Hopping the lines she draws in the sand I look at her and love is grand And it’s all a spectrum really I wonder if she’d ever steal me Away into the night Because she made me feel alright As we talk unto the dawn But it’s been ten years that I’m gone And she laughed out loud at stuff I said Like the man next door might want us dead Or how I had the hots for a young Blair And she had the coolest fuckin’ hair But she’s got a partner now And some beautiful children that life allows To have a mother dear And one thing is crystal clear I had a girl crush on you And I dunno, maybe I still do Though it goes against the grain I turn my face up unto the rain Just to feel the feel of it I sign my name and I quit This effortless game She said happy with her name And she deserves everything she has Showed me I don’t have to be one of the lads I can just be the quiet me A warm jumper and the tea
Live strong And let the beat hold the song Up where there are no lies From the mutant in disguise And maya does it’s best to capture But you have me in a state of rapture Ringing bells from on high And I am not afraid to die Coz it’s just a veil that we pass through Fr. P said that when we lost you To a sudden and sharp But we’re not alone in the dark We’re held somewhere we can’t contemplate And no one is locked out of that state And I’ve been knocking on the door But it was open and I adore The freedom that has come to reign Like I’ve been kissed by the pain Til all that once held a stain Washed away in sheets of rain That just pour from the sky The ground is nourished when clouds cry So why should I fear my own tears For it has been many years In a silent solitary slumber But the Divine is not going under No matter how I bury my soul Waves only know how to roll
Love, he reaches out to you And, God, I don’t know what to do But I move my feet To the tune of his beat And it’s not quite a dance Coz it’s woken from the trance And music don’t sound the same But I vibrate to the holy name Of the one who saved my life Not once but more than I’d like And I’ve been relegated in the extreme But it’s only within the dream
My Jesus opened the door He let me see that there’s something more Beyond the chasm of calls The teaching of words, the world’s enthralled And I was on my knees begging to sky Watching someone I love slowly die Why don’t you do something, where are you But you took her and put me through Some kind of hell What is it the story that you tell That the Almighty is all that exists Then why did you put me on your list And it’s a sudden awning pain Like the cold when you’ve been out in rain And I’m on the floor With my head resting against the door And a sudden spark ignites Wherefrom did all these lights Appear And I hear her say, my dear Like she always did when she was alive And her flowers didn’t survive But something she planted did, God knows It’s been living in me and it shows So I wash my face, dry my tears And I’ve been holding it in for years and years And it’s finally singing a song My Lord, you did nothing wrong And it’s more than a future reunite It’s a love that holds you in the night When you’re punching the air Cursing all that isn’t there But something new is born The moment that the fabric’s torn
I envisioned the whole scene
It was like a fuckin dream
Where I had the central role
And what's up for grabs is my soul
As I ride the subway train
Or walk Kilglass in the rain
Somehow it's all the same
I flash my metro card
And some guy helped me coz it was hard
To figure out as I traipse down the stairs
Wondering if anyone cares
And I know she does but she's got laws
It's winter and the summertime thaws
Out the vestibules of old sand
Pearls out of what was underhand
And I divide the spoils I've earned
But all my profit only burned
What was left of me
The remnants an effigy
Of a spiral diagram I sketched
But the problem hit and I retched
And sought salvation in a clinic
It looks fine from the outside but once you're in it
You come to know that there are rules
That I can't ace like I did in school
So I sit in the music room
Abject to the sound of doom
Or wander down the hall
As the world explodes from it all
How do you say kunalini, one, two, three
But they don't listen to me
I let the water percolate To pull the world out of this state And do we give with our whole hearts Or do we lead in fits and starts I know coz I see it in you But, damn, it’s not just us two And there are those in other shoes Who can’t get by without our dues And just because we’re strong Don’t mean we can’t put a foot wrong And I know the sand by the water I know the feeling of being daughter But I’ve grown to realise The permanence in temporary skies And even rain and sun Must give way to the One The Eternal Sphere It’s evidence is crystal clear Just turn within The Son of God and I am Him
I tried to run away
To put it behind me
But I love you still
So, baby don't mind me
I'm just using Oxygen
As I'm drinking the air
