Feel Safe

There is no limits on gender or age
no discerning height
or exclusionsing by wage-
everyone needs to feel safe...
A place to turn to
people who share
a shelter from the storms
a refuge with care.
Whether it be loving arms
or the solice of a private space,
everyone needs to feel safe.

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Valuables

Who thinks to break into one's house,
to steal the love from your heart?
Does the moth nest and eat holes
in your proudest moments
or fondest memories?
What is the purchase price
for those moments
when your heart almost burst ?
The birth of a child,
the taste of a victory,
or the love of a parent.
No! The heart and soul protects
that which is truly valuable doesn’t it?
It keeps our most valuable treasures safe
from the shallow eye to see
and where the envious hand
can not reach in and take hold.
Yes, tangible things may be taken
and we may weep a moment over them...
yet the intangible rewards
earned by living and loving
can not be touched.


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Cherish "You"

Cherish the "YOU"
and move in that direction!
Pick up the stones off of your path.
Yeah!... Those ones that are in the way,
the little discouraging sparks
that try to halt your sucess and joy.
Manafesting selves as doubt and paralyzing fear.
The things that may cause you to stumble or stop.
Move forwards as" you,"
not as others perceive you to be.
No! The " you", you know you are!
That is the greatest obsticle isn't it.
Alowing yourself to be free.
Release it then...
yes, set it free... be all that you can be.


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Footprints

Walk according to the footprint
you wish to be remembered by.
Always keep at the back of your mind
"How am I representing me?"
"How am I representing my familiy?"
We are all linked to the verbs
we represent in our words
their longevity in remembrance
far surpasses thinly veiled hot air
of merely expressed intent.
A man can starve to death on well wishes.
Mere words do not load up the dishes.
Seek to find your "sure-foot"
and walk on the moral high ground.
Look around...it’s safer there,
balance is there,
contentment is there,
decisiveness is there,
it is the playground
for sound and powerful momentum to get things done.
Yes! Your actions will confirm
whether your talk is real
whether you’re real.
So walk according to the footprint
you wish to be remembered by...

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What It means

As far as the ocean is wide
through miles and miles of sea,

You will always be someone special,
a true miracle to me.

Look high upon the mountain tops
as high as one can climb,

that's how dear you are to me,
the best friend anyone can find.

Just like the stars that twinkle
throughout the heavens above;

You will are a bright reminder
of what it means to love...

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Faces

FACES
Your eyes speak to my soul
and whisper to me deeper
than your lips have ever told....
I see your depth
I see your fears
I see your hopes
and I can certainly feel your tears.
Your words speak to my mind,
of plans and thoughts
you want to make clear....
but that is a surface well polished
primed and curated just for show.
Yet below lies the knowledge,
of who you really are...
and there I hear your heart.
I hear you cover it with common phrases.
In doing so, I hear your walls
brick by brick clicking into place,
but I can read your face.
Like a mirror reflection
opposite of intention
you speak a brick into your wall
but I hear your heart call...
"take it down...
raze it to the ground"
And I will do just that for you
I will do what you want me to...
to expose that golden glorious you.

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Lady

I am a lady
I know that is rarely, clearly defined now days
but I come from the era where
I had to spent hours walking with a book on my head
learning posture, etiquette and manners...
Why would I throw it all away
on the mindless culture of today
No I’m not a Diva ...I’m a lady
I am not going to put my hand on my hips
and wag a finger in the air
voicing my disapproval
demanding your removal of what has offended me....
Instead....watch this lady walk away.
Why would I want to stay,
in front of someone who shows no respect?
Hey I’m drawing my line in the sand
I’m going to tell you what I will stand for,
It’s called respect, dignity, moralistic decision making...
You aren’t going to tow the line...
then I haven’t got the time,
to explain to someone who is not capable of understanding
what it is.... to have and hold onto a lady!

