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When Our Love Was New

It seemed to me that time stood still,

the moment that we met.

I stumbled over words to say,

I never will forget.

You took my breath away that night,

you still do even now,

and every memory that we’ve made

seems new to me somehow.

 

I guess it’s because since that night

my life has been a dream,

where every day you take my breath

away and so, it seems

th...

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Families

Surely your turning

of things upside down

is not but the potter’s clay.

You’ve done it with every

damn thing in this world

from the start till the present day.

 

I guess it’s impressive,

that which you’ve done -

blinding the world with your sham.

Making it look like you care for us all,

but the truth is you don’t give a damn.

 

Like the snakes that you ...

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Perspective

It’s just a tiny flicker,

in my hand it seems to be

a single point of light

and yet it mesmerizes me.

 

Can’t help but wonder what’s inside,

what universe lies there?

It makes me feel like I’m a God

and there’s an earth somewhere

 

inside this little point of light

to small to comprehend.

And I’m too large for them to know.

Let me tell you my friend -

 

...

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Rebuke

I try to do well, keep the peace, find a way.

I try to be thoughtful in all that I say.

I’m willing to leave all my interests behind

to follow the Lord, so I’m shocked now to find

 

that I stand here rebuked at this moment in time.

I guess it’s because the Lord had to remind

me that my ways aren’t in the least like his at all.

Thought I was defending, but I thought too...

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Tossed At Sea

This ship that I’ve chosen to sail be proven swift and strong.

We’ve weathered much together, she and I.

So many days amidst the wind and storms we’ve travelled long

to cross this mighty ocean here beneath the endless sky.

 

Sometimes it seems that this will be how I spend all my days,

like being tossed at sea is all there is.

It’s hard to hold out faith that there be more...

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Can't Handle The Truth

We had the way sent from above

then kept the parts we like,

and handed back the rest and now

we don’t even think twice.

 

It’s like it never happened yeah,

just like it never even was,

but there is no escaping it.

It’s coming back because

 

He’s coming back yes, it is true

then how will things play out?

In one day can we just adjust?

We know that life’s about...

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Despite It All

Despite it all I think we must admit when chips are down

that we have no real reason to complain.

Though every day we swim against the flow so not to drown,

we always have what it takes to sustain.

 

We read of Manna falling in the desert long ago

when Moses lead Isreal across the land,

and wonder how these people could complain like that, you know.

How is it that they didn...

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Winter Walks

Careful steps on ice

Deep breaths

In silence take it in

 

Here all alone

On the way home

As winter walks begin

 

Shadows loom about

There’s gloom

Yet something in the air

 

A peaceful still

Despite the chill

No other time compares

 

Silhouettes we are

And yet

We more than shadows be

 

Till winter’s end

Here with this friend…

The fal...

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Contrary

It’s hard to always know in life

which way is best to go.

Following fads and trends

tends to be not,

from what I know.

 

But does that mean in everything

you go the other way?

I’ve tried that

and I’ll tell you what

at the end of the day -

 

if you live life against the grain

most times you will be right.

But if it’s all you ever do…

then you will miss t...

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Only Color Left

I took for granted everything,

colors of every hue.

I didn’t know those colors

filled my world because of you.

 

So, like the fool I am

I let you go, too blind to see

that on my own I am just alone

and things turned out to be

 

where colors slowly slipped away,

the yellows, greens and blues.

And now the only color left…

is the memory of you.

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One Love

Two days until Christmas.

Two hours until light.

Too often you fill up

my dreams in the night.

Too tired to keep going.

Too weak to move on.

Two lovers divided…

in one love gone all wrong.

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Of Lines And Lives

Each path we walk, it forges something,

a step within a stair.

A line part of a rhythmic pattern

and we’re unaware.

 

We’re so wrapped up in what’s before us,

like it’s all there is.

As back and forth we pace, uneasy.

I promise you this -

 

The time will come when you will see,

the scales will disappear.

In that moment look around you,

it will all be clear.

...

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No Escape

We can’t escape it, don’t know what to do.

People at each other, guess it’s overdue.

Yeah, we’ve read about it.

Is it here? I doubt it,

but I’m here to tell ya that it all is true.

 

Cuz the world’s falling fast into decay.

Makes me wanna stand up, shout to say -

I don’t really know man!

Where we gonna go man?

