Sunlight and Shadows


Category: Hope

  • New Year

    The turning of a year

    New number for each day

    A new start now is here

    Enter, find a way

    The leaving of a year

    Year full of joy and pain

    So many hard things, fear

    More victories won again

    The starting of a year

    New hope, new doors to find

    Fresh slate of time appear

    Leave harmful things behind

    The ending of a year

    So much to, thankful, say

    It was worth every tear

    To be right here today

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  • Past

    We borrowed history

    To become our story

    Untangling the past

    To understand the mystery

    We borrowed history

    To keep from repeating

    Revealing the ghosts

    That we’d be defeating

    We borrowed history

    But didn’t stay there

    Claiming the victory

    From scars our pasts bear

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  • New Life

    You may not see possibility

    In winter’s dried up, frozen ground

    Just wait til brave green shoots emerge

    Tulips proclaim that spring’s around

    The corner – flowering trees are soon

    Adorned in fragile pink and white

    Then long-awaited leaves emerge

    To triumph, bring in summer’s light

    So too a struggle, hope, or life

    May seem suspended in the cold

    The buried seeds still live, beneath

    They fight to break through and take hold

    The buds will come, the green appear

    Though small and slow, they will prevail

    And blossom strong in victory

    To show the world that said they’d fail

    For what you sow is not made alive

    Unless it falls to the ground and dies

    Deep within hope must always survive

    Until it has grown full wings and flies

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  • Mysteries

    Fragile with a chance of rainbows

    Flat glass somehow bending light

    Reflected like blue icy shadows

    Create a rainbow just from white

    Prism altering life’s sight

    Tiny with a chance of greatness

    Mere speck somehow growing broad

    Blossomed like a trusted promise

    Create a flower from sun and sod

    Seed sown on the path we trod

    Quiet with a chance of power

    Small drops somehow making seas

    Washed in like unfailing clockwork

    Create the tide for centuries

    Oceans bring life on their breeze

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  • Here

    Here’s to all the things I’ve seen

    The hard things that I made it through

    The special people I have known

    The promises I found were true

    Here’s to the whispers that I heard

    The times I fought to not give in

    The faith and hope I held onto

    The bonds of love that always win

    Here’s to this safe place I have found

    Each day, each choice that got me here

    Here’s to the future that is mine

    To looking forward without fear

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  • Things

    I wanted things – shining worlds

    Rainbows held in drops of dew

    Birds soaring in clear blue skies

    Sunrise from mountaintop view

    I wanted things – twinkling dreams

    Meteor shower, shooting star

    Face always in the warm sunshine

    Moonbeam glow on waters far

    I wanted things – blooming hopes

    Farmhouse nestled in rolling hills

    Chickens roosting on the porch rail

    Waterwheels on country mills

    I wanted things – wide open paths

    Golden fields touching the horizon

    Panorama of green mountain peaks

    Turquoise lake sparkling in sun

    I wanted things way back when

             I found things I could not imagine then

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