The forest child in me Is longing for the rivers to let her go free As I take refuge on the beach That someone thought to teach Me was there And I’m so grateful and I care About what will happen to this next generation Will it be beyond an education As I meditate And something puts me in another state Where I can fly And I am not afraid to die Into incandescent blue Just because you Clutch onto fear Doesn’t meant that love is not near Ready to abide And something in me hide Away this secret deathless realm From the people who would submerge the helm Like the girl with the degree In deciding what to do with me When I confess That everything in that red dress Always felt the same And she knows my name But she doesn’t get my soul If I told her each wave roll Would she understand And I decide to forgive my man
The pain is where the river flows And I dunno, it’s like anything goes As I grapple with the notion of sin And all it was with him Like forgiveness, unconditional So much more than ritual As I kneel before the altar Bless myself with holy water And pray that it’s enough to say I love you deeply in every way Can you ever forgive my crime And call yourself your almost mine Coz I cannot cross the line in the sand Just coz I want you to be my man I cannot endeavor to futilely try Because the truth is we all die As I casually interrupt The story that you’re calling love With my own flair of tigress’ brand I’ve gotta admit I had it all planned Every moment down to detail Go shopping but avoid the retail Therapy they buy and sell To have a doctor say that I’m not well And have a man stare in my eyes In the land of empty tries And I could hear screams in that place Traumatized by all I laid waste As I listened to somebody cry Down the hall and I don’t know why Could it be the vale of torment Or a place I almost went As I lay the phone on the table Get up if you think you’re able But I cannot even manage a smile Over the days I walked a mile Back and forth to pace the floor All criminals that I adore Suffering in a hall Bounded by a door and wall And they have to buzz you out and in Only for Barry to flash a grin Like all’s to hell in fabrication Another kind of education In how to walk a tightrope line If I did it at all I took my time Steadying the beat of my heart Trying to make pain into art As someone, lying, contradicts But her words are not stones and sticks To batter down a casual thought Are you all that you have bought Or do you just give way Yield to the break of day And find that there is somewhere peace A moment when the noise cease Only to point at the scream The obvious within the dream
I see the I Am in every pair of eyes Once you look there’s no disguise And I venerate the Holy One The ocean of which cannot be undone And the chains fall like shackles on the floor As I make way for what I adore The riverbeds flow toward the sea So it is with the Guru and me The spaciousness nothing can contain The sky beyond the rain The storm clouds far beneath The person that I used to be
The Poetry Book 