Smoldering incense, perfumes the darkness, murmured chanting, ripples across the silence
where offerings, of the faithful spread the roots, which actually hold the stones in place
Shadows dance, to the rhythms of the candles, living today’s memories, of yesterday’s prayer
Merit, for the lives yet to come
Many times desires, have conquered me, changing the objects of my will,
but this continues to enlighten me, just and how I feel
God shows me love, a debt to pay, while unthrift fools, throws theirs away
I’m learning to heal, this given pain, a captive’s captive I remain
The height of it all, I know will be, to cry for those who wait to see
those allowing their love to still and search no more, only beggars at a beggars door
There’s always a place, I find in the day, where I turn my eyes, to keep it away
another just wishin, for a little less pain ….. Just like the others, I’ll never complain
I pass by so many, who know not my smile, who look once, then away, with all their own style
I don’t want to understand and what’s to explain ….. I’ll never be, the one to complain
Pools rise up in steps, one above the other, a frozen waterfall of quiet meditation
they cascade down over slopes, like my memories, impeded only by clumps of oleanders
looking out over the deep silence of the tombs lay scattered over the countryside
along side, where Apollo once sat, I pondered where they all went
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Forbidden are such mountains, in the shadow of the light, to hold faith that it’s the fountains that lay forth its delight. And there paused above the mirror, in the reflection, I saw a glance and the breath of a faint murmur, like me she seeks romance.
Deep within the garden, we cared but not for time, where I was more than a friend and she was nobody’s but mine
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