sunshine

Did you know you could fly?    
Across the sea and sky    
Bring the water to the hill    
Feed the souls in the field...
.    
Spreading wings of love    
We float in joy above    
The heart of land we till    
Brings us closer still...
    
A brother sees his kind    
The look of all he finds    
In search for truth so clear    
We see ourselves as dear...
    
The inside measure we draw    
To seam the carpet no flaw    
Through cosmos, the sheet does spread    
From sun to sun and head to head...
    
We see a picture of lofty grace    
The pillars stand the souls in place    
Will time in time and breath in breath    
Give understanding the words we said...

Sunshine streams across your face,
And through windows, erasing
Shadows that you used to trace
With your fingertips. The racing
Sound of your heartbeat evens out
While you feel calmness wash over
Like steady streams used to sprout
And help you grow every clover
In your garden. Your mind begins
Expanding into beautifully said
Words and thoughts. Your sins
And bad decisions have bled
Out. They have been washed
Away with yesterday’s pain.
Negativity has been squashed.
You learn to dance in the rain
And smile like you have never
Been sad. You let everything
Bad down the drain and the lever
Has been pulled. You fling
Yourself into all things that
Make you happy and less flat.  

It was a girls' night out on one Friday eve,    
When I and some friends on a jaunt to the mall,    
All gaily lit up for Christmas holiday.    
   
The tri-level mall was a sight to behold;    
Every floor made of glass that you could see through.    
   
And there at the top between two other shops    
Was sandwiched an open-air stall, with a sign:    
   
A wide-open hand with a seeing-all eye,    
With a network of lines criss-crossing its palm.    
   
"Your Fortune Read" it said, the mystic is IN,    
Its slight buzz of neon green glared unblinking;    
For five dollars each seemed too good to be true.    
   
The stall was too small for us all to fit in,    
So half of us stayed and the rest of us left    
Till each girl was called back when it was her turn.    
   
So as for me next door, I hovered nearby,    
Pretending to shop, distracted to listen    
With ear to the glass so that I overheard    
   
A mystical voice speaking low as she said:    
"I see from the ball, and the cards where they lie,    
You're taking a long ocean voyage this spring."    
   
I left where I was to the escalators    
And went down a flight for a frothy orange shake.    
   
By the time I returned while sucking a straw    
I leaned once again to the very same wall:    
   
A mystical voice speaking low as she said:    
"I see from the ball, and the cards where they lie,    
You're taking a long ocean voyage this spring."    
   
I didn't think too much of what I'd just heard,    
For now I heard my name, my turn was up next.    
   
I entered the stall of color reflections,    
A woman in black offered me a hard chair.    
   
Her smile a rouged smile through curtains of long hair,    
I noticed that she was no older than me.    
   
I'd never before consulted a psychic    
Especially for pay, so that was just weird,    
But hand her the greenback I did willingly.    
   
It felt very strange, so aloft like a bird    
In a nest made of crystalline threads & sticks.    
   
My eyes shifted round as I kept my back straight,    
Not wanting to give away my mental state.    
   
There wasn't a clue, not a gypsy in sight    
When it came to the native accoutrements:    
   
No candles or incense, no wall tapestries,    
No brass bells from fringes across a threshold      
Not even the charm of an old wagon wheel.    
   
She shuffled her Tarot card deck thoughtfully    
As dozens of slender brass bracelets jangled,    
While staggering cards, and divining her ball.    
   
She then raised her mascara eyes to meet mine,    
With one henna hand that raised up to her neck,    
The guttural sound of her clearing her throat,    
   
Then she spoke:    
"I see from the ball, and the cards where they lie,    
You're taking a long ocean voyage this spring."

took my worries    
in your hands  
made my soul    
understand    
your grace & love    
   
I wasn’t good at    
being alone  
you guided me from    
where roamed  
you gave a hope  
   
you answered me    
to all my prayers  
your grace was    
and it’s sufficient  
in you I abide  
   
all the weight    
of this world    
disappeared    
with your words    
and I sing…  
   
I sing Hallelujah!    
I sing Hallelujah!  
I sing Hallelujah!    
I sing Hallelujah!  
and  
I sing Hallelujah!  
I sing Hallelujah!    
I sing Hallelujah!    
I sing Hallelujah!  
 
 
Please listen to the recorded song here  
http://www.soundcloud.com/dejure-1/i-sing-hallelujah