Goodbye

You come in flashes,
taking my hand at times
or simply whispering my name.

Memories wash over me,
flooding my soul
like a river.

But then it is dry again,
and I find myself grasping
to recall:

your voice
your touch
your smell
your essence

SLC feels empty;
somber and stifled;
lonely and still.

A great man has left,

to return home
to all that was before
and shall come after.

I love you Dad,and I miss
your "Top of the Mornings"

Rest in Peace,
until we meet again.

Soul's Whisper

The wind in my heart blows
through me with fervor
unleashed from complacency,
taking the world by storm.

The wind in my heart carries
me from yesterday into today,
providing strength to move
these moments as they pass.

The wind in my heart forces
the freedom within to awaken,
allowing personal integrity
to wrap itself around me.

The wind in my heart guides
my soul with its whisper,
blowing through my body
as your love surrounds me.

Bring Me to Silence

The turmoil begins

Wreaking havoc with my mind

I wait for stillness to arrive

Like a forrest waits for rain -

Quiet and desperate

Craving freedom and life

Thoughts move through me

With a wild impatience

I'm left here wondering again:

Can you save me?

From me?

Illusion of Death

Freedom is believing
and eventually knowing
that life is beyond our control -

that the Ego is simply a fantasy
and that Love is the only truth.

Freedom is happiness and joy
awareness and hope.

We all seek to be free -
but cannot seem to let go of
the prisons which bound us.

It is so simple to theorize about
yet so difficult to do.

So, I compell each of you
to start believing and
eventually start knowing -

that Freedom is Love
and Love shall save us all.

Philisophical Torment

The media writes chaos into our lives -

Each story
Every voice
reaches out to the weak and torments them.

Many can see a light through their negative portrayals
of the world;

and as the bloodshed and horror tear across tv screens and
newspaper headings,

those with hopeful hearts and peaceful spirits see
beauty and love
underlying the illusion.

Pray for humanity -
Pray for love -

For darkness is merely an error
waiting to be enveloped by light....

Then and Now

I have been absent from life again.
Like a switch or a plug that forgot to be grounded properly.
I am volatile: sometimes shocking even the air around me.

Absense from Self is destructive:
if you're gone too long, it's difficult to find your way back...
and you become used to the Other - the chaotic abyss.

Yet I am back. I managed to pull myself from yesterday,
and into this moment - Now.
I remember why I left, and shall forget to do so again.

Slide into my soul.
Tiptoe around the boundries of reason
and gently place your hand in mine.
Join presence :
a place where spirituatlity
and nature coexist -
where you may wander through
the five stages of grief
and yet still inhale
life. Walk gently into solace,
where love
stifles guilt.

Who Decides?

How is it that we ended up here,
In this catechism
bound by
His covenants?

Afraid to touch
to even smile
at one another...

The
magnifying glass
has broken,

yet we still
hide
under this veil
of uncertainty,

terrified that
what we might find
will keep us from
eternity.

You
are
damned
from
within,

condemned
by
love,

without
even
knowing
where
morality
hides.

Forgive me,
for I know
not which
words are
Lies,

Which Truth
simply
died with the
Cross...

Until then
my dear

Goodbye

Floating in Stillness

I have been lingering
inside this space
of solitude -

a space
of hope
and insight;

wandering effortlessly
in and out

of time
and
reality.

I have found
a piece of
my lost soul;

grabbing it
as it fluttered
by.

I have roused
what I thought
was dormant
forever;

waking from
a disturbed
sleep.

I have
found
my
voice
and
have
shouted:

I
AM
ALIVE

Surrounded

Beauty of Being
No words necessary
Thoughts become feelings
Feelings have no language
Expression is emotion
Happy becomes one
One becomes love
We exist together
Unified by God
Who is He?
And am I?
Woe is me
Who are you?
We are Love,
We are God

We are truth

So set us free

The Gift

As the magnificent sun drops behind the ocean
and the beach is kissed by gentle waves
The serenity takes hold and rocks me to sleep

Dreams of princesses
and castles of hope
push their way inside my head

Captured by nature
wrestled by timelesness

I thank the Being that
gives me the beauty,

the purity
and stillness
and for the gift
of insight,
and the chance to
grasp the power
of enlightenment

Shutter

Camera lens open
Capturing beauty's existence
With one push of a button
the image
is our only way to hold onto
Time as it passes

Shutter closes
and the moment is gone
We are left with a photograph
that will never be captured again

Swept Up

Summon me to the sky
Oh Wind

Caress me - let me fly

Away

Let me attach myself

to your power

and blow through your cities

and over your oceans

and upon your mountains

and then...

like sudden stillness

let me float back into

tranquility