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Blowing Sweet Kisses

Blowing sweet soft wishes your way,
not just of a good day,
but a good life too..
one that has paths of peace
and friends who are true,
with careing thoughts
and warm wishes for you.
Blowing sweet soft kisses your way
not of the flirting kind to bolster the ego,
but the kind that wants to encourage you to let go
of all that went wrong in your day.
To remind you ...
that there’s always someone who
is there at the ready to edify you,
...come what may.

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Perfect Balance

Inner peace which we use to radiate outwards into our worlds,
is a consequence of finding and maintaining a perfect balance,
between our positive intents and how we follow through with them.
Every moment is a perfect moment to foster and radiate peace.
Every spark of energy we set free from our hearts,
owns a momentum of it's own.
Bringing changes with what ever it touches.
It is not for us to suppose it's direction and purpose,
it is our duty only to set it free
and allow the will of heaven to flow upon it.
For redemption is everyone's gift...
yet radiating light into this world is everyone's duty.

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Marketing Individuals

What confuses me today
is when they say
"individualism"...
Is it not market driven?
Silver screen glorified... personified...
Where fads and fancies
flay back and forth
like a whip...
ever evolving and reinventing it’s self
in order to spur ever more desires and needs.
Play on mankind's greeds.
And if you can not keep up with trends
you can not make amends with society
and it’s tastes and fancies for putting down
in order to raise self up.
You!!! .... you deviant...
standing outside of the box.
Looking lost and forlorn.
With wanton eyes and clothes all torn.
Think of this...
the more insatiable the greed
the faster the need for that whip to snap.
Sooner than later indeed
it will be
physically, financially and emotionally
harder to keep up.
Then more peoplewill be standing outside of the box
with you...
and you will be the norm.
With those who market "individualism" all lost and forlorn.
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Accounted as Wisdom

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In The Hands Of Another

My vitality is not in the hands of my neighbor,
whose lips are full of poisoned darts
who practices the fine art
of putting down to raise selves up
of drinking from a wrathful cup....
My peace is not in the hands of another,
whose intents are of self proposed gains
who belittle and scorn another’s pain
and build suspicions upon mistrust
and build their fortunes among vengeful lust...
My joy is not in the hand of another
whose heart is full of their own desires
who sets their neighbors misfortunes on fire
and seek to find their own gain
and shun the one who doesn’t seek the same...
No! I dont leave my hopes in the hands of another...
But I guard my own vitality to ensure,
it is kept safe, treasured and secure
I hold my own peace close within my heart,
from my own dreams I do not depart,
just because it doesn’t suit another’s need.
I put a cap on speaking wrathful seeds.
I am gentler and kinder to my own soul,
Living to my fullest potential is my ultimate goal.

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A Home

There is a home waiting for you where:

you are never alone...never forgotten,

never abandoned... never abhored,

never taunted.. never put down.

Upon your temple is placed a crown

of "holiness to the Source"

and it is a Father's great pleasure ...

to see it there!

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With Friends Like You

It doesn’t matter,
if I have a lot of tedious things to,
I can always make my day sweeter
if I take a moment or two...
for a dream or two...
visualizing the things I like to do,
or places I wish to visit too,
oh... and of course... if I dream of you.
Now it doesn't matter how cold outside
and it doesn’t matter how hard someone rides
my back,
not cutting me any slack...
I can make it disappear
by thinking of friends like you my dear,
whispering jokes in my ear.
Trying not to laugh out loud
which it seems
I am never able to do....
Yes my days are made better
with friends like you...

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Outside Of The Box

Outside of the box....

that has always been an aggravating,
and grating concept for me,
yet it is where I find myself to be...
consistently, typically, and usually.
Yeah, that pretty much spells out me!
And I also find,
myself standing at the line,
almost all the time,
trying to figure how to step back in....
This is very sad but true,
I think I have to go back and do
kindergarten all over again,
because I never quite find
the skill of coloring between the lines.
So you can imagine my horror and confusion
once I figured how to finally stand within
(the confines of the box that is...)
only to be hearing of talk
of thinking outside of the box.
Say what?
Took all this time to figure myself in-
only to have to step out again?
So I say to you
screw the box,
and screw all your talk!
I’m going to put my soul at ease
and stand where ever I damn well please!

