Nightly thoughts invade Missed chance blooming Once a year Beauty and opportunity Keeping me awake How long till next opening? Keeping me grounded Expectantly waiting Indefinitely Crowds gather round me Knowing Queen of the night Stood over me Displaying her colours For one glorious moment From then on I became More like myself Each passing day
Image source New York Botanical Gardens Est. 1891.
Take you with me Everywhere I go Wherever I stay Yet pieces of you Will be strewn Carefully Tenderly As I speak out A love that dared As I shed scales Off laden wings Turning transparent Emptying Evolving As we all are Portraying colour Residing within Becoming again A heart That sings
Once was a time when Stars were synonymous With the afterlife Ancestors shone As diamonds spinning Elipsis bound Girth of lady earth Lying flat submerged Ground
Once was a time when Hearts were synchronous Rhyming couplets Composing sonnets Grand concertos In an evening As arms of rays Move bout the waist When a glance Spun my world Round
When you can't see The tree For fallen leaves Nor the clouds For the breeze Wait until season Wind changes As it always will Kind friend Reminds you Of the dawn Ahead
'Don't you run away Run away When you get tired 'Cause this will slip away Slip away Start a fire That can never be put out Hurry time is running out But don't you run away Run away Before you tell her You love her'
Tell her you love her by Echosmith, written by Graham, Sydney and Noah Sierota and Jeffrey David.
Peering through into Your world now mine Illuminating Now to find The key to latch In the dark Hiding under layers Ancient wallpapers Generations Foundations The same Women endured Loneliness Female company The only cure Gateway To wilderness Built by hands Bound in chains Heart also Only opens from The outside
A time for adventure Blistering cold and heat A time for restoration Distraction, diversion Show me another way Through the thickets Deep immersion A time for shelter Closed cabin Four walls Cocoon To reform Break out In good time Reborn
Count the stars of heaven 