Fantasise a future
With you and me there
And I know you've got reasons
I know you've got time
There is an us
But I can't say you're mine
Coz you're free in your soul
You can't be tied down
And I've stopped looking rivers
Outside of time
As I drive by your flat
For the thousandth time
Does it matter that I
See the sublime
In all that we were
Or maybe could be
Never thought the Present Moment
Would be history
But I'm letting you go
And you hold on tight
It's like losing your shadow
When you miss the light
That follows me round
And shines from within
Something says awesome
In the shape of him
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I have no enemy to speak of
When they say love is just a drug
They cannot refer to the same thing that I
Would give another and be ready to die
To protect
The whole thing seems wrecked
But there's a summer in the snow
And there are places we can't go
When we sum up the surmise
That is a horizon in my eyes
Shining even in the dark
And as I'm walking in the park
I know my saviour walks with me
Protecting me from history
As a state of mind
Just love and be kind
And let the world know who you are
Does the sun approximate a star
Or is it just far too close
Is is the Spirit or the Ghost
That I feel in the rhythm of shoes
That mark my footsteps in twos
As they hold the pavement ground
Deftly so that a sound
Issues forth from where they meet
I look up and welcome sleet
Do I speak what I have to say
Does the shaking in my hand give away
The sword that I cannot steady
But the worst is happening already
On land I see on a screen
And this is not the people's dream
To have machine gun hands facing them
Is it gonna happen again
Or can we realise
That you can't undo what dies
Once it is gone
And we've been fighting for so long
Not just with each other but within oursleves
One earns a million, another's stacking shelves
And you can say that's capitalism
Or that there's a split in the great schism
As we find what we have in common rooms
Is there a way to waylay the doom
That seems to advance from all sides
But, hey man, we're still alive
And we can still tell the tale
Of something that's not up for sale
In this thing that we've built
There's scaffolding over milk that's spilt
But as I clean up the glass
I think of something I'd never taught to ask
Are we all as one
And if we are then could the sun
Shine in every human heart
As the most expansive part
Generating compassion to a degree
I know it's not just me
That feels that something's in the mix
Fusing bonds that science splits
To generate something new for us
I believe in Love and I trust
In the human heart once more
The truth that something adore
I see the faraway shore
Beckoning me to something more
And I understand
That nothing good can be planned
As we grow up
Like a tree
It's not up and over
But organically
And there's enough food
To feed each child
Enough land
To let the animals roam wild
And did we build this monstrosity
That is growling in my face
I have to speak up
For the human race
Coz we're going down
And if we don't shift
The present moment
Won't be a gift
But an encumbrance
That we bear
I feel the fabric
Start to tear
As the seam
Is pulled to the edge
Don't let the money
Go to your head
As you earn and as we burn
The stifling and the axis turn
That leads us down a narrow path
Makes me wonder what we might be at
To poach the seas til they run dry
To pour the concrete til the soil die
And I've got this hefty weight to carry
Will I bear children and marry
But all I hear are the cries of the damned
And all the innocents no one understands
So if I've a prayer
It's help me, God
Live with Love
And not the rod
That snaps down on a soft palm
They say that there's an unearthly calm
Before the tidal wave
So take the noise as a sign to save
While we still have time
What is your path
Coz I know mine
I know you forget So remind me, love Of how it felt When you fell from above And she mixes your drink And twirls your hair And it’s almost as if I wasn’t there In the year that we Were born to run Your turning heads I’m turning twenty one And your sideways askance There to defy And I swear I’ll love you Til the day that I die I opened the heart I had kept secret I could tell you the truth But you’d never believe it As we dance in the ether The astral plane though it’s not to deceive her It’s just the twin flame buzz You call me up I call you love And we’re at it again The galaxy in the world of men Unemptiable mine Of diamonds that just shine Set into the rock you’ve hewn Did you even know what you were doing When you connected with me I opened my eyes and now I see
