Sunlight and Shadows

Finding poetry in star dust, sunbeams, and passing clouds

Category: Faith

  • 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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  • Height

    I’m so afraid of falling

    Now that I’ve climbed this high

    The rocks so loose and foreign

    I’m hanging in the sky

    I thought I’d never reach it

    Slide back at every try

    This height still makes me dizzy

    The air so cold and thin

    The ground so far below me

    From where I did begin

    I fear that I’m too weak from

    The hard places I’ve been

    You tell me not to look down

    But where I want to go

    To trust the ropes to hold me

    From tumbling down below

    I’ll focus on my handholds

    And trust in what I know

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  • Trust

    “Trust in most” – is it true?

    Does that most include you?

    In this sea of many

    When does most become few?

    “Trust in most” – does it say?

    Is it now, here today?

    When it lands in my hands

    Is this card good to play?

    “Trust in most” – but how high?

    What is too far to fly?

    Will I fall at a wall

    And hit an unseen lie?

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  • Constellations

    Deep, dark, great expanse

    Lies stretched out around me

    Dotted with distant stars

    Almost too far to see

    Many mirrors, a mirage

    Who knows what’s there, really

    Space sealed into time

    Someone lost the key

    Images float by

    Fact, fiction all collide

    Reality warped

    Reach for ropes to guide

    Dark universe of night

    Where can I hold on

    Time slips through my hands

    Wait through dark til dawn

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  • Trapeze

    Walking on a bridge so high

    Finding footholds in the sky

    So much to lose, so far to fall

    But not crossing will lose it all

    Sunset light is fading fast

    Don’t know how long time will last

    Thin tangled railings line the way

    That must be crossed here, now, today

    On this bridge I only see

    The churning water under me

    I can’t see, but still I know

    That there are strong supports below

    They’re grounded in the solid rock

    And to the shore they safely dock

    So I have no need to dread

    If I will keep my eyes ahead

    Looking back in clearer skies

    I see the trapeze crystalize

    To form a backdrop, solid ridge

    That guides me on to the next bridge

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  • Nonsense

    I wasn’t really sure if I was right or wrong

    But the elephant in the room showed where I belong

    All the way to town I was looking for a shoe

    When all along all that I was missing was you

    The hardest way to go is to try the wrong way first

    You never get the tune til you sing the second verse

    You can talk to me til you are blue in the face

    But do not judge until you see the tortoise win the race

    Why is life so mixed up, I’ll never know for sure

    But someday it will all make sense if we can endure

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