Release

 

Decay stifles creativity

as I walk these litter-strewn

alleyways, through the smoky haze

of pollution-stained skies.

These dirty streets warp around me.

I want to feel green beneath my feet,

or the seas rolling over toes,

I want to be

anywhere where beauty grows free.

 

Could we turn off the factories please?

 

I need some release from the grime and grease,

The sounds that disturb the peace,

I need to be around beauty,

 in nature's forest scenes, her

mountain peaks. I need to bask

in the waters she leaves, for my

love walks on these shores when

 the tide is low, and when it is high she floats.

 

But decay stifles creative seas.

The polluted waters rush ever onwards

covering the beach in debris,

But I don’t need to sit on this dirty sand,

I don’t need the oil to stain my hands.

For I am free to sit in beauty's seat.

 

And I walk headfirst into the waves

and the wayward storms collide, in bright

rainbow signs. Washing away the dregs

of humanity's greed.

 

 And I walk onto a new shore, uncertainty in eyes,

but in my heart, I’m sure, that this land is where my

pathway leads and the storms bend for me.

and the blending oceans reflect peaceful skies,

as the sun rises in blessing once again.

Bigger than galaxies

 

I drift across open lands

3000 miles of time-aged sand,

golden fragments of beauty lie beneath me,

crushed glass windows into forever.

I see memories transmute into history

and promises blossom into new stories, all

spanning the continents below my fingertips.

 

And I reach down.

 

Feeling it flow through my hands,

hourglass seconds shift into a fast forward haze,

days, weeks, months rush past

in a fleeting blink of windswept time.

The sun rises and falls, cycling through

seasoned skies.

In the iris of glorious eyes,

I witness

Every grain of your story.

Every cry in each raging sunset.

Every worn-down smile in every broken year.

 

And I see a teardrop

 

Fall

in slow motion

to the lands below.

 

And I pull it all near. Every heartache, every tear,

every broken promise. Every stolen trust. Every fear.

 

And I soar higher, faster

through the ink-stained sky.

The eclipsed view of a sun and moon

becoming one, a union of space,

a love unlike any we’ve known.

And I’m just a speck of sand

in the eyes of eternity, but I will

hold out my hand to make us bigger than galaxies.

 

And I whisper 'I love you'

to the air, knowing that 

it will reach your ears.

A majestic trio of words,

meaning more than the sum

of all the gold on earth.

 

And I blow clear the sand

to join memories of yesteryear.

Promise caught in a fly-by moment.

I won’t let you hurt anymore.

I'll hold you higher than the universe above,

I'll shine a light brighter than

all the stars combined. And I'll

will them to align with you,

for fate can align with us,

because I love you in your beautiful truth.

 

If you hold onto the hope

that I do, and take hold

of my hand, we will never fall

or falter as we drift over the lands.

The green giving way to blue,

and I see purity, a perfect new bloom.

A spring meadow, a whisper of you,

breathlessly floating through

my dreams of forever.

A starlit dream in scarlet highlights

 

A dream, asleep

under chandelier skies.

I slip through the ether

beside lakes coated in moonlight sequins.

Duvet nights and blanket satellites.

If I could pluck some

lucky heather I’d wish upon

the stars that shine.

I’d ask for you

to come and lay down

the roots of time

and entwine in this dream of mine.

 

I dream as free as a whisper,

a promise kept, a secret

wept under that tree before I slept.

A tear for every scar, a whimper for

what I lost when I stopped looking for more.

 

A cry that it was always you I looked towards.

It was always you that made my rivers flow forward.

 

And if I could pull a four-leaf clover

from the ground beside me,

I’d wish to the heavens,

for you to lay out a memory,

so that we could listen to the waves

lapping their melody upon the shore

of the lakeside scenery.

 

And I see through closed eyes

a starlit night, as the starlet

dances in scarlet highlights,

and I open to see, a shooting star,

and I wish...

Once more for you to be

here to hold me warm,

to be here where we belong.

Two souls that should

always have been one.

My love in whispered tears,

I sing my song for you.

 

Will you hear the words

when the melody is gone?