Between Heaven & Earth

Between Heaven & Earth

Look down

Beneath the clouds

So many stars

All in galaxies across the land

Ships travel through paths of light

Red, yellow and green start flash

Keeping a perfect rhythm

Such beauty hidden from view

Yet it is there all around us

It is just sad that we can’t see it

Unless we are floating

High above the Earth

Still not yet in Heaven

Outback Sunset

Outback Sunset

Sitting under an old gum tree

The one down by the creek

Miles away from the road

My truck got me there

Just as if it had a heart of its own

The girl I love at my side

And a Mason Jar full of Aussie moonshine in my hand

Fog rolls in over the meadows

As the sun turns from white to a deep red

I am so happy to be here to experience it

To live to see the truest beauty of Heaven

Paradise couldn’t be any better than an Outback sunset

Lost Love

Lost Love

You have no idea how much I love you

I have dreamed of you

Wished for you on every star

I have seen your dreams

Felt your happiness

And your fears

It took so long to talk to you

Even longer to express my feelings

Now you are my life

You are my future and my past

You are my everything

Now you have gone

God has taken you from me

My dreams, wishes and life

They all went with you

And I am left alone

Beauty

Beauty

Do you know that you are beautiful

Has anyone told you so

Your body is not a size 3

Nor should it be

You are the perfect you

Diets and fads would ruin who you are

Your smile reflects your beauty

Your eyes show the fantastic soul you have

Do not pay attention to the ads

Do not compare yourself to a starving model

You are not what ignorant people see

You are the woman you should be

You are beautiful

The Story Writes Itself

The Story Writes Itself

If I am in my dark place

It is where I choose to be

Do not try to make me smile

I do not want to laugh

Just leave me alone

I want to experience it all

Soak in where my mind took me

Learn what the darkness teaches

I will bring it back with me

Share it with the pen

As I write the darkness will come out

The story will write itself

The words will appear on their own

And the story will be told

Indecision

Indecision

So many choices to make

My head aches

My heart pounds

My lips are so dry

Who decided to make it so hard

To allow us to choose

Trying to make up my mind

One is right

The other is wrong

It is up to me

Still they force me to decide

How am I to know

Do I listen to my heart

Are other people right

Hours pass as my mind falls apart

I have to choose

Which do I want

Coke or Pepsi

Neither actually

I think I’ll have a beer

Travels of My Mind

Travels of My Mind

My mind has travelled so far

It left my body behind

Doing what it desires

It wanders the universe

Collecting ideas from other lands

Alien to us mortals on Earth

Only it knows what it will see

What it has seen

It tells me in my dreams

Such wild vivid images

Colors and sounds that are new

Unknown by artists and musicians

Lands of fire and the darkest smoke

And others covered with ancient ice

Vegetative paradises

Alive with plants that touch the skies

Such strangely beautiful animals

Scents that drive my body to the edge

Trying to push it in a valley of ecstasy

This world where my body resides

The world of my home is so primitive

It cannot compare to what I have experienced

What my mind brings me as I sleep

I Am All

I Am All

You look at me

You think you know me

I have long hair

A greying moustache

And I wear old tee shirts

In your eyes I am a biker

Violent and hateful

Talk to me one time

Know me before you judge me

You will learn

I am white

I am black

I am red and yellow

I am brown

I am a man

I am a woman

I am a child

I am a Christian

I am a Jew

I am a Muslim

I am Buddhist and I am Hindi

I am a Pagan

I am every person you have ever met

Everyone you have judged

Everyone you have loved

Everyone you constantly hate

Yes, I am you

And I am me

I am a Human being

And that is all I want to be

He Lives Alone

He Lives Alone

The mystical stag

Raising from the thicket

Wandering the woods

Under the light of a waning moon

He walks with the gods

Nature’s mightiest warrior

Born with the ultimate swords

He defends his forests

The meadows where he roams

He is a supreme male

A king among God’s animals

Yet, he lives alone

The Old Man In the Mirror

The Old Man In the Mirror

I look at the mirror

The man I see looking back

He is not me

I do not have bags under my eyes

The wrinkles were never there before

I have always been a young man

I guess that was so long ago

Now my hair is greying

The hair that remains that is

The lines of age covers my face

How did I get so old

When did my youth fall away

I do not like the man I see in the mirror

He is not me