A Wish For You

Spirit voices echo In the hills above my eyes I can hear them calling out To the ground and to the skies Indifferently moving Slowly passing through The leaves on the trees were forest-green The sky was cobalt blue Slipping through memories Sun on my back My heart is spilling over My legs, they go slack Silently waiting The movement rings true Cautiously dreaming Its life, anew There proof of a storm coming There’s holes in the Earth I had a vision of a hurricane On the morning of your birth We dream until we’ve had it We dream until we snap We run until we’re weary When symptoms overlap Forcefully separate Kindness from pain Wiping off my forehead Sweet summer rain And if you falter And break someone’s heart Looking out for something A brand new start And peace, Peace like the eye of a hurricane And pressure, Like the sky falling down With my trembling voice, I whisper My darling, you can fly So starting with your left foot And knowing just what’s right Building up the courage To step into the light Through pastures of heartache Harvesting your time To share something amazing With your hand in mine I wonder how many turns We’ll have to take To get back to the garden To see what we can make I’m blinded by memories Stranded by thought Bouncing through my lifetime To make sure (8 counts) you are not Everybody sees it But no one wants to look It’s like the days were torn away Like pages in a book You open up your heart one day And see another place One that’s filled with open air And the line to another race Even if someday The darkness returns Everybody sees it But no one ever learns I’ll never tell you To go down and out It is just the way I learned What life, is all about…