Alone Among Friends

Cut the ties little boys, cut the ties
Cut the ties little girls as well
Free yourself
Be yourself
Answer to thee thyself
Cut the ties and you will heal

Cut the ties from a mother
Allow her to learn who she is
Cut the ties from a father
Allow him to return to within

Cut the ties little boys in grown up men
Who expect to be mothered all over again
Cut the ties little girls who are women now
Stop pretending, playtime is over

Cut the ties that stir the pain inside
As you revert from adult into child
Full of expectations and unfulfilled dreams
Disappointed with reality, all is as it seems
Cut the ties

Cut the ties that form a knot in your gut
That tighten each time you feel hurt
Ignored, neglected, exposed
Cut the ties, take control and those feelings will go

Cut the ties which form judgement on others
Untangle yourself from the pack
Cut the ties from your sisters
Cut the ties from your brothers
Allow them to find their own path

Cut the ties of self imposed limits
The ties that are holding you back
Turn yourself from possession into person
Unique, individual, courageous and certain
Cut the ties from the past and relax in the now, relax

Cut the ties from your sons and your daughters
They have their own lessons to learn
Your truth to yourself, a lesson to you
Your freedom a lesson to them
Cut the ties

Cut the ties that bind you with guilt to the rules
You choose to do what you are told
Be good and don’t upset elders
You choose elders upsets as yours
Cut the tie that links ‘choose’ into ‘have to’
‘Must do’ what others expect
Cut the ties that reach outward for notice
Reach in, you will find self respect

Heal the ties that you cut
With love for yourself
Heal the ties that you cut
With your truth
Acknowledge your return to me, myself
And see myself again
You live all alone among friends

Beyond the Illusion

What separates you from your brother
His language
His religion
His features
His colour

What makes your sister seem strange
Her costume
Her customs
Her possessions
Her name

See your sisters and brothers
Without names
Without colour
Without faces and places
Without future and past

See beyond the illusion of you and of me
Just see the oneness of eternity
Return to your home in the present at last

Connect

See the beauty in the ugliness
See the light behind your eye
A diversity of wonders
Within a multitude of colours in a sky

Why does one tiny bird stay
When the rest of the flock flies away
How does it feel
When you live as a meal
Every hour
Every day
You are prey

What is it that makes a seed pop
No longer a shell
Dividing and multiplying into life
Internal forces growing within
External forces we cannot comprehend
The first seed
First raindrop
First light
Limited thinking and timing
We must have beginning and end

We face the four points of a compass
Symmetrically divided the globe
We fight over invisible lines of a map
Our children are bought and are sold
By our children
Held for ransom by mothers and fathers
We collectively abandon our old

Abortions and birth
New life
New death
We kill killers
And hold up our heads
Human rights
Human wrongs
All side by side
There’s nothing wrong
As we point our finger in moral attack
We ignore the three fingers
Pointing back

A material world of illusions
Manifested to make us look grand
Distractions from global confusion
Grabbing and hoarding as much as you can
While we walk the thin line
Between need and greed
Half the world starves
While half the world feeds
On power
Awards
Medals
Pedestals
Votes
Fortune
Fame
Behind these great illusions
Born naked
We are all the same
Dying
In a short space of time
See the beauty
Connect
Feel
Start enjoying

Divine Sparks

Driving through the darkness, I shine my headlights from my heart
Like the vision of the Christ
Shining sacred love and light upon all that I move towards
As others driving towards me accept my light, they pass
And drive on into destiny as they continue on their path
I interpret their headlights as love shining from their heart
Divine onto divine, spark unto spark

In the darkness I cannot judge them unless their light is too bright
A friendly reminder and they adjust their beam to shine the same as mine
Still I cannot see the person, the size, the colour of their car, old or new, indebted too or paid for with hard cash
No difference in the darkness between the two bright sparks
With our lights we show our presence, our intentions not to crash
We respect each others right of way, in the distance and the dark
In the new dawn of daylight I try to do the same to all those that I pass
Divine unto divine, spark unto spark

