Sunlight and Shadows

Finding poetry in star dust, sunbeams, and passing clouds

Category: Hope

  • Opportunity

    Sand sifting slowly through my fingers

    Reach for a crystal but nothing lingers

    So close, it seems it could really be mine

    Already I see it slip away in time

    As elusive as a rainbow, as transparent as a cloud

    It will vanish like a password spoken aloud

    The more I try to hold on, the less I can see

    But look away and it’s back, calling to me

    I wonder how to touch it – I wonder if I should

    How can I really trust it – how can I know it’s good

    How far do you need to reach for your destiny

    How many places must you look before you find the key

    A cloud that passes over the sun

    A few drops of rain before it’s gone

    What if I follow in its shadow

    What if I stand and watch it go

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  • Not

    I am not thinking about a pink elephant in a purple sky

    I am not thinking about what happens when dreams die

    I am not thinking about a cage full of yellow birds

    I am not thinking about what can change with a few words

    I am not remembering the roads I didn’t take

    I am not remembering a princess castle birthday cake

    I am not remembering that glance in the rearview mirror

    I am not remembering all the things I wrote to get here

    I am not wishing for a fancy carriage or silver skates

    I am not wishing for a trip across all fifty states

    I am not wishing for one more spin on the dance floor

    I am not wishing for a different life anymore

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  • Mission

    Let the wheels roll for freedom

    Fill the road full for freedom

    Although silent for a while

    Now the bells toll for freedom

    We will stand on conviction

    Take back what they stole for freedom

    No division, no distraction

    Unified our goal for freedom

    We won’t stop until victory

    Makes our new lives whole for freedom

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  • Outside

    On the outside looking in

    This is where I’ve always been

    I belong but have no place

    Still I hold on just in case

    On the outside looking in

    Hoping this is when I’ll win

    The door’s ajar, I step inside

    But I’m ignored and pushed aside

    On the outside looking in

    Rejected, shamed, and hurt again

    That world inside, I finally see

    Is a twisted, warped reality

    On the outside looking in

    A better life I will begin

    I find it’s outside I belong

    Where I can heal, where I grow strong

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  • Await

    Let me hold this flower in my hand

    No words, no judgement, only let it be

    Give it time to live, to grow, to bloom

    To show its colors strong and true and free

    Let me stay within this sunshine beam

    And do not rush it as it lights the way

    Until I do not fear the shadows cast

    And see the dark of night turn into day

    Let me hold this little child’s hand

    While she learns how to walk out on her own

    To guide, protect, to be there by her side

    Until she knows she’ll never be alone

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  • Stuck

    I hurt inside, I try to hide

    The pain in here – I can’t get near

    It seems to say, just go away

    And do not let your guard down yet

    I cannot tell quite how I fell

    Into this hole, this frozen role

    Or where it goes, or if one knows

    If I can see how to get free

    You say to me, you have the key

    And I reply, but what if I

    Can’t reach across the hurt and loss?

    The gulf of pain leaps up again

    Yet I step out through all the doubt

    And there you stand to take my hand

    And help me move to trust and love

    A lifeline rope of hard-fought hope

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