Windsong

    I

The wind has blown

This song to my ear

Brilliant choruses

everything I hold dear

The fire has burned

Everything out from within

becoming sparkling embers

carried off in the wind

The flow has been strong

Causing powerful waves

pounding at my heart

In such foreign ways

The earth, with my hand

I can help her heal

speak out my words

And teach them to feel

The eclipse in the sky

Has said volumes more

the way things are

On some foreign shore

               II

The heat of the night

Is the frost of my day

Where loving whispers

Become electrical play

The push of the air

Blasts my warmth away

the peaks of those mountains

rending hearts in the fray

I’ll return to her

because she never forgets

all have to go back

we all pay out our debits

but I can escape

I could return to the flow

a beautiful secret

that I do not yet know

I will love forever

And that will hold true

For as long as there is hope

I will always love you

           III

The water will rain

washing their faces

The torrents come down

erase these sad places

let them burn in apathy

let them die in hot coals

roasting in shellfire

try to fill empty holes

the wind will pick up

as it always has done

dispersing the life

bringing back all the fun

the ground will recover

the earth will still heal

let them go forth

and lead a life that is real

I cannot say how I know this

It is my choice as a bet

An ideal worth having

And worth dying to protect

           IV

She gave me everything

My body and embrace

To have this existence

And share in this place

He gave me this heart

burning within

A passionate cauldron

Of juxtaposable sin

She gave me her voice

Her play and her smile

So we could not stress

In a world of such guile

She is my right hand

How I connect to this place

With so much admiration

I give it a face

And then there is this:

Only void and chance

I’ll celebrate you in kind

You know how I dance