Walking through the daylight, through the fant-a-s-y, I keep my headlights shining
Allowing every other to shine theirs back on me
For when the sparks within meet, the ignition to the divine
You see there is no difference, class, colour, shape or size
To see through the illusion simply close your eyes
Feel another presence, a presence you can shine
Spark unto spark, divine unto divine

I have changed my driving habits, how I view my life
Unconditionally, un-condemning of those driving with no lights
A friendly reminder, a smile, a nod, a greeting as we pass
Simplicity my vehicle
Divine unto divine, spark unto spark

Fiery Angel

Have you ever seen the angel in the flicker of a flame
The unrivalled brightness of a single candle
Emanating it’s light into eternity
In sunshine or darkness, remaining the same
Its presence, our divine certainty
In dignity it stands tall
With flexibility it sways to the slightest wind
If a storm should extinguish your angelic flame
It has just taken shelter within
Filling you with its dignity and something so strong
So you can light another candle again
The angel in the flame lives on

Heart in Hand

What will you return to your creator with, as you stand heart in hand
With what have you filled up the heart of your soul, as you walked on sacred land
How have you used all the time in the world
How do you use it still

You were born of pure love that filled up your heart
God’s gift to the world, right from the start
You were also born with free will

How have you willed it to be in your life
How have you used your free will
As you walk the sacred land of the world
How do you use it still

Do you know of this love that you are made of
Is complete and connected to all
There is no thing it can be afraid of
No problem too big, no worry too small

This love is at your disposal, as you walk on sacred land
How have you disposed of your love
How do you dispose of it still
Yours for the giving, yours for the taking
You make the choices, you have free will

Do you know that the heart of your soul is a vessel
A chalice of purest gold
You fill this up with emotions and feelings
A drop at a time as your life unfolds

With what have you filled up your vessel of love
As you walk on sacred land through time with free will
With what do you fill it still

A heart full of love floweth over
A heart full of hate turns to stone
A heart full of sadness turns bitter
A broken heart means you feel all alone
A heart full of pain leads to illness
A heart full of pleasure to lust
Stubbornness eats away at your heart from the inside out
Like a rust
A heart full of anger and violence turns inwards to beat yourself up
Judgment of others blinds you to yourself
So you never look in
So you just look out
A heavy heart shatters illusions when your dream has come to an end
Leaving you in a state of confusion to start dreaming all over again

You have total control of your heart
As you walk on sacred land
What will you return to your creator with as you stand there heart in hand

Holy

Every day is a holy one
Each day blends into the next as the colours of a rainbow blend into each other to make the rainbow
Holy days blending into each other to make it holy always
Holy moments making holy hours
Holy past, holy future, holy present
Holy holy holy holy
All water is holy water
Oceans of holy water fill as rivers of holy water flow to them
Every raindrop a holy one, every spring, stream and well bring forth holiness
Every lake, every pond, every puddle, every fountain and font
Holy holy holy holy
All sounds are holy
Silence is holy too
Holiness without end is what you can hear as the sounds and the silence blend together
Every breath is holy
Every in breath increases the holiness within you
Every out breath adds more holiness to your surroundings
Your first breath holy, your last breath holy
Holy breath fuelling holy heartbeats
Holy holy holy holy
Holy before birth
Holy through life and beyond death
You are holy spirit indeed

HOME

Home is the feeling that you get
When your heart explodes with love
When you looked into my mother’s eyes
A silent message understood

Home is the feeling when your heart’s filled with joy
When a friend or a loved one takes time to drop by

Home is feeling at ease
In your mind
When you’ve made your peace with those left behind

Home is the contentment of a smile
That raises you above the sadness and shines
Like a beacon of hope
Guiding you through the chaos and madness

Home is the feeling you’ve had many a time
When the horse that you backed is first passed the line

Home is a feeling of being safe
Knowing that you’ve done the best that you can
That the job is well done and it all went as planned
Home is being grateful with the few bob in your hand

Home, it’s when you were giving
And seeking nothing in return
Your payment being happy
Helping out your daughters and your sons

