All Is Calm
Death, I wait tonight
For your kiss, for your life
Call me back home
To your breast, to your arms
Oooooh, oooooooh...
And we have met before
On these stairs, at this door
Time fades away till it's gone
Midnight and dawn
Into your arms I am yours again
Touch my cheek, I am cold
As I sleep, so I am born again
Nestled deep
All is calm
All is calm
It's a masquerade
In a field of gold
On a moonlit night
It's a free fall
When she took my hand
On the silver chord
Let me in tonight
Let the feeling grow
When you turn your head
Will I see the light?
Will you take me home
Into Paradise?
She's all right
She's all right
She's all right with me
How long?
Today
No more words to follow the deeds
No more ambition to follow the passion
This is the life we lead
This is the path we heed
Another world takes the life we knew
The edges wash away with these western tides
And all that isn’t fully a part
Falls apart
It washes into the oceans below
A young man might call this loneliness
And older man might see this and understand it
But one is all we need
And most often, that isn’t even
A part of the deal
This is what you become
Whether successful or
One of life’s beautiful losers
This is what you choose
This is what you witness
This piece of life is no longer mine
This piece of my heart is no loner fine
We follow the path that is lead
And we sink just like it
Until the day we wake up dead
The heart learns to obey
The mind leads the passions astray
The body bends day after day
And the soul, if lucky, awaits its reckoning day
We see the time has come
If ever it’s to come to pass
To pass onto our seed
If there’s some hope for our soul to last
We let life bleed away our worth
In order to breed this child its birth
And hope and pray that maybe one day
Those dreams might manifest their best
Through this glimmer of life before it too
Becomes yet again part of this becoming earth
ⓒ 2008 Shawn Michael Quinn
Turn Your Eyes
Are those halos in your hair
Or diamonds shining there?
Without a hope, without a prayer
This rain beats down like death
Turn your eyes to better men
Before I go I'm hangin' a cross on a nail
I hung one for you in there
Girl, lay your shame to rest
And hold the lies close to your breast
You stoop to feed the crows
Some scraps of truth already cold
Before I go I'm hangin' a cross on the nail
I hung one for you in there
And every kingdom of rain comes pouring down
'Cause I loved you so long
'Cause I loved you so long..
Would you put halos in your hair?
Without a hope, without a prayer
With lies close to your breast
You finally lay your shame to rest
Before I go I'm hangin' a cross on the nail
I hung one for you in there
And every kingdom of rain comes pouring down
'Cause I loved you so long
'Cause I loved you so long..
Unfolding
It appears before you
Almost from out of nowhere
Singing the black bird's song
And its so completely dark
That it seems as though it's always been there
Or at least that it belongs…
The hole just opens up
And the clearing calls you in
Then everything changes
And the real fun begins
Like a ride with no ending
Or a witnessed transformation
You watch yourself become someone else
But in slow motion
And this life flashes before you
With all details magnified for you
And 1, 10, or 6 years in the distance
Become one single instant..
I can only assume that the remainder will unfold this way
And every day I ever notice
I'll expect to feel this way
And your humor surprises you
Because you can do nothing but giggle
As the things that once excited you
Tend to come back to bite you
And there's that silent understanding
Of pushing through what life's typically demanding
You notice how to some it seems somber
And to others, it breeds wonder
But like most reflections
Or varying opinions
To you, it makes little difference..
The unfolding of life is what dictates
And your input is limited to only choosing what frustrates
Because the mind is simple
And the emotions at best are little more than fickle
But your perception has adjusted to the black of that hole
And eventually recognizes the faintest light of any distance
ⓒ 2008 Shawn Michael Quinn
ⓒ 2008 Shawn Michael Quinn
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