Shadows In The Sand ©©

Only the wind and the sand remain
Swirling around in this distant desert
Concealing me from you
Or you from me

Lost behind this curtain
Left to wander from one void to the next
Without an oasis in sight
A place to lie down for just one night

Suspended in oblivion
A vapor to be whispered but never seen
Wiped away from the chalkboards of time
And mind

The wind etches time on innocent faces
Carving out the maps of paths chosen
Broken lines of those untaken
Those now lost forever to us

A storm is building from ancient times
Cursing the future with drought
Leaving only blood to nourish the ground
To feed the earth so the sky could bleed tears of sorrow

Maybe when the earth is silent
The wind would be gone
The curtain would collapse and the unseen
Would be seen for the first time

Maybe if we went silent now
The storm would die away
The wind would be gone
Tears of joy would turn deserts to forests

Time drains away in the hourglass
Burying the future with the past
Blinding those who can see
While fear drives the world

It’s all in the sands of time
Swirling in the hour glass
Keeping the curtain up
As the wind blows in circles

Walker

The Breeze ©©

Gentle fingers brush my face
The same fingers dancing with the leaves across silent meadows

The air washes over the land
Laying me down softly to face the veiled skies above

A billion blades kneel before their burden
The rest waving with the wind as it passes by

I close my eyes
Allowing the wind to carry me up to the clouds

Held before the stars to be judged
To be granted admittance or sent back hurling to the earth in a torrent

The air is light among the clouds
Sparse like those fleeting moments in time that slip through our fingers

Before the stars we are reminded of who we are
What we were and will be

The lives we dreamed, times never had
Passing just out of reach

A distant trumpet summons the clouds
Leaving the sky naked for all to see

To watch a shooting star disappear from the night
Or a falling star for the rest to wish on

Bathed in the moonlight
Cleansed for what is to come next

The wind whispers my name
Calling from the past to the future

Gentle fingers find my face
Familiar fingers

The stars are still in the sky looking down
Judging us for tomorrow

Walker

Drifting Senses ©©

Away from my body
Lost in this mind
Sailing across waves of emotion
Into a dark unknown

Each passing wave electrifying the air
The soul
Washing away inhibitions
Cleansing the senses

Riding a wakeboard of desire
Carving out a slice of lust
Feeding the beast inside
Before it withers away in it’s cage

Smelling the scent of our lust
Desires once forgotten
Tasting the nectar of fulfillment
As it runs down your face

Touching the untouchable
Savoring what hungry eyes feast on
Moans fill our ears
Are they yours or mine?

Sailing away from yesterday
Entwined in emotion and desire
Drowning in lust and pleasure
Drifting into today

Walker

Stranger ©©

Look at me
Have you ever seen me?
Do you recognize my reflection?
Do you know my name?

Can you feel what I feel?
My pain
The claws tearing me up inside
Is it in my head or my soul?

Where has it all gone?
The time, the laughter
The familiar faces
From the long gone places

Faded memories
Distorted thoughts
An existence eaten away by time
The crumbs remain in this tortured mind

I have become a stranger
To the world, to life
Myself
Even my shadow looks like someone else

I stand on this mountain
Staring at the crossroads of time
Trapped between heaven and hell
Frozen still in a blue flame

I can’t go back
Only forward to an unknown
In an unforgiving world
Far from what I know

Where is home?
Is it where I lay down?
Or where I want to be?
Is it in my heart or in my mind?

Who am I?
Who are you?
Where are we?
Where are we going?

