Understand

Turning corners can be upsetting

Embracing the new, letting go the old

Grasping what you desire in the mix

Choices we make form our future

Can you picture the way you wish life to go?

Truly, in the long run it matters

It makes the seas in which we swim

Rough and choppy or smooth sailing

Choose your friends well

For their respect of you must grow

As must your respect for yourself

Let your heart guide you in big and small

But use your mind to gather the sails

Know who you are, that you are grand

Touch all those you know with love

And share your gifts with those who understand

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Never Been

The skies heavy with dark clouds

The wind, patient, but anger-filled

The whole world is in a worry

Not for their people, but for their place

In history, in geography, in physics

We are in a whirl of uncertainty

Because these are troubled times

Who can be certain that one means

That truth, when truth has alternatives

And the great truth of mankind shudders

What can it all mean for humanity

When the Earth, herself, is rocking

On her axis, and exploding in ways

That have never been like this before

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Countenance of Honor

In honor of Kobe Bryant, may he rest in peace.

Why do the best of us fall before their time

The tragic passing of those who uplift us

Bears the burden of justifying this to our children

Why are the good taken before their time

Those who stand for right and goodness and hope

So sad that they become symbols of injustice

Although we commit them to memory

The honest, the forward-thinking, the inspirational

How we bleed for the best that humanity has to offer

When they are taken for no good reason

Yet, we shall remember the good deeds

We shall remember the countenance of honor

Aches and Pains

Does it matter how we feel each day

The headaches and the pains

With age comes frightful wanderings

Among the thorns and strains

Of everyday living, rising and reclining

As we suffer through the twinges

We don’t know the cause or need

We just know the pain in our hinges

All at once it comes into awareness

That something pauses our wellbeing

More trips to the doctor’s

More draws of blood that sting

It’s not an awful thing that age begets

The challenges of stiffness as it sets

Upon the body as we older get

The best of age is coming as we let

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Great Love

The day barely begins as I take my morning breath

I wander to the kitchen to make coffee

The snow outside is lifeless without a breeze

And the frightful face of winter perishes

No longer do I fret of the cold, the damp

It has no power over me, nor any man

The strength God has given me grows

And I am like a tempest in a cave

Hovering, listless and joined with spirit

Working with the forces of Nature

To bring the life into my old bones

So that I can follow great things, great love

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Another Day

Smooth as Black Velvet in the winter

A taste of whiskey coating the lips

The cold is home to the eventual life

Making a place holder of snow covering all

The wind catches it as it floats down

And howls with the cold, the frozen earth

Is a promise that one day, the warmth returns

The sun will be a stranger no longer

And so we regard the difficulty of the moment

Just a simple nuisance, as we can see

The growing drifts surrounding us

We need not suffer or worry in this storm

It is here today, gone another day

And there is still Black Velvet

Into My Heart

My soul curls up in a ball

As I reach deeply to find the infinite

A grand gesture to pull energy inside

And then, with a ray of light

I am awakened, brought to the opening

Of the great black hole of shame

Wondering why the darkness comes so easy

While the Light stands far off

I begin to feel the comfort

As I reach for the goodness within

And I stretch, pull, and understand

Where my heart is and why

I cannot see through the darkness

But now I know the Light is there

And soon it will be smiling

Upon my face, reaching into my heart

Too Much Pride

A glimmer settles into my mind’s eye

The Light pouring forth like sunshine

Different colored irises in the night:  green, blue

Millions of little stars passing through

And then it dawns upon me to see

The makeup of the Universe

The wheels that grind through each day

To exhibit the strength  of the unseen

Then the creatures of Light not so unlike

The creatures we see here on earth

And I realize the need to be mindful

Of the grand design, the perfection of all things

The relation of all things, stone, animal, plants

And the one which carries too much pride:  man