We're all living too long

We're all living too long
Our lifetimes expanding
Trees would fall to the ground
Now more trees die standing

With their faculties gone
And momentum lacking
If not now, tell me when
Is all they are asking

There is no acceptance

There is no acceptance

No cheers for uniqueness

All our differences

Are viewed as a weakness

No love or open arms

A fistful of gravel

After the stones are thrown

Judgment by the gavel

Distance does not matter

Distance does not matter
The river ran its course
Mountains have all been climbed
It's the end, not the source

Is this the last sunrise
Not again, a moonset
This generation cares
And the next will forget

I am just existing

I am just existing
Like a snowman, a plant
I want to go back home
But I'm stuck here and can't

Another hyacinth
Soon will bloom and flower
I'd rejoice in Spring but
I don't have the power

Goodbye to my shadow

Goodbye to my shadow

The sun was never mine

Trees and birds continue

And the passing of time

When the flesh disappears

All that remains is bone

Marked with start and end dates

And our name carved in stone

Surrounded by beauty

Surrounded by beauty

Life living at its best

The butterfly flying

The robin on its nest

Slowly gliding to Earth

Is a transparent moon

While the morning sun climbs

To find its afternoon

Still the elusive dream

Still the elusive dream

Can I reel in a star

I may never realize

My goals are set too far

While time seems to tarnish

They’re something to behold

But all stars are not fire

Some are lifeless and cold

Why can’t the World be blind

Why can’t the World be blind

The scales of justice tipped

Perpetuating wrongs

With shoulders shrugged and chipped

Religion, upbringing

Or lack of empathy

The force of the gavel

All without sympathy

Learning to surrender

Learning to surrender

How to give up the fight

To enjoy the journey

To come into the light

No longer sifting through

The wreckage for pieces

The battle lingers on

The war never ceases

Here come the red robins

Here come the red robins

Soon to be making nests

Spring, around the corner

And Winter put to rest

While the headstrong blue jays

And the warblers arrive

Bees will soon be busy

At their Grand Central hive

Here I am defeated

Here I am defeated

Unable to walk away

An obvious checkmate

With pointless moves to play

Endless dead-end options

Yet I am not resigned

Wanting a solution

Impossible to find

Turn around to see youth

Turn around to see youth

Has faded, disappeared

No longer young, old age

Now abundantly clear

Trying to remember

Days that are blurred and gone

Countless days just wasted

Passing like stillborn spawn

Walking into the sun

Walking into the sun

My shadow behind me

Squinting as the light makes

It difficult to see

Winter now weeks ago

The snow clouds have parted

The sunlight is longer

The tulips have started

All at once, sudden joy

All at once, sudden joy
A universal kiss
From a nothing moment
To monumental bliss

No past, present, future
And inside there's a light
Nature together from
Elephant to the mite

Not all mathematics

Not all mathematics
The Truth sometimes changes
It finds better answers
From a set or ranges

Perhaps science will find
Answers that are the Truth
And we will have new ones
Just like a second tooth

Perhaps there's nothing more

Perhaps there’s nothing more

Nothing behind the door

No more an existing floor

With no chance to repeat

So we must live for now

Give up the why and how

Forget the final bow

And live each day complete

I recognize your star

I recognize your star

Here I am, the background

Blanket you with darkness

So your light can abound

A blank canvas to glow

I give to you my space

A dark corner that’s yours

To light in outerspace

Exercising grievance

Exercising grievance
Holding in repentance
Thoughts ramble on like an
Endless run-on sentence

Sifting through memories
While my future is made
Will I remember this
Moment or will it fade

No longer will I hide

No longer will I hide
Raise my flag, wave it proud
Step up front, turn around
And face the World, the crowd

Declare, state or decree
Words will silence the noise
March with triumphant steps
And seize the waiting joys

Into an unknown zone

Into an unknown zone

No longer open fields

Here lies a new terrain

The danger that it yields

Finding new beginnings

Never too old to start

Navigating canyons

On rivers of the heart

On the verge, on the edge

On the verge, on the edge

I can sense change coming

In the air, I can hear

A low tone or humming

How to prepare myself

Will I hold back the force

Or accept my future

On an uncharted course 

Before bird migration

Before bird migration

Before the hyacinth

The last days of Winter

Are becoming past tense

We greet the coming Spring

As if it just evolved

Yet it’s just the spinning

Around the sun, revolved

No ocean, no river

No ocean, no river

Or tall mountain to climb

Only flatland ahead

No barrier but time

Without any hurdle

I’m unable to move

The blank canvas triumphs

When there’s nothing to prove

One of us has to go

One of us has to go
First before the others
One of the family
Of sisters and brothers

But what does it matter
Names and dates on a tree
In a forest with an
Uncaring canopy

The Winter is over

The Winter is over

No longer a snow squall

No cold in the air or

Fields covered in snowfall

With a caress, a touch

Spring has ended it all

The tulips tipping as

Their bulbs answer the call

Together in a dream

Together in a dream
We float in outerspace
Our arms interlocking
A state of perfect grace

In light without shadows
A Marc Chagall wedding
Goat playing violin
And rings of sun spreading

All these daily prayers

All these daily prayers

That never leave our space

Half the world in darkness

Spinning in outerspace

No deity, no God

No eye up in the sky

All this devotion to

A story that’s a lie

Too difficult to dream

Too difficult to dream
Hopes too high and unclear
Hard to discern them when
Reality is clear

Better to make my way
Without dreams going bust
That break or fall apart
Or simply turn to rust

The last days of winter

The last days of winter
Snow falls and disappears
The days growing longer
Soon tulips will appear

How soon we will forget
The bitterness, the cold
The long nights of darkness
The winter will grow old

To find the elusive

To find the elusive
Discover Life alive
The transitory in
Moments that don't survive

To join in the raw joy
Where the music is new
As nature's dance partner
Unchoreographed shoe

All this endless wonder

All this endless wonder
Science or some great mind
Will locate the answers
That I can't seem to find

Until then, I'm drifting
A snowflake in a snow
Questions left unanswered
While floating with the flow