What used to seem so sure Is now disappearing over the hill Can change change me Or do I swear it never will As I hold onto who I used to be But there’s something new and I’m beginning to see The ocean is not held in a span And will I do what I can To be a modern example of what is true What’s possible for me and you As we share a world unique But I do not dare to speak My voice though it reverberate Around the hall as we equate Together with just being there I’ve learned from love and I do care Though shapeless you see Me in a way and integrity Has me burning a fuse in my mind To always be awesome and super kind And fearless with courage to bear The way the fabric tear On this dream of us I found true love and in it I trust
There’s a hundred million souls Hanging round this joint But somehow you’re the one My heart anoint And ignite like a signal fire In those days I never tire Of my rebound nature It’s not goodbye, it’s see you later And he passed like a comet across the sky Proclaiming that which will never die In a moment we are as One And he merged with the Son To shine a light so bright the sound goes deaf To all that is and isn’t left In the ashes that burn up into flame A phoenix by everything but name And he’s lovely and normal and sweet as pie And I just want him to see me cry To let him in through the facade The bulletproof and feeling bad To this garden where everything grows And there’s a flower here for you, God knows That’s been ten years in the making There are no tales worth the shaking The run away induced But you are here and I’ve deduced That everything will be okay Will you ever look at me that way Again And men Just remind me of us Our solid steel and unbreakable trust
You can’t stop the slow march of time You can only reveal the effortless sublime And Obama sang for yes we can But could the answer really be a man Who could lead us all to peace But it gets worse before the trouble cease And we all clamber, fighting the tide Did you notice you’re alive Or are you so lost in the stream That you don’t see beyond the edges of the dream As it binds you with its swell So much so that you can’t tell What is true or supposition Til pain hits you with its ammunition And we have got to learn how to deal With the fabric that Reality steal To make into a dress or suit And is Truth a just pursuit?
Money is the language Western culture speaks While in the East we wonder who eats As we clamber together a mountain of rocks And live our lives by the heartbeat of clocks Do we really know where we’re going I’m stressing and, baby, I think that it’s showing Do I have a destiny to live up to Or am I just throwing shapes at you As I move in the room through the embrace of air The nothing that’s something and ever there As we all return to the Tao that gives birth To learn and live the lessons of hurt Of the pain that transforms Mere weather into thunderstorms
I see myself standing on a stage Standing up for that which does not age And we all cascade like a waterfall Into the ocean to enthrall And I don’t know who I’m gonna be I just know the open sea Is pulsing within my veins It doesn’t go by the normal names Just something infinite You know you’ll be alright
Deep in disguise I wade through the water You somebody’s son I’m the moon’s daughter And I slip sideways Out of the scene You were the best part Of my dream And I watched you watch me You took my pic You grabbed the towel And the gear stick Shook in my hand Said goodbye to Sam You said he’ll be grand And I drove you home It was just the two of us All alone And you stopped to stare I stopped the car And met you there And I wonder if I’ll ever see You looking again like that at me As I shared on a screen Some kind of light show I’d tell you the truth If you want me to, you know All the love in my heart And you were a rouge kind of dark As you let the wilderness consume I watch you from across the room
I can hear murmurings Sweet whispers in my ears And I wait Until the smoke clears To really discern What is going on It’s been years Since I felt I belonged And someone’s gotta say it Call a spade a spade But you need both tree and sun To make the shade And I’m into realism But I’m also idealistic I don’t want this century To repeat the statistic Errors of a previous generation Am I getting above my station To say it’s gotta stop And I don’t wanna play bad cop But the letters on my tongue Are spilling ink And there’s nothing for the truth To do but sink In as we realise what we all do I am just the reflection of you
Remind them of their humanity Don’t let it switch off It’s not long living But all is not lost Coz there is a molten core At the heart of everyone Nuclear fusion Brighter than the sun And it burns irregardless Of the darkness you put yourself through Don’t deny All that is you And I know it Coz I’ve been through the night But in the midst of the storm The eye is alright And I trust in the value Of what makes us real Is it intuition Or the way that I feel That tells me there’s an end To a fighting soul The wave is the ocean Even if it has to roll And you’re still what you are Even in the confusion Wake up from dread And the delusion That we are separate From each other Walking the plains As sister and brother And opening a sky That will soothe with rain We don’t have to Go through this again And I’m a reporter On the front line I don’t think we can do this Another time