Do you know my name?
Or where I’m from
Do I exist?
Or am I a shadow walking through time

Walker

12 Steps To Remember ©©

One step to touch the Earth
Two to stand upon it
Three to explore its borders
Four to become lost in it forever

Five steps in one direction
Six in another
Seven brings you love
Eight, sadness

Nine steps to victory
Ten to defeat
Eleven in remembrance
Twelfth step brings you home

Walker

Today And Forever ©©

Today and forever
I’ll be dreaming of you
Yesterdays will always brighten tomorrows
So the present can live one more day

Sadness will always drown in tears of joy
As happiness is always close by
Even when dark clouds veil the sunshine
Your warmth still reaches out on cold days and colder nights

Long fingers lick at my feet with every wave
Crawling out of the oceans of my mind
Pushing me away
Then pulling me in to drown

In the morning I’m never alone
The sun sets on both worlds
At night I remember your eyes
Just as I remember the stars twinkling up in the skies

Memories dance among the mists of time
Swirling among other thoughts
Dreams that have been cast away
Out of reach into the deep oceans of time

All that remain are the dark shadows
The lingering memories
Yesterday’s fade through time
As their glow lights up the present for tomorrow

Today and forever I’ll be dreaming of you
Dreaming of yesterday
Living the present
Until yesterday and today can join in a tomorrow

Walker

Dragon Fly ©©

Where is the lever of life?
The handle I can pull
To slow down the world
Or jump off before I get dizzy, then go mad.

Maybe it’s to late

When did the stars start moving on by faster than the clouds?
When did the clouds first appear?
To block out the sun
To plunge the world into darkness

Maybe they were always there

What happened to the bumblebees?
The dragonflies
The fresh smell in the air
Nothing artificial

Maybe this is the new real

Is the world spinning fast or are we
Are we the ones spinning our own yarn?
Tying us up in this madness
Following this stopwatch we call living

Maybe we’re too eager

Standing between sunrise and sunset
Lost among the rays burning me away
Empowering me from one side
While the other sucks it all away

Maybe that’s how it’s supposed to be

What happened to the green grass?
The tall trees
The skyscrapers in the forest
The ladders to heaven

Maybe they withered away

Now all there is, is concrete
The green grass is black asphalt
The sky dark even before night
What did happen to the dragonflies?

Maybe they found the stars

Green is green even when it’s gray
The sun shines even if we see it or not
The world is spinning out of control
Time is never on our side anymore

Maybe I need roller blades

Walker

In The Darkness ©©

In the darkness
Among rustling leaves
Where the wind whispers in my ear
I try to get lost in the wilderness

Only the trees stand tall
Naked and withered from years gone by
Erect fingers reaching for the stars
Attempting to set roots on earth and heaven

Silence fills the night
Only the leaves speak
Singing their sad song with every step taken
About their fall from the heavens

The wind blows away the crumbs
Sweeping the night clean
For the day to arrive in its glory
Pure as the white light it rides

The trees are street lights
Crumbled paper scattered below it
A gust of wind with every passing car
The black rain in the clouds

In the darkness
I see rustling leaves
Feel the wind on my face
I find myself among the stars

But you have to leave every morning
The light chases you away
Even when I ask you to stay with me
You run away

Only magic can make night to day
Change a leaf to crumbled paper
What magic can I use to make it go back?
To make it all right

If I counted the stars
How many would there be?
If I close my eyes and opened them
Will the wilderness have swallowed up the jungle?

In the darkness

Walker

Sailing The Skies ©©

The sky is empty
Darkness fills the empty spaces
Hiding it all from prying eyes
Hungry souls

Where have you gone?
Where have you been?
Did you find what you were looking for?
Did you touch your dream?

What have you learned?
What have you taught?
How did you get there?
How did you come back?

Why did you go?
Why did you come back?
Who did you meet?
Who did you miss?

I just want to walk away from it all
Run for horizons
For freedom
For a free breathe of air

When did you know you had to go?
When did you realize you had to come back?
Is this where it all began?
Is this where it all ends?

Was leaving that important
Was coming back a mistake
Will the bed still be warm?
Will it be cold?

Would you know where to go?
Would you want to?
Should someone be waiting?
Should it be me?

Hills become mountains
Mountains become horizons
Horizons are at the end of our fingertips
As are our dreams

Are the stars that far away?
Are our dreams beyond reach?
Do we go?
Do we stay?

