Climbing Ladders

Been stepping on stones 

Waiting to fall right in

It's hard to leave crumbs

When that's all I got left to eat

Can't wait for a hero 

When I'm always doing the rescuing 

Can't be the princess 

When in true loves eyes I'm a queen

Warm, cold, hot, still doesn't feel right

Didn't want to taste what was never mine

 Pouring back the porridge 

Giving into thought 

Climbed the ladders high enough 

Found the giants to be small

No towers left to keep me

No powers to defeat me

When the heart knows what it wants

No reason can set the mood

To turn numbness into life

And return a love that I once knew

Love Free

Paid attention to the sound 

Watched the waves toss around

Braced myself for understanding

Listened for greater gaining

No burning bush to distill these thoughts

Only the one I watch and gaze upon

Becoming my set decision

To act out love with no condition

Such change in thought not just fundamental

But like air I breath it is essential

Not slowly becoming the new creation

But being to others the sole initiation

To letting him reign so they can see

The one I envision as I love free

Lullaby

A reflection of love in rest

A connection with grace at best

Finer things in life cannot be found

Sweeter notes will never sound

Than your whisper in my ear

Stay here with me, be near

A surrender of my will unneeded

When a rendered heart is greeted

By the giver of my days

By the keeper of my ways

To places left untouched 

To places left defeated

Until words came to grasp 

My heart, my mind, my life

Replacing what once I called my sight

 Your voice, my sweet lullaby 

Scattered

Like scattered seeds are the scattered hearts

 Like summers heat are the blisters from

 A life of not knowing who planted us here

 A life of not knowing why no water is near

 Unscatter us that we might grow

 Water us that we might know

 When unquenched desire arises within

 When our strive to live is growing thin

 Give us a place to rest our feet

 Give us the courage to take our seat

 On dusty trails where no love is found

 Provide your will to make the ground

 That has no stones to throw without

 First looking at the weeds come out 

 Our withered hearts that need to know

 The planter who desires his seeds may grow 

Unmasked

Unmasked to see a familiar face that stared at me so long ago

Seems like only yesterday I promised her I'd never change

Years of living without her say

Of what she thought or how she felt

Found her hiding and set her free

With her alive I can finally see

The one I masked so long ago

She's shown me more truth than I'll ever know

I can feel her telling me to be

The girl that loved to be alone

Because alone was her way of knowing him

Alone were her enchanted days

Magical lands were not in her fairy tales

Magical lands were not in her dreams

They were all around her in every step

The king welcomed her with every breath

Existing here was a gift unwrapped

Living here was figuring out

How to use that gift inside

How to live a life unmasked

This Safe Place

A stillness you bring to my life running free

A stillness that allows me to see howi you see me

With a smile on my face and a peace in my soul

I find myself thinking about this safe place you've shown me

I find myself waiting for the next moment

I'll be taken into what's mine

This world of you wanting to be with me

Surrounded by people yet feeling seen

Surrounded by noise but hearing a song

I can't understand anymore with my mind

Im only learning to feel this time

What it means to be still and know you are here

What it means to know and find my heart

Beating with you from the very start

Harmony

 He's in love with his rhythm

I'm getting lost in his beat

His melody entwines my affections 

I can tell he's been places in his soul

Places where we've met before

He leaves a trace of his divine

For me to assemble into my own perfect rhyme

Pieces string away after other affections 

To leave holes of beaming light 

Where rhythm sounds her transcendence and once again

Harmony reunites me with the writing on my walls

She's become my greatest teacher 

And now I understand why he strums along

Behaving because he hears when she calls

She keeps him tied to her direction 

He's found in her a divine perfection

Harmony he says always keeps him from misbehaving

Dignified

I saw myself in your past thoughts 

I found my heart with new insights

Your intentions as pure as my understanding

Both refined for greater gaining

Of love purified

Of grace undeserving

Of hope that keeps truly preserving

I see myself in this new life

Find my heart with new delight

Lie back and feel peace seep through

The stony road I crossed with you

To a destination still undefined

To a purpose left magnified

All to say we will become 

More dignified through grace

Boundless

No depth to your perfection keeps me gratified

Your word stirred up within me longs to purify

In step I aim to follow

Though so often I fall behind

But you use this view to show me

How I'm never off your mind

How I'm lacking in perception

But never in connection

How I'm in need of truth renown

How I'm falling into a love unbound

So much clarification when I drink from your endless life

So much justification for never going back

To stale waters where a limit was set

To point to where my deepest desires can fully be met

Inspired by Psalms 119:96

~'To all perfection I see a limit; but your commands are boundless.'~

Light In Bloom

Light behind closed eyes is where you meet me

Light between the lines I form is where you seek me

Where is darkness when Im directly beneath the sun 

What can the wind touch that is not yet consumed by your rays

Walking close to your perfection I cant help but to refrain

From these unintended assertions I was quick to entertain

Let go of those emotions that told me otherwise 

Found your regulation of love that never dies

My open eyes your light now finds 

While bended lines they follow

As the wind dies down nothing remains as certain

As knowing  your rays have followed me here