Can you hear the melody up ahead?

Can you hear the melody up ahead?

I have had my minutes and hours in the dark
where silence was obscured by my blurry thoughts
and the noise of my unknowing

I have been in that grey hallway
where the light is distant
and the crows are counting and singing
I need a phonecall… I need

but not today
not today

I have my minutes and days ahead of me
it’s through the light of truth I can breathe
and see that hope is growing

I have been through a door unlocked
where the key was not mine
the new song is developing
I still need to hear a little guitar

sometimes
sometimes

moments of joy, I’ve been taken in
the sleeping dream is awakening
I can taste the sacred love
of new wine in my plastic cup

can you hear the melody up ahead?
can you hear the melody up ahead?
singing

I have had my minutes and hours in the dark
but the light of hope casts it’s silence
over the noise of my unknowing
and time is free to speak its dreams again

can you hear the melody up ahead?
can you hear it…
singing?

12 March 04

Prove

Prove

These times so often begin with questioning

These thoughts have been leading and pleading and testing me

Whispering doubts about the things that I know

Whispering caution about the ways I could go

Opening the door was just the start

Walking through and onto the path

To the place where the dream might be

 

I know it’s real, I know it’s begun

But why do these questions always come?

 

Why is it I feel there is always something to prove

To everyone else

To myself

Or maybe just to you

 

Why is it I feel I need to be reminding

Everyone else

Or myself

Or maybe just you

 

Of who I am

Of what I am

What have I got to prove?

 

(I just want to make sure

I just want to be sure I’m living the real life)

 

This is who I am and it’s what I’ve been told

But I spend so much time talking at the side of the road

Talking about the journey in front of me

Talking about these so called bigger dreams

Opening the gate on this picket fence mentality

Walking out past the day to day reality

To the place where things might be

 

I have to begin, I have to take a step

But why is it I feel like I cant take it yet

 

Why is it I feel there is always something to prove

To everyone else

To myself

Or maybe just to you

 

Why is it I feel I need to be reminding

Everyone else

Or myself

Or maybe just you

 

Of who I am

Of what I am

What have I got to prove?

 

(I just want to make sure I’m more than just living

I just want to be sure I’m living the real life)

 

20 June 2007