’m so glad that we met there
So that I could see
The machinations of destiny 
Turn the wheel
A cog on cog that was so real
You’re beautiful 
I hope that your heart is full

Fairytales

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Does everyone lose themselves 
To the fairytale
The one true dream 
That is not for sale
But it’s all spinning round me
Like a kaleidoscope 
And Regina says 
To begin to hope
And I’ve never been anything
But a summer’s day
I didn’t realise 
You liked me that way
And all the leaves
Are falling down
It’s autumn 
Just outside of town
And I’m spinning your poetry 
On my fingernails
Holding on
To the guardrails
In case you draw me in
It’s not long til the winter begin 
Though it’s a whole season away
I tell you that I cannot stay
But you’re still holding eyes
Like I’m holding hands
As we walk the beach
Of fortunate sands
And see with eyes that have been gifted
It wasn’t the first time the snowstorm lifted
But it sure was deep
I shake you coz you’re still asleep
And it’s morning time
I looked into your eyes and saw the Sublime

Reworked

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I’m crying to the sound of Gary’s voice
Because he make silence out of noise
And I love him so but we’ve barely met
Except that one time I won’t forget
In the line up at HMV
I’m sweating coz the next one’s me
And I don’t know what to say
To my hero today
But he grabs the CD and with a smile
He writes his name and all the while
My heart is pounding in my ears
Because he made meaning out of tears
And the other guys, I love them too
Johnny asked “How are you”
In his northern accent, his beautiful twang
And it was just like some bell had rang
And we take a picture, me and Caroline
I’m smiling so you know I’m fine
But my heart is breaking in my chest
At all the seasons I loved the best
And I wonder will you ever know
That you’re the sky and not the snow
And a place I’ll always go
I love you, dear, so I let it show

Simple Times

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It seems like a dream that could never come through
That I could be worthy of the forest of you
But no, she exclaims 
As she’s pouring down in the shower of rains
I love you so
And I know she will not go
So how do I kick it to be more than I can
And she will not settle for just any man
She moves in close then pulls away
Is the queen of making everyone’s day
But she’s got a dark side
I can see the waves roll
But they only announce 
The expanse of her soul
How she could find love
In someone like me 
Who just wanders round
It’s no way to be
And I calm her sighs
And all her utterings 
Her beautiful stare that sets hearts a fluttering
Do you think you could be true to me 
She asks in all sincerity 
And I sigh, brush the question aside
Because you know you cannot hide
And what was once trees is empty ground
But no, she says, I hear the sound
And who’s to deny the butterflies
The beautifuls and never say dies
She’s gorgeous, it’s clear it’s true
I could never find myself with other than you

Something Starshot

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It seems like a strange dream to come true
That some get written while others never do
That you could wish upon a Star
To point you back to what you are
But if you’re looking the skies aren’t telling
So I’m standing in a field and upwards I’m yelling
Why did you strand me on this godforsaken rock
Hurtling through space like something starshot
And time isn’t real or that’s how it seems
The fabric of faith is lit by sunbeams
And you can only measure in line with the dial
The passage of that which has you on trial
But the wrench of separation
Could I switch to a different station
Coz the feeling of this pulverized my spirit
I think I am called but the ears cannot hear it
As it goes in fables
And willing wishes to be able
To be the one
Who shouts to have the pain undone
Oh, the ripping of paper
And all the things that seem to escape her
Do I believe in the girl?
You may as well tell tornados to twirl
Coz it’s their design
And I must accept the part that is mine
To play on the great stage
I rip another strip off of the page

					

	




					
						


		

		

			
Beatitudes
		

		
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Some unspoken conversation 
Passed between us both
And I’m like a guard
Always watching the coast
But you come in close
With no diversions
And I’m just shocked
I’m not casting aspersions 
That you could be anything
But what you are
There’s something about
The North Star
And the way it seems
To guide you home
From far away valleys
And hills that you roam
And you’re windswept and interesting 
And I have a degree
In getting to know
The parts of me
That I keep hidden 
That I keep on lock
But no one can be
Something they’re not
As the leaves blow down
From the wonder of me
Who could have built
Such a tree
But the God of Creation
The One who dances
He’s full of forgiveness 
And second chances
And I’m love struck and awesome
As I meet eyes
The human Being
Before the lies
The humble of heart
The meek of mind
The inheritance of the earth
For the kind