Home wasn’t always love and light
And it sometimes felt like hell
But forgiveness made you a better man
And it made me one as well

Dad
Home is a feeling that you’ve had all your life
It is not a place where you go

Just remember the joy
The love and the peace
The gratitude and the giving

Home is not for after you die
Home is for now, eternally now
And now is a feeling of living

Dad
Home is a feeling called life
And it has no beginning or end
Without looking back, go into the light
In love there’s no separation
Husband
Father
Granddad
Brother
Uncle
Friend

Dad
Home is a familiar feeling called love
When you become one with God, one with all
And now that your earth dream has ended, you’ll see
That you have never left home at all

Dad
Home is peace being peaceful
Home is joy rejoicing
Home is love loving to extend itself
Home is gratitude being grateful
Home is not a body, in a box
In a building or in a dream
Home is in and around you
You just feel it, for home cannot be seen

*This poem is the eulogy I wrote after the passing of my father*

I Changed

I’d love things to change
But they won’t
I wish things would change
But they don’t
I dream and I pray
For change every day
I hope I’m not hoping against hope

I look out my window and wait
For change to arrive at my gate
To darken my door
Be entertained on my floor
I wait
And I wait
And I wait

Sitting waiting around is a chore
Looking out my front window’s a bore
Getting older not younger
Getting weaker not stronger
And I’d love to live life a bit more

No change yesterday
No change today
No change tomorrow
It will always be that way
These are the thoughts misting my mind
If the ‘no’ was not there I think I’d be fine

Then I realised one day
What is keeping ‘no’ there
It’s me
It’s my pride
My shyness
My fear
Negative thoughts from the mist of my mind
Blocking my way
Like a cage I’m behind
And I’m holding the bars
Looking outward with envy
Self doubt
Self pity
And sometimes I get angry

One day the sun
Shining down on my face
Lifted the mist of my mind
A positive thought took negative space
I opened my windows and doors
The perfection of birdsong
Drifted into my ear
Lifting my spirits
Releasing my fear

A fresh breeze made me shiver for a moment or two
It shook off my pride and my envy
Another breeze came and blew them away
They won’t block me anymore
So without them now, I’ve no need to get angry
It’s just me and my doubts
Between me and the door

I won’t, I don’t and I can’t
I couldn’t, shouldn’t or shant
Negative words get in the way
What will people think
What will people say
Will I feel like a fool, if I fail something I try
Are they pointing at me
O God I could die
I’m feeling so helpless and I want to know why

I crumple down into a ball on the floor
A handful of paces
That’s all that the space is
Then my doubt makes me think do I want change at all
Just a few feet away but I’m not gonna crawl

Then some new feelings came from inside
Filling the void left behind by my blown away pride
My self love and free will, they swelled up and I cried
Tears of rejoicing, for I thought they had died
As I picked myself up
I felt a new sense of meaning
Something had started
I call it self healing

Now I no longer sit around and wait
Change came from within me
Not in through my front gate

I stand on my doorstep, my threshold to life
The worlds at my feet, I can do what I like

I don’t wish for or dream of
For change I don’t pray
I made the difference
Something different each day
It can be small like a walk
A thought or a talk
I take in a movie or play
Or brave new interests
A hobby
New work
Ambitions to travel abound
New places
New smells
New people
New sounds

Now I live to love life
It’s mine and I’m right
When I started being different
It felt a bit strange
But now I’ll try anything
Just for a change

I Want to Break the Cycle

I want to break the cycle
To step off the wheel of misfortune
To be able to feel sweet success for myself
And to live life full of love
I’m entitled

I want to stop this behaviour
Silence over and over again
You stew in your juices
And I stew in mine
Until it plays itself out
It’s the same every time
There’s a pair of us in it
But it’s different this time
I want to break the cycle