Can you see over the mountain?
Can you feel the breeze?
If you could sail away from it all, would you?
If you didn’t, would you regret it?

Does the night cry for the day?
Does the day miss the night?
Maybe fire and ice?
Maybe ice and fire?

When I close my eyes
The wind fills my sails
Sailing as the wind blows
Over the hill to the mountains

Walker

Dark Desire ©©

Dark skies, twinkling stars
Are the clouds moving or is it us?
Are we the ones passing the by stars
Or are they the ones leaving us

Out of the shadows, into the mist
Wading through dreams and desires
Together rolling among the waves of time
Searching for a shore to crash on

It’s to far to reach with hungry fingers
To far to taste the nectar it secretes
To far to hold, feel but not to far to wish for
Or dream

Surfing the waves of human flesh
Burning with the same desires
Crawling within each other skin
Energizing their souls with a maddening desire

Until the sky turns into a blazing inferno
Raining crimson blades to the ground
Fueling the lust with a blanket of fire
Until blue skies and calm winds put out the night

Are the clouds moving or is it us?
Are we the ones passing the stars?
Or are they the ones leaving us?
Dark skies, twinkling stars

Walker

Dyslexic Upheaval ©©

Do what you do
Want what you want
Take a breath of my life
Let me suckle on yours

Walk in a pair of my shoes
While I smell your clothes
See what I see
Give me what you dream

Cold, cold, cold
To your warmth
Twinkling skies
The sparkle of your eyes

Thunder to my silence
Fear to my curiosity
Nothing to everything
Something for nothing

What do you do
When the world is but a zoo
And the skies are no longer blue
But gray, from day to day

All is in reverse
Like the words in the next verse
Words that are sharp
Piercing minds and hearts

Life to live
Liberty to be who you want to be
Freedom to say it aloud
Freedom, liberty and life

What I see and feel
Heard before I was born
Felt when I first opened my eyes
Lost when I was given a name

It’s a very special world
Where we go to dream
In the darkness before sunset and sunrise
Where there’s only fire with the salt of the earth

Walker

Beat My Balls With A Cricket Bat ©©

I sit in the corner of life
Looking out a window
Looking at the world spinning by
Thinking

Why must it be this way?
Why must there be a window in between?
Distorting what’s real
Keeping me in and it out

Fingerprints on the window
Staring inside watching what’s real, or not
Wondering what my crime must be
To be locked up inside like this.

We stare at each other
Into each other’s eyes wondering
What’s on your mind?
Who are you and why?

Stepping back from the glass
The mirror of what’s real
The reflection slowly fading away
Just the fingerprints remain

Sitting in the corner
Looking out the window of time
Wondering what’s on your mind?
What was your name?

Walker

And The Silence ©©

I hear the drums beating in the distance
The screams from the other side of the mountain
The laughter
And the silence

I see the lightning in the sky
Dancing off covered peaks
The thunder beating against my chest
And the silence

I feel the rain on my face
Splashing off of my cheeks
Cascading down to the ground
And the silence

I taste the bittersweet flavor of life
As the raindrops pass through the layers of time
Before they kiss my lips
And the silence

I touch the sky with extended fingers
Energizing my soul for another day
For when there are only clouds
And the silence

I smell the wet dog on the corner
As a river rushes past my feet
Washing away it’s sins to the corner
And the silence

I hear things
See, feel, touch and smell
Pain and desire
And the silence

I look at the far away mountains
I close my eyes and see what I want to see
Feel what I want to feel
And the silence

I dream and dream
Every dream, the end is the same
I wake up
And the silence

Walker

Swimming In The Fog ©©

Alone in this field
I look at the millions of possibilities
My eyes project a possible future
A dream for my mind to watch

An early morning mist binds me to where I stand
As a fog rolls in from the west
Blinding me from knowing the future
Before it comes to pass

