~ A Place Apart ~

There exists between us a place apart.

It exists outside of everything else,

and yet encompasses all:

all thought, vision, and emotion.

In this infinite world,

~ To Believe ~

When you are dispirited, held back, beat down and you have no one,
you can give up, give in, or you can find those things you need to stand within yourself.

~ To Play For Keeps ~

A boy joins in a childhood game.
In the ground a circle is drawn.
A bag of marbles he carries with him.
The result of games hard won.

~A Syllable of Sadness~

A deafening silence
A constricting emptiness
A syllable of sadness

A stirring stillness
An illuminating darkness
I am alone

There is strength in its sanctuary

~ Worthwhile ~

Convincingly, I once portrayed myself as strong. I said I needed no one,
But I deceived myself, for it was not with strength that I drew this conclusion,
but with weakness.

~Goodnight My Love, Goodnight My Angel~

As from a nightmare she awakes,
in the dark her small voice cries out.
He says it’s alright Daddy’s here,
there’s nothing that can harm you now.

~The Tide~

Effortlessly you are suspended,
As the waves now beneath you rise,
And fall as they gently rock you.
With arms outreached you close your eyes.

Suddenly the current shifts,

~Enkindle My Heart~

In my youth it burned inside me; the passion,
the drive, the red flow of power which carried me,
burning hot and bright, so alive; wild and unconstrained.

~Depths of the Soul~

Your words, they speak to me.
They reach me as does the reaching of the heart,
which lies behind the voice that whispers them,

~Stolen Summer~

Oranges sweet and ripe hang heavy upon the branches,
as they extend across the path.
The scent heavy, the air weighted with the dampness of the oncoming storm.

~Before It's Too Late~

If the best of ourselves,
the dearest of our possessions,
are saved for a different or better day,
we thereby lend judgment that perhaps today,

~Only by Living~

I found you knelt upon the ground,
kept down by the weight of your grief.
Despair threatened to destroy you.
No reprieve found even in sleep.

To Rise Above

As a stone tumbled in coarse reality,
constantly worn as it is refined,
adversity, it's true beauty shows.

~A Single Moment~

To live in this single moment,
this lightest breath, this softest touch,
to captured by this smallest,
this briefest space of time,
to be fully present, alive,

We stood at the edge until such time that we believed,
and in this implicit belief; we stepped from it,
and found ourselves standing upon the air.