Castles in the Air

Like visions, places nudge us    
through inheritance, striking    
remembrance rooted in sulfur    
rekindling the Spirit of blood     
      
Communion was Love, an ancestor  
soft reminder of its ever-presence    
When I woke, I couldn’t remember    
its Castle of crystal compass      
   
Then from his room, dreaming away    
dawn, my grandson began to laugh  
and I slowly remembered  
from where it was I came  
 
and smiled at the prospect of hope  
    
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A dog
A park
Much foliage

You pitch the ball
She zips after it

Skips back
to slobber and tail-wag

Many years since
the days

The days when
it seemed like
you couldn’t be

The days when
you pondered an end
each nanosecond

Now, you have
your pooch

Now, to find
the pooch’s
perfect partner guardian

I shall persevere with my dream      
to be among those far flung stars,      
as do those clever folk who scheme  
to land a poet there on Mars.      
       
I've heard it called a desert world      
a planet devoid of all life      
but I have seen the sunlight curl      
round rocks like girl's curl round their wife.      
       
Curious as I am I’ve also heard      
the whispering breeze shape the sand      
into the finest feminine curves      
far finer than Angelo’s hand.      
       
The graduations within these reds        
from war-like red to gentle pink      
have spirited me so, my dreams are fed      
to one day sojourn there thus, I think..    
       
To be on the great wing of Maven      
if opportunity should occur      
and launch me into this red haven      
Mars, I shall sleep now, dream myself there...

I once dreamed of skies unbound,
A life where silence held no sound,
No echoes of rage, no shackles tight,
Just open doors and peaceful night.

My heart, a bird in a shadowed cage,
Longing to flee the storms of rage.
I painted dreams in midnight hues,
Of a home where love would infuse.

Seven years since I broke away,
Carved my freedom, claimed my day.
A house I call my very own,
Where laughter rings, where seeds are sown.

The past, a ghost, it haunts no more,
Its whispers lost beyond my door.
I dreamed of wings, of skies so blue—
And now I soar; my dreams came true.

 
I dream about this world in my mind where you all love me and I love you as well.
We don’t judge, we don’t discriminate. We just live and we love all the same.

A beautiful place. No monsters, exorcised all demons. Stood in our place.
We love, don’t begrudge. We just live. We just live. And love all the same.

Fumbling around in the dark, I couldn't find the love inside my heart.
And it's really no surprise I fell apart.
People will tell you, they'll try to sell you that you're really not worth that much.
People abuse you, use and confuse you, trying to justify what it was.

Always said I was willing to die, but somethings cost you more than just your life.
Walked a million miles across the razor wire..  My  boys I didn't know how to love, even though I wanted to so much.  It took a long while till I found out how. Through God's healing touch...

Then I flipped a switch and the world lit up, down on my knees,  felt a healing rush.
When the dark comes calling saying happiness won't last. I'm going to tell that devil Jesus has my back.  Gonna keep on going up that brighter path, walking in the sunshine and I won't turn back. This I know-this too shall pass,.

All of these wounds,  they run so deep, more jagged than the scars the world can see.  My soul was just a shell lost at sea.
 How do I unlearn, cross the bridges they burned, underneath my feet?

But I flipped a switch and the world lit up, down on my knees,  felt a healing rush.
When the dark comes calling saying happiness won't last. I'm going to tell that devil Jesus has my back.  Gonna keep on going up that brighter path, walking in the sunshine and I won't turn back. This I know-this too shall pass,.

Beauty from these ashes, losing my breath laughing.  Treasures that I'd never dreamed I'd have...

And  I flipped a switch and the world lit up, down on my knees,  felt a healing rush.
When the dark comes calling saying happiness won't last. I'm going to tell that devil Jesus has my back.  Gonna keep on going up that brighter path, walking in the sunshine and I won't turn back. This I know-this too shall pass,.  This too shall pass.