not my soul

in the black of a darken space i sit

and it tugs at my soul trying to pull it

out from it’s incarnate abode

 

cannot let it go for it’s not time

too much, yet, to see too much, yet, to do 

much more to cry and to smile about

 

and while the music plays on

i will dance and i will flail my hands

and arms toward the sky

letting it know that the heaven

sojourn will come soon enough 

 

now into the light i step

leaving the darkness behind

let life’s energy avail my soul

with a desire and wanting

to make a difference

before i go

halleluiah, life

in the dawn the flair of sunlight rises
and the choir of birds sing ‘halleluiah’
to the beginning of our new day
and that life is precious in each and
everyone’s own way

oh light of the universe, oh light of joy

bring forth this day’s abundance where
hands join and smiles evince in place of the
folded fist over the sadness and tears
over the hate and wars and heart scorned fears

rid from the minds of those where anger resides

destructive manners preside because they think
this, the only way they will survive, not knowing
that even in the marsh deep in forests, gather
species of all kinds and live in peace amongst each other

we must put our weapons down for they only

bring sadness and tears, they take away the
blossoming of life where love shares the space
and in due time the hand intertwined in another
will replace the clenched fist, the killing gun,
and we’ll grow old rejoicing that ‘life’ won