Ocean Water

    The soft flow of your hair
The sweet smell of your skin -
    Ocean water

    The warm air of your breath
The pure taste of your kiss -
   Ocean water

    The light glow behind your stare
The tender touch of your embrace -
    Ocean water

    The silent mercy through your care
The delicate intent through your energy -
    Ocean water

    The bold passion if you dare
The emotional tide wavering your life
    Ocean water

How Things Were Then

When viewing pictures from my past,
Special events, places and family
I remember how things were

My childhood face appears in so many of those photos
With the memory of different thoughts and feelings
In the moment, true to me

Time held no meaning as the future
A place far from then is today
Not often wondered about

As this baby's face shown so happy,
I imagine then's love
As this child's face shown so estranged,
I remember then's loneliness
As this teen's face shown so insecure,
I remember then's feeling misunderstood

In adulthood, I feel a mix of these,
I imagine, remember and feel everything
Then's future are the happenings of today,
Optimistic of tomorrow's today

And when I'm an old lady,
How will I look at today, me in this moment?
Hello, good to see you again, as then
What a life in splendor, I remember-
How things were then.

My Name

   Induce my name
from another,
I feel I will not
   Produce my soul
of mother and father,
unique my lot
  I give destiny the role
new forgiving, chance is the game
creating for myself a dot
   Smaller one, than another
I reveal a truth with toll,
I stayed this spot
   For life's end brings no shame
for the showy brilliance then,
I will finally know my name, fear not

Phrases Retold

    Some phrases came
The legends of ol'
    Tales and sagas of heroes
From long ago
    Meaningful stories
When men wore their virtues
not to be sold
    The word of a gentleman
Held more worth than gold
    Certain phrases coined
For generations to remember
and that they be retold

First Lesson

   The moment I was born
Life's first lesson, granted unto me
   A simple essential required to live
From my first moment to the next received
   Help is given from an experienced hand
To bring the world a replenishment of the new, retrieved
   Never forgotten this first lesson
Through the power of belief
   Not even so much as a thought in my memory
Because once learned is instantly
   Part of everything that just happens naturally
While I sleep, I know this lesson will never leave
   For now it is and will for the rest of my life
Remain a part of me
   Life's first lesson granted unto me
With my eyes shut or wide open for me see
   I must in this first moment's opportunity
Seize my only chance to continue to be
   It is easy you see, all I need to do
Is BREATHE!

Finished Business

   It chills me to think
You may have unfinished business
Weighing even upon your death
   Just because one occasion missed
Held words to dangle, never to be said
   Uneasy my feeling is
A certain kind of dread, you may be consumed
By the thoughts filling up your head
   I find it most unbearable
A vision of your empty shell
All that has been left
   Without me to linger in your memory
Unsettling but for the peace in your heart
I must consider instead
   Hope grants us an opportunity to share
As much as, one more thing you need to say to me
Let it never find its end
   Eternal tranquility, forever shall be set
For everyone taking care of their business
Finished in all hearts can truly mend
   Comfort in your passing we have
And we will remember when
The love between us was undoubted
   None of it be spared even then
I kiss you on your forehead
Knees shaking as I bend
   Our prayers shall guide you
Your final journey is everlasting
Faithfully unto heaven you ascend

From the Eye of Men

From the eye
that which could not be seen
A harshness grew
and a cynic came
Twisting truth
by shifting blame

Confusion spread
through fear and doubt
A mistrust was lead
drawing man out
to leave his heart
And enter his head

Lasting too long awhile
troubling many men
in their heavy dread
Becoming unbearable
in the hearts of witnesses
Who shared their feelings and ideas

Until finally it was said
from the eye
Which cannot be seen
of the mind choose to see
From the heart instead
Relieve your thoughts their dread