Every year you pass

Every year you pass

The day that you will die

Opposite of birthday

It’s when you say goodbye

It’s waiting there for you

It knows one day you’ll come

This secret of a day

You just don't know which one

Here alone in Winter

Here alone in Winter

The stars are cold in space

Earth nearer to the sun

But tilted in its place

Outerspace is close, but

The human race seems far

I can see my breath and

I wonder where you are

My memory of you (Variation)

My memory of you

Is still the same, I know

How is it I held you

More so, I let you go

Carl Sandberg’s fog lays flat

Against the morning ground

I should have held you close

Instead I held you down

I touch but cannot feel

I touch but cannot feel

Hear, but can’t comprehend

I breathe but cannot smell

See, but not past the bend

I eat but cannot taste

Think, without knowing why

I have but cannot share

Sense, my third eye a stye

Dreaming on blank paper

Dreaming on blank paper

Inside the sleep landscape

Underneath my pillow

Strange sentences take shape

They’re written in my hand

But I’ve not scratched a word

As if my heart had penned

This letter to the World

With broken wings I will

With broken wings I will

Fly where we used to fly

To where there are broken

Things from our shattered lives

I can’t take the silence

Why is it not broken

My heart waits for your call

In words left unspoken

Take a pocketful of dreams

Take a pocketful of dreams

Deep into the forest green

Bury them beneath the pine

In a hole no one can find

Take a pocketful of years

Back into the forest sway

Did your dreams root and grow, or

Did they just decay away

Failure does not exist

Failure does not exist

Success is common place

You cross the finish line

And always win the race

No such thing as losses

It’s always a sure bet

Would you try anything

Without a safety net

This was my time and now

This was my time and now

I’ve nothing left to hold

Obscurity is me

I’ve aged and now grown old

My drive and ambition

Goes out now like a match

And all that is left is

A dying smoke and ash

Please keep moving forward

Please keep moving forward

Without giving up the past

Harder to keep going, we

Must make these moments last

Still a raging beauty

Although your world is stark

Your eyes may be blue, but

They’re only seeing dark

Just one step left of Life

Just one step left of Life
Avoiding a stampede
The human race races
While plainly I recede

Out here on the fringes
I long for company
Alone here watching races
That aren't including me

Past the blue into black

Past the blue into black
Away from gravity
Into outerspace where
Space has no brevity

Life's details don't matter
The Earth spins regardless
If I fail to keep pace
Lose or win, it's markless

I'm creating three leaf clovers

I'm creating three leaf clovers
Not poems unique as a snowflake
No longer the odd wonderment
Of how I live in outerspace

Where are the lines written in blood
Is my experience too brief
Nothing here for prosperity
I am searching for my fourth leaf

There is a deep silence (Variation)

There is a deep silence

Between each noise and sound

Deeper than the ocean

More solid than the ground

There is a silent cry

That never lets you tear

It’s greater than the cry

That you can only hear

All of us together

All of us together

The left must touch the right

Forgetting differences

We all enter into light

We accept wrongdoings

Forgiving what’s unfair

Rise to a greater All

We unify and share

So many stars are dead

So many stars are dead

Why am I still wishing

Empty useless prayers

That only end up missing

Outerspace is silent

There is no spoken word

My whispers unanswered

And never to be heard

The transparent moon is

The transparent moon is

Early for its waking

The tulips fall apart

Like my heart that’s breaking

With a sky filled with planes

You know I am leaving

While somewhere way down there

You are sadly grieving

I should have used my voice

I should have used my voice

I had the liberty

But I could not express

My own sincerity

All silent and quiet

I should have spoken up

Instead I walked away

Ignoring the unjust

I want to leave a thread

I want to leave a thread

In wilderness of time

This tiny little thread

The smallest words of mine

You cannot hear my voice

Shouting at a distance

So I will leave this thread

To prove my existence

There's a magnolia (Variation)

There’s a magnolia

Outside my window view

Oh, but it’s too early

It blooms because of You

Two daffodils nod yes

They know it’s truly You

They’ve joined in the error

Outside my window view

I have a memory

I have a memory

That calls me by my name

Only I can hear it call

Each time it is the same

The moment I hear it

I travel way back when

We were so much younger

And together again

No before or after

No before or after

This Life is very small

It just gets swallowed up

In the greatness of all

Why should I remember

When it does not matter

Moments lost forever

No here or ever after

I want to sing out loud

I want to sing out loud

Let the melody out

To find the perfect notes

And string them all about

Then join the harmony

So its not sung alone

Let the chorus refrain

Like a repeating poem