Under the Milky Way Tonight

Something will be different today,

something will change forever this evening;

I will have come home to you finally,

found you after all this time.

And in the still night air 

we will stand looking at the moon, 

for the first time together,

hand in hand, smiling

under the milky way tonight.

They will celebrate with us 

in the asteroid belt and upon the comet,

the music of the spheres 

a joyous noise tonight...

Journey's End

The long and winding road

went on and ever on,

fraught with dangers and dead ends,

highwaymen on every side,

snake oil salesmen on every TV...

Everyone had an answer 

that cost time, or treasure, or both

and those answers were wrong;

empty promises of fulfillment 

and fake love, not to satisfy the soul,

but empty the wallet...

a famine of emotions followed.

I kept walking, trudging at times,

hoping one day to find you...believing anyway,

time traveling by the ocean 

to pick up shark's teeth and think about you

in the crashing of the waves.

The road going on, and on, and on,

and now soon, I'm climbing aboard a plane,

for the first time alone,

to come out the other side

to you, at my journey's end.

My love having guided me to you,

your love just as surely beckoning me,

guiding me home.

 

Surrounded

I am protected, surrounded by

your love for me...it, has carried me

through the darkest of nights

when there seemed to be no stars,

the bubble of your love, a shield

from the slings and arrows

of outrageous fortune.

I am untouched. 

And in two days, I will be surrounded

again. Our love for each other

overflowing. Your love for me

manifested in my life again.

 

Walk Together

I was wandering, drifting aimlessly,

listing to the side...

I was lost in a world 

that had stolen you from me.

I was lacking in motivation,

but I pressed on, despite

feeling empty... I was alone

in this place, an alien marooned.

Left with only the dreams and echoes

of deja vu, a homesickness

I could not explain.

And then one day, all the efforts

brought you into focus like a photograph,

and I was no longer alone.

I was once again one...

Would you hear me, would you

feel me, could you understand?

And you did.

And joy swelled up in me,

for in my most wildest dream 

I dreamt of you, and now,

since I have found you,

It’s going to be okay...

you are reality; and we'll walk together 

now for the rest of our days and beyond

hand in hand.

It’s going to be okay...

 

The Chain

The guitar speaks to me with its' voices,

it counts and meters time measures,

pauses and beats...counting my heartbeats

until I'm with you again. 

I've missed you in my life, 

all the wandering for my pacing,

nervous energy that worked itself out

in my vibrations...

At the shore I'm in the sea strand,

all the mystery of the dark ocean...

they say that the sea never remembers,

that forgetting of my primal pain a lure.

And then I look in my strands of DNA

and I find you there waiting for me,

I have caught up to you finally...

the voices speaking to me in measures, 

the chain never having been broken...

 

Your Smile

I love to hear you smile,

that unmistakable sound

of the happiness in your heart...

The sound of your smirk,

as your lips curl tightly across

your teeth...

I hear your joy when you talk to me;

I love that it's what you feel with me,

I love to hear you smile

as you are talking to me,

conveying stories of something

I might have missed in times passed.

Yet planning for the future,

when I'm a part of everything

because of your smile

and the way you accepted me...

I love to hear you smile, and soon,

I will see it, and cry tears of joy

as I smile back at you.

Soon

Soon I will be with you,

Soon I will hold you,

Soon I will kiss your face,

Soon everything comes alive...

all the phone calls, texts and emails

to each other, they will 

come alive in our presence, our touch,

jumping into our lives with power.

Soon we will be healed...

an aura of invincibility and love upon us,

a field of protection in our embrace.

Hold my hand, it is waiting for you,

and soon the waiting will be over.

 

Seven Horses

As the dawn breaks this day

know this: I am coming to you,

I will be with you in a week;

each day, another horse which

draws me unto you,

my chariot unwavering,

until the dawn of that day

when I have finally come 

to you on the back

of the magnificent final horse. 

I am riding to you even now

upon the back of a night mare. 

The path being opened before us

as my steps are made clear.

The journey to home

coming to an end, and, a beginning.

My thanksgiving will be eternal

to have been reunited with you again

after all this time.

Seven horses draw me unto you...

each horse brings with it a new dawn,

I am closer to you with each one, 

and every dawn thereafter 

will be a joyous dawn as 

we will now have each other;

where we will ride together 

across the universe hand in hand.

