Bitter End - lyrics

I know you’ll call me when you need a friend
You know I’ll be here to the bitter end
Though you feel me like the mighty wind
You know the moment our memory won’t mend

Days seem so long now with you gone from sight
Where is the balance of holding and flight
My heart’s a forest of questions unheard
You turn your face from the core of my hurt

Why don’t you hear me when my tide is low
Why don’t you call when my going is slow
Here I am lonely, take me away
Why don’t you hear me and tell me you’ll stay

Maybe you’ll find me like summer follows spring
Perhaps we’ll wake to the joy love can bring
Our hearts as one and souls joined to be
Right here together, loving so free

Chorus

I hope you’ll call me when you need a friend
You know I’ll be here to the bitter end

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For You

March 2006 -

For you, I will bend yet not break; the winds may blow me but I’ll stay
Here on a few still memories made of clay

You hold my heart in your
Hand. . . Here is the moment when we stand

For you, I wait, anticipate; the days between us escalate
This is the beauty of our love, left in haste

You hold my heart in your
Hand. Here is the moment when we
Stand. . . Holding hours so gently

For you, I stand beside anew; The day begins with all that’s true
The window to your precious soul, eyes so kind

You hold my heart in your Hand. Here is the moment when we
Stand. . . Holding hours so gently . . .
This day is gift; it’s all we have

Problem To Paradise

the problem is a visceral view into his soul leaving me wanting
perhaps wanting to give more than receive
with the reception welcome . . . transforming
isn't that how we love? we hope our pouring into another's life might bring remedy
yet there is no panacea for this problem

the potential is everlasting bliss, kiss upon kiss,
lost dependence upon oxygen
perhaps loving more than being loved in return
with the exception overruled with penniless passion
Isn't that how we swim? we dive into the dangerous deep and believe in parody
then awaken to the shallow end as the only potential

the paradise is momentary magic
where two souls unite unencumbered with history
perhaps previous indiscretions are carelessly forgiven while
our perceptions abandoned as we reject the obvious
isn't that how we proceed? we lie to ourselves, this moment may linger longer
yet the paradox remains, never to be paradise

the profoundness is this bedrock of belief found solid, sensual and serene
perhaps holding to ideals sustaining beyond weakness
amidst the pain of this human existence
isn't that how we believe? we hold to a hand out of reach, a smile yet unseen
until our seams meet unscathed betwixt this time and space continuum. . .
therein lies the profoundness of love . . . there is no problem

In Learning To Trust In The Divine

(nov. 2004) - a few months after the major move. . .

Peace in the pondering
Calm in the storm
Joy in the suffering
Knowing this is where I belong

In Your arms I will linger
Where in Your peace I abide

Here I stand saying . . . thank you
For this unexpected turn
Don’t know how I made these choices


In the loving we learn to be loved
In being loved we learn to love

In the forgiving we learn to be forgiven
In being forgiven we learn to forgive

In the sorrow we learn to embrace joy
Within joy we embrace sorrow