Soulmate

Can you promise me sunshine
Days filled with joys such as others
can only dream of

Can you grant me love songs and
poetry
to fill my heart to bursting
from such bliss

Do you promise me contentment
Years spent in easy camaraderie
knowing each others unspoken thoughts

Say yes, oh please, do answer yes
for these sweet promises will
capture me
For love, this love, is sweeter
still
my soulmate, promise me

Life's end

There is nothing I have done
in this life of dreams and sorrow
that I would trade away
for just one more glad tomorrow

I feel reality shift and tilt
the end is here, or soon it shall be
and all the things that I hold dear
are smoke and mirrors, sweet slim reality

The voices rise, too soon they're fading
Loved ones close, yet then depart
My life is done, I'm slipping quietly
Slowing now, be still my heart

The Pledge

I stand and stare out at the world
As darkness takes its final breath
And light seeps round the edge
I revel in the quiet grace
And here I make my pledge

I shall not live this life of mine
In worried thoughts and sad regrets
Of things I have not done
But turn my face up to the dawn
And glory in the sun

Tho' while it's true that I may have
A shorter time upon this earth
Than ever I can tell
It shan't be said that I have gone
Without that I lived well

Soulmate

Be still my soul and listen to
another
For this, the very essence of
connection
Beautiful in it's perfect
intention
Pure as light
Vast as the heavens
I stand in awe
Silently
Awaiting the next utterance
Enthralled
Enraptured
Whole

Captivated

Standing in the deepening
Of a summer night
Fireflies and lightning vie for
Center stage
Air thick as honey, warm with
Coming rain
Waiting for the summer storm
To rage
Fireflies and lightning
Such delight

Watching for the flashes
Weaving through the trees
Thunders' distant crashes
Rumble through the night
Moments as these pass us by
Before the dawn
Live your life as breathless
As a summer storm
Fireflies and lightning
Pure delight

Ode to a friend

May I define you by what you add
to my life
The joy I feel knowing you
see me
As I wrap your love around
my shoulders
As a warm blanket
A shield

Do you know how your love
empowers me
The courage I find at hand
Because of you

I know you don't have
any idea
how powerful you are
What is accomplished
because of your strength

You empower me
With a full understanding and
graciousness
that astounds
You are a whirlwind
I am a leaf

Shelby

A lovely young woman died today
Her fight could not be won
Her pain and suffering is at an end
Ours only just begun

We knew this day was coming
We knew what was at hand
Yet tears stream from our memories
Our lives a tragic land

How do you move along life's path
When darkness shrouds your mind
You ask yourself, what would she want
Yet tears have left us blind

The senselessness of this cruel life
Has hurt us beyond reason
Yet we all know Shelby would say
To everything, it's season