					

	




					
						


		

		

			
Coming To Resolution
		

		
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I’ll always love you
I exclaim
I’m standing outside 
In the pouring rain
But the suns breaking through
I can see its light
And I know either way
That I’ll be alright 
As I get up from the ground
That is always home
And know in my heart
I’m never alone
But stand on feet
With the Grace of God
It doesn’t matter
If it seems a little odd
It’s okay 
If it’s against the grain
And I may never
See you again
In the form 
That is temporary 
But you live in my soul
Eternally
Like the washing of
The water that cleanses
I give away 
All that offends us
To be free 
And to be pure
Amazing Grace
And its allure 

					

	




					
						


		

		

			
The Holy Instant
		

		
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The Holy Instant
Cut like a knife 
Slicing through 
The dream of life
It slowed time down
Then sped it up
So I could see
That all is Love
It pointed out
The just refrain
The irrelevancy 
Of all pain
The beginning 
And the ending
The stitches that 
Are slowly mending
To repair 
The broken seam
As you become
What you’ve always been
And what you never are
Can’t be seen
The light that is
On a sunbeam


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To Be Born Anew
		

		
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The spectre of late thirties lies before me with wills
The bucket must empty before it fills
And all the lockets I keep so safe and warm
Are nothing but silence within the storm
And the wind it howls, beats against the doorframe
Like the terror of time that knows my name
Coz it’s aging and fading, then again to bloom
And I am the Space within the room
I am the Awareness that keeps the body breathing
I am the Love in the absence of needing
I am the stars and I am the wild
Who long ago moved through this life as child
And it’s agile and free, beautiful and still
It captures each moment on the windowsill 
To grow like a branch out from the tree
I seem to call this incarnation me
But it’s more and it’s less than words can contain
I try to describe it but I do it in vain
As all the rivers join the great sea
And realise their Eternity 
I’m washing the coast with the beat of a wave
And there are a million things I try to save
But I let them all go as I open my hand
Give in to the ocean that turns rock to sand
Give into the heat that turns metal molten
I am a colt and thinking of bolting
But I’m held in this moment by the Decree
“All things of creation are expressions of Me
And none can move outside my command
I lift up the waters when I raise my hand
And unusual as it may seem
I’m calling you to wake from the dream
I’m calling you to stand up strong and true
Let my strength move through you”
And I’m barely breathing as I suck in the air
I’m living this life like an answered prayer
And to grow old is but a device
To get you to go deeper and maybe think twice
And ponder the source of your own Being
I’m just translating the light that I’m seeing
As it shines on every blade of grass
Open your heart and let it ask
For all that you’ve been dreaming of
The weather calming to a dove
And that the source of all is Love
Let go and live what is above


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To Be In Relationship
		

		
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Do you have to hide a part of yourself
To be in relationship with
And I’m all
Sarcastic wit
But do you think you could love me
For my flaws
Instead of the sun
The icicle thaws 
But the feeling gnaws
And eats me up for dinner
But I’m seeing through the sinner
As the light reflects kaleidoscopically
There’s a mountain to every valley
And I look down from mine
At all the colors that make the sun shine
And I remember
Skipping a beat
The moment that
I felt the heat
As you hold your eyes on me
And I lose it all by degree
Do you think you could hold my hand
And live up to what we had planned
But I tore down the picture 
Wouldn’t live by the stricture 
Of a voice that commands
Is that what it means to love a man
I’d rather be alone
But I still stare at my phone
And the quiet it imbues
The door slams as I sing the blues
And I know there’s better than this
I’m sorry I didn’t think to miss
The last line of the song
Stop telling me that I’m wrong

					

	




					
						


		

		

