Play for me – a happy tune
Of butterflies and sun and June
Play for me – a dancing reel
To match the lilting joy I feel
Play for me – a solemn dirge
To mark where love and grief converge
Play for me – a mournful air
Perhaps I can find solace there
Play for me – a regal march
To high step through a milestone arch
Play for me – a simple rhyme
So I can clap my hands in time
Play for me – an ancient ode
To guide me on this weary road
Play for me – a lullaby
Of twinkling stars and midnight sky
If you find this note it means
Our fight has reached its D-Day
We have planned and mapped and schemed
Through hostile land full survey
Our weapons all assembled now
For our offensive essay
The troops are ready to march forth
From our long-sealed hideaway
Our victory will come at last
A new life won today
Stop – pause in this moment
You can let reality be real
Acknowledge your feelings
Know truth apart from how you feel
Breathe – release the tension
You can stop holding on so hard
Relax into safety
Give room to heal the bruised and scarred
Hear – tune into the present
You can listen for what is true
Let thoughts and feelings fade
Understand life from this new view
Care – hold onto your world
You can love yourself always
Connect, bond to others
Live where good can fill the days
Perfect gifts from above
Good and freely given love
Open hearts, we receive
Through the faith that we believe
Evil acts, greedy hands
All throughout the world stands
We are truth, we are light
Giving hope, goodness, and right
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
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
