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.