We can’t keep going on and on this way.

 

They make ...

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Melancholy

Is it me? Is it real?
The feelings that I feel…
never seem to match 
the world around me.

What if I’m lost in time,
wrapped up in some sublime 
cosmic poet’s next attempt 
at melancholy?

I don’t ever feel at home,
most times would rather be alone. 
I’m broken, yeah I know
cuz I don’t change things. 

Maybe I’m just out of place,
running long in the wrong race,
or maybe I’m no go...

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Loneliness

Inside I cry

behind steel eyes.

Against the wind

I feel that I

am all alone,

am all alone,

am all alone…

Goodbye

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Longing

His love for her was strong but still,

a longing in his soul

took him to where he could be free,

but ocean’s take their toll.

 

He never did return

although she waited faithfully.

Day and night she sat there watching,

hoping she would see.

 

She prayed that his ship would return

but fate will have its way.

She waited til her time was spent,

until her hairs ...

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Lone Petal

The petal of a rose once fell

then drifted slowly through the trees.

Upon the wind it tumbled long

until it drifted up to me.

 

At first, I saw no value there

in just one petal all alone.

But then I stooped and picked it up

and found that it was still a rose.

 

I felt its velvet touch my skin,

as its aroma filled the air.

I breathed to take the fragrance in,

...

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Leave That Omen Behind

When you’ve had every chance and all resource in hand.

When you’ve been in good graces and known where you stand.

When you had God in Heaven reach down just to line it all up,

 

and you still found a way to fail. How could that be?

You look back in disbelief, regretfully

and feel like a failure, jinxed by a charm of bad luck.

 

Then you’re forced to ask yourself, “Should I ...

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Last Leaf

I’ll be here right beside you

in the darkness when you call.

I’ll be the one who makes sure

that the last leaf doesn’t fall.

 

I’ll be here watching over you

though all others are gone.

I’ll be here though you’ve lost the strength

and will to carry on.

 

I know that it’s your darkest hour.

I know it’s hard to see.

I know because one time I faced

a darkest h...

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If A Tree Falls

The question’s been posed – if a tree fell alone

would it make any sound as it fell?

If you think about it, there’s millions of things

that go on with no way we can tell.

 

The Saltgrass that waves in the ocean breeze,

when no one’s there, does it still sway?

The water that flows down a crystal stream,

when we’re gone does it go away?

 

It’s a paradox truly, there’s n...

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Hurt

I spent my whole life building.

I saw it all, yeah ups and downs.

Started from nothing, God knows I did it all,

and brought this empire from the ground.

 

For generations I have toiled to build,

each passing year my empire’s grown.

I barely slept, I had to see it done,

and claim this empire as my own.

 

And I was proud to stand and see it all,

it was a brilliant si...

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Groundhog Day

Does it matter what you do

or matter what you say?

 

Does anything mean anything

when you live Groundhog Day?

 

Is there a way to please the Gods

so that they’ll let you go?

 

Or maybe there’s no point at all.

Perhaps it’s just a show.

 

But what else can you do

if you find you’re stuck in this scene.

 

You have to just keep going

and hope you will f...

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Greater

I looked at her, her angel voice still playing in the sound room. 

She sat surrounded by the band, just like we always do. 

Her songs were mesmerizing, she had everything to make it,

and in that moment God gave me this truth -

 

“No matter what, the songs we make are greater than the artists”.

The words came out as if it wasn’t me. 

Then she and I met eye to eye, we knew the t...

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Golden Rule

“Do unto others”, the Savior once said,

a golden rule given to sum it all up.

But we seem to want something complex instead,

like it is too simple or it’s not enough.

 

But nothing more’s needed and that’s just a fact,

that if we all lived by a new day would dawn

where we’d live in harmony with peace intact,

for so many ills would forever be gone.

 

But we are too b...

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Gloom Of Grey

I walk this walk in winter’s fog

along the path to fill each day.

Each stranger I see barely nods,

they pass by without aught to say. 

 

Against the cold I wrap my coat

while trying to ignore the sting

and thoughts of all the miles ahead

that passing through this season brings. 

 

I still recall the trees in color.

It seems like just a day ago.

I dream of time i...

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Growing Old

It feels like I’ve been around too long.

Every tune has become the same old song.

Every plight’s just a fight to no end

cuz there’s no way to win.

