My Advice to You

Wishing and wanting
Won’t change anything
So open your heart
Pick a song and sing

Deception and lies
Hold a deadly sting
Forgive, close your eyes
Pick a song and sing

Longing and love
Paint ‘most everything
Hope whispers above
Pick a song and sing

The beat of life’s drum
Keeps us marching
Better days will come
Pick a song and sing

Music is ointment
Soothing life’s sting
So take a moment
Pick a song…AND SING!

Janet~

New Day Now

It’s a new day now
Darkness is pushed from the edge of the sky
Rivers flow
Tinted from above with dawn’s bright eye
And hope
Fields, dark by night now stretch beyond
My gaze,in a sweeping golden pond
A haze, of mid-July thickens the air
I brush you from my eye, breathe a prayer
It’s a new day now…

It’s a new day now
The moon, a translucent wafer on a bed
Of softer blue
Recedes into vastness of infinity
With you
As duty raises her faithful head
She spreads her palm; lest I forget
And forge calm, greener paths somewhere
I cover you, sweet mine, with a prayer
It’s a new day now

It’s a new day now
Its splendor rivals for the beauty of night
In dawn sublime
But day is a constant reminder of life
And the march of time
Though I do not hold it against her much
There is something about night, day will never touch
For light dissolves the moody spell
Of night and you; all is well
It’s a new day now

Janet~

God is Love

God is Love

To love is to touch God…

One cannot love

And say, there is no God

For God is love

Without Him, there could be no love

His love formed the earth,

It holds stars in place

And directs the universe

Love puts smiles on our faces

His love comes in babies

Wisdom and forgiveness

God is love

All good things are from Him

Evil is the result of sin

The Fall of man in Eden

But we will be made perfect again

Someday, in Heaven

And only then, to those who believe in Him

Will the true glory of His love

Be revealed

God is love

To love is to touch Him

The power of love is undeniable proof

Of God

Janet~

Lovely Blue

There’s nothing quite as lovely as the midnight coming down
In a flow of silver moon-light and the sigh of trees, wind-blown
The hush of broadened shadows blows life’s sorrows far away
And I am all alone with you; six hours before day

There’s nothing quite as silent as the night at one a.m.
The breeze has died; the moon has paled in heaven’s diadem
I can feel the warmth of you, the roughness of your cheek
When I am all alone with you we do not need to speak

There’s nothing quite as beautiful as the rare shade of blue
Encompassing a muted earth of dark and dust and dew
Five hours until daylight; what is a girl to do?
Five hours until morning and a lifetime without you…

J~

I finished this one first saying
*‘five hours until morning and a lifetime loving you…’
But it really needed the ‘ouch’ factor…
Those who prefer no ‘ouch’ may use *

Nothing

It is nothing now...
Emptiness fills the space
once full of you
and there is nothing left to touch...
Funny…
I didn't know nothing
could hurt so much.....

J~

Mistaken Again

Did you presume my solemn gaze
To be a sign of sadness?
And did you then presume my days
Were long and void of gladness?
And did you see my tear-dimmed eye?
And did you call it sorrow?
Or did you hear my drawn-out sigh
And pity me tomorrow
Or did my trembling lips appear
To be caused by my grieving
Because you thought you saw a tear
And seeing is believing
I hate to seem too calloused then
Or sound cold and unshaken
But I suggest you look again
For I say you're mistaken

J~

Thief of Hearts

I cannot draw you closer
Through the longing in my sighs
I cannot see you better
Though the tears have washed my eyes
I reach with aching fingertips
But cannot touch your cheek
Or feel the whisper of your lips
Against me as you speak

Missing you must be, I fear
The very heart of me
In everything you gave, my dear
You took much more, you see
As you gave me your smiles and sighs
My heart became undone
You stole,I did not realize
The pieces one by one

You stole, as I gave willingly
Each piece for you to break
Until the very heart of me
Had nothing left to take
I want me back so I can feel
Life's bitter-sweetest pain
And darling, I would let you steal
Me, piece by piece again...

J~

Don't worry L~.
You wondered if I am enjoying
this full moon night...???

Very much!
So much in fact, that I simply HAD to write...
...anything disgustingly sad!
I am okay, really:)

Pondering Oceans

Did it move you? Did you feel like flying?
High as the clouds in an ocean of blue
Did it hurt? Did you feel like dying?
Yes, I know, I feel that way too
Love is a tangle of me and you…

Did it ache? The quiet needing
Deep as the night and wide as the sea
Did it stop? The silent bleeding
Of broken remnants of what used to be?
Love is an ocean around you and me

J~

Surprises

I thought I knew you
Oh, but then
You find a new way
To touch me again

I thought I knew you
…could predict your next move
But you never can tell
With heartache or love

I thought I knew you
I hear a star fall
Turns out I never
Knew you at all…

J~