Unknown

Travelled over distances too far to comprehend
Warnings and negativity … it feels like it won’t end
Yet everyday life continues in spite of all the shock
Families, they carry on, there is no stumbling block

I realise you cannot run away from what’s inside
I know you can’t hide
But we can make a half turn…
We can learn

Running for horizons we know we cannot reach
Words of advice and cautionary … it feels like it’s a breech
Of confidence, yet every day, we want to feel alive
Advice is easy to receive when you are paralysed

I realise you cannot run away from what’s inside
I know you can’t hide
But we can make a half turn…
We can learn

Voice

I am strong and I am kind
I care not what I left behind
Because I have seen the light

Childhood is a strange and wonderful thing
Over too soon, yet still it lingers
I embrace it with open arms and dirty fingers
My childhood
Lost like a forgotten dream
Yet now I will have it return to me
Because it should never leave

I am happy and I am free
I am everything I want to be, in heart and in speech
Nothing can quite ever reach
The depths
Of enthusiasm unbound or joy without borders
I am the one who understands
I can taste the promised land
Within me

I will jump for joy on my special day
I can run a thousand miles if you just say
The word
The word of my God
Who comes to me when I need it, my angel
Protecting, nurturing me when I am desperate
And I cannot seperate
Me from my destiny
I don’t know what it is but I will see in time

I am lonely yet I am loved
I have scents from heaven above
I call out when moonlight fades
I will live life in my own way
I am alright
I am free

Valley Of The Kings

It was so hot, too hot, white aglow
Nowhere to take comfort in shadow
These stony pathways leading this way
And that
I feel like a cat who’s been let out to play
In the hottest part of the day

Hot and dusty, that’s how I felt
There were times I stopped and knelt
These stony pathways leading that way
And this
But I don’t want to miss the best part
For here’s a tomb starting
To appear
Is it cooler in here?

It’s not, still hot
And stuffy.
And roughly,
How long since a drink of water?
I really ought to
Drink more.
Think more

Look where I am! Surrounded by faces
Of other tourists, from all different places
Their expressions of awe heading this way
And that
I feel like a cat winding it’s way
Further away from home

And into the mystery of you

Unsaved

I wish I could tell you
Oh, how I wish I could say to you
The deepest secrets of my heart – the hidden joy
That comes to me when no-one hears
The full content of my non-existent tears
But I cannot

I wish I could see you
Oh, even just for a moment
Your flashing eyes so intense – the forbidden
They visualize when night is dark
The total surrender of my passing years
But I dare not

I wish I could hold you
Oh, it doesn’t matter how long…