We became like two dogs snarling In the days I called you darling And you spit your words out at me I let you go free Like we’re aching from our history You and the mystery As ages pass us by And we love but we don’t know why And we fight and we try But we can’t forgive the lie And you smile but it’s faint and half hearted And I just remember when we started And how it is so different now I still see you through the wind somehow
I actually haven’t lost my spark Or my ability to make a mark And it seems my visage has grown strained Wearing a look so pained From all the trials I’ve been through All for the courage I lacked in you As you exclaimed against your will That love is nothing but a skill And I soared into the roaring sun All for fear of being come undone That I feel in your presence blue The red of fire I am to you
What if we’re living in Paradise The green fields of our life And he is tormented by the loss of Eden And I was ardent in my believing Til I met the moment in a night And something did ignite Burned like a fuse towards dynamite Spinning ever closer to its own execution I could tell the truth but it’d be a dilution Of what I mean to say I’d rather just point the way And have you follow where I go But my steps shake as I move slow Across the ground of the room There is so much more than doom In the space that we share There is true love and care I feel I must speak up to say It’s more than a myth and okay I get that you have your own perspective But my view is true and objective Like a glass with no lens You only see through it when you don’t defend Yourself from what you mean to be You just open up for free And find it echo in your bones Away from the beat of earphones And all the noise that fills the day It’s not a game or a power play But something that must be known I pull the curtains back and it’s shown
Idealism has me loving him Through the wings of a new song And I’ve only felt Sparsely that I belong In and out between the fear Catching hold of what I hold dear In the hopes that it won’t leave And it’s little that I don’t believe Coz it all pulses in my throat And are we post rote Learning now I sit upon the bough Of a leaning tree To watch the sunset fade in front of me And think it’s much like a life That doesn’t get to happen twice Unless you’re into that sort of thing A reincarnation into the skin that swim In the great ocean And I’ve always been emotion Trying to calm down But I walk on solid ground As my heart beats in my chest Trust in God and leave the rest
Taking a bite into the blue And it comes up the colour of you As I dive into the ocean And it’s all rhythmic motion In the life I cannot live Is it time to forgive The darkness of my past Who knew that this would last So very long Correct me if I’m wrong But you loved that I love that song As you curl up by my side Say that I make you feel alive And now it’s all gone away What was it you didn’t say Coz I’m dying to know And I won’t leave it be so Just tell me what you need to admit I looked at you and I sit Beside you surreptitiously Vulnerably confess to me Like a secret you can’t bear to keep I’ll visit you in the safety of sleep
The non spectacular nature of Now Is something that makes me weak somehow As I stare at the trees They remind me to get up off my knees And stand in the shine that is the sun Like God is calling and I am the one Who must walk the path of being still And many things change, this never will As the ochre of sunsets burn in your eyes And there is a love that never dies I found it on the green of the room Across from the front hall and I attune To the sound of Heaven’s bells As they call out to me amid ne’er do wells And I’m walking down paces on the avenues I’m all red as they play the blues In summertime or winter cold I’m frozen at the age of not getting old
The burning furore that sits in my chest The need to always be the best And speak out what no one’s talking to Is it wrong to put the spotlight on you To shine away what’s been kept hidden It’s beautiful, it is unbidden And it’s longing just to find a home You’re beautiful as you are, alone
They’re selling an American Dream But I’m walking on a moonbeam As it guides my way home And tells me I’m not alone As I open out into the vast expanse Perceive the space as the molecules dance To make up the shape of me The frame of what is memory Held together by a subtle flaw I wonder is ice real as it starts to thaw
You’re burning up the atmosphere Like the ozone layer is clear And fuck that bullshit, I spin the dial And listen to you sincere Coz the guy beside me loves me And I love him too But the worst of the weather Means it is not you And closing my eyes is all I can do So that I won’t know The places where I should not go Though they call to me An elephant graveyard or Eternity Could you please give me a clue You laugh and say the answer too!
