Caught up in the times

Or being dragged along

Jumping overboard

Swimming to be strong

If we can’t fly like birds

Or if the fall’s too long

I get back to the days I’ve got

And Cool waves move along

*

Water down worries

Hang on to our highs

Help ease people’s pain today

Through all life’s changing skies

*

Clouds drip down summer rain

Try to soothe a lightening flame

Thru electric haze

Thunder calls our name

*

Rolling with our times

Just try to get along

Thrown overboard

Leading with a song

No one hears the words

Or they think they’re wrong

Get back to my train of thought

Help the rhythm move along

*

Water now

Hurry please

Hang on to our high’s

Help ease people’s pain today

Through all life’s changing skies

*

Clouds pour down once again

Try to drench lightening flame

Most potential to hit ground

Crashing stormy days

Electric haze

And we live the same

Life is loud like a bright cloud

Thunder calls our name

Love to share stories

Crystal clear

Jury’s out on the cover

But reading’s good

Followed the crowd

Not who I should

Sounds sad

Today’s good

Framed by time

Aim to be kind

Find peace of mind

Like we should

*

Matter of circumstance

Comprehension

Without explanation

High tension

Good intention

Follow through

*

Truth in a story

Fighting fear

Felt like a jilted lover

Not feeling good

Won’t call out loud

Maybe I should

Sounds bad

Heals good

Just in time

It’s on your mind

Let’s all be kind

Till it’s good

*

Matter of life and chance

Comprehension

Without hesitation

High tension

Potent elation

Follow through

*

Love to share

Every story

Details true

Social pressure

Cosmic stew

All you’re after

Missteps and laughter

Love we need

Strong and free

In every chapter

Climb in the rafters

Holding up time

Boldly kind

This is good

To cross no line

and know we’re kind

I’m sorry

If I turn my back on time

*

Love to share stories now and here

Worry gone for each other

Mostly feeling good

Swallow what’s proud

I knew we could

Sounds mad

Feels good

Blameless time

Each, one of a kind

All in our mind

It’s understood

*

Matter of one more glance

Comprehension

Without dissipation

Worth mention

Good intention

Follow through

I am rooted here

There’s no other place for me

I yearn to share ideas

Learn how to set them free

I wait for the loving wind

To pull dreams from my brain

Share good thoughts I cherish

that help to stop the pain

*

My days don’t seem too long

but I still learn so much

If I could write a song

It should help us be in touch

It would start with vital energy

And feelings from deep inside

It would confirm all the light we see

And from darkness never hide

*

From much higher above

My soul is diving down

I refresh in inspired love

And crave a break-thru sound

Splash on to the scene

Our wishes would be a wave

Always kind and never mean

With many lives to save

*

Words could be a beacon

To guide folks past rough troubles

Wind will never weaken

Tide soaks with just soft bubbles

Rock we protect

Depths come to the surface

Fear we reject

Peace and Love our only purpose

Waves you’re sending me

Float like sunlit clouds

Pitch black night is hidden by your

Candlelight so proud

I reach out to hold the flame

Kind, friendly and dream-enhancing

I’m beseeched to join the waves

Time-mending and fire dancing

Flowing moves

Glowing grooves

Power of a star

*

Waves I’m sending you

Seen as unfit by crowds

Rich life sights are contrast to my

Daily fights and doubts

I reach out to hold the days

Wild, blending and future-glancing

I’ve preached that kindness saves

Rhyme lending and cure advancing

Peace improves

Good love soothes

Power of a star

**

Stretching across our horizon

Waves of energy churn

Painted dream

All eyes are on

Through haze

Life grows clear as they burn

Vision plays in soft clouds

Lake carries us on its back

Spirit holds mountains

The sky’s long

Trees

Proud in a crowd

Won’t look back

Rising

Power

of a star

**

Waves we send out

Pound down like top hit songs

It’s light I’m driven by

In your Courage and right from wrong

I reach out to shout and proclaim

Mind caring and Nature-romancing

I’m pleased when true love saves

Time pending on new trends chancing

Flowing moves

Glowing grooves

Power of a star

***

Your soul reaches out to me

Pierces with sultry vision

Your smoky summer sky

Twisting pride of centuries

In furious and vaulting tension

Sacrificed in a tinderbox

Fierce tears of

Silenced smoke that seethe

And pool in your sacred basin

Nothing I say will be enough

How can I bring you comfort?

*

Disintegrated feelings between

Respect and communication

Water should meet mind’s eye

Dousing dry responsibility

of obscure passing mention

Hypnotizing neglect of loss

Sheer crease in

Paper-horizon agrees

Fuel in hazy lazy writing

Nothing I say will be enough

How can I please you?

*

I love our world

and our sun

and our Canada

Can we share

All our care

Can we work and plan it out?

Can we be friends?

Common sense

Love can span the sky

No in between

In this scene

Those above must

Do more than try

It is our Earth

and our sun

and our Canada

Free the land

and the sky

Only for Peace and Love

We must stand on guard

*

Your soul reaches down to me

Inspires me in my mission

Until the day I die

Shimmering shapes of histor

show no care or apprehension

Ravishing fire of lightning shock

Frees fear with

Ravaging rage of the breeze

News is charged and biting

I say too much

How do I heal and hold your beauty?

