MIRROR

When I look
Into the mirror
Everything's backwards...
Like the writing on the wall
Predicting the past
In terms I can't come to
While straining to see
Invisible visions,
Positioned to face
What's lying behind
In negative space,
Forgotten in time
Before the beginning
And after the end
Of the captured reflection of me.

Through You, In You

I love You,
And through you I love;
I see You,
And through you I see;
I feel You,
And through you I feel;
Through you I have ears to hear,
For in you I live and move and have my being...

SHINE

Love is a light
That shines in the soul
To be seen, felt, learned, and lived by;
Unto others it reaches out
To touch with understanding,
Breaking down defensive walls
That separate hearts,
It penetrates darkness,
Exposing the need for oneness.

Love is a force
That moves in the soul,
Putting in place the truths we know,
Creating space for others,
Building bridges, doors, and rooms
To house the fruits of its labors' kind,
And carefully pushing us
Out of complacency
Once we can yield to its stirring.

Love is a cause
That transcends the soul
A purpose well worth fighting for,
Pulling us out of the ego's clutch
To remind us of a higher nature,
Patient, kind, forgiving, and
Enduring all as it hopes,
Trusting in lack of control,
Never failing to bind us together.

SPECTER

I don't believe in you,
Fair specter that haunts me night and noon,
Never could you be more than a wisp...
Never will the words pass from your lips...
Nor will you come close enough to touch,
Cruel apparition made of dreamer's dust.


I will not wait for you,
Known to abandon without ado,
Pretending fond attachment true
Then fading into nothing new,
Your fabled greatness substance lacks
And I'll not fear your empty grasp.


I never was cut out for you,
Oh ghost insisting that one be two,
You'll laugh at me not one more time
For I dispel you as not mine
And cease to look upon your lies
As having sway upon my life.