Flower On The Water
March 30, 2009
Beauty meets beauty
As flower meets water
And the floating color
With petals in strong shelters
Drifts along
Beauty meets beauty
As the two lovers of life
Join together
One carried by the other
Having been dependent
Now immersed
Beauty meets beauty
As soul rests in spirit
As the flower is committed
To the life that sustains it
And dreams are left to fate
To the flow of the current
And to chance meetings
With the water’s edge
Beauty meets beauty
As the flower floats along
And the possibility still exists
That the water will choose
To overtake the flower
Or to carry it far away
These are the risks you take
When placing a flower
On the water
~wbv
Torn My Heart In Two
March 3, 2009
Why have you done this?
You have torn my heart in two
You are wicked and hurtful
Pain flows from your lips
Why must you divide me?
You have broken my spirit once more
You have ripped the soul from within me
And taken the only life I know
Why didn’t you protect me?
From the razor that cut through my being
From the pain of knowing separation
From the hurt caused by duality
You have broken me
You have stolen my peace
You have filled me with confusion and anger
You have torn my heart in two
~wbv
A Drop In The River
January 12, 2009
I am but a drop in the river
Take me out and nobody knows
Add me back in and
I go unnoticed
I go my own way
Yet the river still carries me
I have shape
Yet am indistinguishable
Apart from the river
I will turn to vapor
When I am immersed
I am fully alive.
So I owe my life
And my existence
To the river…
It is who I am
What I long for
Where I’ve been
And where I will be.
~wbv
Believer
December 29, 2008
The man
The believer
He speaks
He listens
He believes.
Some listen
Some walk
Some talk
Some doubt
He believes.
Fast speech
Moves quickly
Avoids detection
In honesty
He believes.
Some love
Some hate
Some lie
Some steal
He believes.
Lesser evil
Hides between
Dogmatic faith’s
Empty pages
And he believes.
~wbv
