Neither time nor distance

Neither time nor distance

Can make me lose my place

I am here, still waiting

A pin in outerspace

Neither weather nor change

Can stop this absolute

A universal truth

That no one can refute

Yesterday's clouds are gone

Yesterday's clouds are gone
My childhood disappeared
My youth spent getting wise
Now old age has appeared

So much for the journey
No use turning around
The turns in the road hide
The past and travelled ground

Once at the beginning

Once at the beginning

From crawl to being tall

Took time to recover

From an initial stall

Can’t erase but fading

Feelings no longer raw

Life is never perfect

Just living is a flaw

The paintbrush tipped in blue

The paintbrush tipped in blue

The yellow of the day

Has gone and disappeared

The melancholy way

A canvas without sun

The blue, a deep midnight

Everything in shadows

Without a source of light

Pardon the mystery

Pardon the mystery

There is no true and false

Except we live and die

From heartbeat to no pulse

So it all means nothing

Enjoy it while you can

Live life to the fullest

With or without a plan

Did all the trees just sneeze

Did all the trees just sneeze

Before the coming freeze

Their leaves are in the breeze

Across the flat landscape

And the warmth of the sun

Is quickly on the run

The setting is all done

When the last rays escape

Is it impossible

Is it impossible

Out of time, out of place

To find our hearts empty

Love gone without a trace

Vessels without content

Feelings thrown overboard

Letting memories go

Resigned to cut the cord

Unable to improvise

Unable to improvise

Like clockwork precision

Designed for answers while

Not making decisions

Mathematically

The universal laws

Evident, abiding

Existing without flaws

Sadness in deep blue skies

Sadness in deep blue skies

And in the sun drenched trees

After a rain shower

That woke the sleeping bees

Sadness like big boulders

Fallen and disheveled

That won’t move again and

Gravity won’t level

In all its true glory

In all its true glory

A spectacular spark

That lights the universe

Like a star in the dark

A moment so shiny

And reflecting the sun

A beacon of beauty

The perfection of one

No invitation, no

No invitation, no

Beckoning open arms

No about face as Life

Nears the final alarms

Soon the equation ends

Divided by zero

The last moment standing

A victim or hero

The oxygen of life

The oxygen of life

The next essential breath

Inhaling happiness

Escaping certain death

The exclamation point

Alive until dotted

Life is not done until

Still fingers are knotted

The sun setting through trees

The sun setting through trees
The last aria note
A day disappearing
And another verse wrote

Try to find the beauty
Fleeting and passing by
The briefness of sunset
And then a sunless sky

Is this a step into

Is this a step into

The past or are we just

Trying to arrive at

A family or bust

No interest or want

Or better yet, no need

To interpret the tree

Or to question the seed

Every day a hurdle

Every day a hurdle

Racing to the finish

Survival critical

Energies diminish

Celebrations are few

The nose kept to the grind

No time to find answers

What's the use, nevermind

The silence surrounding

The silence surrounding

The peace of outerspace

The hush of a snowfall

In a cold winter’s place

In darkness or in white

The purity and grace

The taming of the wild

And raucous human race

In this arid desert

In this arid desert

Sand no longer inspires

Too much of one thing just

Extinguishes the fires

My soul now wants the sea

Without a patch of land

Until too much ocean

Leaves me begging for sand