Engulfed in an ocean of dreams
Walking for miles in the same footprints
Going no where yet everywhere
But there

Everywhere I go I’m lost to you
You bury me in the daylight
You bury me in the night
You bury me out of sight

Pushing the waves with every step
Crashing against those coming my way
My hands reach out to search the darkness
For the one sending them back my way

With a blink
I’m on a beach
The sun is in the sky and the surf
Is running over my body

The sand is clean
Not a single footprint
Coming or going
Not even mine to be seen

There are millions of possibilities
Millions of dreams
Even you’re here
When I close my eyes

Close your eyes
Swim against the fog and be reborn
In your dreams everything is within reach
Just grab hold when you wake up

Walker

Holding On ©©

Time passes slowly
Yet to fast
The seasons come and go
They never last

As the days get shorter
The nights get quieter
While the mornings
Become lonelier

The shadows have begun to fade away
With the blowing wind and rolling leaves
Dusk settles on the earth
Time slips away behind the mountains

The road leads between twin peaks
Time and distance
Night and day
For one more chance

To chase yesterday
Or wait for tomorrow
To reach for a dream
Or to waste time you can only borrow

Choices you can make
People you can be
What’s on the other side of the mountain?
Something I have to see?

Yesterday is still fresh on my lips
I haven’t tasted tomorrow yet
Or smelled the scent of her lust
Suckled on her ripe breast

Seconds march by
As fingertips slip away from yesterday
Grasping onto tomorrow's dream
For a time and place to stay

Walker

Deep Woods ©©

Night after night
I look out to the darkness
Looking for a light, a glimmer
A sign of life from this gray wilderness

It’s in the stillness of night
I understand what’s meant to be
Illuminated by the mind’s bright light
To understand the illusion of life and to see

The night holds my life in her hands
Cradling me in her bosom
As she did across many lands
She protected me from certain doom

Only the night can reveal what’s true
Who we are when the sun falls
When the light kneels to her
She reveals our souls

Across night skies
Away from this endless season before I fall from grace
Far from half-truths, lies
I fall back and disappear into her embrace

In the darkness of night
She whispers in my ear
She tells me to stay away from the light
To live here in the night without fear

But who will see me in the mornings
When the night sleeps and I’m left alone
Left to watch all the people from the shadows walking by
Slowly turning to stone

The night is my shadow
My life’s blanket
She keeps me warm when life is cold
In the light I wear my disguise like everyone else

The night is our blanket, our protector
The dark corner to run too
We close our eyes to escape fear
Wishing the evil will not see us

Day after day
Stumbling down the street in a daze
Blinded by the light
Drowning in the noise until the silence of night sets me ablaze

Ablaze for all to see
To know who I am
Not who I use to be
Until she leaves in the morning and I become who I am

Night and day
Day or night
Night or day
Day and night

It’s all the same
We are the shadows and ghosts
The one’s with all the visions
Hidden away in the darkest closets

Walker

Fuck It ©©

You know
Sometimes I just want to say
Fuck it
Then walk away

Fuck this
Fuck that
Fuck you
Fuck me too

Sometimes the world is a mountain of shit
Smells so bad
You want to run away, not walk
But can’t

I sit alone
Thinking back to when tomorrow
Was just a dream and today
Was the dawn of yesterday

On this bench
Once surrounded by grass and trees
Once long ago
Now surrounded with black tar and un-recycled crap

With my foot I kick the pile
Watch it bleed
Watch it disappear into the ground
Swallowing it up along with our souls

Weaving a black ribbon to follow
Out of the wilderness
To the dark unknown
Where there are no more benches or trees

Some have to stomp their feet to fight
To grow something out of the shit
While the black ribbon disappears in the distance
Swallowing those that fall in behind

In time we have to say fuck it
Fuck it to everything
Fuck it all and do what has to be done, what’s right
Or you could walk down that long black ribbon to nowhere

Walker

Today I Want Something ©©

Today I want something
Today I want something that will make me forget
Forget what can’t be forgotten
The unforgettable

