My Friends

Artists

Renegades

Mamas

Speechers

Mic checkers

People evolvers

Stars of many skies

Suns 

Life givers

Spark makers

Bright

Bright 

Bright.

One Day

I will return to mother

Beyond the stars 

Beyond dark nights

Beyond days where

I may have seen her 

In the morning mist

Before one is fully awake

I will tell her

About my journey

About how hard it was

To not come running 

After her so many years ago

When she made her way

Through the veil

Without me

One day

I will return to mother

I will lay my head down

Upon her lap

She will give me the peace

I have sought

Soothing all those years

Without her

That were like lightning

Striking upon the doors

Of my sad heart

One day

When I return to mother

I will finally be able

To sleep

Through the night.

Secret to Happiness

Is

Gratitude

When I forget this

I despair

But

When I remember

Everything

Is glorified

And new.

Royal Pain

Put down the gauntlet

Hero to yourself

There is no mountain

To crest

The range is long

This is but a 

Low hill

Long haul

No use 

Puffing out

Hollow cage

Wasting air

Hollow journey

No one is important

Not even you.

Simplicity

Things were simpler
Way back when
There were trees
Touched lightly
Kissed by breeze
Nothing was mowed
Chopped or burned
The world would turn
Simply
We had only 

One another
Before They came
Made other plans
Cut down the trees
Poisoned the breeze
Tore up the roots
Burned everything else
The world still turns
But everything
So much more complex
Unnecessary
Where has it all gone?

Magic Keys

Just because

They're invisible

Does not mean

They do not exist

Your eyes

Are for one dimension

Your hopes

For another

Our wishes

Create manifestation

Maybe you'll get

What you want

Maybe you'll get

What you didn't know

You wanted

Magic keys

Are everywhere

But they do not unlock

You unlock

Them

You are the key

They are the unlocking

Of You

As you are now

Be free

And see

The veil is thin

Do not be thick

See?

Hate Machine

Hate

Poisons everything

A machine

Without organic parts

A beating heart

From 

Human

To 

Part machine

To

Full machine

A

Hate machine

Oh

The sights I've seen

From the journey

Spurned by

Hard-won knowledge

I set forth

To set right

That which was

Wronged

But along that path

Rocks jut out

Cut me

I cut back

Took my own

Beautiful energy

Squandered it

Focusing on pebbles

Small outcroppings

Losing sight

Of the mountain

I can no longer

Put oil

Into that machine

It is not mine

It is not mine

It is not me.

Journey

'Tis better to have lived free  

  than to have run from your soul  

  an entire lifetime.

The fight for continued justice  

  is ever-present, never safe  

  and so very fulfilling.

To have lived in Love and Courage  

  is the better choice than to have died

Wondering if one had ever lived at all.

Do What You Gotta Do

In the flood

Swim

In the storm

Shelter

In the sun

Rise

In the dark

Light

In your heart

Sing

In your soul

Shine 

Shine 

Shine.

Poets

A true poet
Never rests
Is never spared
Suffering
Can never dig
Deep enough
Though lava flows
Though bombs explode
There they are
Walking over mines
A thousand times.

Encapsulate

Echo Echo Echo

Reverb

Reciprocity

Agony

Joy

Pain

Sadness

Gratitude

Echo Echo Echo 

Comet

Blazing across the sky

Before or long after 

We have ever seen

Or will see

The real time light

But it has traveled so far

To show us

Brilliance

Marvelous show

Of time

Of space

Of beauty

One moment

Of looking down 

At a shoe in a puddle

Seeing the beginning

Of hope reflected

In the smooth glass

Of water 

Of the dark sky

Oh, look up

And see it

Marvel at the gift!

Jumping Ship

Daddy

You ran the ship aground

Expecting me to paddle

In the dirt

I tried to dredge up rocks

To make us go forward

So loyal

So naive

So hopeful

But we just went deeper

Into darkness

I kept looking up

Seeing the sun

On the horizon

On the smooth glass water

I want a ship of my own

Me as captain at the helm

Mighty and powerful

To reach that horizon 

Without you

Into the next day

And the next

And the next

There will be no anchor

Only propulsion

No weighty drag.

Words

Oh, they are only words

Ones that made me lurch forward

From the seat of my soul

Oh, these words

Ones of beauty and hope

I reach out for you

Like my own mother's hands

Pulling you close

Keeping you in my heart

So that in the days to come

My feet will continue

To move forward

In the direction

Of light and progress.

Deep End

Most people think
The edge is the end
But it's where the sun rises
Where it goes further on
In the evenings too
To rest
To bring forth life
To cover our world
In light
Most people think
The end is final
But it's only
The beginning.