			
The Dream Will Realize
		

		
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Talking to the God who remembered me
To realise the dream was destiny
As He pulls apart what’s held me back
Points to the mere feeling of lack
That is the state of the human condition
Your attitude coming to fruition
In aimless days
And letting things just go their ways
Until the lightning strikes me
I dunno if everyone likes me
But in this new hue
It doesn’t even matter what you do
It all flows through
The river that winds to the sea of you
It finds its way
So I give in and say okay
That the great swathe
Might take me up to offer a page
To my pen with ink
Just please don’t ask me to think
As I abide
In Awareness I no longer try to hide
It’s full force the flood
I’m washed away and it was good

					

	




					
						


		

		

			
The Road and the Reins
		

		
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The crack of Gary Lightbody’s voice
Sings a song within me without choice
As he holds his own refrain
And makes something new of the pain
And I can hear myself in the sound
Like I’m standing on solid ground
With the beacon of love, friendship and clarity
Something to preserve my sanity
Coz I try to fight but it’s not working
And all my rebellion is simply hurting
As I find a new way to be
Please be kind and don’t judge me
Coz I’m cutting my own swathe
There’s nothing that love doesn’t save
And there’s nothing a trail can’t blaze
I guess this land knew how to raise
A daughter like me to realize
That we exist under blue skies
That we stand beneath the same sun
And if you’re looking, it’s for everyone 
As we grow older but stay the same
There’s something hidden behind every name

					

	




					
						


		

		

			
Beyond The Darkness
		

		
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We’ll be together in the end
Can I call you brother 
Can I call you friend
Coz you’ve got arms
That go on for days
And I am the sunrise
In so many ways
To break across landscape 
Like a new dawn
It’s giving back
All that was gone
All that was wrenched
From my grasp
And I proclaiming
It doesn’t last
Then lose myself
In my own weeping
Coz you’ve got to know 
I wasn’t sleeping
In days you came 
To knock on my door
And I knew you then
As before
But do I know you now
It’s somehow true
And I’m seeing stars
In the oceans of you
As the veil comes apart
Like cobwebs in my hand
As I finally let go
And I understand
That the realm beyond
Is held right here
And they know I hold them dear
There’s no catch
Left to latch
The door
And I’m not in pain
Anymore

					

	




					
						


		

		

					

		
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The waking consciousness woke me up
And it was the birth of love
The extension by degree
Of all the effervescent that is me

					

	




					
						


		

		

					

		
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I can’t make a track
But I can write a beat
Do you think you could dance
To the tap of my feet

					

	




					
						


		

		

			
He’s Highway 69
		

		
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He could see through me
Read me like a book
Always coming back
To a second look
And he’s cool as a breeze
The wayfaring stranger
The essence of omnipotence 
And absence of danger 
And he smiles and he laughs
And he holds my hand
I turned round to say
Shur, amn’t I grand
As the twinkle in his eyes
Does a merry dance
What I wouldn’t do 
For another chance 
At your magnificent glory
You’re ten stories high
And I think I’m gonna love you
Til the day that I die
As you move through the waves
Like you were born on a beach
I have stuff to say
But you’re just out of reach
But meet me right there
And just so with your beauty 
He’s highway 69
And just the kind to suit me

					

	




					
						


		

		

					

		
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I swim my way to the shore
Full of a heart to simply adore
And the stars sparkle diamonds over my head
I see the Universe from my bed

					

	




					
						


		

		

			
The Rain and the Sky
		

		
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Fighting with the wilderness 
Fighting with the rain
I can feel the pain
Come at me again
And it’s wearing down the structures
Of the egoic mind
Until no one 
Is left behind
And I clamber over bricks
I clamber over walls
I get lost in love
And free for all’s
Till it finally comes back
To where it started
The moment Truth
Was imparted
The moment it shone
From the sky
And I realized
I never die
Only transform
From one state to another 
Or beyond them both
The witness is lover
To all that unfolds
Gently, unique 
There’s a power there
I could never speak
Only pay tribute
And testament to
It resides in the heart
Of both me and you

					

	




					
						


		

		

					

		
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I swim my way to the shore
Full of a heart to simply adore
And the stars sparkle diamonds over my head
I see the Universe from my bed

					

	




					
						


		

		

