All I Have

My abdicated innocence,
I give to thee my heart and mind,
Albeit marred- impermanent,
It’s all I have for to bestow,
Will you take this gift of mine?
If you will- please tell me so,
Or if you choose to be unkind,
Then I would rather die alone.

The Re-emergence

A seed lay dormant ‘neath the ground
In soil neither kept nor tilled,
A summer past the only sound
The windswept dust upon the field,
She couldn’t dream of life kept hiding
Under fallen leaf and snow,
Surly nothing here residing
Could survive the bitter cold,
Hope had faded by the hour
Thought had turned to other things,
Behold! A single sprouting flower
Resurrected by the Spring.

Leaving, Not Lost

Give them all a flower
To place upon her grave,
Laying there before them-
A silent, sleeping face,
Eyes closed, she cannot see it-
Not ever, never more!
For minutes past the hour-
Thought stolen by the Lord,
Are never put to using-
But always thought a waste,
So down she's lowered, slowly-
As silent as a tear,
Her pain is covered over
In her final resting place.

Beautiful Places

There are still beautiful, untouched places in this world-
and some of them are inside of you.

Doubt

To dance upon the edge of doubt,
Must I fall within and melt
To understand just what it was
My badly broken heart had felt?

Start Again

I wept ‘til tears gave way to prayer,
My life- lay bare- and like a husk,
The darkness shed- t'was torn away,
A kernel fell at break of day,
The imperfection- rot or rust,
Became the life-breath to the dust,
The seed then grew- to start anew,
A life un-swayed- with deeper root,
Where tears- like rain- would keep it clean,
No violent sway- unsteady lean,
Would deviate it from the truth,
And it- content- would there remain.

The Viking Raid

The heavy weight of ruin
Draws their eyes still further down,
Upon a hill the bodies lay
On desecrated ground,
And in the distance- Viking calls
As boats sail from the bay,
Plumes of smoke from burning homes
Becloud the dawning day,
Possessions lost- each thing they'd owned
Was taken in the night ,
A woman’s crying fills the air
At early morning light.

Lonely, Still

An opaque veil lay o’er eyes
As dark as moonless night,
A misty shroud upon the brow
To bend and blur the light,
A tangled web of curly lock
Upon skin- fair and white
Within- a thought as lonely, still
As ‘tween what’s wrong and right.

Sever Together Pt.1

In peaceful repose
Of coming to blows,
They lay on the hill
Where nobody knows,
Some sort of surmise
With tears in their eyes,
Would stitch all the hurt
And bandage the lies,
He wasn’t as strong
As thought all along,
Though he held his ground
To right what was wrong,
Some woeful mistake
His gift was to take,
A sorry goodbye
And watch her heart break.

Sever Together Pt.2

In a “fond but distant memory”
Her hand was held in mine,
Two start in solidarity
But gradually decline,
Each bone was broken- one by one
Each piece- more cruel than kind,
Would fall where steps of ours were laid
“In syncopated time”.

The Woman by the River

"Do you hear them wailing, sister?
They are captive to a spell!
'Tis the woman by the river,
Yonder golden fields of rye,
Do you think the town will miss her-
If we speed her trip to Hell?
Fairest woman by the river-
Ravens hair and hazel eye!
Does she hate the baker's daughter?
Can she hear the people cry?
Let her fall in darkest waters,
Next to golden fields of rye,
Lest another person totter,
she will be the next to die!"

Immolate

In a dream- I see her dance,
Though motion blurs the vision,
A simple room- no door and key-
To open from within,
Quietly I sit and stare,
I cannot help but wanting,
Linen white residing there-
Upon her velvet skin.
Burn away in fires wrath,
And rise up with the wind.

Make Me Whole Again

Somehow I wonder- what’s led me here?

At 6am I sit in the car,
Good intentions- meaningful words,
All worthless when seen from a distance,
Each drop of rain gathers collectively,
Becoming one… cold and unstable,
But unable to be stopped!
Raising my face to the sky,
I close my eyes and ask for God,
In some significant gesture,

But I’ve become just like the rain.
"Please... make me whole again."