There is something I need to forget
Something that’s been haunting me
Something I don’t know
Today I need something to help me forget

A bitter drink to taste on my lips
To wash away another bitter taste
Something strong to numb my mouth and mind
To change their flavor

Maybe a smoke to inhale
To feel it’s fire burning through my lungs
To blow out the sins of the past
Before I too become ashes to be blown away

Today I want to get drunk
To get lost in the smoke from my breath
Today I want to wander aimlessly in the smoke
Like in the dreams I always have

Inside the smoke I can bare my soul
Surrender who I am and of what I have lost
Until the wind comes to leave me naked with only my thoughts
Dreams, to hide me from the elements of time

Today I want something
Something to make me forget yesterday
Before everything becomes ashes like my smoke
Before the red ember dies away forever

Today I want a toke
To get lost in a world that isn’t real
I light one up and drag deep
And hold it until I disappear within its embrace

Today I want to look back one more time
Before I spill my drink and put out the dreams I had
Today I want to forget what’s not important anymore
To remember what matters

Today I want something
A drink?
A cigarette?
A toke?

Today I want to forget
Today I want to get lost
Lost in my own dreams
To be free of my past

Today I want to be me

Walker

Comfortably Numb ©©

What’s this?
What’s that?
Do this now
Come here
Go there
Don’t wait
Don’t stop to think
Do it do it now

Move
Move your fucken ass
What are you waiting for?
Stop thinking and fucken go
Go before I change my mind
Do it or your fired, it’s over, you’re history
You’re gone
Out of here, either way

Bang you head
Smack it against the wall
Pull at your hair
Until your fingers are covered with frustration
Beat yourself until you open your eyes
Until you see what’s right
What’s wrong?
What’s real or surreal?

Step out of the clouds
Walk on solid ground
Around potholes
Pits dug by emotional cripples
Traps set by a festering disease
Living in the souls of a few
Controlling the globe
Now trying to steal the moon and stars

I wonder when all the lights will go on at once
When will the world see through the same eyes?
Will we shine brighter than the sun?
Or will the sun burn us to a crisp before we do
Looking at what I see
Scares me
Not the destruction
Just the willingness to do it

Walker

Starlight ©©

Starlight
Star bright
What are you?
What do you want from me tonight?

Are you here by choice?
Or are you there as I am here
When I go to sleep you are beaming through my window
When I wake are you still there or are you gone

Starlight
Star bright
Are you still there?
Are you trapped here like me?

Who are the others all around you?
Why do they all smile down on me at night?
Do they know who I am?
Or are they lost in the universe with the moon and me

Starlight
Star bright
Where do you go when the seasons change?
Can I come to when the night grows long?

When the clouds roll in across the night sky
When the curtain way up high comes down on the stage
Are the stars still smiling?
Will the moon be lonely too?

Starlight
Star bright
If I stand on a mountain and reach up tonight
Would you bend down with just one smile?

Would the clouds part for just one sliver of light
For one moment before night becomes day
And day disappears into night
A sliver of peace, hope or just a smile to remember until spring

Walker

Damned ©©

What do we got to do
To break out of the bubble
To shove aside doubt
Strike down fear
Walk away from the swollen tit
To be free of rules

Where must I go?
To find anarchy
To fight for what is mine
Defend what is yours
Because it’s what I want
And what pleases me

When will the walls crumble?
To let in the wild beasts
Or to set them free
To bring down someone else’s ideology
Someone else’s way of life
Not mine

How will it start?
Will there be a winner?
When will it happen?
Where will it all begin?
How will it end?
Who will be left?

Do we start the beginning of the end?
To move closer to oblivion
To give it all away for naught
To lay down with the rest
To get lost in the dust
For no one to find over time

Freedom is the will to be free
To resist without gaining a step
Or loosing one
To do as you please within the rules we bend
We are free to dream as we wish because
Until we get caught, we’re innocent just like the rest

Walker

Driftwood ©©

Do you have a name?
Do I?

