Meeting A Stranger For The First Time

Another song for you... still no recording though.  In the meantime I'll give you another song:

Meeting  A Stranger For The First Time

Walk down these streets while their feet and their faces

pass me by

They move as if they’re in a trance or as if I’m not

Really here

And I look into their eyes

And they look away

Cars driving up to the stoplights

Honk in their rush to get away

The streetlamps block out the moonlight

And I’m left here waiting for a sign….

And you appear under streetlamp’s glare

And In your eyes

I see you there

Noise from the city surrounds us with movement

But for me everything is still

An unspoken feeling, surrounding, expanding

To you, and me, the city…

And I’ve always lived for these moments

Where everything falls into place

Nothing between us but silence

No words could pierce our gaze

[bridge]

And you walk towards me

And my eyes can feel the touch of your smile

A dream all around us

As you walk by

[bridge]

I feel your smile though you dissolve into the crowd

City’s rhythm pulls you away into the emptiness of the streets

And I turn around

As you walk away

And the birds calling out from the rooftops

Tell me what I felt wasn't there

And I’m left here standing in silence

As the city pulls me away...

And you turn around….

Fireflies

Hello all! I am currently living in Ecuador and don't know when I will be able to post.

Fireflies

Eyes downcast

I wander from the fields.

Grass and earth

–Still damp from the morning’s quenching-

Ooze between bare feet and penetrate every crevice between the toes,

But I do not notice as my mind wanders farther still:

Over the flat fields of waving corn, tiny towns and shapeless forests.

Finding only broken limits and infinite flight:

Past the open path through which I trod

Past the present to where shadows still play:

The ruse of memories guiding me away…

But at that moment all thoughts align:

The light that bubbles up from green blades

Awakens me from the ground.

I step into this new world

Leaving all those careless thoughts behind

As the tiny twinkling lights illuminate the grass

Soft between my feet as I catch sight of you now.

I’ve opened my eyes today:

Falling into the sea of luminescent orbs

Crawling up the trees and vines

Showing me the soft angles of your face

As you step gingerly down the path

Smiling.

Though these perfect moments seem fleeting,

I know that only now we glimpse eternity.

So come live with me in this reality.

Come join me in this dream.

To live forever in your presence

Transmutes existence like the fireflies’ dance.

1000 Feet Up, 1000 Feet Down

This was written before my "turn".  See if you can spot differences between this and my other poetry
1000 Feet Up, 1000 Feet Down

A dark ocean carried by the wind obscures my travel.
As the last sliver of light disappears behind the ghostly sea of clouds, I dream of you.
Memories worm their way into my conscience.
Like your fingers gently weaving through my hair,

Though I have not even reached my destination, I can only think of returning.

I must repress what passions remain or this week will tear me apart. 
Away from you I am away from life. 
These thoughts rush by along with the clouds: transient in their form, continuous in their substance. 
A voice pulls me away. 
Her face, barely visible in the dark of the cabin, once beautiful now wrinkled with time stares at me with a formality: a smile.

The cold cup passes from her hand to mine, and I am out the window again.

The clouds are gone, replaced by the spreading tendrils of light that characterize the spontaneity of urban invasiveness.

Looking down I see cars, buildings, people, and in this transient state between destinations, between sleep and wakefulness, between happiness and sorrow, I dream that each one has a face like yours.

I dream of a world filled with you.

You Bring Me Here

You Bring Me Here

On the path made holy by our steps

No rationality could possess

the openness of those flowing fields

rolling like placid ocean waves.

Those endless rows of corn

Found us in the setting sun

Whose first red reached our eyes

In the rapture of our peaceful walk

I still cannot remember a time

Our steps strode more perfectly side by side

Guided, like the waving corn guides the wind,

By the moment whose unveiling we share

My mind meets you here and now

As the realization sinks in:

You bring me here to witness

The reality that I am not alone