Oh Indonesia, I weep with you

Oh Indonesia I now weep with you
Over all  the sorrows you've been through
Scores of bodies, all lined up:
You have truly drank the bitter cup

And I weep with you .. I weep with you
Over all the trauma you've been through
A quake ..a wave.. and so many lost
Lives destroyed and homes are tossed

The news, so bitter, has come to me
The sight the sounds are all tragedy
So many times already you have known
This same story this news now shown

And I weep with you .. I weep with you
Over all the trauma you've been through
A quake ..a wave.. and so many lost
Lives destroyed and homes are tossed

If only next time you are  prepared
For the coming wave ..you all have shared
Some plans in place; some escape routes too:
Maybe some other countries can start helping you..?

And I weep with you .. I weep with you
Over all the trauma you've been through
A quake ..a wave.. and so many lost
Lives destroyed and homes are tossed

We have our worries it is so true
But none have known them just like you
So I'm hoping now that some will rise
And help you build some exits from the skies

And I weep with you .. I weep with you
Over all the trauma you've been through
A quake ..a wave.. and so many lost
Lives destroyed and homes are tossed

Fall is here

Leaves are falling all around
Soft their whisper soft their sound
Blessing earth with warming smiles
Autumn is coloring the earth for  miles

And the Fall is here, she's here
Cooling calming temperatures appear
Earthy orangey tones surround
The Autumn breezes that are all around...

Squirrels are gathering all their food
Hiding..preserving it as they should
Jaunting jumping and playing too
Work can be so fun: it's true..

And the Fall is here, she's here
Cooling calming temperatures appear
Earthy orangey tones surround
The Autumn breezes that are all around..

Warmer clothing becomes the style
Lighter garments are in a pile
Into the boxes and put away
Summer clothing,just cannot stay

And the Fall is here, she's here
Cooling calming temperatures appear
Earthy orangey tones surround
The Autumn breezes that are all around..

A certain somberness and quieter tone
Surrounds the earth like one alone
Rest has come to plants and trees
Hushed the whispers hushed the breeze

And the Fall is here, she's here
Cooling calming temperatures appear
Earthy orangey tones surround
The Autumn breezes that are all around..

Why are you running?

In this whirlwind you're making ... do you need any rest
Is there something you're escaping something you detest
Does the inner soul challenge you.. the spirit ever speak?
Why do you keep running ...what is it you seek?

And the world keeps on spinning it spinning around
From one thing to another .. you're everywhere found
But the silences calling; the friendships; the spouse:
You've left them all behind you like leaving a house

You can't help your heartbeat its beating top speed
You're fulfilling some ambition some imaginary need
While the people who are around those closest to you
Are wondering and waiting for your attention: it's true

And the world keeps on spinning it spinning around
From one thing to another .. you're everywhere found
But the silences calling; the friendships; the spouse:
You've left them all behind you like leaving a house

The more you keep runing the more you are lost
Inside of the whirlwind your worries are tossed
But not only your  worries your heartaches your pain
You're losing your frienships..they're beginning to strain

And the world keeps on spinning it spinning around
From one thing to another .. you're everywhere found
But the silences calling; the friendships; the spouse:
You've left them all behind you like leaving a house

So take heed for a momment and think for a while
What's more precious than a heartbeat a frienship a smile
Have you forgotten the values that formed you your heart
In the whirlwinds of money ..have you let them all depart

And the world keeps on spinning it spinning around
From one thing to another .. you're everywhere found
But the silences calling; the friendships; the spouse:
You've left them all behind you like leaving a house

Sunday morning Christians...

Oh Sunday morning Christians..
you are the first to fill the pew
But what do you do after its over..
oh tell me what do you do?

The other day I was with a Jesus follower...
who mocked and mocked another
I wondered inside of  my heart..
is this the love we should show each other
Than I walked beside a Sunday preacher
who had a bible inside his hand
He was condemning a homosexual
as if he was a vile and most miserable man

Oh Sunday morning Christians..
you are the first to fill the pew
But what do you do after its over..
oh tell me what do you do?

Somehow, I feel, you think you're so special
not a sinner like all the rest
You wouldn't ever think of keeping company
with some of the most un-blessed..
Yet you will  quote them all your scriptures
and you'll tell us we must be saved
While scowling at the faceless homeless
and shaming the poorly shaved..

Oh Sunday morning Christians..
you are the first to fill the pew
But what do you do after its over..
oh tell me what do you do?

The motto of loving like Jesus ..
is so grand and  truly fine
But what about the countless others,
who  never make it into  your line?
What if each Sunday you'd  choose some someone
to love and really embrace
Someone who has no real somebody
and who everyone thinks is a waste of space..

Oh Sunday morning Christians..
you are the first to fill the pew
But what do you do after its over..
oh tell me what do you do?

The echo with

My pen was stopped the rhyme was too
But  my heart it sang with love, it's true:
Creator Redeemer and Lord of All
What wondrous things, inside me falll

The day, the night, the hours that pass
They sing, they shout, they call at last
To a silenced writer and an artist too
Return return to what you best do...

So once again with the hours galore
I listen and hear and write once more
For He who gives and dwells above
Would have me sing and share His Love

Oh can you hear it.. oh can you not:
The echo within you:  that echoes a lot?
Its bursting and bubbling and longing to be
An attractive gift for humanity

So let it out and let it begin
That secret something.. you're holding within
Don't worry, don't fret or measure its worth
Just let it out and it'll bless the  earth..