***

What do I see

As I step out my front door

Grateful?

Nature reaching heights in beauty

That don’t come easy

Always

In some ways

We are spoiled like kids

Brilliant rewards but bitter battles

Starting low at the ground

Brave in the system

Each day we enjoy

And suffer

Only Peace and Love matters

**

What do I see

As I step into the world

Fateful?

Nature teaching rights in duty

That don’t come easy

Always

Surely, we are loyal to this

Resilient species

Even a natural rival

Hard to see like the wind

Built in the system

Each day fight or flight

We’re tougher

As for Peace and Love I fall

**

What do I see

As I step into the future

Labeled?

Nature preaching insight so moody

It won’t flow easy

Always

To understand we toil in fits

In millions of mirrors

Images of a martyr

Stand alone or are found

We are the system

Each day perception

Our buffer

Feeling makes Peace and Love smarter

**

What do I see

And What is the truth?

Because looks can be deceiving

*

What I hear

Is water lapping

against the shore

at the side of a lake

and it soothes

 *

Spirits embraced

Are not seen or known

We wander down

Truth isn’t shown

The enchanting sound

Is a flag that’s flown

Unfairly

**

All I see

Is driven by need

Energy flowing to or from it

 *

What we need

Is what we’re tapping

Feet on the ground

Won’t hide a mistake

That we choose

 *

Spirits displaced

That aren’t seen or known

Let’s clamber down

For truth to be shown

Admit and reach out

Specifically those

Unsparing

**

What do I see

As I live my life today

Grateful?

Nature reaching heights in beauty

That don’t come easy

Always

In some ways

Life is royal and rich

Filling finances and freezing feelings

Shunning those fallen down

Forgot by the system

Each day we enjoy

And suffer

Invest only in Peace and Love dealings

***

Never know the name of the game

Or the social norm

until I’m playing again

Oh the pain!

Life is like sunshine after a

Very wicked storm

or a picnic in the rain

How I’m praying

*

Include Everyone

Have some fun

Bring it on

Don’t forget the storm

When it’s gone

Bring it on

Ride again

**

Never mind the mess

Are you impressed

By the social storm?

Help yourself

Just say when

I’m all in

Whatever you want

Let your

Welcome be well-worn

Permanent fixtures are blessed

In the end

*

Include Everyone

Have some fun

Bring it on

Welcome’s warm

Threads we don

Bring it on

Comfort’s best

**

Welcome sounds of the Earth breathing

The sky sighs as the storm is leaving

The air is fresh with renewed energy

Day glistens

Life launches from trees

Sparkling fresh

Each creature

Wakes up bright from dreaming

Birds Twitter

Bees achieving

Frog announces peace for now

Then a collective “Wow!”

**

Never be the one without sun

Try to be socially warm

And have good fun

And get work done

Life can be chaotic like a

Very wicked storm

or a good reason to run

Or having none

*

Include Everyone

Make some fun

Bring it on

Don’t forget the storm

But when it’s gone

Get it on

Till you’re done

***

Do it again

Bring it on

***

Parades like a peacock

Around social circles

Inside he hides humility

That won’t show in his purpose

*

Fading fast in heavy grass

Head down as the tale perks up

His pride won’t die, he has ability

Because of love in surplus

*

Nothing done wrong

Life like a song

Just Peace and Love he worships

**

Obeys the hand he got

Ignores social knock-offs

Aim to prove all he sees

Their bluff to him: a lost cause

*

She rakes in wins as he begins

But they make him nervous

Her cry inside no others see

Because no tears will turn up

*

No fallen rain

A hidden pain

No truth can be as pure as

**

Amazing claim he makes now

Desperate to connect

Stakes a life on dreams

At least ones he can protect

*

Lends his ears to love he hears

Music and folk he respects

Strength resides in bends and slides

Quick-picking flies how he reflects

*

A web she weaves

He never leaves

His soul she resurrects

**

Sustains breath in his sprit

and prays no one objects

Here, there and everywhere

Simple jealousy upsets

*

Each day-to-day he lives and pays

Experience he can’t forget

Skeptics unfairly stop and stare

What they don’t get, they reject

*

View of the sun

We each have one

The image that projects

**

Home is where the heart is

Everywhere we go

But if our heart is hidden

Home we may never know

*

She was treated wrong

All day long

When she reached out

They turned away

*

Rules of fools

Didn’t allow

True words she would say

*

So her heart

Was hidden away

and her shadow came to play

**

Chastised like a spider

At home an outsider

Inside she hides humility

That’s what they’ve denied her

*

All she tried they’ve defied

They aren’t the ones to guide her

Her pride won’t die

Peacefully

She needs a web that’s wider

*

Create a norm

Instate a storm

Include each and every rider

**

Invading as a glider

Social justice-minded

Applied fine agility

To find a spot beside her

*

Caring wide for those he spied

Sharing words that wouldn’t chide her

In moments they had solidarity

But our system is the great divider

*

No human bond

Or care beyond

The majority decider

**

Rain could still immerse us

In our social circles

Lives with more tranquility

Trapped beneath the surface

*

The pain’s the same as curses

Unspoken words or verses

Public codes of civility

Stigma will never nurse us

*

Feeling unsaid

Love left for dead

While the richest fill their purses

**

A bright bird becomes demure

Larger-than-life tourist

Why project misery?

