Healing Rain

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Come Out

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Come out in view; be who you are.
The self you hide is like divinity denied.
or like the light gone from a star.

You have a place in this creation
or you would not be here.
Take your place and look around you –
what is there to fear?
All your friends are with you here.

Stand on the earth; speak what you feel.
Listen to the voice that’s guiding you;
Your truth is real.

Live your life like you mean it,
like a poppy on a hill.
Open to the light
and let the petals fall where they will.

Come out.
Come out.
Come out.

Healing Rain

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It’s hard to see a miracle in the making,
but there’s a seed blowing through the air.
And it will and as it planned and will blossom
where the ground was bare.

Though it drifts over cliffs made of granite,
a touch of green will suddenly appear.
Take it as a metaphor for the planet
that life can happen here.
Life can happen here.

In a dream that’s left for dead.
In a heart that’s closed from pain.
All it takes is a light from the spirit
and a healing rain
and a healing rain
and a healing . . .

It’s hard to see the form in the chaos,
or to trust in a grand design.
It’s hard to say that the Self is unfolding
to itself in time.

But there’s a method to the madness (I believe)
and a blessing in the pain
and a grace to the dance of the spirit –
call it healing rain.
So I pray for rain.
Send a healing…

No Breaks Between

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And death is luckier than we suppose.
We wear these bodies out like they were clothes.
Then our faces change and our names,
and the roles we play, but the soul remains –
No breaks between.

The things we call our own in time decay.
And the monuments we build fall away.
But the love we are, we never lose,
though we forget sometimes when we’re confused –
No breaks between.

Some say it’s illusory; some say sublime
how the Self, to reveal itself to itself,
creates space and time.

What we take away is who we are
from life to life, from star to star.
Then one day we awaken and we find
life is a point… and not a line –
No breaks between.

And Laughing

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I’m spinning
past planets much bigger than me,
beginning,
after all of my sorrow, to see
that change comes and still I survive.
The sun warms my back.
I’m alive.
And laughing.

We get so sad
and make life a serious game.
We get so small.
We forget all the reasons we came.
We forget how to love,
how to be happy.

Yes, there is bliss; there is pain.
And long waits, and long walks
and dark healing rain.
And wild doves who coo in the eaves.
And moonlight to light on wet leaves.
And singing.

I’m dancing this dance alone –
spinning
from past lives
to lives yet unknown,
setting the grace of God free,
watching the waves break at sea.
And laughing.

Sweet Streams

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For holding back the light you gave to me
For every feeling I denied
For all the hurt I could have turned to tears
But turned inside…

For every heart I could not open to
And all the dreams I never dared,
For every time I turned my back on truth
When I was scared

I forgive myself
(and everyone else)

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Sweet streams wash me down
Pour your grace over me
Lift me up to a higher ground
Where I can see

For blaming you when life got hard to live
For all the joy I could not see,
For everyone whom I could not forgive,
Or let go free

I forgive myself

(Chorus)

I don’t know but I’ve been told
That you’ve been right here
Looking out for me
with a shower of blessings
That you’ve had to withhold
I’m not going to fight it anymore,
Let it be.

(Chorus)

(Chorus)

Something So Fine

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Oh darling it took a little time
To clear the path between your heart and mind
I tell you it’s nothing turning water to wine,
But love is really something.

You could have left me
when the game got rough,
Could have packed your heart
And said that you’d had enough

But you stayed with me
And laid your love on the line
Now we’ve got something so fine.

Chorus:
Oh darling we’ve got something so fine
I just wanted to remind you
Some people look for love like this all their lives
And never find it.

The sky could tumble and the earth could quake
Love might feel a rumble but it would not shake
We could choose to drop this, but it would not break –
Pretty amazing stuff.

Hold me in your heart of hearts,
Baby and I’ll do the same
Maybe, that’s all they really mean when they say
Strengthen the things that remain

I could lose my patience, I could lose my way,
My home, my friends, my health could go some day
I could think I lost your love and then lose my mind,
But I could never really lose something so fine.