			
Scenery
		

		
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The depth of the ocean 
In the blue of your eye
I look into them
And see what cannot die
What is age old
And circumspect 
I’m silent a moment
Don’t know what to do next
But you pick it up
With a reply
Don’t you know you’re spacious
As the sky
And the eons move
And the constellations spin
I’m watching the motion
In the mountains of him
I’m watching the film
As the play reels
I’m wondering now
What it is he feels
And if he ever 
Doubts his strength
I found my own
In the suspense
And I deep dive
Into the sea
I’m like the air
You can’t catch me
Only love
What we share
I’m silent a moment
And he was there
To hold on to
What can’t be spoken
I smile
And he thinks I’m joking
But I’m serious
And profound
Do you hear the silence 
In the sound?
Do you see the mystery
In what can’t be held
I look at you 
In the words you beheld 
In the forests that grow up
To be proud and green
You’re beautiful 
And you’re serene
You’re effervescent 
You’re timeless, you’re pure
You’re the one thing
That I know for sure
In all that’s 
Passing by
I love you and I
Don’t have to try






					

	




					
						


		

		

			
Loving Kindness
		

		
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Sending loving kindness to every being
It is a whole new way of seeing
As darkness threatens to consume
I find a way out of the room
And into the light of the only Son
He whispers that I am the one
To find peace inside myself
There’s a depth within, abundant wealth
And when you cry you’re not alone 
You never have to carry it on your own
Coz He is there right by your side
Each step you walk while you’re alive
To hold you in open arms each day
He paved the path so walk His way
And hear the sound of peace abound
He picked me up from the ground
So I could stand tall and be
One with everything I see
In oceans and in forests green
Love is all that’s ever been

					

	




					
						


		

		

			
Clambering
		

		
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Clambering up and over
The fence of my life
We only live once 
You don’t get to do it twice
So make sure that you live 
With all of your heart
Make room to forgive
And share a part
Of all that you know
With whoever you meet
Your footsteps they walk
But it’s the ground that they meet
As you trod your own path
Through the forests to shore
I know God exists 
And that he loves me more
Than I could ever count
With my eyes on the stars
He let me go free
Now I’m all what you are’s
As the clouds in the sky
Bounce with sunlight
Get up off the ground
And you’ll be alright
Pull yourself up by your bootstraps
And become serene
Wake up in the night
Because it is a dream
And you don’t have to go days
Upon days with no end
Make peace with presence
The Universe is a friend 
And will reflect back
What you’ve yet to know
The pain is a burden
So just let it go
And be bourne by life
As it holds you up
The one in the all
The essence of love

					

	




					
						


		

		

			
Mysterious One
		

		
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Are you the mysterious one
I find you when I try to run
But you just catch me and hold me up
I walk a thin wire, could you call it love
Because you look at me with those eyes that have seen
So much of what we all have been
And you are ancient and somehow you’re young 
And we are an almost never begun
As you brush aside the cobwebs of mind
I love you enough to leave it all behind
And your notes in the book that I keep
Have formed into songs that sing me to sleep
As an angel thought us both up
If you’re looking for happiness, well you’ve got it, love

					

	




					
						


		

		

			
Synesthesia
		

		
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He just lights up
Even more than he’s already lit
I never realized that love
Had something to do with it
And all of my forays 
Somehow engender
A peace I
Don’t have to remember
Something always there
And abides 
Quietly
It just confides 
In me to be
Honest and true
Even when you’re alone
There’s something loving you 
As it falls from the sky
In sheets of rain
Or plays out in music 
To glorious refrain 
On a many stringed instrument
To let you know
You can have faith
And let the pain go
Let yourself be
And let your heart
Run free across 
The fields it darts
To find a spring
Amid oceans of snow
It found me there
I thought I’d let you know
And out of the ground 
I saw forests grow
Interspersed 
With a river to flow
And there by the brook
Was the peace of my soul
It’s a story 
That’s never been told
It is an ocean
And it is the sea
I abide and reside
In the core of me
And the flashing lights
And the buzzing of neon
Are nothing amidst
The silence of beyond 
As everything rests
In its own place
A cosmic dance
In the middle of space 
And the peace it imbues
Is of a lasting kind
Beyond the singular 
Domain of the mind 
Beyond the rigid
Way of knowing
Into a depth 
That’s ever going
As I realise
That love is all
And open up
To its call