I can’t do this anymore
I’ve been doing it too long
I’ve been here before
It’s a chapter in the book of my life
I’ve read it so often
Now I’ve a new chapter to write
I am turning the page
Opening a door
And allowing myself freedom to change and explore these feelings inside me that are not left behind me
I’ll face them with courage
They are not going to drive me
Back to the start
Like they’ve done in the past
This time I’m determined
I’m changing my part
I want to break the cycle

Now I’ve taken control once again
My feelings are mine
I’ve no one to blame
I’ll write this new chapter as it unfolds
I won’t run away ahead of myself
That type of thinking is old
It’s tried and it’s tested
And now it’s rejected
No more I say
The answer is no

With no expectations of what’s round the next bend
I’ve learned from mistakes
I won’t make them again
With myself as the author of how that I feel
The storyline changes
It now becomes real
The twists and the turns
The characters, the plot
The ups and the downs
I’m dropping the lot

As I’m writing my own destiny
Filled with peace and joy and harmony
I can’t change the world
What I can change is me
Now the cycle is broke
I am free

Important Things in Life

The most important thing in life
Is life itself
The second most important thing in life
Is to remember the first important thing in life
There isn’t a third most important thing in life, however
If you find yourself searching for or caught up in something seemingly more important then life itself, you have obviously forgotten the first and second most important things in life

Life itself is a miracle
Just be a part of the miracle and do not try to be anything else
You are what you are and you will be what you will be
The miracle of life is in constant motion
Extending itself through you

Inner Voice

We are all fallen angels
On a journey back to light
Caught up in earthly cycles
As we try to get it right

There is no end to changes earned
With each successive life
Become aware of who you are
A beautiful being of light

Change your personal agenda
And you can have the might
Of the universe behind you
We’re waiting here to guide you

The answers lie inside
You have to quiet your mind
To listen to a voice
Who is already a part of you
Must balance what you listen to
Your ego or to me

Internal Universe

I have an inner sense of knowing
Absolutely nothing to do with anything I have ever learned or been taught
It is not knowledge
It is knowing a feeling of it

I trust this inner sense
With and for my very life
And I am grateful, eternally grateful
For without it I would be in a very dark place
Where worries and anguish and pain dwell
When sometimes shadows from the darkness cast themselves over me
It is into this inner knowledge I go
For support, substance, guidance, peace and love
And I know there is not a power or energy that can stop me entering
Excepting my own thoughts
So I use my knowing as a weapon against these with a mantra

A Mantra

In me
With me
Through me
This is what I do
I offer the divine love in me
To the divine love inside of you
Close your eyes and know
I am loved
And it it so

Open up your heart and mind
Release your fear and you will find
A warm embrace
A welcome smile
Stay and visit for a while

Come in again at any time
It may not happen your first time
It will not happen if you don’t try
To help clear your thoughts, repeat this line

In me
With me
Through me
I am love
Love is divine

Intertwined

We may have forgotten the creator
And turned against him into sin
The creator has never forgotten us
And awaits until we turn back again

We may have forsaken our lifeforce
And taken for granted her gift
Our lifeforce has never forsaken us
She awaits until we make a mind shift

The creator and the lifeforce intertwined into one
The mother and father of all
Awaiting to welcome us all home into their heart
And whisper so sweetly, we did not sin at all

Never forgotten or forsaken but eternally forgiven
And thoughts of death that we dreamed of as sin
Turn back into thoughts of living
Of joy and of peace and love for ourself
As well as love for all others
When we see there is just one father, one mother
We will see we’re all sisters and brothers

As we return to our parents, as we turn back with our mind
We will see there was no separation
The creator, the lifeforce and you
Intertwined

Just For Now

Forget the madness and drama going on in your life
Just for now
Unite with the source of your life
Just for now
Rejoice and become one with love and with light
Just for now
Be at peace and shine ever so bright like a bright beacon in the dark of the night
Just for now

Lighten up

Don’t be afraid of the darkness
Don’t invite in panic and fright
Keep them out by knowing
You have an internal light

Imagine your heart as a battery
Pumping white light in your veins
Recharging itself from the earth through your feet
From the universe, through your crown, to your brain

