Wandering endlessly through golden ripe Fields of my imagination Scenery, smiles and conversation Willing the future to meet me Back at this dream's beginning Until restless legs and chatting Stop pining and whistling lips Biding time Woken, surprised, I meditate Grains of sand between toes Waves evoking chills down my spine Patient expectation Waiting, hesitating Drinking in the glorious view Standing right here before me
A placeholder Waiting for inspiration to reveal No matter how many layers Blended perfectly together The frame is full of gibberish Until sense is made clear When the promise of a true friend Becomes forever
One who's always there
Comforts me when no one dares
Calms the storm inside
Silence descends at the end of another day
Without warning the flashbacks storm
Through my brain
Drawn into a time when I crawled along
On eight pairs of feet
You were the new green shoot
Chlorophyll, my food, curled around me
Eyes flashed cider gum blue
Spring lime green
Autumn fagus yellow in between
You were my seasons while I hid inside
Wrapped up in your goodness
Drank down till I had my fill
Pints of the stuff
Growing green to the gills
Then to withdraw into my cocoon
To become someone you might love
Silk scarves and woven cloths
Interlaced around me
As I rocked back and forth
Remembering golden haze
Of sunshine and drinking you into my pores
Tightly wound, every part of me singing
Agitating, wriggling, then deathly still
Grieving, so near, yet I am bound
Waiting, not patiently, turning inside out
Penultimate moment, a dead eye opens
In the dark
A tear in the fabric of time
My proboscis is out
Feeling tingling into the wind
No more drinking her in
I shake free my wings and navigate
Stigma dripping in nectar
Search me out
I am taken in and dipping
Soaked, drunk on wine
Pushing me beyond my tipping point
Freedom flight
Yet every waking cell in my new-found body
Calls out – who and what made me as I am now
How could I wish for any other plight?
'Lighthouse tall and grand
Standing on that cold headland
Shine your light across the sea
For a wayward sailor girl like me
Lighthouse man
Guide this sailor back to land
Steer my ship on through the storm
Back to water safe and calm
Sometimes I need a lighthouse for my own
It gets so dark I can't see which way I'm going
Oh lighthouse man
I'm all at sea
Shine a little lighthouse light on me
Lighthouse man
Can't help us all
Some he'll save and some will fall
He'll show you where the danger lies
But he can't help it if you capsize
He'll light your way but that is all
Steer your own ship back to shore
Won't you light my lonely way back home
This sea is full of misery and woe
Oh woe betide those that say
They don't need no light to light their way
They think they're safe enough on their own
Drown in murky depths below
We all need a lighthouse for our own
It gets so dark I can't see which way I'm going
Oh lighthouse man I'm all at sea
Shine a little lighthouse light on me'
~Song by The Waifs
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Chad Alan Gracey / Chad David Taylor / Edward Joel Kowalczyk / Patrick Dahlheimer
Lighthouse lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc
April may come again
Eventually it reminds
My nakedness
Revealing everything
Not a leaf remaining
Exposed but not barren
Shedding old stories
Just waiting
Frost and snow
Feral winds blew
Over rooftops
Firelit cabin
At high altitude
While I curled
Wistful and wondering
When the sun, like I
Came out of hiding
Leading me onward
Bitter sweet elixir
Courses through veins
Truth serum
Tried and tired
Confidants attest
Does it enliven?
Give wakeful purpose?
Determination when
World falls around us?
If the answer is yes
It is not addiction
Though why the need
To justify
A thousand times?
Shakespeare sonnet
This is not
But true love
At best
Marked at birth a name so entrancing Eros saved psyche to Pour forth her blessing Born under star to rise Fall over and over For love Waiting for one Whose gravitas Can claim her
Hemingway Not drowning, waving Until one dives in How frigid the lake How deep or shallow Revealing hidden treasures Tantalizing Or catastrophic bones lie Which one am I? Topography of life Safely viewed from above While others step lightly Weightless Bounding off continental shelf Bravely onwards
It is neither here nor there
Whether I ever
Explored landscape
Of your skin
A parallel universe
Is formed upon
First glance
Second chance
Third eye
Fourth dimension
Mirror image
Crown to root
Sings in perfect
Harmony with you
Count the stars of heaven 