					

	




					
						


		

		

			
The Divine Spark
		

		
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The Divine Spark of Consciousness 
That burns in us all
Doesn’t matter if you’re short
It don’t matter if you’re tall
It is the substratum 
Behind every seeing
It is the peace
Of your Pure Being
It is the light
That illumines the sky
It’s the part of you
That’s not gonna die
Because it is everywhere
Omnipresent joy
In the world of a girl
Or the life of a boy
Beyond the dualism
Of our temperament 
It is love
It is heaven sent
And you can only know it
By being it you see
I would not have believed 
But it happened to me
Pulled all the covers
Of an egoic skin
I’m not left or right
But I am of Him
As he points out the way
Beyond the clouds to above
Using the metaphor
Of a Holy Dove
And it’s you and it’s me
It’s all of us as One
I kneel down and worship 
The only Son

					

	




					
						


		

		

			
Unified
		

		
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The Universe is spanning its galaxies wide
And there is nowhere left to hide
As it all comes undone in my hands
The hourglass has freed its slipping sands
As the mountain gets worn down into the sea
I am hewn into what I’m meant to be
As the forests grow upwards to the one sun
I’m taking my time letting go of the young 
And as age passes me by
I’m full of the classes I didn’t try
But joyful, brilliant, my own degree
I’m cleaning the lens so that I can see

					

	




					
						


		

		

			
Constellations
		

		
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Always trying to convey it
I can never say
The stars that are in
My mind today
And they’re all kaleidoscopes 
They’re all constellations
And spelling them out
Is my enunciation
As I try to do justice
To the perfect sky
It’s held by gravity 
And I don’t know why
And I can search Newton’s Laws
I can study Einstein
But I can never figure out
The Universe sublime 
As it weaves and bobs
But stands still
And is unmoved
By anyone’s will
And the days they pass
And the seasons change
I stare into a depth
Of epic and strange
But the midnight comes softly
And slowly to my eyes
It’s like God
In invisible disguise
It’s like a cloak
To eternal wear 
The fabric of cloth
That blows in the air

					

	




					
						


		

		

			
The Wise Squirrel
		

		
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Thank you for tormenting me
The wise squirrel bites my tail 
If I don’t live the Truth
Then I’m destined to fail
And I feel this power deep
Deep inside my soul
It’s vaster than the ocean
And the waves that roll
And it’s pulling me like a current
As I’m lost in the tide
I want to scream out loud
Live your life alive

And it feels like bricks and mortar
Like stone upon a stone
But something is drawing me
Out of where I’ve made my home
Like the boat to set sail
On a vast expanse 
Did you ever watch the sun
On the water as it dance
And did you ever see a silhouette 
Framed by the sky
Did you ever find the long 
Grass and just lie
Underneath the clouds 
As you’re breathing air
You can thank the trees for that
There’s one over there

And I feel the longing pull me 
Through a needle eye
I’m not afraid to love
This life before I die
And everything’s a tumbleweed
Blowing through this desert town
But the sky will open up
And the rain will pour down
To replenish the soil
To give water to the earth
To set the plants a growing
And quench her lonely thirst

And if you ever want to thank 
Someone, start with soul
I may be in this body but I’m not getting old
Or counting on tomorrow to be the one to quiet the din
If you want to find the answer you must go within
And sit down by the sill of the window of your life
Know that you are born to be the shining light
And to answer the call that beckons you forth
I can see the sun set when I’m sitting on the porch
Or morning over hills when I’ve been up all night
Contemplating things that the heart ignites
And it’s celestial, these bodies in the sky
If you knew you had wings would you be afraid to fly
Afraid to open out and trust the wind beneath your feathers
Soar above the noise and the field the flower weathers


