by Father Mumbled monologues Muttering the past Today is alive But cannot last And tomorrows mumblings Will mimic the sounds That should have been made While today was around Mumbled monologues Recollections recorded The glory of yesterday So greatly distorted Today carries with it The cancer of time And always falls victim At the peak …
by Father All those wasted moonbeams All those untasted dreams All those untested feelings All those faceless things That kept us from each other And the way we could have been If we had opened all the way up And let each other in
by Father Thunder’s under Lightning’s gleam Darkness surrounds A night star’s beam Disappointment sleeps On the underside of a smile And sometimes an inch Is as long as a mile
by Father And the raindrop Became a storm And a tear Became the sea And the storm And the sea Joined together And blew you home To me
by Daughter You don’t know me anymore I finally broke away All the things I knew I knew Finally pulled me over the threshold The control you offered I used as an excuse Not to take a step I let you admonish my boldness I let you have the compass while I Marched You the …
by Father Daybreak’s broken the dreams of night As nightmares roam the fields of day Daydreams seem to shed no light To help me find my way. The sun god in his battle dress Wins the battle but not the war I try to ease his lonliness As friends desert him by the score. Fear …
by Father The sweet smell Of yesterday Pulls me close To you The things we said The things we did The things we didn’t do And as the air Flows through your hair Yesterday lives again But you touch my hand Like any man’s And call me Your good friend.
by Daughter I am letting go The to do’s are done The fidgeting is finished All that is left Is the sun the moon the breath See it and feel it The connection is an undoing Disingaging from the race and the lies And what is left Is you me the peace The world with …
by Father Time Will talk To us at night As we hold Each other tight Reminding us Of dreams gone by Whispering words We used to cry Out to others We tried to hold As they helped us To grow old
by Father I see the silence Screaming From the lies Of all the quiet voices Dreaming In disguise And I hear my dear That salty tear As it washes From your eyes To crash once more Upon the shore Of pale and powdered skin As it’s pulled again By loves great tide From heaven to …