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Inspired by the Dreams of a Child

Originally written March 1, 2009

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Time slips away
We warmly greet
Each coming day
While dark clouds
Fill the sky
A summer’s last breath
I chase after
Those warm days past
Grasping at what is left
A kite string
Quickly blowing
Out of reach
With an autumn wind
Uncontrolled
Out of my control
I cannot control
This passing
The changing of these seasons
When the golden leaves fall
Covering the lively ground
Turning everything brown
The death embrace
Comes too quickly
Leading in a winter freeze
The procession of life
This life in my hand
The only one
A gift to live
And autumn comes too soon

Tempting

“Temptation is born from every breath,”
He said, taking a drag from his cigarette,
Then he threw it on the stony ground
And turned his back on the misty town.

Overhead, the skies remained gray
Blending the hours of every day
From moments past to moments born
The dingy gray town was all he had worn

“Take your time in what you choose,
With each step you gain, but you also lose.”

He walked along the road heading north
Feeling that his life had run its course
Weeping words from rain soaked lips
Meaning, and thoughts in pieces and clips.

And as he plodded toward that gray sky
He didn’t wave or say good-bye
Tattered clothes and a pistol at his side
His words kept flowing like the endless tide

“This is the way we love when all the world has hate
And this is how we fight when we’re slaves to the state
When money has meaning and hearts can be spent
This is how we live when our souls are for rent.”

In the cold, gray mist his words rang true
Dirty, cracked fingers, bloody and blue
A shot was heard, or maybe a few
They found his body down the road from Kingsview

Light The Way

What would they say this day
The voices of the eyes
Bearing witness to this dance
They see the change
The attitude of this affair
They measure and mold
Their stories are told
Missing the details
The ultra violet
And infrared
Sweeping bursts of coronal mass
And spots that blemish
The face and soul
A living world
Tormented
By its own violent storms
And magnetic waves

Yet they give praise

Tormented fellow

Tugging on his mistress
Body and soul
The one who creates it all

To pull her near
Her greatest fear
To let her go
She’ll never know

Acceptance of this fate
The burden they bear
For the balance
And existence
Of all we know
Hangs on the deadly dance
Between two lovers
That will never be whole
Never as one
Without destroying the other

Center And Balance

Glowing bright
Her dress of white
Now fades to patches of green
And the colors given
By his guiding light
The yellows and reds
Now rise from beneath
And change again in twilight
Purple and blue their sheath
And as the icy veins
Creep away
Retreat into the light of day
As her hills turn brown
Exposing their ground
For her hero
Her freeze gives way

Icy daggers
Turn to vapor
Rising in her cloudless skies
Only the light his love
Now reflects in her eyes
She returns to her lover
A renewal of their passion
Eternally the mother
He made her to be
Filling salty oceans and seas
With the tears from their struggles
Between this gravity
And the cold
Empty space
That will forever
Temper their embrace

Somehow through it all
Eons of this struggle
These concentric circles remain
She will pull away
Then return to her lover
A love like no other
Again to be reclaimed

Of life and love
Deep inside
Her heart beats hot
The essence of her being
Far beneath
The prairies and forests
And cold glacier stares
For she was created by he
To be as he longed to be
Nurturing and fair
Temper and flair
Never ending changes
With each passing day
While he remains her center
And guides her on her way

That Which Cannot Be Seen

From the heavens shining lights
The many yet far between
Cold and loveless
Invisible in the night
Those that cannot be seen

Rocks tumble
Into collisions unheard
Dim and dusty surfaces
Barren and lightless worlds
Black holes spiral
Consuming all that draw too near
Collapsing under the pressure
Light
Gas
Stars
Into one mass they sear
Crushed into their essence
Pushing and pulling
Lifeless planets aimlessly adrift
In the silent void
Lacking the light of day
Once born by their sovereign one

But lucky is the living
Spun from the gravitational blessings
Of the life breathing sun
At the center of its world
The one that bears fruit
On a surface so harsh
In the oceans life thrives
And in the green lands above
Life
The living
Born only to yearn
With every passing turn
And born again
A life continues on

And She Was…

Slowly she made her turn
Reluctant and wavering
Turning her eyes back to him

The hope
Of a romance past
His light glints off her
Spires of diamond and sapphire
Blinding reflections
Of days long forgotten
Refracted into prisms
By the crystal ball futures told
His golden light shining
On her skin
His oasis

The belief
It can all be as it once was
A bright future
Symbiosis
In a perfect partnership
And in this moment
She draws a deep breath
Gazing upon the scattered ruins
Swept away
By the winds of his emotion
And drawn back
By her memories
The eternal tug of gravity
The power to create
The power to destroy
All that is
And all to be left behind

The faith
She holds for him
Precious to his heart
Vital to his existence
He won’t sweep them away
No
Not today
But his light will guide
Her journey through
This field of hurtling stones
Paths
Destined to collide

And where she will rest
Is for her to decide

The heavens illuminate
Brighter still
In her eyes
And she gazes upon him
Once more
And the echo rings
Her sigh

And the heat of his love
Creating the fog
An audible shroud
Where the daggers would hide
Thrusting toward his heart
Finding their prey
While his light was
Showing her the way

And she was
The uncompromising one
Taking what he could offer
The brilliance
That made her eyes shine blue
In the silver reflections
Behind the fog shone through
The voice of the valley walls
Between her hills
The rivers once again run
To babble the words
He longed to hear her breathe

I believe
For what gives him hope
His reason to shine

Faith
Her soul
The water that quenches
The dry burning heart
Beating forever on
For her

And she was…

Forever Shines

She distances herself
Traveling on her way
From his radiance and heat
Wishing she could stay
Watching him with glances
Over glaciers of apathy
Too hard to rest on
Too cold to comfort
And slowly from her view
His light fades
Dimming on her way
Through her heavy atmosphere
His heat
Now barely touching her skin

The fields of the past
Are mountains of the future
The depths of the oceans reach
To the clouds high above
Weeping for the river
Born to feed the land
And all the colors given
Existing from his hand

Ever changing on her way
Making little changes each day
The cold and dark surrounds her
Her gown of white turns gray

Before her now
Only the empty black
Interrupted
With all these distant points of light

And maybe
Maybe her hero is there
Waiting
Reaching to her
With the bursts of gamma
Light years away
And the life and death
In random clouds
Of iridescent dust
Between the galaxies
Spinning to their black hole doom

And she wonders

Looking back
At his pulsing light
Remembering how he touched her
Hands of warmth
Hands of love

And she wonders

What if I die this day?
Forever lost in this universe
Frozen and empty
Uncaring and unforgiving

And to this heartless universe
An insignificant amount of time
The eons collide
Stretching the boundaries
Of what is yet to exist
And in a second of time
The planets make their solstice
And a day goes by
When the comets make their return
With their messages from the heavens
And the years are measured
With a kiss from a distant star
And in her lifetime
This galaxy spins one more time

A billion years spent growing
And a billion more to learn
And a billion more to love
And a billion more…

Veins of ice
Web across her skin
And still behind her
She can sense
The heart of her hero
His loving light
Forever shines