Stormy aftermath

The trees they whirl and they toss about
As  the winds continue to madly shout
A screech and a roar and the things do fly
As another tornado is passing by

The stormy Florence has left its true..
But remnants of her wrath keep coming through
Inside of the winds and the pounding rains
We feel her might..for  it still remains..

Day four and all of North Carolina cries
For people displaced beneath unsettling skies
Reminding  us that this storm is still  here
Inside of the destruction and the atmosphere

We must think of each other and lend a hand
Where ever we're needed and whenever we can
For the fate of those suffering this awful plight
Could come searching for us:  some day some night..

Florence

Florence came with her devastation
And a tragedy for those whose hesitation...
Kept them near her path, her breath:
See how far her winds did stretch?

The rains have fallen without an end;
Ocean waters inside them blend:
Sighs of anguish, sounds of grief...
Echoing within this whirling thief

Her path kept changing ..this we heard
Weatherman pointed; changed their word
Warnings posted: here then there
Some were slow to leave or prepare

Now she's passing but not so fast..
Her shadows continue to wave and pass
Through our counties and through our homes
Uprooting lives.. like fragile stones

Change...

Beware of the winds now that change here and there
They come with a warning, for people everywhere
In an instant, in an inkling, our life can rearrange
We must be ever ready, for the Heavens bid us: "Change"

Like the mountains that erupt now, and the oceans that explore;
Nature is responding to the things, that shake her floor:
Like the warring and the fighting and the arguments galore..
The Heavens are reacting and will not take it anymore..

So the floodgates are all open and skies let down their rain:
A cleansing for the earth, now..and all her needless pain..
The elements and the molecules and the moisture and the air
Are all crying out with a vengeance:
     "The earth's inhabitants are unfair"

The hurricanes of mid September

The ocean is coming alive now on the southern most eastern coast
Florence and a couple others are starting to make their boast
With their whirling winds,  so noisy and their might for all to see
The  hurricanes of mid September are as visible as can be...

Don't wait for them to arrive here get ready now and prepare
For the disturbances they are bringing are more than we can bear
Some will become  all flooded and some will  feel the wind
It's time to get out and plan now for these storms will enter in

Look out to the ocean waters and see how they build their might
These storms from the African waters will bring a bit of fright
With whirling gusts all noisy and storms and terrors galore
We know that they are coming now what else are we waiting for?

The secrets I kept...

I said I would wait awhile before I'd begin to write
Of the many missing pieces that were hidden from other's sight
I had kept them all inside me and was waiting for many year
To release these secret sorrows that have created all my tears

But the time has come to hear it and the time has come to read
The things  my family had covered up under guise of sacred creed
With the incense in the background and the stain glass all around
I woud weep inside my spirit and play back the horrific sound..

We were all so very catholic ...and it was evident as can be:
That we were good at genuflecting and at praying the rosary
But behind the mask of holiness and behind the sacred prayer
There was brokenness and abuses and scars from lack of care

I would weep my way to school and I would weep my way to sleep
There wasn't a single corner where I didn't kneel to weep
The fasaad of being happy was a ploy for everyone to see
So  they couldn't ever imagine what was happening to me..

She kept it all inside

Tears welled up in her eyes... as she thought about it all
They claimed to be good christians but never bothered to call
They read up on their bibles and were fond of the Sunday pew
But they never bothered to visit her they never did it's true

But who were all these people putting sadness in her eyes
They were brothers and a sister and her very own blood ties
They were quick to cut her short  and tell her how she's wrong
For confessing all the sorrows she knew her childhood long

It would have been much better had she never spoken of
The many secret things that the family covered up
Every one would have loved her .. had she kept all inside
Every heart ache, every beating, every hurt ..since she was five

Denial was their custom and it is still the same today
Ignoring what is evident and hiding it all away
Pretending that nothing happened and claiming she had lied
Everyone who lived then is content to push it   aside...

For we are light..

When will we see truth as right...
Turn from wrong,  both day and night?
When will we be strong ...be brave
Let others see the hope we save..?

For we are light and we are love
Children of One God above
We are washed and pure again
Through God's Son who lives within

When will we say enough's enough
Be bold enough to reject that stuff
That taints our heart our soul our will
When will we be strong, be strong as steal?

For we are light and we are love
Children of One God above
We are washed and pure again
Through God's Son who lives within

When will we stand up for right
Pursue God's cause pursue His Light
When will we see ...see all as one:
Brother and sister...everyone...?

For we are light and we are love
Children of One God above
We are washed and pure again
Through God's Son who lives within

When will we all sleep and rise
With God's grace....with His eyes
Resting peacefully ....rising up
To give to others from our cup?

For we are light and we are love
Children of One God above
We are washed and pure again
Through God's Son who lives within

Can you hear it..everyone

Hear the sounds that sweetly ring
Through the air and everything
Cicadas humming..dancing round:
Soothing; singing; rythmic sound..

Coolness lingering.. welcomes the day
Crickets sounding..brighten the  way
A peck, peck, pecking can be heard:
From the dutiful...hungry bird

Whisps of breezes here and there
Touch the creatures touch my hair
Whispering secrets whispering prose
Sounds like invites but who knows..?

Listening lightly much is heard
In the moments that are  stirred
By the elements and  by the sun
Can you hear it .. everyone?