Leaving a paper trail of tears behind me I’m overwrought so never mind me As I build a new monument to all that’s fallen I’m in the Deep South and they are drawling As they curb all anticipation Can I watch your tv station Just for a little while I made you see, you made me smile And all I can think of is torment The indigenous people and where they went Forced across rock and stone Broken in their skin and bone But with their Spirit true I can still have faith in You As all comes crashing like a wave Is it sin to abdicate to save And hold a hand Is the shore more than sand And if a rock is hewn to bits Do you have space to sit with it Or does its impermanent tone Remind you what it’s like to be alone Moving weight like old stone I’d hold back but I’ve already shown All of my stars to you I’ll love you if you want me to
We’re up here at 39000 feet Where the cold is warm as the elements meet And make a force of nature new If you don’t know I’m talking about you As somewhere we swim inside the depth And the best thing about Now is what is unmet By the forest in kind of trees and of beers And I lost myself in the years and years Trying to find what can’t be described All the while knowing I’m still alive Coz I feel this heart beat through my skin But there’s a part of me that’s deeper within Than any skin and bone can mend And death is simply not the end Just a continuum of undefended peace Or a moment of great release As all of the sidewalks lead into one Trust in God and in the Son
Her love is tragedy Like she could pageant me And I can see the loss The way she dots her t’s And if I love her It’s my disease But she picks me up Off from my knees When I’ve been crying For a season Like this pain Comes without any reason And the doubt Holds me together She patches me up Despite the weather
There’s just this peace And I know that it should really cease When I’ve lost someone But love is not done And expands from out my heart As quick as a skip rhythm part And in time with tune There is a presence in the room That announces this It is more than a first kiss
All those things I didn’t do And the worst of all of those things was you As you passed across my screen Looking as ephemeral as a dream In the moment true Could I have meant it all to you? If I’d just stepped forward to All that I thought of to meet you And you’re fire and ashes I’m the Phoenix that rises Meeting you the best of surprises On that July morning Now there’s weather and it’s all storming Into the notion of what we could be But I won’t cross She As she holds your hand And stares into a pair of eyes so grand They’re subterfuge And it would just be rude To interrupt What you’ve become, so abrupt So I let you leave Let you believe That I don’t care About all that isn’t there In the moment true I clasp the thought I had of you So tight And I’m alright But the bliss is fading And the idealism is jading As my thirties continue apace And I stop staring at your face Through a window in time I’m kicking myself coz you could be mine
Ijust wanna protect her And I’m so mad that he’d reject her And ruin her starlit shine It’s kind of like the light that used to be mine And now she sings of a defeat, years ago I close my eyes because I should not know But I do I still feel you In the cobwebs of my mind Kind of like a secret I’ve left behind And we tangled up our avenues I sing of heaven without you And innocence lost She paid the price but at what cost
The war in her heart spills over into mine When I say I love you for the thousandth time And you’re nothing more than fantasy Dreams I make out of the fate you see And you’re roving wild waters And your chivalry escorts her At least in my mind As I look on from being left behind It’s a sorry state But I won’t give in to hate As the wound it festers And the court is filled with jesters That make the music of the time But that sound could never be mine As I pull away from modern notions Focusing on my emotions Til they’re all I can see But that’s not all there is of me And dignity Walks me to the door As you say your love’s no more And I agree I look out but it’s wintery As I pull my jacket close You look like you’ve seen a ghost “You’re not gonna venture into that” But I gave you a home, I won’t take it back And he pulls my hand Close to his soul that’s made of sand As it pours on through Was I wrong to trust in you And he sighs “I’ll take leave of our goodbyes” And points me toward the flame That is burning in the middle of his name You can stay here I say, okay, my dear
