Promise

When words return from their long voyage
And my heart is ready to touch the sky
You will feel this empty, lifeless page
Breathe, sing, dance and come alive
Bear with me till that betokened day
Yonder it lies, beyond a crystal eye
The sun and moon shall light my way
Forever, though dreams sway far and nigh

Generations

Born to a visionless darkness
Without valid reason to live or die
Caressed by violent harshness
Led by many a candid lie
The world stares back in starkness
As they walk through fields unsown
To live lives of buried sadness
Drift through years of joy unknown

Spring shall wait...

The sun is shedding its winter veil
And clouds are melting in the warmer air.
Birds will fly back on their yearly trail
When trees are adorned in summer flair
Yet my world is still trapped in winter’s gloom
Bare branches point heavenward as if in prayer
Wild flowers are waiting in their buds to bloom
Because spring cannot come until you're there

Hope

I saw your eyes o little one
Yet unborn, unconceived, unperceived
I felt their warm dark glow
Pierce this cold dark night
Like a distant nameless star
A tear seeped through mine
Like a winter raindrop; lifeless, soulless
And gripped these helpless arms
That may not always shield you
From a merciless world
Yet I hold this flickering candle in the rain
A little fountain of starlight in my hand
Rising up to take its place in the night sky
To shine down on your world
On a distant tomorrow

Reflections

There is a little dream
Drifting across my scruffy heart
As I sit by this little stream
Trapped in a crystal smile
And listening to a crescent moon
Whose words my mind beguile

A little drop of starlight
Scurries across the Milky Way
On a dark, cold, deserted night
To breach my sleepy eyes
As I awake from my little dream
Stronger and more wise