MY PAST

My past has haunted me

My childhood

My children

No more

If I do not leave it all

In the past

It will kill me

I choose to live

Therefore none of it

Will haunt me another day

I will smile in the mornings

Welcome a new day

I may grieve from time to time

For what could have been

But no matter

It is what it is and that is not me

I wish them all well

But I will wonder no more

Why they will not speak

I have a voice, and I will speak

To any and all who wish to speak to me

But to the dark shadows and the past

I will speak no more

Speak of no more

Let it all lie silent in a grave

Of its own design

It is not mine and I do not own it

I am a free man

I choose to live that way

For now and ever.

there is one without the other, but

The soul is forever, til journies are run

It does not need a mere body

It needs a seeker

Seek not now and devestation

Will follow

Perhaps next time, we will learn

It does not need a mere body

We must seek the divine

That is our purpose

If we do not seek it

Do not plan and build for it

We cannot survive

Our survival is not divine

Our search is

THE GOOD LIFE

Well, I've heard about the good life
I've looked for it in cities
Then I looked in towns
Strangely, the nearest I came
Was in the forest by a waterfall
Well, why not
After all, those by the falls
Work in conjunction with the planet
Where we humans simply destroy
Don't we
Well, we'd better take lessons
If we want to be here
In even a hundred years
Don't agree, well
All I can say to anyone
Who thinks differently is
Look around you.

TOMORROW/YESTERDAY

We leave tracks, you and I
But when we look forward
We see only a few steps
We look back and see
Just a few more
But wait
Look back again
See beyond
Where they say we can see
What is that
Perhaps its proof
That more steps await us
For there in the dark
Millions of years before
Before they say we began to see
Others saw as we see
Three million years I'm told
So, look again to the future
Do you see it
Ahh, many footsteps still
Perhaps we will
We will see
The future, beyond
All of the past.
dc

IN THIS MOMENT

In this moment

A new year now

Will it be new

Or just an extension

More of the old

Old lies, old ties

Old beliefs or new

Will truth be born

From the lies

Reflected from the past

Will we be here

To accept that truth

Or will a new terror

Born out of the past

End the need

To ever think again.