In Lak'ech Ala K 'in

Ripping band-aides off of old wounds never seems to let it heal

But he came with welcoming arms and a smile that I was thirsty for

Something that I thought I had lost

And every time we kissed I found another piece of me 

excavating further and farther with gliding finger tips and gentile smiles 

We dared to jump on tight ropes

For what’s the worst that could happen, I had already fallen and become numb

As the days came and went he become my summer rain, washing me clean

He woke every bit of me that laid dormant in the hands of a careless and selfish man 

And all of a sudden I was present in the day 

And I knew my name 

And it well 

I knew my prize and I knew my strength 

And all though he was my super hero in the dark 

His eyes spoke a truth that ran too deep for this heart to travel 

For I had just found me and dare not lose me again 

The greatest gift I could give him was a white flag

So I raised my anchor and set sail 

May he never have to dance with the skeletons that dangle over me

And may he be free to love like he dared love me

I’ll never feel his beautiful summer arms hold me again 

but I’ve found my own and I have missed them so. 

Men make it an inherited mission to travel across galaxies. 

They chart, map, and explore the stars in search for a new world to conquer.

How heinous is the crime of ignorance.

How tragic is the crime of blind hearts.

To travel beyond the Earths atmosphere but never explore the galaxies of the their souls. 

We wake and sleep and wake and sleep.

We build skyscrapers and move mountains

but to travel into the galaxies of ones soul is probably the most unaccomplished mission man has yet to achieve. 

And God gave us books of lessons to read, to learn, to guide us to the core of our being. 

But man seeks what he can’t have. 

He seeks to be like God with out even learning to Love at least like His son. 

They claim to be in the right with out ever knowing their left from their right. 

And in the meantime this world suffers a great deal. 

And our present cries because she gives birth to egomaniacs 

Humility is the remnants of our deeds and father time knows all names. 

Thoughts are suffocating

imprisonment

Trapped in the equinox of my mind

AN endless pit of who, what, where, when and why

Full of hopes, dreams, aspirations

regrets, responsibilities, wants, needs, desires.

Thoughts are suffocating

Trapped in the equinox of my mind

Is there an off switch?

What is the off switch?

Nobody prepares you for the dibree of life

How THICK, sticky, and suffocating it can be.

Nay, this world is so polluted even the wings of angels are weighed down by the dibree 

Maybe that’s why they don’t bother to come round here as much these days. 

Oh, but prayer is just as good, if not better. 

however, prayer only works with faith 

Well I guess my faith is guessed, cause I still find myself trapped in the equinox of my mind. 

And every once and I while I find it hard to breath 

These thoughts that thicken my atmosphere and haunt my peace of mind

Night turns to day 

and day to night 

and I am still trapped in the equinox of my mind 

Traveling across time with out ever leaving my front door 

(Not finished) 

Sweet Caroline 

take the razor off that line 

theres no need to be unkind 

love yourself sweet Caroline 

I know this world can be pretty cruel 

And words are used like jagged tools

sometimes silence speaks the worst

I see the way your ripping at your shirt

Sweet Caroline

take the razor off that line

theres no need to be unkind

love yourself sweet Caroline

hold the valor in your heart

I know the world seems mighty dark 

but that’s just the residue in your eye 

from the last time that you cried 

come on and wipe those tears away 

It gets better every day 

Oh my darling Caroline 

take the razor off that line 

theres no need to be unkind 

love yourself sweet Caroline 

love yourself my Caroline 

love yourself sweet Caroline 

Don’t you know that the only monster that hides underneath your bed

is the same one the rests inside your head 

and when your counting sheep at night 

be the knight that fights with light 

you deserve to be happy 

you say it’s much harder than it seems 

be the one to grant your dreams 

Don’t be the fairy of the fiends 

Oh my sweet Caroline 

i’m begging you 

Please take the razor off that line 

there’s no need to be unkind 

love yourself my Caroline 

Why take your light away 

Cause you think you know what others say 

And even if you knew it then 

Teach the world who you are my friend 

Lift your heart off the ground 

And fight back, pound for pound 

cause I believe in you my Caroline 

I believe in you sweet Caroline 

believe in yourself Caroline 

believe in yourself Caroline 

And take that razor off that line 

theres no need to be unkind 

My sweet darling Caroline 

For all the Caroline’s in the world. Please love yourself, you are worth loving. 

