Illuminations

When all alone in the dark,

At one with the earth and gloom;
She heard the tread of gentle foot –
Felt somebody else in the room.

At odds with the world outside,

Out of place with all that surrounds her;
She was aware of a stronger force –
Of somebody’s arms around her.

When staring at empty years,

Each day of which is the same;
She was conscious of whispers between the air –
Of somebody calling her name.

When part of the future of life

In a land that time forgot,
She saw where she stood in the context of earth
And murmured ‘I have met God’.

Jeffries

Sometimes heaven has two meanings

In the calendar of its days;
Like those who say but never mean things,
Those whom we love, yet go away.

Sometimes you wish a dream together,

Hold the future in your hands –
But nothing lasts forever,
And who’ll tell her where she stands.

Perhaps

Like an ambition never realised

Like a secret left unknown,
Like the look in someone else’s eyes –
Is the road that takes you home.
 

Like a love that keep you dreaming

And a hope that still goes on,
Though outside it’s always raining
And the music lacks a song.

Genesis

When out of place with heaven and hell,

A stranger to the earth;
A searcher with no place to dwell –
No dream, no hope, no mirth.

When loving one who’s out of league,

Adonis in your eyes.
While seeing words you want to read
And knowing that they’re lies.

When in despair with those around,
A bird without a song;
Who keeps their feet nailed to the ground
And all alone, goes on.

If in some nightmare of your own

You too could hear her prayers,
Release her from her tortured roam
And tell her that he cares

If, as the light is failing those

Who’ve often failed themselves,
You too could gently let her know
Love is a maze of hells.

If you could know the love she feels –

The pain, the joy, the care;
As ceaseless as the turn of wheels,
And yet he can’t love her.

SJ

She heard his voice in dreams of silence,

Saw his face upon the wall;
Reached out and grasped the world beyond
To rise above it all.

She tried to think the whole thing through,

She tried to change her mind.
No one else can know the pain
Destroying her deep inside.

She thought of him by night and day,

The moments she had willed.
The way he’d look, the words he’d say,
The hopeless void he filled.

When she wakes up feeling lonely,

When she feels her life has gone,
It’s as though the fire was only
Supposed to last this long.

But candles flicker out some day,

The flame will not recur;
For every time he turned away
He turned away from her.