Electric Blue

Let me tell you how clouds taste
Like tears, like the ocean
Clouds taste like the sea
Like you and me, I know it's true
Because when it rains
it tastes a little bit like me
and a little bit like you.

Like a butterfly on a moon beam
Through the shadows of the planets
Across the forests of the universe
Your love has come to me
Gently floating down on me
with an iridescent glow
sparkling at the tip of each hair
tingling and teasing
Until finally I am enveloped
completely
I feel electric blue
energized by you
The heavens are filled with clouds
I am electric blue
energized by you
eyes open wide
I feel you inside
electric blue
Drinking the nectar
wine of the clouds.

Anticipation of you
every tear that you cry
every drop that you perspire
Let me tell you how clouds taste

Let me tell you how clouds taste
Clouds taste like tears, like the ocean
Clouds taste like the sea
They taste like you and me
I know it's true
Because when it rains
it tastes a little bit like me
and a little bit like you, too.

Life has no meaning

OIL IN OUR WATER
FISH NOWHERE TO BE FOUND
THE MODERN DAY MURDERER
SEEPS POISON INTO THE GROUND

FOSSIL FUEL EMISSIONS
HANG HEAVY IN THE AIR
BLATANT SIGNS OF WASTEFULNESS
AND DECADENCE EVERYWHERE

TOXIC WASTE STORED AND DUMPED EVERYWHERE
BIGGER ENGINES AND BIGGER CARS
PUMP EVEN MORE POISON INTO OUR AIR
DO WE REALLY NEED WHAT WE HAVE
AND DO WE EVEN CARE

THE ANSWERS ARE SIMPLE
AND THE SOLUTIONS THE SAME
WE DID THIS TO OURSELVES
LET'S TRY THIS ONCE AGAIN

THE FARMERS PLIGHT, THE WORKING CLASS
LESS FOOD THAN MOUTHS TO FEED
OUR CHILDREN, OUR PEOPLE ONE AND ALL
SUFFER FOR MANKIND’S GREED TO SUCCEED

THE WARS OVER SEAS THAT NOBODY SEES
PICTURES AND STORIES BEYOND BELIEF
OF TORTURE, DEATH AND GRIEF
DESENSITIZING US MORE EVERY DAY
AND OUR COMPASSION BEGINS TO FADE AWAY

THE KILLING FIELDS, OUR OWN PEACEFUL TOWNS
RAVAGED BY FEAR, DEATH AND PAIN
HELD HOSTAGES ARE WE, NEVER TO BE SET FREE
FROM THE CLUTCHES OF GREED'S BLOODY REIGN

OUR PURPOSE IN LIFE HAS NO MEANING
THOUGH WE ALL TRY HARD TO BELIEVE
BUT THE TRICK IS NOT TRYING, IT’S LIVING
TO GIVE EACH LIFE MEANING
BEFORE WE HAVE TO LEAVE

THERE'S NO SECRET TO OUR FUTURE
IT SHINES BRIGHTLY THROUGH ALL OF THIS
GET RID OF OPPRESSION AND DISCRIMINATION
EQUALITY FOR ONE AND ALL
TEAR DOWN ALL BOUNDARIES AND BORDERS
EVERY FENCE AND EVERY WALL

ONE PEOPLE, ONE CAUSE
ONE WORLD, ONE NATION

THE UNIVERSE WILL BEAR ITS SOUL TO US
ONE PEOPLE WITH ONE GOAL IN TRUST
TO GO FORTH INTO THE REALM OF DARKNESS
AND THE UNKNOWN
BRINGING THE LIGHT OF PROSPERITY FOR ALL
AND MAKING THE WHOLE WORLD OUR HOME

IT'S A DREAM I HAVE
I HOPE SOMEDAY WILL COME TRUE
WITH A PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE FOR
THEM, US AND YOU.