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Universal Design
		

		
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I think Eckhart underestimates the human race
And I’m not saying this just to save face
Coz I can feel an expansive motion of tide
Pulling me somewhere to abide
And it’s everywhere, in everyone
Shining brighter than the light of the sun
Bequeathing honesty and tomes
Pulling people out of their alones 
Into a space where all is real
And it is everything I feel
Coz the man changed my life, he brought the stars
And I let go of my hold on my prison bars
Always a safe place to suffer in
But the water is kinder and I begin
To wade myself into the river deep
I’m awake when people sleep
And it is a promise I always keep
To find the truth and then to speak
But the going is challenging by the sea
Though I figure out it’s my destiny
Handing out hope like tomorrow’s bread
Letting love live my life instead
And the openness is something that I find
Is quintessentially good and abundantly kind
And I really do not mind
If no one sees what’s left behind
Because I pick up and origami the paper
It’s all the one and you’ll see it later
If you don’t see it now in open hands
The Universe and our well laid plans

					

	




					
						


		

		

			
Thunder Rumbling
		

		
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The ache of the sky
As thunder rolls in 
The clash of summer 
With the weather to win

And I walk with the tide
And I sing with the breeze
And I get the feel that I 
Am picked up off my knees 

As I lift myself to the dawn 
There's sun in the air 
And the feeling of presence
Now that you are there

And who says winter
Is anything but
Somewhere to stand
And place your foot

As the trees sway
In the evening breeze
There's something about love
And the way that it frees

You from the moving 
Tide with the sea
There is an ocean 
That you get to be 

					

	




					
						


		

		

			
Brand New Shoes
		

		
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The ocean is searing inside my soul 
And all the waves do is roll
And soar as loud as a furnace roar
Do you think anyone could show us the door
As I try on brand new shoes
Do everything but pay my dues
And is everyone just looking for news
Down in the doldrums that it eschews
And do I move with the wave I quake
I do it all for everyone's sake
Make sure my hands do not shake
And be the storm to just wake
And do the eaves run down the shore
I couldn't have wished for anything more
As I walk on every floor
I know there's a reason but I don't know what for

					

	




					
						


		

		

			
Te Quiero
		

		
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I want you, I interrupt
As you're living in your hut
Are you free, I cry
But you would never live the lie
And I sigh
Would you just come home
I've lived these centuries all alone
But you are on your weary way
And I don't recognise the day
When the sun comes bursting o'er the hills
Beyond our respective play of wills 
Oh, you remind me of Robin Wright
And I the sleeves you wear so tight
Would you just hold my hand
Don't you know the snow is grand 
That it can't be all summer and spring
It's autumn when the birds take wing 
As I stare at the horizon
You blaze a rebel diamond
Would you share your heart so fine
Like you spoke to me on the landline
I know it's over
But you're a wish and I'm a four leafed clover
Like grass so green
And all the things I haven't been
But he smiles and shakes his head
I've made my choice, it's you instead
But I decry
All these years on the fly
How would you know
That you had the strength to grow
If I was there 
It's not as if I didn't care
It's just that you
Had lots of other things to do
And I right here
Find yourself, you'll find me, dear

					

	




					
						


		

		

			
Read Receipts
		

		
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Your smile sparkles diamonds
Against the windowpane
And I wonder has all my
Searching been in vain
As I catch each apple 
That falls from the tree
Pondering the ways 
Of gravity
It's Newton's Laws
But bending space time
Like the equations
Of Einstein
And I move like the ocean 
And you just soar
Like a meteor shower
To adore
As you come in waves
To lap the shore
I hope you know
That I wanted more
But settle for less
Or just what I have
The moment is now
And all the feeling bad
Has left with a glance
At your heavenly face
You're not a dream
I have to chase
But follow round
To its conclusion
And you were there
In my confusion 
As I sense a space
In between the lines
And you are like forests
But ten thousand times
You're like the beauty
I don't get to touch 
I hope you know
I love you so much 

					

	




					
						


		

		

			
Separate Spheres
		

		
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There are a hundred love stories
Waiting to be told
And the ways are ancient 
And the waves be bold
Cause the fire ignite
In ancient hue
And I am 
Still dreaming of you 
Though it has been eons
And millions of years
As we spell them out
In separate spheres

					

	




					
						


		

		

