Glow, Ember, Glow

Quite a way out

From where he laid down his life

And his friends lost their disbelief,

I didn’t gain the nerve

To dance to the music.

The melody sometimes

Is like a wave washing

Through green leaf trees

And a cup of tea that leaves

A little sweat on your brow

And a little freedom in your limbs.

You move and you move

And the movement is everything.

You sing and you dance

And the movement is everything.

You gather your friends and your family

And march down the street

With a guitar and a drum

Singing to the beat

Of a song that is like fire

With long-lasting embers

For a body full of life

And sweet hymns in its members.

Sing true, dance free,

Breath of life be in you.

Sweet Savior of mine I know,

May my stillness discontinue.

For then we rise in freedom.

For then we sail the seas.

Then we raise our voices.

And now come dance with me.

Fear

Fear is a wicked creature

Dressed in a black robe

Covered in filth

With the sweetest honey tongue

A liar, a crook

That tells us everything that’s worst

That will be

Is the most definite of truths

A darkening onset

Of clouded skies

Dark forests

Pitch-black caves

Writing on the walls

With cascading dark symbols

That draw circles

Where bad omens lead to bad omens.

Fear says there is no light.

Fear says there is no right.

Fear says there is no way through.

Fear says there is no you.

Fear is the great outer violent gnashing,

Where you cast souls into oblivion

Eternal, forever.

And if eternal, then always.

It always will be, always is,

And it always was.

“I never knew you”

Makes me want to weep.

Because I think of all those

What if they don’t make it?

But instead I ought to hope

Because fear belongs out there

Beyond the beyond empty

Where there is nothing.

Because fear is not.

We are Free

You are free
Free to me
So let us sing a song
And dance a dance.
Oh freedom, you are free to me.

By the bells and the beckoning
We rose together
By the truth and the prophecy
We live forever.

Sweet rivers of life
Little girl to me
Run through your veins
And it is I who see

Best of all
The woodland creatures don’t know
Where we hide away
When the weather turns to snow.

But we know, my dear,
Everything there is to love
And every gift we cherish
From the light from above.

And we are free
To you and me, we are free.
We made it this far
Let’s journey onward.

And let us forget
The terrors of the dark
That sometimes capture us
Because we forgot to bring matches.

But we are free.
To be you and me
We are free.
Now I see.

Mother's

A wonderful beauty that is home,

A wonderful woman we all need,

And that’s just the beginning.

And it doesn’t end till the day I’m done,

Because my mother is certainly with me till then,

If not longer.

"Like mother, like daughter" is a phrase that is sometimes used,

Mostly for good,

To tell the truth that a daughter

Learned a lot from her mother.

And "mother’s boy" is a phrase sometimes used,

Mostly for bad,

To describe a son that refuses to learn his life lessons

And hang on to home for a little too long.

But perhaps the latter phrase needs to be reassessed,

Or maybe a new phrase discovered,

To describe the man who has become better

Because of all his mother has taught him.

That’s one of the things I think about

On Mother’s Day,

How maybe even half of the influences that make me and have made me

Recall back to my mother.

All that love,

All that beauty,

I understand,

I know—

I learn this great lesson

That for sons and daughters alike

We can seek out these great blessings

Of love and beauty

And know they make home.