What is this place?
Is it real?

Can you hear?
The nothing

Where are we going?
What is the journey?

Spin, spinning out of control
A waterspout among waves of thought

Across memories of time
Filled with desires, carnal and all others burning within

Reach into the darkness with naked fingers
Grasp for what was lost, what was given, stolen

The darkness consumes those with sight
Only the blind survive the darkness of time


Who am I?
What do I want?

How, where, when can I
Why do we reach out to the unknown?

Deaf fingers touch blind souls
Searching for insight to the past, maybe the future

Is this illusion real?
Or is my mind going mad

Am I lost or running away
Away from who I am or who I want to be

Time chases the sun across the sky
Time is the enemy

Are we awake?
Or still asleep

Do I have a name?
Do you?

Walker

Lost Time ©©

Turn, turn, and turn
Turn time around
Turn it inside out
Take back the past

Take it before the future chokes you to death
Before it’s to far, to late and time runs out
Before it’s to far to go back to fix
Fix what can’t be fixed today

Leave, nothing behind
Leave, nothing to regret tomorrow
Leave, nothing to envy
Just leave tomorrow to reach for

Float away to the oceans
Instead of swimming against rushing waters of the past
Against crushing waves of thought
And feelings

We awaken to a sunrise
Watch the sun set into yesterday
With tomorrow not far away
Just a blink away

Walker

Spirits In The Breeze ©©

In a breeze I feel the spirits rise
Rise above what I want
Above what others demand
High above what is rational or insane

Floating away in its embrace
To places unseen
Places only found in dreams
Surrounded in veils of mystery and intrigue

Rolling over high mountains
Bouncing off swollen clouds and surfing the rain
On a bolt of lightning, thundering to the ground
Drawing a line for the rivers to chase to the end of the line

A soft embrace to ignite the rage trapped within
To be free of bonds we put on then forget to take off until
Until you can’t breath, choking for air
For one more breathe of life

Lifeless among the clouds
Going no where yet somewhere
Where the winds blow and the stars look down
Day or night

High in the sky the clouds gather
Spirits in the sky
Dancing and singing together
Raining down tears of joy and sadness

A breeze sweeps across the valleys
Gathering up the spirits of the fallen
Sending them up to shine down
Day or night from the sky

I stand on the edge of midnight
Feeling the breeze go by
The spirits passing through my flesh, their last time
Energizing my soul before they reach the night sky

Walker

Whispered Freedom ©©

They whisper your name in the shadows
The look in their eyes
Says what they think they know
Or show what they don’t

Asleep in a crevice carved into a dark place
A crevice that was once lit up with billions of candles
Fueled by laughter, song, youth and freedom
When tomorrow was always today and today was every day

With the passing stars and drifting skies
Time opened the door to the shadows
Like a northern wind they swept down
One by one the candles winked away into the night

Shadows grew as the laughter faded away
The night melted into the dark side and tomorrow
Tomorrow is no more as the last strands of smoke curl away
Today becomes a memory and tomorrow is only tomorrow

Still living free within the shadows
A soul blackened and body beaten by its touch
Yet still resisting against the shadow cast down by the guardians
Keeping a candle lit for those that winked out

The few that remain, sparkle in the dead of night
Where the heavens were once bright are now dark
For the few that remain shine until they to go out and freedom
Fades away with the wind’s howling laugher echoing in the night

Walker

Feeling The Rain ©©

Tap, tap, tap, tap, tap
The drops rattle on the tin roof
Is it Morse code?
Is the sky talking to us?