I withdraw my accusation Since I’ve lived my realisation And see that the fault is not with you It’s with the pain you put me through As I resist and you agree That everything troubled comes over the sea In washes and waves at the Cliffs of Moher And you swore you did not know her Til I saw your hands interlocked On a screen in between where the birds had flocked To get their share Of bread and water, now I’m in your stare As you love her more than you loved me Why did I not let myself just see As I hid on paper And you promised them that you hate her Well, that her is me And I’m not gonna try to make you see Infinity Unless you already do And I felt the ocean move When you touched my hand And met eyes that understand To leave you free I’m glad you picked her over me
The source of her love is effulgent flame And it kills me that others don’t feel the same As they hear her plaintive cry And leave her in the rubble to die But I grab her hand, pull her out of there Wash the wounds, show her some care Tell her about the mystery That lies within both you and me And she starts to revive Feeling the tremble of being alive As she takes each breath Scared she can’t put her feet to the floor yet In case it shakes She looks at me through all her mistakes And trusts and lets go and comes to be All that she Is eternally
My heart won’t let me make a life with you And it’s not because I don’t want to It’s just because the ocean spans The way he moves the music with his hands The way he rustles leaves and trees The way my faith always believes In something I can’t hold onto It’s choiceless freedom loving you
I’m a walking flame I don’t go by any name And anyone who’d dare surprise Me by looking in my eyes Washed away like the river flow And there’s more that I do not know Than I can wrap my head around If they ask will you make a sound Just to show that you are there What is the meaning of true care When it’s at home All I know is I’m not alone And solitude is all in one Unforgiven and the Son That died for all our sins Shows me that Love always wins
There’s an angel on the cross He’s been resurrected and all is not lost As he comes for me To lift me with his wings so free Up and out of this situation Away from town and my education Into a new sphere, a new realm One where God is at the helm Of the ship we all steer What’s left to say when the Holy Ghost is near
I can’t just keep writing poems about you Not when the Real is here And you never seem To reply to me, dear And the sidelines are awash With all the fragrant flames Knocking down the obstacles And taking names And you showed me your true colours Like a multi hued sky And I was not afraid To either live or die But only meet the honest That is shining in your eyes I think I might have seen you Without your best disguise
Holding my Catholicism with a light hand I believe in Jesus and shur it’ll all be grand Coz I trust in the Infinite Even in the dark of midnight When everything closes down And all you can see is the town That held you back Lost in everything you lack But that celestial sphere Of burning white light is always near And comforts me in my trauma So I walk amid the flora and fauna Just to feel the Nature in my bones It’s been years since I knew alones And even in the event of catastrophe I know the Lord walks with me Together with two pair of feet He leaves one set of steps on the beach As He carries me all the way home I guess that’s how the True Love is shown
Can I just lie here on your chest Be done with all the doing my best And just slip into a peaceful slumber You’re calling me but I lost your number And the answer’s like a dictaphone I’m in my room all alone Dreaming of a time less hidden And waves to roll that stroll unbidden And monuments are the days to come The forever in the being young But the timeless in the growing old There’s part of the story that’s never told But waits in stillness and in silence whole The power of love to wake the soul The power of emptiness come undue The strength in the gaze of you The solidity and the trust I’ll give up the pain if it’s a must And if you’re serious about the past Then the future will everlast But the truth is in a moment free We’re talking and he’s looking at me As the time flies by and the hours pass I didn’t know your name, didn’t think to ask But smile as if it’s all left to do I’m in love and it’s with you
Grief comes crashing on my soul That I may never grow old But be entrapped at this age Like a candle wick burning sage And all that might never come to pass Is crystallized in the Everlast That I just stumbled upon one morning Found a time to cease the mourning That seems to pour out from within At least until I met him And all the clouds were cleared from the sky And I was not afraid to die But humbled in the truest sense To fall from Grace in the present tense As I scratched at every amber Held love close like a cliffhanger Only to discover that the air Is in each breath you take of prayer
