Dear Mom

9/25/07 - after spending day in Vegas with my folks for their 49th anniversary - an amazing day. . .


She’s counting the days
It’s apparent in her eyes
Makes me uneasy to know and realize
Memories are what we leave behind

She’s counting the hours
Till I have to say good-bye
Wish that we could wander
To a shore unrecognized

the welcome in her words
causes me to pause and for a moment
I can linger to a place where I’m younger . . .

She loves me no matter what I do
She believes in my journey wandering through
No matter the path I may choose
She loves me

she’s pausing through pictures
remembering the days
when we were younger
wearing a stubbornness & haze

she’s dreaming of daytimes
the silence carries weight
of a history so rich
and the future left in haste

choices we were made to live
though sometimes looking back
there was regret and love defiled

She loves me no matter what I do
She believes in my journey wandering through
No matter the path I may choose
She loves me

I will honor who she is and is in me
By giving this unending love to the ones given to be
all the heavens will align and set us all free
with arms spread wide, my mother says she’s so proud of me

Trust - Nov. 2004

Trust



I can’t tell you what tomorrow may bring

Could be sadness or tears of joy

Though what lies ahead is hidden

You see everything before its known



I will trust you for always

This day is in your hands

I will trust you for your ways

Are higher and pure

Your ways are wiser, good and true

I will trust you



Time will tell of your goodness here

All this pain will fade

Though these tears fill up my eyes

You know all my pain



I put my trust in you

Though there’s darkness everywhere

I put my hope in you alone

You give me freedom

I look to you, my only strength

Your goodness brings me life



How could I desire anything

But what you have for me

Since I trust in you – you can only give the best

How could I try to walk away

When all I want is you alone

It’s your love that covers me



2004 Harpopotamus Music, BMI



(November at Twin Peaks retreat center – facing major changes)