you got every day to make a mark on this world 

every day to say I love you 

to confess every beast of a demon that scratches at your tired aching heart 

to break walls and build bridges that were worlds apart 

You got every day to live a dream 

to act much younger than you seem 

to flex a frozen arm from reaching 

So open your eyes today 

see the clarity of the day

cause the air is crisp every day 

dont be ungrateful for what you have

stop reliving moments from the past 

dust the sorrow off your sorry ass

and get up and make it last

cause you can live years and never live

but it takes just one day to truly live

if you stop and let it give

give you everything that you need

dont be a martyr of broken dreams

rise above and take what you need

it’s all yours willingly 

you’re your own worst enemy 

the only one stopping you from being happy 

you got every day to make a mark on this world 

to confess every beast of a demon that scratches at your tired aching heart 

to break walls and build bridges that were worlds apart 

You got every day to live a dream 

to act much younger than what you seem 

to flex a frozen arm from reaching   

to say, “I love you” and “I’m needing” 

so dont waste your time away 

shedding tears on rainy days 

get up and face your life 

take hold and don’t think twice 

this is the day you start a new 

this is the day you appreciate you 

You wanna know what I think?

I think you should just shut up and kiss me :)  

He stands with his arms open wide 

facing the wrong side 

There’s a child in him waiting to be loved 

But she’s never known love 

Just how to survive

And so he never felt love

Just soft spoken cries

They both are beautiful when you look inside 

His smile reminds me of innocence and relief 

So warm and so vulnerable 

Those are the seconds we truly breath 

Yet somehow I fight these tears from my eyes 

Cause I know that he feels so empty and deprived 

He is loved

If only he could see

All this love that’s in front of him, beyond childhood memories 

Time is ticking away at our bones 

And loneliness lives where it’s master owns 

We can beat it if we want to 

Oh if we just try

Cause life is too short to be sad and then die 

This is not a place for saints 

This is a refuge for sinners 

You won’t find perfection in us

We are the ones that drag our sluggard souls for peace of mind across the valleys of life into sacred land

And even then our minds run a mile a minute   

We are full of faults 

Full of sin 

Full of everything that you say we are 

And that is why we are here 

That is why we gather 

We gather here to remind ourselves of who we should be 

We need this reminder every day because we forget 

Oh how easily we forget 

Not even knowing how blood spilled in our name do we remember and humble ourselves in shame 

Faith is a personal journey we travel 

And sin is a personal battle we fight 

This is not justification for our doings 

This is just a little insight 

And even I who sit here and type away, remember how His name came into frame 

He was not handed to my ancestors with peace 

nor the love that He sought to teach 

He was handed through pain and torture

Through violence and reign

Acts that history has muffled away

Acts that dictate what I believe to be true today

Knowing this and knowing that

I keep faith and forgive the past

Life is a mystery that I dare not proclaim

It’s funny how we seek to maintain

And now that we stand in the crescent of time  

Of the Eagle and the Condor 

The Westerns change their mind 

They hiss cause we believe

In what they forced us to perceive

And now protest that the church is sheer idiocracy

You’ve changed us

And changed us once again

You’ve changed us

And changed us unto no end

But here we are in the crescent of time   

Holding onto what we claim is fine 

You killed the Indian but you did not touch our soul 

So we think for ourselves

and we seek to be whole

In the mist of the bitterness somewhere lies some truth 

Somewhere between we and you 

Thus we meet under a roof 

A roof we call church 

Where sinners bend knees 

And spirits are put first 

No this is not a place for saints 

This is a refuge for sinners 

We are the past and present 

conglomerated as one 

Overall we are children 

Children under The Son

Son, Sun, do they not sound the same?

Whichever words we seek to define 

One truth remains 

And that is the anatomy of humankind 

Right there in the center 

Just below our minds 

There is a heart that seeks to be fed 

This is called love 

And we hunger of it 

This is called love

And we seek to covet