shadows stretch, wind and sun
mountains flex and rivers run
see the stain of painted lines
touch the veins, embrace the vines
slowly holding silver streams
even in the blood that sings
breath that calls a new design
hands that claw for summer's shine
lit by tides of gold and blue
shadowed sides in purple hue
these are words we've seldom kept
lost, unheard on season's step
moving cross the battle pit
living lost in silence sit
thinking all the gold that gleams
lives and dies in human dreams

feeling like the center as I enter now inside another storm
close my eyes, open my arms, embrace the pain of every slashing form

anguish of a broken home
walls of mortar, blood and bone
stripped and ripped the structure down
screams within me, haunting sound
screamed until my body burned
screamed at every thought and turn
screamed until i thought i'd die
then let go and found the sky
arms of bark enveloped me
pulled into the canopy
arms embrace a god of snails
make this face, a skin of scales
light so blinding, walked into
so inviting, going through
now i see the blood of man
i see the pain of god. i am.

in a tree, in a day
in a moment far away
in the sky, in the sun
in a life becoming one

in her tree, she held me
whispering of death
now I live inside you
now you are my breath...(x2)

i love you!

love and compassion
just open my eyes
let it all fall
stand up and shine!

a tree stands in the forest now a perfect picture
bleed and vision
stood there as if all the world came down
and all the time blinked out
and all my life, my doubt. my mind
my death and every breath
and oh so hard and oh so sad
and beautiful and perfect and ugly and sane...
and really I just want her back
and I want to hear her one more time
and one more look, one more dream
one perfect moment, one more day...
why can't i have just one more day
something to say, some sleep, some little thing
why can't i have just one more day...
i love you!

on the mountains goats they leap
in the valleys, lions sleep
across fields the bison dream
in the forests, monkeys swing
in the rivers, salmon spawn
on the prairie, coyotes yawn
under oceans, hammers slide
in the holes the rabbits hide
in the treetops, fruit bats hang
on the plains, the serpents reign
here's the sun where briars bloom
here's the land, the earth and moon
here's the blood, the land, the sky
here's my path and here's my life
here's the moment here I found
here's my gold and here's my crown

but can I prove them wrong?