Mohamed, Allah or Jesus man
Anyway to get there
Anyway you can
I never seen so many
The flock is huge
What a great turnout
Rally together or
rally as one
Either way
fight the good fight
Salvation isn't free
Brothers and sisters
Lie dead
Who once danced with me
Mohamed, Allah or Jesus man
I can't think
of a better reason man
Can you
The problem is though
The difference that lies in
Not God Almighty that is
believed in
But rather in the believer
Mohamed, Allah or Jesus man
Anyway you get there
Anyway you can
Be the price what may
Be it another man

I am no more educated
than any other man
But I know my God
My God would not approve
The taking of life
Taking life of any form
Let alone another man
My God accepts no donations
No sacrifices
Has no army to feed
My God has no humanly need
There is no talk about virgins
There is no reward
My God has no need
For whatever you may think
No food or anything to drink
Religion is a term made by man
To keep the herd in order
To keep themselves in demand
My God is the spirit
That is in every living thing
The spirit that connects man

Mohamed, Allah or Jesus man
Believe in what you believe in
But let it stop at that
Leave the violence
Leave hate behind you
Regardless what happened before
History is beyond our control
Let man renew
Let history begin today
Wash our cares
Put our differences away
God bless us all...

Stop acting in the name of the Lord
Stop saying things that he never said
Stop making false replicas of his being
Stop killing he would not approve
Stop following and do his work yourself
And perhaps God will bless us all.

I've been blog lazy...
To tell you the truth I have been blog lazy but life busy and that's a good thing. I spent as much time as I could with Colette. We are so good together when we get along instead of fighting like cat and dog. It has been a nice beginning to the new year. I hope that everyone had a wonderful and safe time at whatever they were doing to bring in the new year.
So it's already January 3, 2010. May all your wishes come true and may you have the strength to fulfill all your New Years resolutions.
I more than anything wish good health and recovery for myself and anyone else who suffered injuries or disease. So if you're reading this and would like to share what you have gone through I would love hear from you and we can perhaps strengthen each other in the process. I have found that disclosure/sharing your condition with someone like a friend or relative can be therapeutic and cleansing at the same time.
I know talking about things to be a definite positive thing to do from my own experiences. I'm not a doctor merely someone who can say been there and done that, experienced that, went through that, I'm someone who is both sympathetic and apathetic without being an enabler. I believe in positive support and reinforcement which may mean that I don't necessarily support what you're doing but rather a different spin or more positive way of doing the same thing. I'm far from perfect and therefore cannot be your judge or jury but I do make a good sounding board to bounce things off of due to my open-mindedness. I hope to start the new year off and spend some of it helping people or simply listening because that's how we learn. I plan on making this the year in which I make my biggest and most influential changes. I hope to make my commitments a lifetime thing, a change in life style if you will. It's not all about you ya knuckledragger! I plan on practising what I preach, I plan on being patient, pleasant, nice, amiable a quiet and good listener, helpful, less critical. Sounds both hard and easy, kinda like life, but I plan to do it one day at a time.
Maybe you don't have or feel like talking about anything personal or medical well hey, that's cool too. But what about a resolution you care to share or a change that you plan on making in the new year, I'd love to hear about it.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
GOD BLESS
GOOD HEALTH

Well, the countdown has begun officially now...less than 12 hours before the New Year!
I wonder what tomorrow will look like. I don't know about you but I like to go out and see how different the new year looks and feels. It is different, I can't explain it but it is and it does feel different when you're out on New Years day. I suppose it's the revitalization we feel by the fact that the new year symbolizes a new start, a new beginning, or perhaps a second chance at what you did wrong the year before. But it's not even that, I find myself feeling almost alien as I take in the new feelings on the first day of the new year. It feels virginal, it feels innocent and naked. It needs you and me to fill it, it needs what we do to make it real. I love walking or sitting outside in the cold winter sun. You can feel everything around you begin anew right along with you. The crisp cold air as it crystallizes in your nose as you inhale, the spread of your breath in a cold burst of warm fog out of your mouth. The first day of the new year, the cold of winter, nature and all her splendor, a hot cup of something and the company of those we love is probably the best way to bring in the new and toss out the old! God Bless Canada, God Bless each and everyone, God Bless the soldiers and all those who walk along side them in the endless search for peace. May 2010 be a year in which we reflect all the bad that has happened and let us turn a corner and walk int the direction of peace. It is a short walk to reach but such a long time coming. Take another person's hand and show them the way, let us become leaders to all those who are lost or too weak to find the way. Ambassadors of peace and goodwill.

