A hundred million shells of white Each one the same and side by side All joined as one and huddled tight Beneath the sunlit ocean tide Are seen from space in disbelief To decorate the endless sea Yet what brings beauty to the reef Is boundless vast diversity For if each piece were all the…
There’s something I have lost Something from the past And something I have missed Throughout the years that passed I can’t recall its name I can’t recall its place But the emptiness is real Beneath the smile on this face And in its absence I pretend Though the mask is wearing thin Yet without it…
When the apple tree has gifted all its fruit And stands among the forest stark and dim No longer will the sparrow in commute Stop to rest upon its barren limbs When the pomegranate shares away its seed And has no more to offer to the lark No longer will the weary stop to feed…
I have not yet to this far world gave A fraction of the feelings I have found And sadly I will likely to the grave Rest in thoughts my words could not resound And yet I struggle daily to confide The wondrous things abound upon the day Tipping that deep basin kept inside To flood…
Be not thine own familiar foe Let opportunity not pass unto the night Let day not stand the bearer of thy woe And chance the faded shaming of thy sight Be not thy private adversary’s kin And cast remorse upon the able soul Let not derision occupy thy post within Nor on the fires of…
God lend me some perfection You have saved for summer’s eve Beneath a fog of failed rejection I must beg to be relieved God send me some sweet vision In your guidance I shall trust For departure from derision I beseech you if I must God give me some assurance That in time I will…
In speaking to the tree a wasted word In time confiding in the stars above In flying through the sky beside the bird I gave to them a moment of my Love In watching that sweet sunset fall below In walking past the unbeknowing fern In spending time in silence as I go I lent…
In but a single piece of frozen time My eyes beheld a sight that could not be A moment cast forever in sublime A glimpse of what I’ve always longed to see I closed my eyes a second to be certain That on the other side was just as real As she that I have…
Be this light the light of dreams And none that shall compare Ever fell among the beams Or spoke unto the air Be this day the day of dreams And those yet to arrive In silence or in faded screams On this day will derive Be this night the night of dreams And all that…
Sunlight take away from me All the things I have Give me all that you may deem Perfection cannot make me sad Strip the borders of my soul Thread the needle of my eye Give me that which makes me whole Adjust the rhythm of my mind And when it all is said and done…