The Journey – Part III: Surrender

I surrender to the storm within,

A force of nature to reckon with,

I surrender while I’m alive still,

Lest I forget both reason and will.

The Journey – Part II: Inner Dream

I drift on cloudy thoughts and dreams,

On memories that shift at the seams,

I see a void – transient, deep,

Venture in through the fissures of sleep.

The Journey – Part I: Turmoil

I toss and turn as darkness falls,

No cloaks of comfort to recall,

I toss and turn on stormy seas,

Inner wisdom just out of reach.

Entity

From beyond the grave you found me,

A melody – lost and lorn,
Your skeletal fingers caressed me,
My life – no more my own.

From beyond the grave you touched me,
Nameless, forgotten soul,
Your lips of moss – brushed me,
A sigh – my last breath whole.

And as the moon glides softly by,
My breath, on wings, the breeze does find,
Dust to dust,
Petals crushed,
The fragrance fresh, once mine - not mine.

From beyond the grave you saved me,
A whisper – tender, true;
Your breath I felt beside me,
As my soul journeyed t’wards the new.

Shadow Moon

Blood red roses,

Scattered past,

House of sorrows,

Shadows cast.

A Million Little Pieces

Fragments cold

Stories old

Tainted snowdrops; frozen teardrops

Stories cold

Fragments old.

Broken pottery

Unspoken mysteries

Splintered footprints; bloodied fingerprints

Mysteries unspoken

Pottery broken.

Dusty floors

Unhinged doors

Withered leaves; insidious disease

Unhinged doors

Dusty floors.

Moonbeam river

Sunlight quiver

Caterpillar to butterfly; healing touch – Giver of Life

Moonbeam quiver

Sunlight river.

Another Place, Another Time

Will you wait a moment please? 

I’ve heard your voice before, 

Birdsong on a fresh spring day, 

Echoes of a bloom long gone. 

 

Fair lass don’t turn your back on me, 

I’ve held that flaxen hair, 

Spun gold with summer’s fragrant breeze, 

The sunrise of my days. 

Now look at me with those eyes so blue, 

I’ve gazed into their depths, 

Sky blue oceans, midnight lights, 

I loved them till I bled. 

You do not hear my heartfelt cry, 

A fleeting look, then pass me by, 

My soul remembers, memories, 

Another place, another time.