My Name
My name is not war
Though I will fight
To save my home
My name is not hate
For compassion
Is my solemn strength
My name is not intolerance
For our differences
Are our saving grace
My name is Hope
My name is Peace
And though I struggle
Though I falter
I will one day rise in every heart
Victorious
My Farewell
This is my farewell
When we will end
Our journey of the heart
When all my words
With abandon have been spent
And I stand silent
Faltering before you
My farewell
Where all my dreams
Will disappear in time
Carried by the wind
To stir another soul
To find the perfect words
I never found
Ghost
Hollow as a reed
I wither in the air
Hostage to the whim
Of a furious gale
I am a ghost
Caught in the dusk
Every move a shadow
Across my aching heart
Hear me
Oh you dark angels
Stand beside me
In this impossible pain
Take my soul
To haunt her dreams
In hopes she might
Remember me
The Dying Star
I never knew
I was lost
Staggering blindly
Through the dark
Never knew
The sun was dim
And the moon was fading
With every night
My steps unsure
Laden with emptiness
I never knew the light was fading
Even as I watched
Without you
I am the lesser
I am the fallen
I am the dying star
No Other Home
There is
No other home
Your heart was the fire
That warmed me
There is
No other earth
You were the bedrock
Beneath my feet
There is
No other life
Ours was the only life
I truly lived
This time
Is no longer mine
A pale imitation
Of what once I knew
For all I know
All
I see
Is you
Soldier on
Life rains down on us
Without mercy
In angry torrents
In impossible sorrow
But we stand
With hope
Lonely stars
Will find their light
Broken hearts
Will beat again
So we soldier on
We soldier on
To one day
Breathe
The blessings of age
Read
Our book of memories
And dream
Of heaven
We are history now
A fading pallor
Bleeding slowly
Into ancient lore
We live
In fleeting moments
Between dark and light
Sleep and dreams
A tale overheard
On the wind
In the aching heart
Too beautiful for this life
Remember us
Though we disappear
We will ever be
Just a legend away
The Silence
When I look back
It is the quiet I remember
The inhale of a breath
The sorrow of a sigh
And no words
To shatter the fragile air
Around us
We were ancient as the moon
Rising in our own light
To embolden dreams
Stir memories of olde
And to live forever
In the silence
Of a smile
The World I Found
What is this world I found
This world
Where voices sing
With poetry
And the air is filled
With savage grace
This world
That paints a sky
A masterpiece of gray
And the sea
A heartbreak of farewells
A world so old
So raw
So beautiful and true
It can only be
The world I found
In you
In my waking dreams
I have bid you farewell
A thousand times
Watched you disappear
And leave this life
To return to another
And I have mourned
A thousand deaths
Every one my own
There is no life
Without you
No light, no breath
No warmth, no sleep
You were my all
And all is lost
Let me remember
Everything
The days
And nights of her
The spectral dreams
That haunt me
The seasons of her
The sun
The dark
The colors of her
That turned my world
To life
The music of her
Still wildly running
Through my lonely blood
The heart of her
The soul of her
That loved me
Immortal
Though time will pass
And suns will rise and set
And the faces of the mountains
Wither with age
We will live on
Found
In fields of heather
Deep in the wild forest
Under the moonlit sky
And in the tender heart
Of every soul
Who heard the tale
Held fast to hope
And dreamed of love
STRICTLY BALLROOM
Loved this movie. A touch of satire, a touch of whimsy, a whole lot of sweetness. An utter delight.
Da Capo
This is not the end
Not the long sleep
At the coming of the moon
Nor the black of night
When stars surrender
And hurl their dust
To heaven
This is simply
The story of us
Told in moving, measured time
A symphony
Notes bittersweet and brave
And at the last breath
Played once again
No matter
What happens in this life
We are safe, you and I
Never to be lost
To be left
To be lonely
For we have known it all
And survived
To remember the words we said
The roads we trod
The love we knew
The peace we found
That healed our broken hearts
And saved our lonely souls
Intractable
We are Rowan trees
Entwining ancient roots
Eagles soaring
In a shared sky
Stars shining
Behind the same moon
Bound together
In this brief life
And beyond frail death
Notes of a symphony
Sung by one voice
Resonant and true
It is us
Offered to heaven
As reverent prayer
Risen
There is no measure for us now
No yesterdays
No tomorrows
No years to count the time
No moments to break the heart
For we have won them
Every one
Slain the enemy
That held us hostage to its whims
We are risen
Eternal
To live beyond this mortal life
To stand before time
Victorious
