To hold
First oneself
Hold onto dreams
Embrace them
To hold
Their memory
Always there
Without them
To hold
Light horizon
Moving forward
Never alone
To hold
Knowledge is sure
Love held lightly
Never owned

To hold
First oneself
Hold onto dreams
Embrace them
To hold
Their memory
Always there
Without them
To hold
Light horizon
Moving forward
Never alone
To hold
Knowledge is sure
Love held lightly
Never owned

Love small waving hands
Pointing up to the sun
Lime coloured ones
Delicate fronds
Every year heralding
New growth has begun
Resisting prunings
Wilting of winter
Hope for another year
Even when caretaker
Seemingly ignores
Their every need
Giving, as if
Love is enough

No other way to be
Let it all out
Circumambient sweet
No need to fight it
Grown in goodness
From a seed
Abundance for me
Surreal reality
Let it be

A certain spell
Grips tightly
Wrapping fondly
Cocooned
Feeling creeps in
Never felt before
Never again?
Flying free now
To joyful end
On the wind
Homeward bound
Life is won
Paths unknown
Finding a way
With love

There was an elder
Of mine own
Who spoke of rights
Assured of tone
He longed for pride
Of place on stone
Of pulpit
Matrimonium
To look over
Young ones
In their finery
Decry the love
Of Others
Unauthorized
When facing our
Mortality
Tongues are loose
Unconformity
Daze has come
and gone for me
When will again
A mystery
I'll sit in a grove
And speak the truth
With love that even
Forests approve
All may gather
And stories be heard
To embrace the days
Love covered
The earth

A mirror
Can't bear to
Open my eyes
Under covers
Hide
Alter reality
Two dimensional
Altar ego responds
Completely to me
Yet every touch
Cold
Do I need to
Be like you
To like you
Like I do?
I do
Loving me
Means
Loving you
Is it a crime to?
All the shades
Of blue reflect
To infinity
With you

Woman, when you believe My story and my song No word or note Need emanate again You nod resignation Soothe cracked lips Silence creeps in Swiftly by morning No badge of bravery Be worn out and down I am changeable As the tide In ancient forests You heal me As I lie in wait For another dawn song Settling within To begin again