Their caring is the surest

*

The purest words are rarely heard

From social usurpers

Power lies with such hostility

Our culture kills or cures us

*

We need magic

That isn’t tragic

Kindness that conjures us

**

Kind is a heart making good

Anywhere it goes

But if a heart is hidden

Hope may never show

*

He was treated wrong

All day long

When he reached out

They made him pay

*

Fuelled by rules

They sat and frowned

True words they wouldn’t say

*

So their hearts

hid away

and his shadow came to play

**

Day fades far behind trees

Beyond social safety

In night they fight fragility

Boundary in dreams

*

Goals of peace just won’t cease

Labeled disordered or diseased

Kindness treated as disability

Blind system is a beast

*

No caring voice

Or sharing joys

Blood-thirsty rich do as they please

**

Moon peaks past tired trees

Mirrors social deep-freeze

Awake always in fear’s proximity

Tears shine and can’t appease

*

Lone star greets, Our eye meets

Adheres to day’s defeats

Strive to stifle anxiety

Vision with no light cheats

*

Save grace

To change this place

Fierce Hope never retreats

**

Sunrise with acute focus

Today still seems dangerous

No social responsibility

Politician rich and famous

*

Those we chose no one opposes

Approach a door and it closes

Attack a lack of accountability

So clear no one chose this

*

Pride past dollars

Lifelong scholars

Stigma in control imposes

**

Disgrace that is ludicrous

Unfairly overtaken indigenous

Allies denied connectivity

Kind people treated heinous

*

Striking poses and We know this

Few between truly show this

Pray, don’t say “futility”

Optimism thrives like roses

*

Ever-fertile Earth

Cultural rebirth

Sun and moon that tows us

**

Home is where the heart is

Everywhere we go

If our hearts are hidden

Home we never know

*

People treated wrong

For so long

Try to reach out

But get turned away

*

Rules uncool

Not allowing

True words we have to say

*

So our hearts

Get hidden away

Embrace the place where shadows stay

***

You have no idea

But how could you tell?

Hard to see

the ingenuity

I’m digging out the bottom of a well

*

Shovels and pitchforks

You can hunt me down

I’ll be right here if you take a look

*

But you probably won’t see

Past the distance

Just me

Water’s rising

And it’s darker than all Hell

**

I had no idea

But how could I tell?

Hard to see

through the mystery

I’m digging out the bottom of a well

*

Visions and voices

As water rushes

You’ll understand if you send down the bucket

*

But you might not see

Past mistake and misery

The water’s for you

Since today’s hotter than all Hell

**

I never thought life would get to this

Me explaining

why I’m digging

*

Only drink on some days

I hope the new well pays

There’s rain

but the drought is not a figment

*

Converging streams

Beneath the clay

Raging rapids hidden away

So I dig faster

till a higher level stays

**

Many thought I’d never surface

Buried me deep

That’s why I’m digging

*

For me drinking’s OK

But I’d like the chance to bathe

There’s trickles

But the flow is insignificant

*

Emerging clean

Was always pure

Rising rivers are for sure

So I hold my breath

Till a cleansing current cures

**

We had no idea

But how could we tell

Hard to see

The sanity

When I’m digging out the bottom of a well

*

Shovels and pitchforks

I’m getting way down

I’ll be right here if you take a look

*

I hope you will see

Past the distance

Just me

My eye’s shining

As metal sparks on rock in our Hell

**

I have an idea

That I’d like to tell

Plain to see

Our chemistry

As I dug out the bottom of the well

*

Vision and voices

Our love gushes

We understand and fill our hearts

Not just our cup

*

And now you can see

Past mistake and misery

The water’s clean

and Sparks of light

Get us thru all Hell

***

*

You can brighten my day

By saying my name

Playing my game

In these new adventures

*

You can lighten the way

Finding new fame

Grinding the shame

and then just dispense with

All false pretences

Stop raising the bar

For those down so far

Or kept out by fences

Or schools too expensive

*

I can brighten the day

If you do the same

True love won’t be tamed

In our grand adventures

*

We can light up the way

Forgetting the blame

Protecting the flame

and then get intense with

Our uncommon senses

Not chasing a star

We are who we are

Every last one of us

**

This is our chance to make it

Life happens just once

Let’s engage it

*

Embrace love and faith

Let’s do this together

Just need to keep pace

Lend a hand to forever

Help save this place

No matter what happens

Life is a promise

Not meant to be broken

Don’t break it

Let’s make it

**

Let’s brighten today

By taking new aim

Staking a claim

Our new adventures

*

Let’s light the way

With a flash and a frame

Be so glad we came

and not apprehensive

A dream comprehensive

Like an amazing car

With the door ajar

Climb in and commence with

Love that’s extensive

It makes today

OK

***