Harness this energy flow
Insulate yourself in an invisible shell
Protecting you in its glow
Lifting your burdens, help keeping you well

Breathe this light into your lungs
Allow the light to spill out
Down your legs and your arms
Out your fingers and toes
Fill up your head as you breathe light in through your nose

Imagine then, as you breathe out
Negative clouds being expelled through your mouth
Colour these clouds black or grey
Light penetrates darkness
It must go away

Label or name these clouds
With the feelings you would like to clear
Worry and stress
Untangle the mess
Emptiness, doubt, stubbornness, fear

Concentrate on positive thinking
Introduce yourself to your soul
Together plan a direction
A dream destination, a challenge or goal

Take time to yourself because you are worth it
Be you child, woman or man
Love yourself first
Then love others
Enjoy life as much as you can
It’s a journey
A part of a whole bigger plan

Meaningless

Tablets of powder, tablets of stone
Thou shall or shall not
Choose either one

Thou shall not kill
But we do God, we do
We break all the rules that were given by you
We covet, we lust, we’re greedy, we steal
We adore the God of sex appeal

We idolise the body, we seek the image of success
My God, we have replaced your love with money
God bless

We are changing, God, we’re changing
We are hungry, we are craving
For in our image of success we’re all alone in a sorry mess
Bereft of love, its meaningless

Mind Control

We catch a thought and mould it in our mind
To suit our own perspective
Examine and you’ll find
A whole array of possibilities
Struggling to find an attachment to the thought
To be the one that’s right for now
To fertilise and show you how
To bring it to fruition

Like a moment of conception
Pre-conceived suggestions
Turn this thought into a question
Why, what, where, when
If’s and buts
What then has the thought become
A worry, stress or fear
If it has, just let it go
And it will disappear
Or will it stay

Thoughts have just the power we give them
When we catch them they take hold
And they grow as we feed to them
They do exactly as they’re told
Turn happy, sad, good or bad
They are in your mind, who’s in control

Thoughts are linked into our feelings
They are the start of every dream
They are the substance of real nightmares
They are the seed to everything
If you think you can’t, you won’t
If you cannot think, then you don’t
Then your feelings will adjust like a chemical reaction
They change because they must

The feeling of fear can be numbing
Caught naked in the cold and the dark
You summoned it there by thinking afraid
A natural protection to keep us alert
And you can send it back by thinking, relax
Adjust your own feelings
Select what you think
Between the thought and the feeling
You are the link

Mission of Peace

He is with me I know
In his presence I grow
I strengthen inside and grow to perfection
Close my eyes to the madness
The pain and rejection

He is with me I know
He hasn’t gone far
On a mission of peace
I think we all are

One at a time

One at a time, we stand in line
One at a time we are born

One at a time, we learn, we grow
One at a time we are enlightened, we know

One at a time we are destined to go
One at a time our heart beats, our breaths inhaled

Our eyes meet, we grieve, we feel pain
One at a time we heal or we do it all over again

One Father

Though I set foot in hell, my heart is in heaven
Forever united with the source of all love

I judge not what I look upon with eyes that are mortal
But ooze out compassion to one and to all

I compare not myself to any one other
I be not above nor be I below
But equal to each one
Be they sister or brother

One father between us
In my heart this I know

Proverbs

Act in haste, repent at leisure
Don’t mistake love for pleasure
Do not mix up wants with needs

To error is human
To forgive is divine
There’s no separation, so forgive all the time

To say I’m only human
Is to keep yourself in hell
For love it is eternal and you are love as well

Seek

Inside there’s a spirit
With a different point of view
Take the time to listen
It will guide the way for you

It will not judge or label you
Pure compassion without end
It helps you learn from your mistakes
It has always been your friend

It’s been with you since you started
From the moment you choose life
It will show the way when you get lost
As you journey back to light

Inside there is a spirit
Pure love unconditional, for you
Go inside, embrace it
That’s all you have to do
It will help you learn to love again
First yourself, then others too

If you feel you can’t go in
That you may not have the strength
You’re scared or pride wont let you
Then just turn around to a friend

