I’m Still Here

Life brought pain and trials.

I don’t care.

Life brought scars and battles.

I don’t care.

The reason for life is loving.

Having joy is a choice.

Though I may not have anything else,

I still have my heart and my voice.

Through the love and the fear,

Through the joy and the tears,

The truth of the heart overcomes,

And I am still here.

I may win or I may lose.

I don’t care.

To run the race is what I choose.

The road is there.

There is joy along the way.

In every heart I find.

With all the treasures they do hold,

Life is truly kind.

Through the love and the fear,

Through the joy and the tears,

The truth of the heart overcomes,

And I am still here.

They may say that I have gone.

I don’t care.

You will know that they are wrong.

So I don’t care.

The tether of love will always bind.

Through your heart you will find.

My song of love will never end,

And in your heart I am there.

Through the love and the fear,

Through the joy and the tears,

The truth of the heart overcomes,

And I am still here.

The Nightbirde

For the singer known as Nightbirde, who stole our hearts winning the golden buzzer on AGT.  She said do not wait for life to get easy in order to be happy.  That is something I believe in!

The night bird comes between 12 and 4,

In the darkest of night,

The night bird sings in silence,

She does not require the light.

She does not wait for joy to come,

To find her reason to sing,

She carries the joy within her heart,

And brings it to everything.

The night bird sings within the darkness,

Even though the world is asleep,

The sound brings dreams of life and love,

To those who slumber deep.

I wait in the night to hear her joy,

This is the gift God would bring,

She carries his love within her heart,

The reason why she sings.

No pain or hardship changes truth,

Beneath the skies above,

Through pain or joy or life or death,

There is truly only love.

When the Nightbirde sings for people,

Whose hearts are open wide,

They see beyond all fear or pain,

Receiving the joy she has inside. 

Life Within Life

 

This elephant was carved from a single piece of stone, with her baby inside, as a gift to me in India. 

Thoughts are mysterious,

Reality before birth,

Energy of emotions,

Feelings in colors,

A doorway into life.

 

A door swings both ways,

Ideas travel to the world,

Yet our hearts can travel through,

To places we have never been,

Experiencing things beyond our grasp.

 

Places which we have never been,

Music which we have never heard,

Become worlds we can explore,

New shores where we can stand,

Through the doorway of words.

 

We take hold of the familiar,

The branching of a tree,

The soaring of a bird,

To make analogies to share,

What no eyes have never seen.

 

Time becomes an illusion,

In the continuum of words,

The past and the future join,

For only the moment is real,

As souls meet across the ages.

 

Words become our gift,

Igniting fire in other hearts,

Removing boundaries of imagination,

Extending vision of the heart,

We create life within life.