We Are Like Trees

We Are Like Trees

We are like trees

Our roots go deep

Even as our branches are lopped off

By life and love and loss

Our roots go deep

And try to hang on

To every bit of life

Every drop of love

And even when it appears

That we are dead or dying on the outside

The scent of love's rain will revive us

And make us stand up on the inside

And reach out for life again.

©by Voo

11/22/19

Job 14:7

“For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again,

 And that its tender shoots will not cease.

All The Roots Grow Deeper
by David Wilcox

Arvo Part
Spiegel im Spiegel
(one of my very favorite
pieces of music)

The River Made of Dreams

 The River Made of Dreams

Tonight, my love, I'll be off again

Like I've been wont to do

Rowing down that river of dreams

Searching still for you.

Listening for your heartbeat

The call I hope to hear

Feeling my heart beating fast

When it feels you are near.

Your smile is like my morning sun

Your eyes, my stars at night

Your love is like the moon above

Reflecting Heaven's light.

I follow the compass in my soul

That I know will lead me to

The only love I've ever known

That's ever proven true.

I miss you like a summer's breeze,

Rain on a desert floor

We only had a taste so brief

Of love but I need more.

My love, why did you have to go

Leave me alone and thus

Searching every waterway

On a shore that's turned to dust?

I know you did not mean to leave

It was against your will

Your sad eyes swore your bond to me

And we are bonded still.

The waters took you away from me

In the currents wild and wide

And I followed till I lost sight of you

And there I died inside.

I promised that I would find you again

No matter how hard it seems

And tonight I'll row my boat once more

Down that river made of dreams.

©by Voo

11/22/19