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Listening To Inner Me

In these days I just find,
you got have a discerning mind...
and sift through the motives and the fear,
so that the truth becomes exposed and clear.
I tend to listen to words in the ear,
that are spoken gently my dear,
Not yelled off of the roof tops
with reckless abandon... pulling no stops.
And I am going to step out on a limb and do,
perhaps what’s not popular to do,
but it’s what my heart tells me to.
For this moment in time
I’m going to step out of "me"
and I am going to start thiningk about "you"
See if it is true-
that what goes around
comes around seven fold,
going to call it an investment,
that I can tap into when I am old.
Yeah! That’s the way it is going to be...
and I am going to stop listening to all of you
and start listening to the inner me.


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Scorpion-like Fear

I can feel it crawling up my spine - poking and prodding
looking for a means to enter my mind...
to seize and freeze - my self control...
but with deliberate breaths
I cast it to the depths - of my thoughts.
Attempting to leave it behind me now
walking away from it now
but I have failed somehow
it is clinging to my body now
crawling back up to my attention - my being ...it is seeing ..seeing...
the cracks in my armor - attempting to wedge them open now
to levy it’s lethal blow and take over my mind somehow
back me in the corner - with no where for me to go.
I am frozen now,
holding my breath now
trying to be strong now
just wanting for it to be gone - just waiting for it to move on...
We’re eye to eye now
our glances meeting now,
yet it doesn't seem so large somehow
I think I can take it down...
Yes! I can take it down,
because when I looked - I saw it’s weakness now....
my fear is as good as gone!

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In Times of Chaos

There are times
when we are advised to be in the moment...
focused on the "here and now"...
and not on the "there or then."
But like anything true to life,
there are always exceptions
contrary to the wisdom of the sages,
who have touted the benefits
of present day living
through the ages.
Take for instance
in times of chaos...
when it is best to focus ahead,
through the turmoil
not allowing your momentum to be
distracted and halted
by present confusion and cloud.
Yes in times like these
it may be best
to be focused on the ends...
and it’s means,
not allowing the turbulent winds
to spook and distract your steps
from here to there...
Time is very much a sensitive travel isn't it.
Requiring you to be awake and aware
from here to there...

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Costing Nothing But A Smile

With an asthetic stroke of a smile,
or a thoughtful demeanor,
you know,
the ones that linger on the mind for a while...
these make a grey day seem to slip away.
Simple stuff... costing nothing,
but the time to wear,
the brief moments taken to share,
yet engulfed with fundamental complexity in healing,
all bundled and rolled into a moment of care...
A warm hand
or an encouraging whisper
you know...
the ones that light up the heart,
making the storms and deserts vanish to thin air.
Moments used to their fullest,
that spark a glow to the essence of need,
given without greed,
planting a seed,
in the minds eye...
that mankind can indeed,
exemplify the meaning of HUMANITY... in it’s simplicity...
you know... costing nothing but a simple smile!

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Stand Alone

I dont belong to any organized groups...
I believe my strengths, my thoughts
and my direction is a personal process.
And I kinda like to keep it that way.
Mankind it seems ...
has never learned to play nicely together.
Get them organized and the quest for power
starts making their thoughts sick.
Someone has got to be the boss...
someone else is going to be tossed, cursed, spat upon...
collectively cast to the bottom of the heirarchy.
But all life to me is a blessing... equally.
Funny how some love to curse the down cast
not thinking how they contributed to put them there.
I hear that there are 300,000 or more American Vets
in the streets...homeless... at any given night.
Make you think twice about spitting on your homeless?
Now there’s group dynamics for you!
Na!!!... collectives interfere with the natural flow of cosmic energy
between the source and the individual!
And didnt you read...?
We were all fashioned individually.
Thus I prefer to stand alone ... on my own.