 

And I can’t help but notice as I’m growing old -

I believe less and less of what I’m told.

Cuz the world’s nothing more than

an endless round of spin.

 

Every voyage I take that’s pushed by sails

is another lap around ...

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Full Color

A morning walk, amidst the trees, beneath a sky of grey.

The sound of crisp from frozen ground breaks silence in the air.

I love the feeling that I get on such a winter day,

where light through all the empty branches somehow takes me there.

 

It makes me dream of times in spring where newness comes again.

Can’t help envisioning the grey transforming into green.

But then it ne...

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From The Look Down

Another spotlight, make the headlines.

A final shout-out to the ranks of the-do-fine.

Did I make you stop and think?

Now looking down… from the look down,

me and every other ghost in this town

who couldn’t live life on the brink.

 

And I say - hey. There’s got to be a way

for everyone who couldn’t be.

Yeah, I say - hey. There’s got to be a way.

Gotta be a way… for m...

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Foolish Crowd

There are a lot of mysteries, anomalies and such,

things that seem to have no explanation why they are.

One of these (above the rest) that makes me wonder much -

is how the foolish crowd is made of people who are far

 

from being foolish on their own. Yes, people who are good.

Yet somehow when they’re in a group, mysteriously they change.

It’s something I suppose just really...

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Do You Feel The Music

Do you feel the music?

Does it capture in your soul

the feelings that got lost in there

as you’ve played out your role?

 

Have you ever sat and listened,

let it take you far away?

Well, I’ve done it time and again

and I can clearly say -

 

that nothing else compares.

It’s like a portal out of time,

where you can let things go and heal,

submerged in the sublim...

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Eye To Eye

We are so different, totally.

There hardly is a thing

that gives us common ground at all,

but it is interesting –

that we can still live side by side

in pure peace if we try.

Cuz everything is possible…

when we see eye to eye.

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Eternally Alone

It doesn’t matter how the sun sets,

nor how the clear streams flow.

There is no joy in waves of grain

or brilliant fields of snow.

 

This world in all its glory

spins round eternally,

but glory melts to sand and grey

because there’s only me.

 

I once lived life upon a world

with billions by my side,

where I spent my time wishing

I could run away and hide.

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Dream In Color

Did I lie awake at night,

or did I dream in color?

Such wonderous things

I saw and heard,

that took me to the other

 

side of the stream

from whence things flow.

A magic filled the air.

So mystified, I was at home

completely unaware.

 

For time stood still,

bathed in the light

and love that make all things,

a message fell

like drops of rain,

and ...

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December Rainy Night

Starring out my window this December rainy night,

all I can do is long for you again.

Sometimes I feel I’m over you, like maybe I just might

move on and forget about all that’s been.

 

But as the raindrops fall, all of the tears I hold inside

come tumbling down as blue skies turn to grey.

And then it doesn’t matter much, how hard I have tried

to let you go and go another wa...

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Deserts Of New Mexico

Sandstorm churning in my mind tonight,

driven by the wind of change.

And I know… it’s not that easy.

Drove a million miles and it is all the same,

spinning through the circles of my mind.

And it’s cold… it’s not that easy.

 

But there’s a feeling unlike any other thing I know -

on the deserts of New Mexico,

I see forever but it’s not… not as far as I can see.

Yeah, th...

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Depart

Have you perhaps, held on too long

to the place you call home?

Have you let too much time slip by,

avoiding the unknown?

 

It’s hard not to be scared of change,

it happens naturally.

The risk of taking chances, yes

it’s pure anxiety.

 

But staying in this place is death,

you’re meant to rise and grow.

Your heart is meant to be your guide,

trust it and just le...

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Corners

There’s a corner of eternity

where I’ve built a simple home.

A place that I can go to

when I want to be alone.

 

A place where winds of

time and space glide gently

through the air.

 

A place each time I leave,

I’m longing,

wishing I were there.

 

We deal with many things in life,

so much that brings us down.

We swim through burdens, paddling,

hop...

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Choices

Two birds left the nest after they had learned to fly,

setting off to find what the world has got to give.

Each had what it takes to ascend into the sky,

but each bird also had different reasons why they lived.

 

One lived a life to soar above, his days spent in the air.

The other lived to gather in and build a stable home.

One was carefree enjoying daily views beyond com...