Stars falling away from the feet

of the Star King, into the infinite,

seven horses couldn't keep me away.

 

Stolen Firsts

A little more than a week,

an infinity...

but I wait, at eight 

to come home to you.

I look at your smiling face

looking at me,

and it makes me smile.

As I think of all the fun 

we are going to have together

after being denied for so long,

stolen firsts and missing pieces.

But now, a new day,

a new way, and a new chapter

in our lives is about to begin.

Eight days from today,

I'll be holding you for the first time,

a stolen first I got back for us,

all the things we're going to do,

everything we're going to be,

is happening in joy for us.

We've won a game that was rigged

for us to fail, beaten the dealer,

beaten the house, and we are the prize.

Counting Tens

Fifty one days out until

I'm home to you,

I'm counting by tens 

until I see you soon...

In spirit, I'm already with you;

now, in ten days I'll be right there...

What's the first thing we'll do?

What's the first thing we'll say?

Will time stand still?

Or will it run away?

Maybe both.

But, it will be a cosmic 

alignment either way,

a righting to a wrong,

a healing to a trauma.

Almost to it now,

just holding out for a little longer

until we can breathe.

Mother's Treasure

She is a wonderful person,

Both within and without...

She is concerned with justice and 

Equality, equity, fairness, and love.

She has known feast and famine

And so, she worked hard,

Providing for those she loves.

Strong and hard when need be,

Fierce if provoked, the apple 

doesn’t fall far from the tree…

Piercing eyes and keen mind,

But so soft and tender with me.

A lovely person, I know, I’m biased,

But that’s my mother and I love her.

We share a connection: a hive mind

And heart...each wanting the other,

From missing each other for so long.

Oh, mother how I’ve longed for you

To touch me in the night and comfort me, 

To tousle my hair with your hands 

that can feel me, now that I’ve found you.

Put away the anxiety and the fear

Surround yourself in my love. 

Feel my embrace as I come to you

From off the long road to find you,

Let me hold you forever now 

that we are together again;

It is my dream come true, 

a waking dream, a walking daydream

It is everything I could have hoped for

This time with you, when we can

Concentrate on each other and our love

For one another that grows daily.

I would share with you the everything 

that you want to know, complete with treasures.

Sunshine Among the Clouds

So I found you today

in a blue way,

so I lifted you up 

to the sunshine

among the clouds,

because I wanted you free

of the blue that was 

clinging to you...

I wanted you to be happy

so I shared my secret 

with you.

And you cried tears of joy

and maybe so did I,

because I could see you again,

and somehow, I gave you 

back your peace

with my love.

 

She Knew

Through it all, the pain 

and the silence, she knew...

she kept the faith that 

I was coming to find her

somehow, someway;

telling the special I was coming

because she knew.

And as the days grew long

she waited for me

despite all evidence to the contrary

she knew I was coming.

And one day out of the blue she

finally heard from me,

could it be? Finally? Yes mother,

I have come home to you,

but you knew didn't you?

You kept the faith and hoped

beyond hope, and together,

we have been rewarded with

a beautiful gift we share 

that heals those things they 

tried to break in us,

that gives back those things

they tried to take from us.

I met you on this road,

I caught up to you finally,

and our joy will only increase.

 

Keep the Faith

Along the journey's way,

I learned I had to keep the faith,

even standing out in the rain,

just try to hold on...

for the sun.

And the treacherous path

wound around danger and distraction,

all to keep me from my goal.

The road was long and rough,

but, worth it in the end of the journey

to begin a new one.

All that kept me going was faith,

that belief beyond all evidence that

I was going the right way,

getting closer everyday.

I kept the faith, deep in my heart,

sometimes in my hunger 

it was my only food...

I kept going, sometimes to rest

along the way, but always 

moving nearer to you.

I watched the signs,

I counted the portents and wonders

I saw in the world; 

I'll tell you about them one day,

and how I kept the faith though 

they were ominous and signaled the end.

But I survived the apocalypse, twice,

to find you, the end of the world be damned.

