Can You Hear Me Crying

Can you hear me crying
Can you hear me speak
Can you hear me cry for
Your voice in the deep

Can you hear me crying
My tears soft as petals
For I'm here crying
For your love

For your love...

I need your love,
I need you there
I need you helping
I need you to care

Can you hear me crying
My tears all alone
My tears at your welcome
My tears when you're gone

My tears when I want you
Want you to be near
When life overwhelms me
I want you here...

Your arms held around me
Comforting, warm
Your lips touch my face
And I know...
That you care...
That you care!

I need your love
Your friendship filled hand
Your love as a brother,
Your love as a friend
When I'm here crying
I want you there
You wipe away the tears
You've answered my prayer

So when I'm here crying
I know you care
When I'm here speaking
I know that you're there
That you will listen
To every word now
And I'm not alone
I'm never alone
I know...
For you're there

Cause you're there

Your arms held around me
Comforting, warm
Your lips touch my face
I know you care
Your arms pull me closer
Closer to you
And I know
I have your love
You're there for me

I pray that you'll be there
When I'm in need
I hold you closely
To heart and mind
I gladly welcome
You when you do call
I understand better

And I love...

Nightmare

Little devils swiftly creep
Searching in the night
They catch the floating dreams they see
My dream has come in sight

They play with me, with all they've found
Searching through all memories
My dream has become a nightmare
In everything they let me see

Here I see a friend's funeral
Though my friend isn't dead
How could it be that my friend had died?
There's nobody to take her stead

The next I see from faint memory
Confusion fills sublime
The devils within my head have fun
While I in my dreamworld cry

The confusion they love, it smothers
For my dream feels real to me
And when I awake, I expect to find
Heartache, sadness in all I see

Fantastical or fairytale
So will the devils choose
To play as they will with my mind
How can I say "I'm through!"?

They will not stop, nor listen to me
Even after I awake
For they'll be back in torment again
Whenever it seems I'm faint

If God Had A Facebook

Who can count the grains of sand

Lying on the beach?

Who can see the universe

And see the planets each

I know God knows me

I’m a grain of sand

On a tiny planet

I am just one hand

If God had a Facebook

I would be his friend

Facebook might just break

His friends would never end

God can see the universe

He knows us one and all

If he were on Facebook

My cares would come up small

Every day on Facebook

Drama holds the reins

There are those who comfort

Others know their pains

Fights may start on Facebook

Even in the home

Crying eyes and sometimes more

Thoughts that grow and roam

But with God on Facebook

Troubles may just cease

He would ever listen

He would give me peace

Even without Facebook

God is really there

If we simply turn to him

If we share a prayer

Migraine

Migraine in my head-away!

I want you to never stay

Ticking, chiming, endless clock

Hitting against a concrete block

Give me my mind, I pray

A tug of war inside my head

I really want to go to bed

No I don’t want this, no more!

You have made my head so sore!

My face is yelling red.

Poetry Is

Poetry is flowing letters

An alphabet cereal pouring on the page

Following the milk before it

Sweet, not sour, in the words

Poetry is inquiry

A question answered, a problem solved

Crumpled pages of written wrong

Ending up with beautiful words

Poetry is a gift

A father teaching his son to love
And a baby's first steps, her parent's smiles

The Samaritan taking pity on a stranger

Poetry is a nature, a life

Slightly tilted for the view

See the sun, the ice bound trees

Giving way to spring at last

Poetry is a learning experience

When we think we know a truth

Arrayed in different shades of gray
We see a different side

1 Nephi Chapter 8

Lehi dreamed another dream
A tree of life, the fruit does gleam
Lehi saw which sons would be saved
Laman and Lemuel remained depraved

An angel led Lehi through the dark
Lehi prayed, his faith the spark
"Mercy please, for I'm afraid
I will do as thou hast bade"

The angel led him to God's own fruit
A tree of life, with joy to pursuit
Lehi wanted his family to partake
He bade them come and not forsake

Laman and Lemuel refused to go
Though their family enjoyed it so
A rod of iron, a path appeared
It led to the tree, it was revered

A multitude was pressing on
And mists of darkness rose like smog
Some did pass this scary trial
Others were stuck, or left the aistle

A spacious building was the next task
Some who partook were ashamed, left with a mask
There were those who followed God's way
Others left, and mocked their stay

Some were drowned in rivers of sin
Others lost in darkness therein
When some heed the scornful words
They fell away in flocks and herds

Laman and Lemuel did cast away
Lehi feared that there they would stay
In sin to hearken not God's truth
Lehi exhorts, "change while in thy youth"

Winds of Change

Flowing wind-

Endless

Currents go in all directions

No beginning

No end

Just wind.

People lost in fog

Items swirl

A tornado

Kaleidoscope of belongings

A pack rat

In the wind

Endless sea of current

Wind

Marking life

Points of interest

Belongings

Gifts as passage

Trial and error

Wind

Empty and alone

No color

Moved by whim

No rules

Forever- an infinity

All across the world

Accelerating

Moving

Everywhere

Wind

Pebbles flying in the wind

Rounded

Smooth

Each a life

Broken shards of rock

Change

Wind smooths the edges

Corners gone

Polished stones
Moving through the wind

Travel

Perfection in a pebble