Rainbows

So many colors follow a rain

Beautiful shades of all colors

Children know of rainbows

Their eyes reflect their wonder

They know it is the home of fairies

Pots of gold left by their owners

So many things of a child's dream

Innocently they watch the skies

They beg their mommies and daddies

Asking to climb over that last hill

To take them to the end of the rainbow

It is a place of miracles

A place of imagination adults don't understand

Children have been watching rainbows forever

God made them for children to feel hope

To know that He loves them

To know that a scary storm has ended

Adults should look at rainbows with a child's eyes

Just accept its beauty

Realize that it is the homes of fairies

Take time to look for that pot of gold

Look through their eyes and see what children see

It is no longer a simple rainbow

It is a place of miracles

It is a place where you can find your imagination

It is happiness

Write Things Down

Write Things Down

What am I going to write?

Is has been hours without an idea

The sun cast the last of its light hours ago

There is no moon to shine in the cold night

The stars are blocked by late summer clouds

Music is missing from the radio

Some politician is droning on trying to save his job

I had so many thoughts earlier in the day

Why didn't I write them down?

My mind is blank as the clock strikes four

My eyes strain and my head aches in the dim light

Ideas are just avoiding my efforts to find them

Why didn't I write things down like I should?

My eyes close and I drift off to sleep

Tomorrow is another day

I know I will have ideas about what to write

I will remember to write them down

Tomorrow night I will be able to write

If I just remember to write things down

Stoned 

A small cube of sugar

Tasting so good as it went down

Nerves tingled and my mind wandered

Dancing wildly to non-exisistant music

Tears flowed down my cheeks

At the same time I laughed manically

I cried and laughed at nothing

The sky becomes the ground

The ground rises above me

I am floating above it

Red is blue and blue is white

My skin changes color as I fly

I am black and brown and white all in one

It doesn't matter

I am no longer human

I have changed into something new

Something only God knows about

Naked to the universe

I show all my flaws but not who I am

The true me no longer exists

My clothes were inside my mind

Gently moving in a breeze

Birds land on my arms

Deers flew around my head

Their antlers tickling my face

Such a life buried deep ion my mind

It is so real and such a paradise

Why would I ever want to leave?

The Long Night

A long night

The full moon hangs above

Its light is a lifeless gray

The birds don't sing

The animals hide within their thicket

The bathroom sink has a constant drip

Winds whisper through dying trees

It is such a lonely place

No life or love to be found

Why does it draw me so?

It conjures nightmares and dreams

Angels and demons to circle my bed

It stifles hopes and wishes

There is nothing left in the middle of the night

Nothing except an imagination

An imagination that creates an alternate life

A life on one of the stars hiding behind the moon

In this life though in the gray light there is peace

There is sleep