Winds of Eden

Two lost children of Eve,
Wandering in a world
Overwhelmed without reprieve,
Forgetting what it feels like
To love, to care, to receive.

Stunned and wild-eyed
Gob smacked, does the world lie
Not a chance you see
They crashed into each
And desperate together they fly.

On the winds of Eden
Their love destined to soar.
They will find a truth God-given
To them forever more.

The Mirror

God held a mirror
To my soul
And when I looked
I saw you there.

Your endless pools
Forest green deep
Reflect my cooler
Flirty green seas.

All the good of me
Bounced back in your heart
All the bad of you
Echoed deep within mine.

But the mirror shattered
When you looked away
Lies and life ended
The fair reflection of our love.

Why did He let me see
Let me love and hurt and feel
The one soul on earth
So like me.

My Center

Είσαι το κέντρο της ψυχής μου
Προκαλείς πυρκαγιά στην καρδιά μου
με ένα σου βλέμμα.

Τι να κάνω;
Είμαι έρμαιο στα χέρια σου
όταν αντικρίζω τη γνώριμη ψυχή σου.

Θέλω να ξοδέψω εκατομύρια ζωές
για να μπορέσω να δω μέσα σου
τις απαντήσεις.

Ο Θεός μου χάρισε εσένα
Και Τον ευχαριστώ
που βρήκε την δική μου αλήθεια
και μου την πρόσφερε πάλι
μέσα στα μάτια σου.


You are the center
Of my soul
You make my heart
Catch on fire
With one look.

What can I do?
I am helpless
In the face of your
Knowing soul.

I want to spend
A million lifetimes
Looking inside you
For the answers.

God gave me you,
And I thank Him
For finding my truth
And giving it back to me
In your eyes.

Lovers Lost

We are twin souls,
Never meeting
Or seeing our fates together,
Living in our real life roles.

What questions of faith
Can we ask
When lovers are lost
Walking on the same path.

Bittersweet, pleasure pain,
The joy and despair
Of having you come
And leave again.

A deeper world
Cannot be known
Than the lovers who roam
Without a home.

Dangerously Complete

A stranger
Knew my secret longing,
And he showed me
Reflected my shadows and chasms.

Hunger and strife
Leads me to claw
To scratch out
A desperate answer
Trying to heal.

My body is cut open
Flayed apart
Wounded for the sake
Of sacred examination.

If only some surgeon
Could cut out what is missing
And put back what
Is full and right.

Closed back up
I am again still walking wounded
Craving and scratching, hoping,
For someone to put me out of misery.

The stranger is a stranger
He knows not
What he does
In the name of love.

Faithless

Faithless friend
Abandoned for greener
Brighter youth
Songs of freedom
Call you away
I look where you were
in self pity, regret.

Once thought
You a Savior
A personal prophet
Of hope and persuasion
Now it is clear
I mangled my own vision.

It wasn't fair I guess
To raise you higher
Than you could see yourself
Even if I know
It is where you could go.

Grateful too soon,
Extended so far
I brittley broke
Shattered into a million
Pieces of my own
failed expectations.

Now shuttered up
Protected and plain
Safely walking in circles
Within these boundaries
The world has taught me
are appropriate.

Sighing heavily
Don't know what or who
To hope for or believe in
Nobody wants that burden.
Nobody wants my faith.
It is just me and God. Maybe.

Song Man

Song man
You light up the world
Smile as you raise your head
Grimace as you bow it again.

Riffs ripple
Like vibrant springs
In fall running from a freeze
Let them tumble
From your strings.

Don't stop playing
Your music is
Praying
Cannot envy you
Your passion is God given.

So play
Song man
Play until your heart
Is full again.

Forget

I will forget
How you did heal me
And you will forget
How you felt needed.

I will forget
How I felt beautiful
You will forget
That you felt strong.

I will forget
What attention feels like
You will forget
Sharing your weaknesses too.

We will forget
So that we can go on
Distant passing smiles
Make this effort to forget
Almost...bearable.

Mary K. 2007

Courtly Love

I paint you pictures
I sing you songs
But you only see numbers
And hear noise.

A compromise
I listen to your numbers
You look at my beauty
We somehow
Make something new.

My heart races
Yours is steady
Like bedrock
I shift like sand
You anchor the
world.

Different souls
Finding solace somehow
In steady gazed moments
And treasured soft kisses.

How will things
Find us tomorrow
You with your loyal look
Me like a babbling brook
You'll float in my liquid self
And I'll hold on to you
for dear life.

We'll somehow make it
Together
As man and wife.

American Woman VIII

I never wanted
For anyone to
Find me
I could never hide or
Manipulate.

I was out there
Take me.
Or leave me
And I was left.

Alone and craving
Hunger so deep
I could not run from it
I could only seek more.

Greedy for love and attention
Oh how to quell it
Oh please, let a little
Be enough.