In a search for new words (Variation)

In a search for new words

Like new ways of breathing

So it’s not the same threads

In much the same weaving

Always panning for gold

And hoping for a strike

So my writing’s not dirt
I must search the unlike

Beneath a tree

Beneath a tree

With branches high

We sat and breathed

An endless sigh

Time escaped us

Not like that oak

Its rings are proof

For it to boast

No past is mine

I’ve claimed no hours

I sat in sun

Far from showers

For present time

We joined as three

On a hillside

Beneath a tree

Time did not ask of us

Time did not ask of us

It left us undisturbed

The days spent in waiting

My heart restrained and curbed

Time did not ask of us

It lay there in slumber

Gave us bright and dark

So we could keep the number

I am falling under

I am falling under

A wave I cannot cross

When I try to break through

My strength is at a loss

I look for the seashore

The light, the sun above

My eyes slowly closing

Black birds that once were doves

Cover me, my ocean

My grave is but the sea

I breathe water only

No air is there for me

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

Hold me, envelop me

Hold me, envelop me

Give yourself with kindness

With your all seeing eyes

Accept me in blindness

Point me towards a lightness

And guide me on my way

Love me in tomorrow

As you love me today

I'm so in the moment

I’m so in the moment

I can see exactly

Dust floating in sunlight

So matter of factly

To find the Universe

Is at my fingertips

And life and all its dreams

Complete my shoulder chip