Memoirs from a balcony
Concerning all things Earthly
Travelling along a perspective
Of light and sound
From Heaven to Hell
The descent of love
And a rising tide
Flooding the town
Keep them out!

Born to die, in God's image
Glory be to God
and all those before him
Amen

I threw tears into the ocean
to stop the memory of you
drying out

Chased rainbows into the night
with a handfull of of dust
I shook at the dawning sky

A red crimson torrent
fills the well where I drink
and I love it dry

Then I shall wait in this desert
until the rain returns
the ocean of you

One step toward you
I feel your presence
and the pace
of this life, of this love

Where the bounds of love
move beyond memory
is a place
that no pain shall weep

Hard

InI, UnU, WenWe
I was married once before
Peace and harmony
I don’t want it anymore
I just want love
Give it to me baby!

It's not you, its me
like fishermen and lanterns
shimmering upon the sea
attracted by the catch
and the reflection of death
So
you find yourself
and I'll find someone else
together on this raft
It's you, not me

Girl with china doll hair
lollipop eyes
confetti freckles
and strawberry smile
a constellation of joy
a sobering champagne sip
for my eyes

On a quiet country road
I drove a mother and her baby home
with the smell of dust and sweat on my breath
with every glance I gripped her tighter
like tire tread on the road
making tracks toward her horizon
Before stopping on a rise to admire the view
then burying it again between some rocks and a pot hole
in love with the horror of you

this is not my journey
I am just passing through
this space between
the ghosts and shaddows
shared with you

As we run straight and wide
Through broad rainbow smiles
And pots of gold
Yes, we are the warriors
Of human hearts
Of human windows
To our souls

Paper clip of my mind
Twine of my heart
bind all this love
and file these thoughts
to focus on The One

Here I sit and wait again
On these steps
For you
With varying success

Footsteps move away
As I track my history
A future of hope
A past of neglect

Then you move
As I stand up
To greet the past and future
With varying success

Stories are never always true
But sometimes they partly are
So I am going to make one up
About me and you

Mama allow me to weep
Whilst you work for me
It may break your back
But it breaks my heart to see

And I’m going to extend this hand
Out of respect, not out of pity
That I may one day break my back
For you to see

That we shall stand at a village dance
And smile as we face each other
While your baby bounces on your back
And people whisper scandal to each other

That a white man may dance with another
Whilst believing that he can actually dance
My hope is that you truly do
May this story be at least partly true

(this is my prayer and wish for today Mama, about me and you)

Too much death in this life
So I am leaving this planet
To look for another one
To drift into space
And look over my shoulder
To watch it get smaller
This blue sea of my soul
This island of my heart

Too much death in this life

So I'm steping off this planet

to look for another one

and drift into space

To look over my shoulder

and watch it getting smaller and smaller

a pinhole in my heart

A bird perched on a bridge railing
Ready to jump
Suicide is never the best option
For the plagiarisms of life

Man walks into a bar
Looking for grief
Looking for a fight
Taking a seat

Turning his head to one side he says
If you're selling, I’m buying
One nickel for the truth, a quarter for a belief?
The dealer stares blankly back and he says
A belief will cost you, and as for the truth...

The man pours out his pockets
Picking between the coins and candy wrappers
He gets his belief
And sets out in search of truth

He goes back out onto the street
Round the corner it gets rough
Between the streets of dusk and deep night
Drag racing the dawn

He feels the waking light pry at his heart
Searching his pockets he remembers
His belief was lost in a bet with God
and truth got a head start

Let this damn new day begin
Again
Man walks into a bar
Looking for grief

We carry a newborn
And bury the deceased
We love the life we seek
Till hate and deceit
Creeps in and becomes us
-Oh humanity

Impatient love leave me for a while
So I may rest here in the shade of life
And keep watch over the passing tide
A cool breeze moves on through
Like a freight train taken to flight
The weight and signal of love at the crossroads
Proceed with caution, look left then right
Time will tell us on the other side

Kesho

I see you friend out the corner of my eye
I weather the ground between us
Gathering the courage and warmth
To say hi

We stand in the shadows of a Melbourne night
A smile crosses my lips, I am just passing on by
The words we share are not know to us
On our journey, a whisper to the afterlife

I take a step, left foot forward
I shake your hand, I turn and walk
And I see you friend out the corner of my eye
With those before who were just passing on by

I left it on a hill
I gave it a view
And a sniper sight
To see me thru

I left it long
It got sick and tired
Of the view
Of me and you

It left the hill
Climbed down to join us
Into the valley of evil
To get a better view

A life stolen
Into the shadows of loves alley way
Saw it bent in two, talking to God through the pavement
I passed by

And put my arm around what was dear
That life be with me, till death do us part
Drugs, sex and rock n’ roll
All are symptoms of a broken heart

I looked over my shoulder
People were gathering like shadows
To witness light disappear down a gutter drain
God passed by, we exchanged glances

I turned the other cheek, not yet, I walked on

This river, this stream
filled with rock and sand
grit of the journey sends
birds to flight, fish to sea

Foundations to give light
upon this earth within a soul
that chooses a path
of the righteous and courageous

Stepping quietly on our knees
the enemy can hear us coming
friends quietly look on and whisper
I now can see!

Forgiveness

You starve to set me free
from the rapists, gangsters and terrorists
time began and it still go on
I am getting fat now, still not free

So you starve for my sins
from this lucky country of me
time stopped and ends here
No more! I gotta starve to get free

So I gonna give and share, then we see
freedom, love and peace
cleaning my heart, increasing the vibration
allowin all to shine onto thee

love the lesser of two evils
I see it run down your face
I see it in the streets
as I walk away

love the lesser of two evils
around a corner it tempts me
with your name
I just can't, can't do this again

love, love the lesser of two evils
I take it like a junkie hit
down a dark alley I hear your name
Redemption, here we go again!

DROUGHT

Seeds of water
drip on panes of glass
finding their roots
amongst the droughts of days

Slipping straight thru
to places we have been
me and you
drip-drying our roots

There we discover the seeds
alas no shoots
dry as silence to the air
I stand tall and ready, are you?

Time is a restless emotion
That gets tangled at night
In those flickers between the darkness
And the steps toward a dawning light

Each step is a lifetime
Each breath is death
Before its time

Time is a restless emotion
That turns a dream into light
It is the flickers that drown the darkness
And your love my journey from dawn till night

Ho ho, ha ha

Land of sweet lime and chilli
raise dust to smile the sunset
Dance in hot colours of thali
till the hard bed we meet

Light switches send dreams to giant billboards
As we slumber, as we sleep
So the darkness of wealth and poverty
becomes a night of broken clay chai cups

Strewn along the railroad tracks
and reading like clearing throats
Deep sounds as the crowd leaves us
to sift like children, the rubbish dumps of life

We wake to trimmed moustaches
blaring horns as we attempt escape
But the cow knows us in every town
So we move aside, we bow down

There we sit under an enlightened tree
and wish like money thrown into rivers
That we may pay so to keep
the dust that chases our feet

Land of sweet lime and chilly
shake your head in agreement
This is indeed a land of metta
So bitter and so sweet