not finished

Your life haunts me
your name, and your soul does too
what you have left behind
lingers beyond the grave

I can't leave you behind
no matter how hard I try
I can only bury you
for now

but soon you will rise again

how do I let go
completely
put the past to rest?
so you no longer haunt me
and I can move on again

I will keep going

forever dreams are at my door
I shall leave them never more
learning from my past mistakes
finding ways I cannot take

nothing I can once more say
will ever take the pain away
the truth of what I used to know
crumbles, falling, soft as snow

I used to think and wonder why
the little things I used to try
wouldn't work
but now I know
And since that happened
I won't let go

I will never give it up
for I know what we share
a destiny so bright and rare
to love forever and to care

without my hurt I'd never know
how to culture and let love grow
but even trials have a season
and everything happens for a reason

rewound and tried again

dreams of love enamored
lead you to my door
and what I once had trusted
falls away once more

only mindness
what you say
can hope to cure my sadness
and chase the pain away

I wait each day
and every night
for a sign from you
and though every answer,
incomplete,
I can't take away what I knew

you aren't gone yet

when the light falls away
at the end of every day
I look at my choices
a still I think of you

I learn to let go
but never forget
all that I knew
and what hasn't happened yet

too often it's hard
and breaks me apart
and I'm left all alone
to figure it out

wherever we go

my dreams
are your dreams
please don't let them go
where you are
is where I am
and forever I'll go

I'll follow your footsteps
when the path is too thin
knowing forever
I'll be holding your hand

when the tide is too high,
and the light is too low
I'll be with you
wherever you go

You won't leave without me,
nor I without you
and smiles and laughter
like the world is all new

I see and I dream

and I hope and I love thee

all the stars in the sky

bear witness and see

my love is forever

and yours, too, I know,

that we'll be together

wherever we go

never without a memory

there comes a time in our lives
where people and places fade away
and all that's left with us
is the memory

there are days that come and go
turned to X's on the calendar
blocked out and scattered
among themselves

but sometimes sunlight
or some kind of some light
shine over the individuals
and bring them back to life

wherever a lifetime goes
and whoever it leaves behind
there shall never be
a mountain full of cherished moments
locked without a key

a ray of light will lead the way
and peace shall come to those
who lived and loved and lost
as year after year
the affections of a rose

Nothing anymore

Things have happened, come and gone,
never as they were before.
Slowly changes crept in around,
and heightened your perceptions of the world.
Do not doubt what your heart may say,
as it whispers through the night;
Only the dreams you've had of long ago
linger onward in the light.
Go back to yourself, your new associations.
Go back to the new beginning.

In your own mind,
think not on what you wish to change.
You may soon find,
nothing of the new, or old,
nothing of the world,
nothing more to save your soul,
nothing more to lose or let go...

Soon you will see,
you have become free.
Take this new life, take what you will,
take it all and go.
Leave nothing behind but memories,
footprints,
imprints on the soul.