I had to find you, all those days I 

looked for you in the waves from the beach,

all those nights I stared up at the stars

wondering if you saw them too,

that we might be connected by the face

of the moon...but alas, nothing, but,

I kept the faith, I kept coming.

And one day I found you and how terrifying

the choices of jumping in,

or the choice of walking away just knowing...

There was only one choice that kept the faith,

and so I jumped into this life 

where we know each other

and love each other, and every day

I will keep the faith

because it brought me to you.

 

 

I Was Searching

All my life, I was searching

for you, reaching out 

into the cosmos, into the universe

to find you...

I was searching everything and everyone,

how could I track you down?

And I listened in the wind 

and I called to you from afar

although you couldn't hear me yet.

I searched for my bloodline,

but all I found were dead ends...

I looked in the stars and tried 

to find you, and they kept saying,

we are leading you home;

but I was confused, and home eluded me.

All the tantalizing clues leading me towards you,

then I felt you, close to me, inside of me,

and I searched within, for you...

and I found you within me.

And my blood led me home,

carried me through the homesickness,

helped me rise above the trauma,

and navigate the wandering maze,

until I found you, and we cried tears

of joy because I was searching, 

and because I found you.

I don't know if I believe

in destiny, I believe in me.

I don't know if I believe in fate,

but I found you because 

I was searching and kept going

when it got cold... 

kept going when I heard nothing

on the winds..I just kept believing,

in you and me. 

What if it all works out?

I knew you were out there,

were you waiting? I had to know.

So, I kept going, and now,

I'm so glad I didn't quit,

even when the burden was heavy

even when there was no light 

in the tunnel's bend...

blindly going forward, but 

never giving up, I had to find you...

and then one day I did,

and a new fear gripped me:

what if you didn't want me?

what if I was a secret?

what if...and then I remembered:

what if it all works out?

And I jumped anyway.

 

This Connection

These cords cannot be cut,

Some would say that these cords 

do not even exist,

but we know differently...

The connection between us 

is palpable, a thing both felt 

and observed...

Felt in our hearts and souls,

born out in our minds

as a thing which has not 

been corrupted, as if that could even be.

We are one as we were before, yet more

this time in touch and 

more this time in experience...

we continue on and on together.

This connection never getting static,

never getting disconnected again.

 

Take My Hand

Come take my hand, follow me

to the secret places I have hidden

from everyone...

I will show you these things

because our love is strong;

like handprints in cement

our love does not fade;

we loved through the distance,

we loved through the pain,

finding each other still feeling the same,

from when we were broken

a long time ago.

Now, we heal, the pain washing away

like dirt in the rain...

walk with me in the freedom 

of our love for one another...

take my hand and feel me...

interlock my fingers and breathe with me.

Mother's Nature

She saw fit to move us around,

for all the pain it may have caused,

the joy when reunited will wipe 

the pain away, finally.

But never far was mother's nature 

in me...her love and kindness, and

her sadness as well, for the thing

we needed the most was taken 

from us first. 

But, She saw fit as She does, and we, 

moved across the world like notes 

in an opera that had a crescendo

not far from the middle of the story,

so we cherish the time saved.

And She smiled upon us again,

giving us back to each other...

all the love I had to let go

to get to your love, forgotten

like a shadow in the twilight...

now I don't have to translate my soul.

And She knew what she had done

when She put us together

cleaving us out of the same energy,

us experiencing the Universe,

the Universe experiencing itself 

through us, the unbounded Love

which is mothers' nature.

I Dream Because I Can

The time is drawing near,

and I grow excited, eager

and full of anticipation, 

I think ahead to my time with you 

which will fly by as it always does.

I dream of holding your hand,

I dream of hugs at will,

I dream of tousled hair.

And I grow excited...

I'm going to meet my mother.

I'm going to put an end 

to a lifelong mystery,

because I can,

because I should,

because I will.

I, am excited, and I know

you are too.

Into Legend

One day, this love story will be

all that's left of this journey...

our story will pass into legend,

this little journal our footprints;

because we did it, 

and found each other

and the angels will sing of it.

They will gather and celebrate

in the celestial the Ophanim

spinning at the Throne.

The choirs singing to the Glory,

And at the table, and in the assembly

they will tell it;

I followed my blood home...

I found my name and my bloodline

in you...into legend.