Lily Pads
The future is strange
A thousand lily pads floating by
For which would you break your stride?
I can’t be angry at the process of life
If anything
I am in awe
It is hitting me
Viscerally
Why go to school
When I could be my own
Source of discipline
Ah, sweet relief
The feeling of being needed
The sweet relief
Of having feet on the ground
Feel the energy of the earth
Holding my spirit down
Just enough to keep this whole thing
From coming unwound
I see you as a partner
A partner in radical truth, and honesty
That is our bond
A ship that sails well past the horizon
Again and again
Reinventing
What would I give up
To have you feel
My honouring
Not myself
But everything I think I am
With our collective strength
I come to know
That I am so much more
Than those thoughts
Which hold me
How quickly the tides can change
When you are living with an open heart
Everything that passes through me
Is light, bent
Around the knuckles of my bed frame
So that I have somewhere to sleep
Tonight
Life is my partner
tonight we have this dance,
But for tomorrow, I pray
Let me live with the grace of
First chance, taken
I am being swept
Like sand from my hideaway bed
In a small town by the beach
Comfortably out of reach
Hoping life finds me
Later today
Maybe I will
Feel the sun
And it will be enough
To make me smile
After all
There is so much to be happy for
Without having anything at all
That is a rich man
Who feels safe
In the endless change of it all
My body is shaking
I have come so far
And yet there is
So much more to go
The usual comforts
Are astonishingly absent
In their place
There is only life smiling back at me
Saying
There is no need to be afraid
You’re only letting go of everything
That is ripe and ready
Fall away
Fall away and know a freedom
Which will teach you how to really live
I can’t get lost in you,
Or any one, any more
The only option left
Is to shine
No matter who is with me
Look at us
All of us
Growing, changing
Dying to live
From each moment
To the next
Here I am
Eating peanut butter out of the jar
Watching my face drip with the wilderness
Of unrelenting love and
Beckoning
Here we are
Ready to ignite
One day at a time
The future is never too far
Spend your days
Knowing
Life is a process
of its own design
Out of the mist a voice resounds:
Keep going
Pick up that broken boy breathing shallow on the beach, stoking the fire
Finding strength as the light of day fades
Are we grown if we cannot face the night?
Soon, what was fearful becomes fun
And we will look back
Knowing we could not learn any faster
And we will smile
As the next generation
Over takes us
