Sunlight and Shadows


  • Low Point

    No words, no thoughts, empty inside

    Worries, feelings, can barely hide

    Try to reach out, you know you should

    Wrong things, wrong time, misunderstood

    It’s okay, it’s just today

    You won’t always feel this way

    Jump in, get back into the game

    You’re still so far from where you came

    You really have good things to share

    And people notice if you’re there

    A low point means you’ve grown somehow

    Things will start getting better now

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  • Old West

    Sunrise, sunset in the west

    Prairie days of summer’s best

    Cattle wrangling morn til night

    Lay around the fire to rest

    Short grass, tall grass in the wind

    Dry dust rising round the bend

    Underneath wide open skies

    Upward, outward freedom send

    Treasured, carefree nights in town

    Lively dances, fiddle sound

    Neighbors bonded near and far

    Toughest friendships here are found

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  • Subject to Change

    The times are ever changing

    When is not the time for change?

    Always growing, starting, ending

    Things are different, time so strange

    Treasured things slip by so fast

    Hoped for things come by so slow

    They say hurry up and wait but

    Really you can’t ever know

    What today is promised sure

    Tomorrow may completely shift

    Like a mirage it disappears

    Into an atmospheric rift

    Don’t give up though just because

    Your plans change from what you knew

    Your hope, your future is all planned

    In the right time it will come true

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  • Snowfall

    So silently, so swiftly,

    The snowflakes softly fall,

    Weaving for the frozen earth

    An icy, glistening shawl

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  • Watershed

    I stepped out and I fell in

    The ledge I trusted was too thin

    I reached and got my fingers stepped on

    I found out I was a pawn

    I cannot show my pain to you

    Since using others is all you do

    But still it hurts me just the same

    Like I’m the loser in your game

    I see now how I was misled

    And know what I will do instead

    To let go of the pain I feel

    And help the wounds recede and heal

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  • Sidewalk’s End

    Icy jewels along a winter river

    Suspended mid-air on stalks that shiver

    A precious treasure for the one who bends

    To look in the place where the sidewalk ends

    Smooth drops of glass molded to perfection

    Shaping the world with swirling refraction

    A kaleidoscope of hues that transcends

    What’s left in the place where the sidewalk ends

    Glitter sprinkled in the drab of winter

    Catching the scarce rays of sun that splinter

    A mystery of water and light that lends

    The lure to the place where the sidewalk ends

    A gift more impressive than royal jewels

    Beautifully clothed from translucent spools

    Waiting to share this great wonder with friends

    Who now know the place where the sidewalk ends

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