The gusts of wind blow across the sky
Changing the rhythm of the song
Picking up the pace
Then slowing down to a waltz

Teardrops tap on the window
Begging to be let in
Before sliding to the bottom
Long fingers trailing behind

The trees wave from the edge of the meadow
Beckoning you to come
The wind whistles through the cracks
Calling you out to play

To come out and wash it all away
Let the rain find what’s hidden beneath
Beneath the dust of time
Come out and be embraced by the elements

Dance among the puddles in the streets
Splash with the teardrops from the sky
Swim in the air with the elements of time
Close your eyes and remember when

When is the last time you felt the rain on your face?
When is the last time you felt those long wet fingers run down to the bottom?
When is the last time you washed the dust of time off your body?
And soul

Tap, tap, tap, tap, tap
Listen to that song
To be naked against the sky
Feeling the rain crying down on me

Walker

What's Real? ©©

What’s real, what’s not?
The scenery has changed
But the mountains still stand tall
One’s new, one never was

I walk by these same streets
With the same names
The faces in the windows have all changed
Yet their reflections remain the same

Weaving through jagged alleys
Between perfect squares
Surrounded by the scars on the walls
The souls of the lost looking to find who they are

Out to the screaming world
The crying sky and bleeding earth
The rivers run down these greasy roads
Pushing the past away into the ground

Cardboard people walk down wet sidewalks
The rain slowly melting them away
Until they reach the curb and fall off the end of their world
And mine

Is this moving fog real?
Can I swim in it or will I fall into a bottomless pit?
When I reach out to it, it moves away
Exposing a future as it might be

Through the cracks in time I watch
I watch the different layers of life
The past and present
Living and dieing in both

Is this world, this life, real?
When I wake up in the morning
Am I still asleep?
Am I still alive?

In this jigsaw puzzle
Is there room for me?
Is there space for us?
Or do we walk blindly in the rain to the curb?

What’s real?
What’s not?

Walker

Sandy Beaches ©©

I stand on a distant shore
Staring out over dieing waves
Wet fingers claw at my feet trying to pull me back
As I watch an old path gently ripple away

Alone on this beach
Nothing but sand and water to drown in
Left to wander forever with temptation to the left
Dust to the right

Only ahead remains to follow
Behind is tomorrow when I reach the end this island
Following destruction to the end of salvation
Chasing what may be the same or different in this moonlight

Footprints in the sand marking the past
Until a salty wind comes to blow them into tomorrow
The road anew once more, fresh
Fresh, to draw a map to a future, a desire or desires

An open hand chases me to the desert with every wave
For the sands to swallow and time to hide the past
Until a wind blows in from the sea once more
To blow away the footprints of time and me, into tomorrow

Walker

Over Jagged Peaks ©©

She asked, “Where are you going”?
He said, “Far, far away”
She begged, “Why”?
“Because, it’s something he had to do”

All the love in the world
All the desires and dreams fall by the wayside
Because that’s the way it is
The way it has to be

Things change, people don’t
Time moves on for those on the road
For those that stop to wait
There is only today

Down this road and out of town
To a future still not written
A dream unlived
Up the mountain because there was another side

On the top, the sun shine brighter
A beacon to follow
A light at the end of the tunnel
To chase, to another dream

She asked, “When will you be back”?
He said, “Far, far into the future”.
She cried, “Why”?
“Because that’s the way it is”.

She watched him go, off to places unknown
Places she only sees in dreams
Dreams with him
As she knew she was in his on the other side of the mountain

Walker

Spare Thoughts ©©

I write the words that come to mind
Words I never knew before
Words I have never heard
Words I never understand just believed in

I speak of feelings
Feelings I never knew existed
Feelings such as I have never felt
Feelings I don’t understand yet embrace

I remember memories I never had
Memories that are dreams within dreams
Memories that make me sad and happy
Memories I don’t understand but cherish

I hear voices long gone
Voices that spoke loud and clear
Voices that are louder today
Voices that I never understood but today sounds sweet

I see a world as it is
A world lost in its own confusion
A world scared of being left behind
A world I can’t understand, yet try to keep it together

I sit at my desk and think of things to say
Things I know nothing about
Things I can’t touch
Things I don’t understand only feel

