Quote of the moment

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

-Wendell Berry: The Peace or the Wild Things

Dec 3, 2008

*In Your Eyes

(With respect to Mr. Gabriel, stole a few words and the tune to this song)

In your eyes
My very soul I exposed
In your gaze
Access to my thoughts, not a single one is closed
I have meant every word I've ever said
In your eyes.

When your eyes I beheld
When our eyes meet, our minds together melt
And every doubt was instantly expelled
I reach out
I want to be
In your eyes.

In your eyes
I feel life's heat
In your eyes
I am finally complete
In your eyes
I found the path to reality
In your eyes
I found love complete
In your eyes
I found love and passion sweet.

I cannot stand the pain
Of lost time and wasted past
I want to share our rightful domain
And the joy I see is unsurpassed
In that place I want to remain
Forever to that love holding fast
And feel it grow without restrain
To that fate my heart is cast
In your eyes.

In your eyes
I see my soul on a lofty perch
I see my place, the destination
For which I have made the long search
Where I wish to stay without reservation
In your eyes.

In your eyes
I'm burned by passion's heat
In your eyes
I finally feel complete
In your eyes
I see so many lost years
In your eyes
I seen an end to all the tears
In your eyes
I find I have real sight
I have strength to win the fight
To make it through the long dark night
In your eyes.

I see my soul reflected
I found another with whom I fully connected
A love returned I never expected
In your eyes
I finally found love's light
In your eyes
I found full sight
Please let me see them again
Your eyes
Oh how I long to be
In your eyes
In your eyes
In your eyes
Once again
In your eyes.

G - March 2008

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