Courage

Some want to think hope is lost see me stand alone

 I can't do what others may want then I'll have no home

 So for now wave good-bye and leave your hands held high

 Hear this song of courage long into the night

 So for now wave good-bye and leave your hands held high

 Hear this song of courage long into the night

 And the wind will bear my cry to all who hope to fly

 Hear this song of courage ride into the night

 Battles are fought by those with the courage to believe

 They are won by those who find the heart

 Find a heart to share

 This heart that fills the soul will point the way to victory

 If there's a fight then I'll be there, I'll be there

 So for now wave good-bye, leave your hands held high

 Hear this song of courage long into the night

 And the wind will bear my cry to all who hope to fly

 Lift your wings up high my friend fearless to the end

 So for now wave good-bye, leave your hands held high

 Hear this song of courage ride into the night

An Ode To Dust

Playful, swaying without a wind
Here is fog - the mist, she sings,
To the winter chill she cling'd
And sang of rain which flew on wings

As it danced around and encircled
About my head as if mocking me -
"Look at thee, feet as if bridled
To the ground, no chance of being free!"

"I walk as I please, fair mist-
Be not mistaken as to my will
It can break the land or seal a rift
Quaking even as these words spill."

"Arisen out of change you are,
Womb of time that engulfs us
Transient and reaching far,
Why yet might you be callous?"

A laugh bittersweet, gilded gold
Greets my ears as might a blade
"Child of Earth, do you ask the old
Such questions that your mind made?"

"Indeed I swirl, daughter of Time-
And dominion mine is what never lasts,
Queen I am of the ever gray clime
The stage you know as what has passed."

"Never bland but only dusted strands
Is my cape, it flies behind me,
And as it sweeps o'er your lands,
My mother takes it where none can see."

"Only in your memory,
Fleeting though it seems,
That place remains nearly
Untouched, in your minds it gleams."

"Indeed, for certain, then
Said I in utter wonder (and disgust)
Thou art the Past and in your den,
Resides what once was never dust!"

"Your pardon, lady, I shan't stay
Longer any more for the present
Therefore, I say goodbye and go my way:
And perhaps meet again when I relent,"

"And let your cape brush over me,
When my willful feet will stand
One last time before you free
This wanderer from the dusty land."


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Think about it - Why are you afraid of death?

Journeyman

From the red sky of the east
 To the sunset in the west
 We have cheated death
 And he has cheated us
 But that was just a dream
 And this is what it means
 We are sleeping
 And we'll dream for evermore
 And the fragment remains of our memories
 And the shadows remain with our hands
 Deep gray, came to mourn
 All the colors of the dawn
 Will this journeyman's day be his last?
 But the memory still remains
 All the past years not so strange
 Our winter times are like a silent shroud
 And the heartbeat of the day
 Drives the mist away
 And winter's not the only dream around
 In your life you may choose desolation
 And the shadows you build with your hands
 If you turn to the light
 That is burning in the night
 Then the journeyman's day has begun
 I know what I want
 And I say what I want
 And no one can take it away