			
Now is the Time
		

		
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Don't wait on tomorrow to be what you are 
Don't wait on the journey to take you that far
Can you be just in your own boots
Like a tree in the ground with deeper roots 
To hold it secure, firm in the soil 
Not subject to wind or any kind of toil
As the leaves they move and the breeze it sways
And you're gonna be grown one of these days 
To stand firm and stand true in beauty you own
The bird on its perch before it has flown
Away to the openness of sky
You are serene and I don't know why 
In the stillness you stand, in foliage green
The forest is the best thing I've ever seen 


					

	




					
						


		

		

			
Where Your Book Begins
		

		
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Feeling the rain on my skin 
There's no one but me to let it in
And I can fight with all the times I've let it go
Or I can just be me, you know
And I'm not the forest if I'm not the trees
I'm hardly the wind if I can't be the breeze
I'm not the mountain if I'm not the stone 
And I can't be together if I'm not alone 
As I grow to see the oceans in soul 
Held in the current as the waves roll
And the bridge that we build over the river
Is just a way that we can deliver 
Ourselves from the rushing water 
And time may seem to have caught her
But she's still running free, she's still running wild
My hair coming loose like I've something to find
But I'm home in this place that I call my own 
I walk my own boots but they're unknown 
And each note that I play on my earphone 
Only serves to announce that it has shown 

					

	




					
						


		

		

			
Mementos to Myself
		

		
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It seems I thought ahead and left a trail
Of breadcrumbs that will not fail
To lead me out of this forest dense 
A synonym for the word tense
As I creak in all my weight
Getting lost in the egoic state
As time passes and ages move
And I lose my point to prove
And go on fighting with the wind
Is to resist to say you've sinned
To miss the mark like an archer's take
There is love I won't forsake
But hold in my heart so deep
It is a promise that I keep 
To always have and always hold 
The ground is there when your cards fold 

					

	




					
						


		

		

			
Evolution
		

		
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Are we a species in transition
And could we get the early edition 
To catch what is in the air
Tomorrow before it’s there 

Because we’re all sinking
But we’re all rising 
The rapid pace
Of change we’re finding

Has us in its furrowed grasp
And it’s all I can do to ask 
What is my place right now
Is there something to allow

And to hold 
In arms of love
I’m waiting on 
The white dove


					

	




					
						


		

		

			
The Darkness
		

		
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The darkness seems to move in waves
As we're all hiding in our caves
Wiping out so we won't begin
To let the light shine it's way in 
And I'm dancing in my room at night
Because there is simply something inside
That sings to me in the depth of doom
With speed to go sonic boom
And I'm sure, nay, I'm certain
Of the light behind the curtain 
As I sense the warmth of sun
In an ocean of the One 

					

	




					
						


		

		

			
Contemplations
		

		
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Standing outside to wordlessly contemplate the sky
I'm staring into infinity and I don't know why
As the diamonds of a different hue
Proclaim the depths of me and you 
And sparkle as though they were there for our making
Each breath that I breathe marks the ones they are taking
As their light shines on, years past the date
And it's only at night you can enter that state
In the manifold vast expanse
They're not the only ones who dance
As taken by their vibrant tones
I'm soaring in my own earphones
To follow the beat of another tune
And I'm fine just in my room 
As the Cosmos watches on 
And it won't be too long
Til morning kisses the darkest night 
And wipes away the distant ignite
To take the hand of the sun 
Look up and see that you're the One

					

	




					
						


		

		

			
Adversity
		

		
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The suffering can either harden you 
Or make you warm 
That is my take
On the storm 
Of breeze as it's blowing through
What is at the heart of you? 
Do leaves rustle through the grass
When you don't get what you ask 
But offer up to the sky 
That you don't know the reason why 
And find the answer in the pause
There is no effect to cause

					

	




					
						


		

		

			
Interdependence
		

		
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The vastness of the ocean
The depth of the sea
The wealth of wisdom 
Coming back to me
And it moves with the sky
As I open my palms
To the rain that seems
To come with calms
As the sky is thunder
But a blanket of warm
And the lightning cracks
To let you know there's a storm 
But I can feel
The peace in my own boots
As the grass is drinking
And the ground growing shoots
That will one day be tall
As a sycamore tree
Does the sun shine
Just for me 
Or do I exist
Just to see the sun
Whatever way you look at it
We are One