On Guard for Thee

I STRUGGLE WITH DEMONS DAILY
SOME ARE STRANGE AND NEW TO ME
BUT MOST OF THEM I KNOW
SINCE THEY BELONG TO ME
THE WAY IN WHICH I DEAL WITH THEM
DIFFERS FROM ONE MOMENT TO THE NEXT
IT ALL DEPENDS ON MY STATE OF MIND
UPON MY WEAKNESSES AND STRENGTHS
IT SEEMS TO WORK ODDLY ENOUGH
WITH DEMONS AND DEVILS IN MY MIND
BUT THE HARDEST THING OF ALL I FIND
IS TO BATTLE THEM WHILST IN THE COMPANY
OF ANGELS IN MY MIND
THE SOFTEST AND KINDEST OF HEARTS
THE SWEETNESS AND UNDERSTANDING
THAT DISTRACTS ME
AND THE BATTLE BEGINS
I TELL AT TIMES I DON’T WANT TO BE ME
RESERVED, STAGNANT IN THE PRESENCE OF EVIL
YET SO BOLD AND OUTSPOKEN WITH THOSE WHO TRULY CARE
BOGGED DOWN, WATERLOGGED FROM NO WEIGHT BUT MY OWN
MY OWN CONSCIENCE AND SINS
I SOON FIND
MY ONLY OPPONENT
TO BE MY OWN MIND
OBSCURED BY THE FOG OF THE FIGHT
I FEEL REALITY KICK IN, SUCH A BIG BITE
THE WOUND PARTS WIDER
THOUGH NO BLOOD OR FLESH EVER SHOWS
THE SCAR THAT REMAINS GOUGED OUT
THE TOLL AND ITS PRICE PAID IN FULL
LEAVING BEHIND ONLY NIGHTMARES OF WHAT HAS NOT COME
CONDUCIVE TO SELF-DESTRUCTION
WORDS SPOKEN WITHOUT DIRECTION
RICOCHET BY UNCONSCIOUS DEFLECTION
STRIKING DIRECTLY AND WITH PAINFUL ACCURACY
BUT WORDS ARE JUST WORDS
THOUGHTS ARE JUST THOUGHTS
IT’S THE LIPS AND THE MIND THAT TRULY OUGHT TO SCARE US ALL
SO WHILE YOU SLEEP AND DREAM TONIGHT
I STAND GUARD
I STAND OVER YOU, YOUR THOUGHTS, YOUR FEELINGS AND YOUR MIND
I SPEAK TO GHOSTS
I FACT I SPEAK TO MINE
THE WORLD IS TROUBLED
DOES ANYONE ELSE CARE
WHO STANDS ON GUARD FOR ME
WHO STANDS ON GUARD WHEN I SLEEP
WHO WILL AWAKEN SHOULD I FALL ASLEEP
THE FUTURE LOOKS MUCH BRIGHTER THOUGH
AT LEAST AT THIS MOMENT, WHERE I STAND
IF YOU SHOULD CARE
ONCE ALL THE PAIN HAS BEEN GIVEN
SLEEP IS ALL YOU GET
SO SLEEP WELL
ANGER AND SHAME ARE THE LESSONS OF THE DAY
I COULD GIVE UP
BUT NOT TODAY
FROM THE HOLLOW SO DEEP INSIDE ME
COMES THE TEMPEST OF YOUR LOVE
CHANGING LIKE THE SEASONS
EACH EBBING AND FLOWING
I WEAR THE NAME OF YOUR DESCRIPTION
PURE, WHITE AND FROM ABOVE
THOUGH I DRINK FROM THE CHALICE OF SIN
TAKING ALL OF IT’S DROWNING NECTAR AS IT POURS IN
SLEEP TIGHT
FOR
I STAND ON GUARD FOR THEE.