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By The Light Of The Moon

I sometimes sit awake at night

unsure what I should do,

swimming through my thoughts

yeah, all the worries of the day.

I guess I like the solitude,

although I’m feeling blue

there in the quiet moonlight

softly, God opens the way.

 

In dim of night he reassures,

a peace rests in the air.

The things I want to worry of,

they simply melt away,

replaced by vis...

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Breakthrough

Who knows 

how many 

layers

over

generations 

have been 

used. 

 

Sprayed on, 

and caked on, 

and smeared on

thick

for the purpose 

of covering

the truth. 

 

Oh ye who

through the ages 

have done this,

though 

your layers

be deep,

know this -

 

that the truth 

will break though. 

Not a thing

you can do. 

For all

...

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Baltimore To Somewhere

BALTIMORE TO SOMEWHERE

 

You wished upon a star

and got left out in the rain.

You gave it all your heart

and it just got broke again.

 

Oh… It just got broke again.

 

You dressed unto the nines,

and I guess he’ll never see.

You painted a whole world, clearly it

is not meant to be.

 

Not meant to be.

Oh... not meant to be

 

He let you down again

...

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A Little Time

A LITTLE TIME

 

Daddy, spend some time with me,

it’s all I really need.

 

It doesn’t have to be that much,

let’s go do simple things.

 

Help me remember times back when

I was a little girl,

 

when you called me your princess doll,

back when you used to twirl

 

me round and round. You’d tossed me high,

just simply having fun.

 

So, Daddy let’s ...

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Eternal Field

I one time dreamed a dream wherein I walked within an open field,

where every step a memory was, and every breath was poignant filled.

 

I saw each day I ever lived, they all bled slowly into one.

Each opportunity to give now stood a moment left undone.

 

I saw each thing I ever owned and tried so hard to justify,

but every effort woeful fell and I was left to wonder why.

...

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Dusk

When you’re on an endless highway

is there any hope at all

that a destination will be reached,

and you can finally fall

back in the arms of the one you lost,

in the home you left behind?

For despite the years spent traveling,

more highway’s all I find.

 

They say that life’s a journey,

comprised within a dream.

A quest designed to test the will

and faith...

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I Used To Have

I used to have a reason

to get up and fight for truth.

I used to have light in my eyes

to know I’d be with you.

 

I used to have a lot of things

but now all that I do -

is sit here alone, remembering home,

wishing I’d been true.

 

I used to have a family.

I used to have a home.

I used to have friends,

things I could call wins.

A foundation made of st...

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The Truth Concealed

The deepest hole I’ve placed it in

and covered it with all that’s been.

Then beat upon that grave each day

in hope to make it go away.

 

I’m terrified that it will grow,

and so afraid somehow, you’ll know -

the secret I have buried deep.

The secret that I want to keep.

 

The thing that is the root of all

the reasons why I want to fall.

The reason why I’ve never ...

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The Winds Of Change

I’ve never liked the winds of change

they bring the cold and driving rain,

destroying what was calm and warm

and leaving nothing but the storm.

 

They make me have to rise and flee

to higher ground for my safety.

Then when they’re done I’m left again

to find new space I can fit in.

 

And oh the work, it brings me down

exhausted, humbled to the ground.

Yet in the...

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It's Time

We want the same and fear the change,

yet all the while we just complain

of everything single thing under the sun.

I’ve heard it is a general rule,

that man is nothing but a fool

because he never wants the prize he’s won.

 

And yeah, it is the same with me,

I live in discontent you see.

I never seem to find a place to rest.

I’ve searched to find some middle ground

...

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Simple Ways

I woke one day as I recall,

years back in time but not in mind.

The reason I know not at all,

but felt I there and humbled knew,

for peace distilled as morning dew -

life is a gift indeed.

 

Then from that morn

the years have passed,

whilst way to way filled up the day

and brought me where I stand at last -

worn thin of wear and weak of will.

Yet in my mind the...

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What's Of The Heart

What’s of the eyes if not to see -

a darkness on the land,

perpetuated by a world

that will not understand.

 

What’s of the ears if not to hear -

a silence through the night.

A deafness born of leaders with

no care of what is right.

 

What’s of the lips if not to speak -

a fading muffled voice,

drowned out by those in power who

refuse the people’s choice.

...

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