Reach out your hand to the out reached
Hands, of those who will show you what to do
And you can see and live life differently
From your spirits point of view

The Journey

Over time under pressure, is a diamond born of coal
Released is hidden treasure
On a journey of a soul

Oceans turned to desert sand
Mountains lost at sea
Molten lava giving birth
Moments in eternity

Cities built and crumble slow
Populations fall and grow
One by one days come and go
In the journey of a soul

Battles fought, no one wins
So we live to fight again
An inner struggle, our own sins
Return again to haunt us

A tiny seed can crack a rock
A thought of truth once planted
Will grow unhindered, stopped by nought
A search will end, once started

Patterns form in head and heart
Shattered dreams with short lived pleasure
Until one day we make a start
And seek for hidden treasure

Over time and under pressure
A diamond born of coal
In your own time and at your own leisure
You are the journey of that soul

The Price of Life

The price of peace is conflict
The price of heaven is hell
The price of joy is sorrow
Happiness will cost you suffering and pain
The price of eternity is the past and the future
Leaving now to exist again and again

The Second Hand

Our present becomes past in an instant
Our future now takes presents place
Each moment our moments are changing
And we’re changing at the same pace

The Way Home

The stillness and the quietness of the lakeside touched me deeper than I had ever known
The silence I experienced reminded me of heaven
Home

I felt blessed with life that moment
The sky reflected, made me see
Stillness and quietness on the outside
Was reflecting the inner me

‘Oh my God’, is what I thought
‘Oh my Godess’ too
As I was blessed, I bless the world
To give is to receive, this I know is true

As you read or hear these words
Know God’s blessing is on you
And with you and in you and through you
So God bless all others, they’re your sisters and brothers
Our father is waiting for me and for you

Through the Third Eye

Looking through invisibility
See into the unseen
Keeping silent all the wonders
Though it be you want to scream
An ocean of symbols called air
Auric fields of acceptance
The unseen and the unknown
In harmony with flesh and bone
Weave the fabric of existence

Warriors of Light

A silhouette on desert sand
As sunrays touch our ancient land
On board a train, a weary band
Of Warriors of the Light

They have travelled far by night and day
For many miles o’er land and sea
Following their destiny
On a journey of discovery
Within themselves to be set free

Traversing mountains high and wide
And further still went deep inside
Our mother earth with fearless pride
To heal the wounds of time gone by
Preparing for the future

And now they rest their work well done
A father, mother, daughter, son
They rest assured and rest content
Their love has helped a continent
The weary band was heaven sent
Their mission cannot fail

The one true God of all – the light
Empowers this band of Warriors of Light

When The Angels Become Real

When your angels become real – just like people
When you don’t have to rely on the phone
When you make a connection for divine intervention
You know that you’re never alone

When you know you’re surrounded by angels
And there’s never a time when you’re not
When you know that they’re guiding each step of the way
And you’re grateful for whatever you’ve got

When you’re patient and trust in your angels
To send you the guidance you need
Relax and wait for the signals
Consider it a done deal

Your angels, they really do love you
They are only just one thought away
Bringing their joy and peace to your world
They offer you heaven on earth every day

When you talk to your angels, they hear you
When you listen they talk back to you
You can breathe in and bathe in their presence
They are waiting with patience and trust as they do
To remind you, you’re of the same essence

When your angels become real just like people
When you wake up and know they are there
You’re at peace with yourself, your mind is quite still
Let the outside world carry on as it will
In the loving hands of the angels

When you walk in this world with the angels each day
All of the happenings that come your way
Hold lessons and meaning, a chance of self healing
Introspection, changed reaction, inner peace, satisfaction

When you know that your angels are real
It’s a whole different world, with a whole different feel
I know my angels are real, I know I’m home
I know my angel whispered the words of
This poem

Wisdom of an Angel

With the innocence of a child
Of God
And the wisdom of an Angel
Of God
I make the changes in my life
With the perfection of all that is, I blend in
With God
All is well