Must I apologize for being human?

Do I need to apologize for shedding human tears
For feeling human pain resulting from hurtful years
Do I need to say I'm sorry for what I can't understand
For not being able to move on as fast as you think I can


Do I need to explain whenever you're judging  me
Though I'm so deeply scarred and broken as can be.
Do I even need your permission to open my heart to cry
While you stand in judgement and continue to ask me why?

Do you think that you're better than me because you weep inside
While every tear  I release tells   all the  sorrow I hide?
Do you think it's really fair to look down on the  very weak
While you applaud yourself by the very words you speak ?

Today, just for today

Today just for  today resolve to slow your pace
Do not allow yourself to be pulled into the race
The world is spinning around  without calm or rest
Can you break the pattern? This is  my  request?

Today, just for today , in every thing you do
Can you stop to  appreciate the world around you
How many seconds go by before you come to  see
You are so surrounded by earth's endless beauty?

Today just for today stop and say hello
To everyone you pass by:  woman or fellow
Appreciate every second every moment of this day
Savor everything around you, today just for today.

Mystic Nights

Softly and gently falls the darkness of the night
Slowly and subtly disappears the golden sun light
Oh how the silence is taking over the passing day
The soul is being transported to places  far away

Listen oh so carefully to the wisdom deep inside
Run ever so quickly from the foolishness outside
Allow ever so deeply the eternal light  to shine
Within you hold forever the infinite Love Divine.

When in the later hours  you're falling off to sleep
Ask all the angel guardians your  weary soul to keep
Be not ashamed of  company coming  from above
For such visits always leave you steeped in God's love

Icy Splinters

A frost has travelled the  lawn today
Leaving in its path a beautiful display
Of icy splinters that mystically  shine
Pulling some verse from this heart of mine.

And Though I'm not well, the beauty outside
Makes me to feel warm and wonderful  inside
Touching me deeply with heavenly   bliss
I'm  moved by the universe's selflessness

Everywhere I look there's a frosty glow
Reflecting Eternity's brilliance below
Overwhelmed with awe and quiet sighs
Heaven has sprinkled dust from the skys.


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In the Desert

I want to put some words down but am feeling mighty ill
Trying to find a quiet space..where things are calm and still
But all my being is aflame with fever through and through
So am going to do my best to write some words for  you

While one is in a desert there is little comfort around
One must learn to live without the familiar noise or sound
The desert is the place where you will  come to truly know
Who you are and who you are not and what will help you grow

Everyone should know and feel the desert deep   within
And allow enough space for that true   metanoia to begin
There can't ever  be real happiness without first going through
The emptiness of not having everything handed over to you

Living through the desert will give you something   inside
That you will be able to take to the rest of the world outside
Don't ever  pass up the journey that leads to the desert in you
For through it you will come to  know what is yours to  do

Always awaiting you and me

 The air is crisp and cold but approaching is the day
The sunshine and the warmness will soon be on their way
While we await the morning the best thing we can do
Is savor every moment of the night before its through

Looking up at the heavens we see the stars so  bright
They illuminate the darkness giving beauty to the night
The nocturnal creatures are busy running here and there
Gathering up their nourishment with the greatest care.

So much beauty all around us so much for us to see
Night and day, both enamored, with the greatest mystery
Its for us to discover while we pass through life so free
The secrets of the universe always awaiting you and me.