"Questions"

Take a moment to see what's real.

How exactly do you feel?

Safe and warm, happy ,secure.

Or sad and lonely and not quite sure.

Do you belong? Are you embraced?

Or feel awkward ,unwanted, and out of place?

Can you spread your wings and fly?

Are you smiling? Or want to cry?

Are you where you want to be?

Can you say, hey I am me?

Or not quite sure of who you are.

Are you a bright and shinning star?

Is your reflection in the mirror.

Fuzzy and dark, or crystal clear?

Only you can help you see.

Exactly who you want to be.

Life is just a state of mind.

You can search and search and never find.

All your dreams, and all your goals.

Until you look inside your soul.

"Hold on Tightly"

Whisper softly words so sweet.

Perfect memories nice and neat.

Tightly locked without a key.

Trying hard to set them free.

Every moment, every dream.

Sparkling bright with glistening gleam.

Sunny days with bright blue skies.

Recollecting lalabyes.

Perfect times and perfect places.

Perfect people with smiling faces.

Locked away with passing days.

No more words left to say.

Wanting badly to bring them back.

But they've slipped between the cracks.

Hold on tightly to things that's rare.

Always love and always care.

Perfect memories nice and neat.

And whispered words that's soft and sweet.

"Where are We?"

Where in mind, there is a struggle.

You touch the world in deep embrace.

And nights are hard to understand.

Because the lights to bright to face.

Yet deep inside a tortured soul.

A madness rages unforetold.

Many rooms locked with keys.

Betray the mind that can't be free.

As time escapes and makes its way.

When pain is near it will not say.

For pain engulfs the body clear.

There is no peace for me in here.

Stuck in this web not made by man.

But worn, no less, I understand.

In life a struggle makes us strong.

But where are we, that don't belong?

"Memories, Wishes, and Broken Dreams"

Sometimes I feel lost in a ocean of emotion.

Over thinking my ship is sinking. Lost on stormy seas.

Things that was aren't there no more.

Like drift wood washing up shore.

Sometimes life seems like such a chore.

With everything I do.

Sometimes I can't shut off my mind.

Like a treasure that's so hard to find.

My eyes can see but I am blind.

While searching for my soul.

I keep going back and I remember.

Like a dying flame with burning embers.

Back to a day in late September.

When I used to smile.

Memories, wishes, broken dreams.

Life never ends up how it seems.

Like a star that flickers and gleams.

In the night time sky.

There was a time for a while.

That all I seemed to do is smile.

When my life was not on trial.

And everything seemed right.

So now I look for sunny days.

Like long ago and far away.

And I wish, and I pray.

For things that used to be.

So I asked you Lord with your love so kind.

If those days I cannot find.

Please Help me to shut off my mind.

And rest my weary soul.

"When God Decides its Time"

When God decides its my time.

To take the words that I rhyme.

And he says its time to go.

Beyond the clouds to heavens glow.

I will be ready on that day.

And I will look at him and say.

Thank you Lord for all my years.

For laughter, heartaches and all my tears.

Thank you for the path I've taken.

For cool spring mornings, for eggs and bacon.

Thank you for the ocean breeze.

For the God bless you's when I sneeze.

Thank you for the sun so bright.

And the darkness of the night.

Thank you for the call of the morning dove.

And thank you Father for your love.

"A Collector of Sunsets"

I am a collector of sunsets.

A follower of rainbows.

A dreamer of visions of God in the clouds.

I am a collector of promises.

In rainbow colored skies.

A follower of breezes, A dreamer

Hearing the spirit blowing where he wills.

I am a holder of hope in azure skies.

And crimson sunrises of trailing wisps of angel fluff in the clouds.

In all these things God speaks to me.

"Those Days"

For a time you walked with me.

We helped each other through stormy seas.

I was important for a time.

You loved the words that I would rhyme.

All those gray skies turned to blue.

On those days I walked with you.

But those days have passed me by.

Wondering how and wondering why.

Now not knowing what you do.

Not like those days I walked with you.

With every single passing day.

The road you walk seems further away.

And I have no clue what you might do.

Not like those days I walked with you.

But those days we walked together.

Through the rain and stormy weather.

Will stay forever in mind.

Like a treasure that's hard to find.

But may I ask one thing of you.

Where ever your life might take you to.

Think of me once in awhile.

And when you do I hope you smile.

And I hope some memories you will treasure.

On those days we walked together.

  

"Hey There I'm Here. I Been Here All Along"

Hey there I'm here. I been here all along.

Trying to make my presence felt.

Trying to sing my song.

I speak but no one seems to listen.

Like a star the doesn't glisten. I been here all along.

I walk in quite solitude. Just like I done before.

Drained of my self confidence. I'm never really sure.

I always seem to end up here. No matter what I do.

It seems so old. It breaks  my will. Like a worn out shoe.

People passing through my life. They might stop a bit.

They say hello and then they go. I never seem to fit.

Hey there I'm here. I been here all along.

Everything I think is right. Ends up being wrong.

But there is someone who walks with me.

And never left my side. Someone who tells me they are proud.

Someone who doesn't hide.

We've talked each night for many years.

We've both cried a million tears. 

He's helped me conquer all my fears.

And I trust him with my life.

When I get down on my knees and pray.

And thank him for another day.

I always smile when I hear him say.

"HEY THERE IM HERE. I BEEN HERE ALL ALONG"

"What You Reap is What You Sow"

Every single path you take.

Precious moments or bad mistakes.

Lead you where your going to be.

Call it fate or destiny.

What you do is who you are.

Sunsets , rainbows, or shooting stars.

Standing in the pouring rain.

Being happy or feeling pain.

Making wishes saying prayers.

Talking to the man upstairs.

As each moment ticks away.

Thank God for another day.

Trying to grab the golden ring.

And all the joy that this life brings.

Times of happiness and times of sorrow.

Will there be one more tomorrow?

So walk your path and walk it proud.

Say your I love you's ...nice and loud.

And when it's time for you to go.

What you reap is what you sow.....