Nothing fits it’s shape any more When you’re knocking on a closed door Only to see it opens from the inside All this time you’ve been alive And never really known it Like your true colours, never really shown it Til the dye is running through I got messed up in a dream of you One without an adequate ending And I quit the scene instead of unfriending You where you stood out there Didn’t want you to think I didn’t care But I’ve got to run Coz I love the sun And how it turns my skin brown I never lived for the town But for the acres, fields of grass Lying in the Everlast Til the cows come home I realise I’m not alone
A billion billion stars in the night sky Eight billion humans and we’re all afraid to die And the circle of life, it goes round and round You take your last breath then you don’t make a sound As you’re returned to the place you have always been Waking up to life now it has been a dream But born again anew into something fresh Throw away your fears and all of your regrets Leave them with the storm that is brewing by the coast Be the one who means the very most To everyone who looks to know if it was there You’ve seen through the night, now you can’t fake a stare
That fast feeling of fading when you’re twenty two And everything is growing up around you The flowers to rise, then wither and die The sheets of sleet that just make you cry As you’re facing outward into the rain Must we go through this all over again As the avenues merge into one route And you take a shot at the kissing booth But it’s all just so fleeting in transition Like you’ve woken up out of a worn condition And into the sky that always serene To anchor in what you’ve always been
The wrong side of the bay I love you, I hope that’s okay And the midnight is as much the day As is the sun part of the ray As it lands on grass so green This is all you’ve ever been And everything you’ve ever seen But time has come to wake from the dream And into the open expanse Of valleys where the leaves dance In time with the wind and for a glance The stillness wills you to take a chance And open out the depths of love Like a Saviour from above As it all fits like a glove The symbol of the Holy Dove And it’s not what you have, it’s what you give Are you able to really live To be true and forgive Each forsaken branch to sieve Down into a particle state Jesus said you don’t have to wait But be all you are right now I know what He means somehow As everything gives way under my weight And I am pulled into a higher state Don’t have to face what is on my plate Or let it go into fate But be all I ought to know It took some time for the years to show But I am it and will go Down the route to follow Everything and all that is It is true that I am His And must say through the snow I’ll be with you as the winds blow
He lead with his pain The king of I’m never doing that again As he repeats henceforth And then is full of remorse But the moment is still as it passes It’s about waking up from your lessons in classes As you jot a note down Then feel as if you’re gonna drown In the ocean surrounding us all And he seems weak though he never call And the evenings are long though they’re not straight And I leave it up to God or fate As I climb a tree at fifteen Take snapshots of who I could’ve been And time has passed in a caress And I wear jeans under my dress To go trudging through the muck And I gotta say I always gave a fuck About you, about them, about him, about us The windowpane is cracked but the trust Still rests in steady arms So turn off your alarms And rest back into the resident peace I watched the war in me cease I listened as the noise fell quiet Though the streets may be a riot With all the summer rain I’ll take the truth without a name As it’s hampered on But you know it’s not gone As long as my heart steady beats And long after the tide retreats To leave a shore to smile It’s forever in a long while To go on singing your own tune I feel them all in this room As I touch my hand to my chest It’s not only the dead who rest As I let peace reign supreme And get up from the couch as though from a dream
Careful anonymity is the name of the game As I breathe through it like it’s all the same And I protect what I see But it draws upon eternity To here and there and let the surge As I feel the moment when I merge With all that is or could be You look at me, do you see I’m free And yet held back by errant chains That fall from the sky like rains Everywhere to conspire Lift up what must take you higher Then soar into your own soul Deeper than the waves that roll Back where it is completely still Beyond the realm of hate and will But thundered prose knows the beat And it walks itself with my two feet To suddenly surprise the day I’m fine, you know, is that okay?
The Poetry Book 