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If I Close My Eyes

If I close my eyes to possibilities
and limit myself due to race color or creed
because it were the thoughts dictated to me....
not discerning
not learning
stepping out of the tight constrictions of a box
fitted for me
but not by me.
If I see only one side
view only what the surface shows to me...
ignore the depths inside
of people, places and dreams...
I have squandered my time and wasted my life
given and entrusted to me...
by a source who showed nothing but
unpredudicial mercy to me.

Thus I determine my steps in HIS name, to do better....

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Silence

I sit myself in silence
where I set my soul free,
it plays among my wishs,
before it returns to me.
There I lay the foundations,
of where my next steps will be.
There I envision my future
with all it’s possibilities.
I sit myself in silence
where I set my imagination free
it plays among my day to day
and colors my reality...
dances among my hopes and dreames,
breathes life into my capapbilities...
I sit myself in silence...

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Put Yourself out There

There is a claim that miracles
are the fancy of imaginations
and indeed they will be
if you are not open to receive them.
If you hold no faith,
if you do not use your eyes to see them,
if your definition is to tightly wrapped.
All these blocking the vital energy
that all miracles flow on.
No one will hear you
if you do not speak out.
Indeed you will not be tested ,
if you do not stand up for something,
but again....
you will never need a miracle either!
Nor will you experience the euphoria
of being blessed by one ,
unless you put yourself out there in faith,
standing firm in your convictions.
Life is a miracle in it's self
and you would be squandering your life
unless you put yourself out there as well

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For An Eternity

How beautiful it would be...

my friend
to see
you grow old with me
and still be...friends...
still sending
love back and forth
still making time well worth,
well spent....
by the smiles we send....
each other.
Oh the things we could share,
over the years.
We could laugh at technology
(then...)
which once...
(now)
amazes us...
like we laugh at typewriters today!
Letting all the while
sunrises and sunsets slip away
not even noticing
while we shared and cared.
That would be grand...
to hold your heart close to mine
my friend,
for what down the road may seem
an eternity....


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F-alse E-vidence A-pearing R-eal

It is said that once you look at
your advesarial issues...
I mean - look them straight in the eye...
then you see them
for what they truly are.
Like the wizard of OZ...
who was found to be
nothing but puffed up fear,
hidden behind a curtain.
That’s all it ever is
when you look at it...
your issues I mean.
because when you look at them closely
suddenly bridges of solutions begin
to streach the span between
you..... here
and your desire to
be..... there.
Indeed the "what- if’s"
become contingency plans
and the span closes in on it’s self.
Fear is nothing but unanswered questions
begging for a moments look
a reassuring glance
towards answers that become plans...
Fear not you have the capacity to overcome!

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Marketing Individuals

What confuses me today
is when they say
"individualism"...
Is it not market driven?
Silver screen glorified... personified...
Where fads and fancies
flay back and forth
like a whip...
ever evolving and reinventing it’s self
in order to spur ever more desires and needs.
Play on mankind's greeds.
And if you can not keep up with trends
you can not make amends with society
and it’s tastes and fancies for putting down
in order to raise self up.
You!!! .... you deviant...
standing outside of the box.
Looking lost and forlorn.
With wanton eyes and clothes all torn.
Think of this...
the more insatiable the greed
the faster the need for that whip to snap.
Sooner than later indeed
it will be
physically, financially and emotionally
harder to keep up.
Then more peoplewill be standing outside of the box
with you...
and you will be the norm.
With those who market "individualism"
all lost and forlorn.

