A Darkness Falls
A darkness falls
A silence calls
A time not so long ago
I came talking to you in the night
I came asking you if all was right
I came stalking you
I came walking the night
Through the night
In the darkness
I stepped over fear
Walked in the River of Tears
Some mine some not
I climbed the Mountain of Love
Some mine some not
Rode the Rainbow of Faith
Who knows what
I fired the smoke of thought
What a fire it was
I drank an ocean
And sailed it back again
A hundred times around the Horn
I dreamed a dream
Across an ocean
A dream too true not to be real
And crash on the rocks of reality
To be a fish
To swim and fight the tides
In the night
In the loneliness of the night
With its stars so bright
Twinkling in the night
Like the sound of the bell
As an angel gets his wings
In the night
Knowing not what path is right
I sailed my ship
To the only star in the sky
I waited eagerly for its rising
To light my path to where
Some distant shore
Where tomorrow lives
But what of now
I dreamed a dream
I came talking
I came walking
I charged through the night
Visibility zero
Hopes high
Senses strained to beyond and back
Now the sky clears
I am on an endless sea
I yearn to make progress
To reach that unknown shore
The waves go rolling by
I tumble on
I dreamed a dream
Courage the night whispers
Step gently say the rocks
All is well say the waves
Ahead is the shore
Its beaches of white sand
Its beauty laid out
For all to see
I dreamed a dream
A fantasy of hope
Do we in wanting to believe
Have to be shown
Or is it as Kiam has said
"A blind understanding"
As walking in the night
With no guiding star
But stepping with emotion
Strength of emotion upon emotion
Strength of love
I dreamed a dream
And I still dream
Love
Does yonder star
Send a message
To Me
Or doth my mind
Just dream
That reality
On the mere whim
Of chance
And is it chance
That puts us where we be
Or is it perhaps a Destiny
Created by ourselves
I fear
That I shall die
Before as captain
I can leave the shore
And cross the oceans
Before they are dry
And the winds no more
I fear that
In learning I shall never do
That in preparing
I shall never go
I wish to steer my ship
Her name is Destiny
Out to sea
And prove
That my heart is true
That my arm is strong
That my eye is straight
My manner commanding
That I don’t have to tell
What I have done
But stand alive
Have no fear
Be a man
Just written down a song
Feels so good
To see those words pour out
Yes it feels so good
Needed to cry
Today a tear
Crossed my eye
Now the pain isn't there
It’s broken into pieces on the floor
Running around the fridge
On its way to the door
Sadness like a pillow
Lays on my bed
Hunger like a thirst
Swims around my head
Time like an echo
Tells me nothing I know
What is love
What is pain
What is this
But the pain of love
As I try again
Do you love
Do you care
I hope so
I do hope so
The sand is moving
The heat shimmers
The journey a dream
The day’s sun falls
The horizon shudders
The mirage appears
Peace and comfort
Travel at my side
No one rides alone
My camel is strong
Following a trail
That we must turn to see
The night air
The water sky
The sand is moving
I’ve shaken off the night
It was a long and wild night
The day I control
But the night it had me
I’ve shaken off the night
I’ve outlasted its spell of darkness
Though I had to wander in its caves
But now it’s light
I’ve shaken off the night
The waves crash below
The diver stands
He has climbed hard
To get to this spot
Only his faith
Allows him to make the dive
Into uncharted waters
He dives
He is flying
An observer of the moment
A passer through time
The light sparkles
In the waves
The water touches him everywhere
He is sensuously alive
His muscles move the water
His eyes look up at the sparkling mosaic
He crashes into the air
His first breath
Life
Oh yes my Lord
I've come to pray
And hope that you know
What I'm trying to say
That much of what is
I would wish another way
A wish to be happy
Making those around me happy
A wish to be wise in all I say
A wish to be wise in all I do
To make wisdom a part
Of this waking day
For here I am oh Lord
Sitting under Your mighty gaze
Asking for Your blessing
To help me through this day
Oh yes my Lord
It is to You I pray
To these dreams I have
To this life I live
Drifting sorrows of past fantasy I despair
That wound around my brain
All the confusion of Medusa's hair
When pulling on a strand
And thinking the end in sight
I curse aloud
When all I find is knots both left and right
But think me not downward cast
For if one was to look upon this plight
From an angle of a slightly different side
They would see
“Let not a trivial bit of subterfuge
Blind thee from thy path”
But put your heart and soul
Your very being into going on
Not to dally on some problem of the moment
Meant for some other to solve
But to travel on
And show the existence of a road
For all to follow
But put no false meaning upon my words
That trail you blaze must be true
True to the heart of the word
It must be as true as its brightest dream
That dream is the dream
Of all who accept a commitment to tomorrow
Out as far as the mind can reach
You must reach
As far as the soul can soar
You must soar
As long as your being has life
You must be
Be as you are
Whether that be stumbling, running or walking
Whether it be failing or succeeding
Winning or losing
That is you
And you are here for a reason
So have faith my friends
Faith in your dream
Tony Waterfall
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