I live in a time where nothing is for sure
A time when everyone is blind and deaf
A time when the truth isn’t real
A time I can’t understand, just live

I now sit in the dark thinking of what was
Of what could have been
Of where I was and where I’m going to be
Of the times I never understood, when I should have known

I write the words I hear in my head
About the memories of when I lived and loved
About the times when I died, when life was bittersweet
About what I understood to be or what I felt at the end of the world

Walker

Close Your Eyes To Live ©©

Close your eyes
Take a deep breath
Come with me for a walk
Down memory lane when everything was always right
No one was ever wrong
Life was sweet and the future wasn’t as bleak

Run through meadows filled with life
Roll around on the ground until there is not a sound
Lay back and look at the sky listening to nothing
Nothing but your heartbeat bouncing against the night sky
For all to hear even you
Loud and clear

Along this freeway, down this dusty road
We swim through the human traffic
Some go slow others fast
Others drown while holding onto the past
Until there is nothing left to hold onto
Then fade into the deep like the rest that never got that far

Close your eyes
Take a deep breath and come with me
To a place where there is no victory or defeat
Where you never fall to your knees but to smell the flower of life
Close your eyes and listen to your heartbeat bounce off the sky
Until you lay down to sleep forever

Walker

Just For Me ©©

Times change but some things stay the same
I am who I am
I will always be me
Good or bad, just for me

Here among my shadows I understand who I am
Who I was born to be
How I was meant to live
Good or bad, just for me

I’ve lived with choices made long ago
Things I did
Things I wanted to do
Good or bad, just for me

Outside my shadows reality is strange
Not real but fake
With it’s crooked smiles and blank stares
Good or bad, just for me

Out here I am a ghost
I don’t exist to any one
Not even me
Good or bad, just for me

In this world I will always be whom they see
Who they remember
Not who I am or who I want to be
Good or bad, just for me

Times change but some things stay the same
Who I was I will always be
It’s just me
Good or bad, just for me

Change is the enemy
Not me
Time will be the witness
Good or bad, just for me

Walker

Running Mad ©©

Running
Running down the road
Running as fast as I can
Running from the shadows chasing me

Far I have to run
Far off to places unseen by greedy eyes
Far beyond the imagination
Far into the darkest of nights past

I move from light to light
I move from place to place, from life to life
I move to where I can take my shoes off, but…
I move constantly as the shadows grow longer

Across borders
Across rivers and mountains
Across language barriers
Across the lines in the sky

Lands I have never seen
Lands that have never been understood
Lands far from what I know
Lands in another world

Chasing a fading light as my shadows chases me
Chasing life among the clouds
Chasing what my mind sees
Chasing chance

Shadows creep up from behind
Shadows from the past
Shadows with no eyes or minds
Shadows cast by greedy oracles for the blind to see

Into tomorrow for something new
Into tomorrow for something simple
Into tomorrow to escape the future
Into tomorrow yearning for the past

Running Far
I Move Across Lands
Chasing Shadows
Into Tomorrow

Walker

Blades Of Light ©©

I watch as the lights streak across the night sky
A million wishes swim in a sea of dreams
Plunging to the earth with one final burst of life before the end
Before the lights go out

I reach out to catch them but they disappear before I can
Before they burn away into memory
Dieing off into the night like fireflies in the light of dawn
When a new beginning showers the earth

I see the sun peek with it's one eye as it crests the hill
Winking at me as it wakes from its slumber
Crawling out of it’s grave
Out of the blanket of darkness that had shrouded it from our eyes

I feel the stillness all around me come to life
While I sit bathing among the rays of light
It’s warmth once more reaching the depths of my soul
Until the light shines from my eyes too

I embrace the world around me with no fear, no love or anger
Welcoming what is as it should be
As it was meant to be
Unchanged, just as it is

I watch a falling star fall off in the distance for me to catch
If I can
If it will let me
If dreams are meant to be caught

Walker