This distant land is new to me Yet sacred all the same The past is but a memory Where echoes call my name And far behind me lies a time When I could barely see When I could only halfway climb The smallest of the trees And I have seen a thousand years Pass by…
I wish I had control To take advantage of the days To find the ocean of my soul And ride a thousand different waves I wish I had the valor To release from this embrace And put the words that I empower In the actions that I chase I wish I had the wisdom Not…
A thousand days of wisdom Could not save me in the end And a lifetime of forgiveness Would not leave me on the mend So I wonder would it matter If the days laid front to back And the first step of the ladder Was the only one that cracked If I took the light…
Half my life is spent on dreams Half trying to forget The sultry days amidst the beams Of suns before they set Half is wasted in the street Half inside the square Rushing madly to the beat Sad and silent in the chair Half consumed in daily fret Half on plans to be A congregation…
Sometimes I think I forget Where it is and where it began The desert where the ocean sat The valley where the river ran And sometimes all I ever need Is the journey through it all Not to touch the grounded trees But simply listen as they fall And sometimes I think I was right…
I’ve said it all before a thousand times And waited for the stars to show concern I’ve practiced to the rain with no reply And whispered to the wind with no return It echoes through the heart of passing years And lives a secret life beneath my eyes It’s spoken to the ground through fallen…
As I am passing by below This perfect summer night I see her light is still aglow Third window from the right Calling me with silhouettes And touching me with grace Erasing all of my regrets With one look of her face She takes away my memories The future and the past And tosses me…
Yesterday and days before Reaching back to light the way The moon was dancing on the shore And laughing with the light of day The stars above and far behind In distant lands of solitude Echoed in attempts to find A life in doubt to be renewed The sun upon its golden throne Burned so…
Please take me to the place of greatest awe And let me stare into the face of God So He may wash away my greatest flaw The unbefitting grief of my facade Please take me to the purist water’s edge And let me dip my hand in righteousness So I may stand upon that sacred…
I understand I’m older now I’ve seen the truth Get lost somehow But I remember How it used to be When time was endless When life was free When years were long When days were bright When dark was dark And light was light Without the haze Without the gray Without the truth We found…