Looking through past memories
that keep me grounded through
the darkness have turned up missing.
With this I wonder why should
I even care –
it all leaves in time anyway.
If death does not take a soul,
they up and walk away, never
to return.
This pain grows more, each
and every day as memories
flood back –
they run forward in time, hauntingly.
Everything I touch seems
to die –
turn black and wither away.
Perhaps it would behoove me to
linger more within the shadows that
lay claim to my aching soul.
I no longer wish to feel –
to become numb, that is my goal.
No longer do I wish to reach out
to those whose words break through
the walls I’ve built around my soul –
to die alone, a destiny I cannot seem to let go.
To the ones who are the world to me –
I’ve never forgotten you, nor will I.
The songs and art in this book are about our collective emergence after the pandemic and trauma of the last few years - comprised of 5 collections: World as Refuge, Where We Live, In Our Hands, Rhythms of Change and What We See & Sow.
Perhaps "..Quiet Storm" will help rekindle old flames buried and long forgotten or express the love so deeply locked inside of your soul longing to be released.
Regardless of where you may be found in love this beautiful masterpiece can be