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Curious Comments

Bless Your Tears

Bless your experiences, for wisdom is nothing if it is never tested.
Bless the stumbles you have suffered,
for out of them come great learning- great gains.
And what can joy be measured against- or fully appreciated,
if it were not for a little sorrow?
So bless the gifts of sorrow as well.. do not hide from it...
for your sorrow illuminates your joys beyond measure.
Tears keep the heart clean and wash away pride.
Tears waters a thirsty soul and keeps it supple and alive.
So bless- and see yourself as blessed- for you truly are!




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Beside You

You are my hiding place and my shield.
Your very presence lifts me up,
and I feel safe.
Beside you I have hope.
Beside you I can see a future.
My eyes welcome the sparlking lights of tomorro.
Beside you my soul can fly to it's rest.
Beside you there is life to enjoy.
Beside you I can see all possibilities.

You are my ever present joy!


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Recognize

RECOGNIZING...

Over the same issue I did stumble and fall
failing to see my wake up call...
I cried to the heavens-
"what have I done...
to deserve being continuously shunned?"

Cursing the unfainrness of this endless distribution
the heavens seemingly filled with perpetual retribution
leaving me in distress and dire disillusion....
I had failed to see
the escape key!

Had I not experienced similar scenes?
Am I not going round and round
on a re-occuring theme?
Is there possibly something I need to learn...
to ensure this cycle takes a different turn?

Perhaps that's it...
my eyes now opened to see,
this isn't retribution
as much as a cleansing of me.
A growing internally...
A making and breaking into a better me
Breaking my cycles which sets me free.


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Fears

Define to me please
what the fear of failure means...
if you have never first tried...
to breathe life into your dreams
If you have snapped off all the possibilities
of gaining your little victories.

Did you not already by your own hands- fail?

An ounce of caution goes a long way
but the overly cautious will even say
"You have to take chances somedays."
Else you're smothering your creative fire
and pouring water on your desires...

Cheating yourself from living
learning
gaining
and giving back to the world all the blessings
that your chances gained...

Imagine if we all refrained...
how timid a society-
if we were content to" just be!"
How long would we survive-
living in fear constantly?

Just do it- Yes you can



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The World Is A Game

To some.. "the whole world is a game"

Yet I say to those...yes...perhaps it may be true...

but the ending always remains the same!

You just cant take "things" with you,

nor do they hold an account before your source.

Nor do they last over the ages.

Countless ruins will testify.

What is more valued in the game,

is the abulity to affect the board in

a positive and memorable way...

Change the world and it's vibe around you.

Make it contageous and forward in momentum.

This legacy of sparkling energy

you may not take with you either,

however it does remain on the board,

in the hearts and minds of those you touched

and planted in their actions

it testifies that indeed you were here...

rolling like thunder and smiling like the sun!

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Smile

Come here

and stop a while

let me enjoy that

beautiful smile.

Come beside me

and sit ....

for just a bit....

let me enjoy your

radiant glow

before you go.

Don't have to say a thing,

let the silence soothe

or let's listen

to the birds sing.

Spending a moment or two,

enjoying the morning

just me and you!

So Come here sit a while....

let me enjoy your beautiful smile...

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In Silence

It's in my silence that I can see
the 4 corners of the winds... and possibilities.
If I don't find time to calm my mind,
it's a rushed 24/7 day to day.... making a dollar.... no time to play.
And in this rush I'm deprived of me
I don't see
dont dream... living one day to another
making plans on another man's schemes.
But in my silence I can see...
the world in it's entirety,
the best of me
and in my silence all is calm,
my thoughts are clear... I allow time to roll on...
it evaporates my fears!
And in my silence I can see
the paths , the decisions, the plans and revisions,
laid out for me.
It is all in my silence.

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What you hold

What you hold...
What you hold in your heart
is what your eyes will see...
what your hands will seek to do...
the paths your feet seek to tread...
and the thoughts that fill your head.
What you hold in your heart
your eyes will recognize...
seek and find
one of a kind
for who you are is whom you bind
yo your heart that is,
those of like mind.
So look in the mirror to view you,
..look deep for the real you
and if you don't like what you see...
change your heart!
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