Brave Land
Love Has Come For Me
It’s the heavy lifting of the soul
It’s when to rock and when to roll
It’s all the senses here combined to tell me
To pay attention to the news
To talk show headlines with the clues
Of how to be and how to stay courageous
Tell me oh
The night has come
Love has come for me
Has come for me
Love has come for me
Has come for me
To all the parts that kept me safe
To all that led me to the place
Where I could let it go and let it lie
I thank you by my Maker’s hand
Knowing what I did not know,
That I might stand here, willing to receive it
when the night has come
Love has come for me
Has come for me
Love has come for me
Has come for me
And I know this face
And I’ve walked these floors
And I know that I should name it
beholding so spectacular a thing
And I see that I can hold it all
It comes to fill the space that I’m within
What if I could hold/heal you there
Lend comfort to your tried and loving heart
that will come to know the difference
Points of light that amplify
That resonate, a sympathetic thought
The kind of thing that tears the walls down
Love has come for me
Has come for me
Love has come for me
Has come for me
Brave Land
Born one day breathing
gifted with these feet that walk the earth
Tread stepping gently
the earth as our body and our lover
And I’ve never seen a green this green before
Brave land up-reaching
sit with me and lift me to the sky
that I might hear you
Covered in crystal
holy mantle where the sun is set
And I’ve never seen a light this light before
Sing to me starlight
shine that I might see my my through
Call to me, sliver of the moon
waxing, waning, and revealing
Come now, indweller of my heart
Chase the sorrow from the darkest part
Offer the breaking of my bones
the pouring of my heart
That I could be a channel of thy peace
make me warm and make me willing
Come now, indweller of my heart
Chase the sorrow from the darkest part
Come now, indweller of my heart
Chase the sorrow from the darkest part
Over the Mountain
If I am the writer’s word
I’ll write down a message
So many words I can choose
All of the letters
Cooperate to speak
The meaning that I seek
To send through
If I am the ink that illustrates
Spun from the stone
Oh what a mark I will make
Point to the pages
I’ll sketch my lines upon
The figures to be drawn
You’ll see them through
If I am the earth offered clay
Sculpted and thrown
How Lucky my shape in your hands
Oh and you listen
To what I have to say
To me, this silt and clay,
You see me through
Like the stars
And their place in the sky
Moving but known
So will I be known to you
I am a shoulder to rest your head upon
When things go right when they go wrong
through
Believer
There’s a mountain high
With the sea below
And the gathered light
casts the mountain’s shadow
I don’t know how you see it, but you do
There’s a face I’ve seen
As I shift my gaze
Like some life I’ve lived
Or some place I’ve been
A flash of the familiar
A look of the outlying
Keeper of the night
Oh breaker of the day
Maker of the light
Believer
There’s a path I’ve walked
Through the forest green
There’s a way I know
To walk in between
In between the branches
in between the lines
There’s a gift I left
buried in the ground
like a treasure hid
like a treasure found
Left to open later
I knew later would be better
Keeper of the night
Oh breaker of the day
Maker of the light
Believer
On this very night
With these very steps
There’s a boundary crossed
There’s a Boundary met
the crossing of a mountain pass
Crossing of a line
Keeper of the night
Oh breaker of the day
Maker of the light
Believer
It Matters
Standing on the sidewalk
but it’s not for standing on
They say you’re standing wrong
They say to leave this place
Here, the homeland of your ancestors
This place you have a right to
This place you came tonight
To be a person in a crowd
Hands off
Stand down
Respect the land you stand on
Step back
Look up
See the history your town was built on
There is a past that led us here
It matters
You in uniform
Who hold their power over
Targeting the people
You surely should protect
Landing blows
That sting with history
If the government did this to me
Who would I trust
Hands off
Stand down
Respect the land you stand on
Step back
Look up
See the history your town was built on
There is a past that led us here
It matters
There is a past that led us here
It matters
Try
Some days I feel it
A tap on the shoulder
Awakened I open my eyes
All that I know
Of my earthly arrangement
Hovers just out of my sight
All things reflecting a light to behold
Stilling my body
Is this the place
Where we lay down our burdens
Where all of our slates are made clear
Where all of our hearts
are sent lilting, courageous
Where courage is born out of fear
Step now my darling
One foot then the next
The earth will receive you
Lift, lifting
The weight of the mountain
Rising up
Feet upon the ground
Over the highest point
Down where the water collects
Running clear
Gather the lessons
Swallow the worry
Let the love in with the fear
I’ve known for some time that this too would pass
Oh, would you keep me
Want, wanting
Another direction
Calling out
When we are alone
Try, this is me trying
To move a mountain
Hall of hearts
Hollow of the bone
For a long while now I’ve understood
That of this meeting we’d take what we could
Mountain Henge
In the cold mountain henge
Earth and sky surround
Steady for the rising of the sun
At the boundary of the ring
Tethered to the earth
Step through, making closer all the worlds
And in the circle of the stone
Earth given I will stand alone
To raise the ringing of the land
In the cold mountain henge
Ooo
On the surface of the stone
Prayers run down like water
Driven like a river, to the sea
The river stirs the sacred sea
Points of light awaking
Rising ever upward to the sky
To amplify my thanks to you
The giving of this life you do
To raise the ringing
To raise the ringing
To raise the ringing of the land
In the cold mountain henge
A Lover’s Word
A lover’s word reflects their act
I don’t know where to put you after that
Somewhere where the words don’t say what they seem
Some place where the damage justifies the means
I welcome one so meek
But only if you know it
So too for the weak
But only if you show it
An open heart that that feels the ache
Don’t you think you should tend the things you break
And at the site of disrespect
Don’t you think you should heed the words you’d said
Am I meant to applaud your restraint
When you could have done much worse
with your courage so easily spent
so easily squandered
Out pours the content of the truth
Revealing hidden parts of you
With the sting still on your skin
Left to make the bed you’re in
I’m careful where I place my trust
and I slept there in those sheets
With you and your heart in the wrong place
misrepresented
I welcome one so meek
But only if you know it
So too for the weak
But only if you show it
Eclipse
From the highest point
Of the darkest night
There comes a light
Waxing waning
Reach for the comfort of the moon
See us through the effort of the dark
We have made the trip
We have found the bend
Our gathered hearts
Waiting, reaching
It is the season of the snow
borrowed light bending at the edges
Through the shadow pass
The waning of the light
Through the looking glass
night falling on the night
Call out to the darkest point
The fracture of the light
Bear witness to the change it brings
Each fragment and each rite
As our breath returns
With our mercy granted
She is full of phase
Shining, Lighting, Loving
Reach for the comfort of the moon
See us through the effort of the dark