(Chorus)

True Light

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I may have to wait a while
To see your smile in its true light
But I have your photograph
And I watch you laugh in black and white

And I have your picture in my mind
I have the vision all the time…
You move in waves across my heart
And though you left, you never leave
You stay behind and I believe
We live as one when we’re apart.

It getting better now
I’m getting by somehow,
Though I still cry some

I’m starting to lose, I guess,
The illusion of separateness
It’s like a sleep I’m waking from

We pass each other on our paths
As destiny allows
Our bodies touch in time and space
Then race away like clouds

What are these bodies anyway
But shafts of light–I have to say
Sometimes the boundaries wear thin
And if electrons dance through air
And if space is everywhere,
Where do I end and you begin?

And I would like to know
Where does the dreamer go
While the body lies in bed.
I saw you again last night
We met in a field of light
Among the living and the dead.

I saw you again last night
We met in a field of light
Among the living and the dead.

A-Void

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The poems, the letters I send,
Do you even read them
Do they sink softly into your heart,
Or sail past like a packet of seeds in the wind
I can never see…where do they go?

Oh, it scares me sometimes when I see my reflection
In your silence, I recognize my own
All the times I pretend not hear any question
Or I turn from a truth that I don’t want shown.

And I think of the calls that I never answered
When my soul said to speak but I made no sound
And I feel the defeat of a hand never taken
Like a thought that comes up but goes back down.

You become a one-way mirror
You become some kind of friend
Because I know this black hole I fall through
Will open up to a new universe
at the other end,
If I can transcend, if I can let go

So I hang on for life and I live with the longing
Of a love that’s struggling to be
Through the hurt and the hate
and the need for bonding
But maybe what I’m looking for is me.

When I call out a name in the dark
It’s your name,
But maybe what I’m looking for is me.

I Know What I Feel

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Like the rush of light that saturates the sky
As the sun goes down for the day
Like the scent of jasmine that hangs in a room
When you take the flower away,
You essence seems to stay

Even though we’re worlds apart
I feel you near
Some say that only love you can touch is real
But I know what I feel
I know what I feel.

And I can feel your touch in the wind
You’re as close as the ground where I lay
You come in like the sunlight
That soaks through my skin
And I can almost hear you say

‘I’m here with you
Even though you hide your heart
I feel you near.’
Some say that only given back is real
But I know what I feel
I know what I feel

Despite the push, despite the pull and all the strain
This glue adheres
Some say that only love that just is, is real
That’s the love that I feel
That’s the love that I feel
That’s the love that I feel.

The One Lullaby

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When your form emerged from mine
When being had become
I knew you knew by the way you smiled
That this would be the one

So close your eyes, sleep well tonight
All the work is done
Take your rest, love, you’ve been blessed
Yes, this will be the one

You will have what all life strives for
What ancient scriptures teach
What ants and plants and humans strive for
All within your reach

And Icarus would envy us
Flying toward the sun
For lives and lives and lives go by
But this will be the one

For lives and lives and lives go by
But this will be the one.

Sweet Streams Reprise

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Feelings, states of consciousness
and circumstances change.
Everything that comes to be
will go and leave no trace.
All things shall pass–
all things, alas,
but this
unbroken flow of grace.

May this flow forever be
like a river from the sea.
May I not try to own or reject it,
postpone or redirect it–
but just let it be.

As every actor on my stage
parades before me now,
wearing masks and bearing gifts,
I can’t help thinking of
the Face behind the mirror,
the one who sent them here
in this
unbroken flow of love.

May this flow forever be
with no interference from me.
May I not try
to move or prevent it,
improve or circumvent it,
but just let it be

As it was in the beginning,
is now and ever shall be -
world without end.
As it was in the beginning,
is now and ever shall be.
Amen.

This dream of consciousness
can seem to wield such force,
but the River Ganga
is never far behind,
nourishing the thirsty
as she winds along her course,
then ravages
whole villages of mind.

May her Grace forever flow
every place she needs to go.
May I not try
to tame or suppress her,
disclaim or second guess her.

And may I be blessed to see–
forever see–
she is not separate,
she is not separate
from me.