Who is the potter

Who is the potter I say
Where is the pot and clay
His work's unfinished
Has he gone away
Just for today
From the belly of the earth
Came his clay
The clay he used on that day
Listen in the evening and pray
That all will be well in the morrow day
Who is the potter I say
Where is the pot and clay

Thought # 127

Time passes presently
The present becomes the past
Neither past time
Nor
Future time
Like present time
Will last
Time keeps on ticking
Every day
Till today becomes yesterday
And that the day before
Once again making tomorrow today
Just like the day before…

On the page

THINGS IN LIFE
JUST HAPPEN
THEY HAPPEN
FOR A REASON
SOME WE CAN CONTROL...
IT’S WHAT
WE CAN SEE
AND LEARN
BY WATCHING
BY LISTENING...
EARLY WARNING
PROVISION
ANTI INVASION
PRO FUTURISM
ANTI SUBLIMATION
PROCREATION
ANTI INFLAMMATION
COEXIST
NONCONFORMITY
SOONER OR LATER
THERE WILL COME A TIME
WHEN
TIME MEETS TIME
AND YOU AND I
WILL MEET
I HAVE IT ALL
WORKED OUT
BECAUSE
IT ALL WORKS OUT
ON THE PAGE.

You’ll know why

THERE’S A DOG BARKING IN A TREE
SOMEWHERE OVER THERE
A CAT WALKING UPRIGHT
ONE DOG AND TWO CATFISH
SWIMMING THROUGH THE AIR
AT THIS POINT
I NO LONGER CARE
WHAT YOU SEE
ISN’T ALWAYS THERE
IT’S WHEN YOU SEE IT
YOU SHOULD CARE
IF YOU’VE NEVER EVER
SEEN
A WHALE
HOW CAN YOU
HEAR
ONE CRY
BUT IF YOU HAVE
SEEN
A WHALE
THEN YOU’LL KNOW
WHAT I MEAN
AND WHY.

The Faceless

No shoes, no clothes, no food to eat
Men, women, children begging in the street
Look in their faces, look at their tears
Oppression’s the equation for the pain they’ve felt for years
Picking garbage and living in shantytowns
Is not their preferred way of life
It’s what they have to do to survive another day
Through poverty, famine and the stench of their stife
With pains of hunger in their bellies each day
And their ears to the ground while they listen and pray
Hoping that off in the distance, the machines will go away
But the earth starts to shake as the rumble draws near
They grab what they can and scramble with fear
A cloud of dust appears up ahead
Behind it lies calm, quiet, dead
Their house are crushed, made of cardboard and wood
They’re left with nothing, they grabbed what they could
Some stand in the distance, crying, watching in shock
As the soldiers count the bodies, as if taking stock of
all the hopes and dreams that were never had
and with each body counted the soldiers seem glad
then the troops move out as quickly as they’d come
The little shantytown is no more and the faceless are on the run
The smell of death is everywhere
But no one else seems to care
Life rolls backward into this bad dream
And as death beckons in the new dawn
The faceless are no longer seen.

What’s going on

Death is all around me
I can't believe I'm here
A friend lies down and dies
We lose another one so dear
Another person another soul
Lost to heavens beckoning
Life is painful as we grow old
I used wish bad things would happen
To those who hurt me
or made me feel bad
Some of those people are gone
and some are the best friends I've ever had
It's funny how we change as we grow older
and how our thoughts rearrange
How what we once believed in
is now something we must change
The world itself crumbling
The tension on her outside
has her insides rumbling
As part of her evolution
I'm sure that I've let her down
I'm certain we are merely a by product
of our own design and corruption
Use the knowledge and wealth that we have
Cure what ails us correct what fails us
Instead of fighting for a piece of her
Fight for peace for her
To prevent extinction avoid destruction
The walls are closing in on me
The world is behaving terribly
The violence we were too blind to see
from a distance
Is now happening right here in front of me
What have we become
A world based on the number one
So selfish and self centered
We care about no one but ourselves
We dispose of elders and loved ones
as we do lighters and diapers and cars
Things used to last forever
Things that were dirty got washed
We took pride in what we had
and who we were.