Looking past and beyond

Looking past and beyond

The troubles of today

A peaceful day waits as

We try to make our way

Is there a sigh and sleep

Waking to a blank page

Our history, humdrum

Our future, all the rage

If silence is golden

If silence is golden

The World is full of tin

Some of us in sunlight

Your light is from within

A quill on the arrow

That travels time and space

Not just generations

The entire human race

Remember the summer

Remember the summer

When we were together

From crocus to aster

Our hearts in a tether

Young and alive, we would

Travel until sunset

Toss out ideas to see

What gets caught in our net

Here in the crevices

Here in the crevices
Perhaps my DNA
Designs me for darkness
And not the light of day

Choosing obscurity
Alive and so unknown
No dates of importance
Just birth and death on stone

The loss of habitat

The loss of habitat
Whether it's trees or fields
The Earth no longer holds
A condition that yields

What I need to survive
The succession of me
The marsh has disappeared
Fields paved, the fallen tree

Not a star in the sky

Not a star in the sky
For everyone to see
Just a grain of sand that
Is washed up by the sea

The indiscriminate
The tiniest of wee
The granular, the grain
Lost on the beach of We

Where are you my old friend

Where are you my old friend
Perhaps at the next bend
I will wait until then
Together we are two

Past the bend, still alone
I feel it to the bone
I'll stand until I'm stone
I long to be with you

This season is ending

This season is ending

‘Though I want to say no

All the leaves have fallen

So it’s time to let go

The next generations

Are given time to grow

Bloom on new wood until

The next coming of snow

Wishing for lullabies

Wishing for lullabies

But the aspen trees quake

While the light of the moon

Begs us to stay awake

It never winks or blinks

As it slowly ascends

Like death tethered to life

That finally commends