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
In the land where death is real People lie and people steal People cheat and people thieve But it’s all coz they believe In a sudden end and in separation It is reinforced by years of education Not only in the school But by social rule Where they must obey Everything their elders say Only to grow up to be A repetition endlessly Instead of creative and new And everything they swore they would do When they were five years old No one has to be told To be pilot, to be king To be bird upon the wing But you have to be sold On being bad, on being “bold” And every child knows The phrase that everything goes The way it should be I love eternity As it presents myself Amidst “mental health” Challenges, they say I’m crazy But you know it doesn’t phase me When I’m twenty eight and in Dean Swift But the captivity was a gift As they try to sit me down And say that I will drown In all that is unwell It’s a byword for hell But I just don’t buy Everything they try To sell It’s a secret I never tell But I’m soaring high Something can never die And I will go to the lowest low If it means that someone else’s dreams Will wake before they shake By the bones and skin It’s not foolhardy to trust in Him He who moves the sky into spacious understanding He who shows the way without ever demanding That you should follow suit Oh, the world that we pollute With our constant pain That falls as acid rain Or bombs upon the children Instead of heartfulness to fill them With hope and with pride And gratitude that they’re alive I’m sorry to say That going the wrong way Means you must repent And all things are heaven sent Until you realise That every time someone cries It’s an echo of the sound That means God is around To show you where the deep Is something you can keep I didn’t know that I Was blessed until my Whole world was shaken But just like in a dream I waken And suddenly realise That nobody dies Not in the way we think But you don’t know water until you drink From that holy font It is everything I want And everything I never knew to ask I just dropped the mask And all was revealed I guess you could say that I was healed
I watch it fly into the sky And, you know, everyone cry But not everyone wakes while they live It happens when you forgive That girl who took a lightning strike And aimed it at me but, like, I turn it into some kind of illumination And now every tv station Plays my tune Like I’m the only one in the room And I meet someone I would like To meet in the dead in the night Sneaking out into the grass I didn’t think our love would last But it’s been fifteen years And we’ve weathered rain clouds emptied of tears As they fall on us And I trust Him to do just what he craves But he’s the Superman who saves Me from the boring grey He is like a sun ray That sets all the colours a throb And I give him what he wants to rob From me And dignity Won’t keep this secret quiet It’s always been a riot In that avenue And his blue Offsets my red Til we’re white light in bed Making one with the serene This is beyond the dream And they say twin flames reside In the place where duality hides Its face from something so pure He’s what I bank on and I know for sure That we’ll always be eternal prose And he might be the one who chose Me, but on my side I’m just glad he’s alive In this incarnation And my education Taught me to always say no But with him I’m like, let’s go And get on with the show You claim to make But I’ll be no oven to bake Some buns for the eating I gotta be the one you’re keeping For forever in a sigh Our love will never die
To love you is to jump through hoops And we are surrounded by suits Telling us what to do But you always walked on your own, didn’t you And I admire Your defiant, blazing fire And, the smoke, it plumes And fills all the rooms With your stardust I seemed to have just brushed It off my shirt The bathroom and the way it hurt As I hide in bed Back to playing in the shed When we were ten years old Before the streets were paved with gold As I find Something time left behind I pick up the broach As, subject to reproach, I stand still And their diamond will Can’t move me Now that I pulse like the sea In a current deeper due And the hue Of the evening sky Reflects against my waning lie As I learn to be true And lean back into You The one and only that ever is There are times I call it His Because the language that I’ve learned Is to speak of the shrub that burned For Moses in the cave Or St. Paul and the light that save All the Christians from his wrath It’s a revelation that won’t turn back From its origin, from its source And all the remorse Washes like waves and the tide Pull the heart that keeps me alive In this body and warm As the house is battered by the storm That I resist And exist As torrential rain Would I go through it again Just to see you smile And all the while You endure And I pure Clash with the waters deep In the secret that we keep Enclosed and safe Entering the holy cave
I spilt all of the blood on the floor For the sake of what I couldn’t adore And he blames me for his strife All because I wouldn’t be his wife And he’s got dues and he’s got paid But I wonder does he ever raid The inside of a closet dark It’s not Narnia walking through this park As I stand tall against the wind And the people say I’ve sinned Because I wouldn’t bow to the extreme Don’t they know that life’s a dream I try to hold it in But the word begin To speak its own message true It doesn’t stop because of you And I sat shivering on the chair Til I realized the cold don’t get in there Unless I let it in And I’m just dancing with Him In this grand swathe we call the earth Love isn’t born to hurt No matter what they teach you in school About the heat and being cool Coz the sun just shot me through the heart With a cherub’s aim and holy dart And I fell to the floor With the shock of something more That just found me in the room It characterizes the sense of doom With a laugh and a smile You don’t have to walk the green mile
The Poetry Book 