Take a risk and
Run with it
Once you’ve chosen
Don’t back down
Follow it through
To the end
It’s okay then
To turn around
It doesn’t mean
That you failed
You always learn
Something new
You’re further now
Than before
Now you know what
You need to do
-
Turning Back the Clock
Tick tock goes the clock
Every hour losing power
Tock tick with a click
One chime backward time
Hands toward backward
Moving wrong every dong
Rewind til you find
One chime backward time
Strike four, in the door
Of the house came the mouse
Strike three, here ran he
One chime backward time
Strike two, up he flew
Scamper, stop, at the top
Strike one, down he did run
One chime backward time
-
Broken Road
I set out to find my way
Many years ago
I stumbled, fell so many times
There’s one thing I know
That every road I traveled down
Took me forward, further on
No matter just how lost I was
There always came the dawn
I look back on all the time
It took to get here
I wish I could have seen the plan
Through each long, hard year
But I just smile on days long gone
All the things I’ve seen and done
And turn to face the road ahead
Always toward the sun
-
Darkest Hour
No one else feels this hurting pain
That pummels at me from within
No one else knows the sheer despair
Of getting stuck alone again
No one else hears the cries for help
So silent in this agony
No one else sees the deep regret
That this again is destiny
But I can feel the ray of hope
That warms me through the waves of pain
But I can know that I will rise
When I get through the storm again
But I can hear the bells of love
Chime faintly through the din of hate
But I can see that just one day
Does not determine my life’s fate
I can’t avoid the storms of life
Or dodge the rain from every cloud
But in it, if I listen, still
Hope will rise and sing aloud
-
Year in Flowers
Crocus popping up through the snow
Heralds spring with purple glow
Rich-hued iris follows soon
Bluebells play a pastel tune
Wild roses, lilies frilled
Poppies, pansies fill the field
Bleeding heart and columbine
Hang like jewels on the vine
Sweet lavender, bright snapdragons
Rainbow roses fill the gardens
Ornate carnations to celebrate
With baby’s breath so delicate
Summer goes with forget-me-nots
Exotic orchids fill winter’s pots
-
Hope
Hope cries like the bird at night
Starting to sing before dawn
Fighting the dark’s chains of doubt
Finding a limb to cling upon
Undoubting the fact of light
Even when the last star is gone
Hope fights like the ship at sea
Rowing just as hard as they can
Unwilling to admit defeat
Despite the great dark ocean span
Fixing on the beam of light
That promises there is still land
Hope stands like the flower strong
Beaten down by the pouring rain
Seeing through the endless storm’s
Driving torrents and crushing pain
Still holding its head up high
With faith the sun will shine again
