Healing in privacy

Healing in privacy

The rings beneath the bark

Facing the morning sun

Holding onto the dark

Not showing any wounds

All internal bleeding

No sign of scars or scabs

Or the pain receding

A Grand Canyon of years

A Grand Canyon of years

Here, where there is no sun

Chasing the horizon

So unfulfilled, not one

In the absence of Life

Your Life, that is no more

I am living, waiting

Here, at your final door

A blank canvas, a cloud

A blank canvas, a cloud

A fog that disappears

Painting the town red as

The evening moon appears

And before the paint dries

The sun begins to start

A new day to chase dreams

Without a map or chart

Another place and time

Another place and time

Going back just to see

The beauty passing by

Early rings of the tree

Unlike the stars and stones

Or the moon we admire

Our lives are full of change

Inception to expire

Airplanes disappearing

Airplanes disappearing

Borders under patrol

Ice caps slowly melting

As far as the North Pole

Quietly the cat sleeps

Curled up and confident

Their world at this moment

Is complete and content

Waiting for the darkness

Waiting for the darkness

The sun beneath the line

All day mending pieces

Dreams fallen from cloud nine

Longing for tomorrow

Today all used and spent

The sun sets like a dirge

The twilight, its lament

The past follows me like

The past follows me like

Shadows beneath my feet

No matter if I run

They will never retreat

Must I live in darkness

I will never forget

Each step in the future

A resounding regret