I LEFT ALL THE BEAUTY BEHIND

As soon as I came down off the mountain,
I left all the beauty behind, not knowing
how to take it with me.

Up there, the fire burns on,
and the only voices you hear are happy ones—
some tired, some bruised, but unbroken
and unregretful.
They will one day
help the world find its way
out of this dark night.

(October 29, 2008)

CIRCLES

The chance for proof is coming,
maybe nobody but me
will see or know it. To some,
I may be dark and lost, to others,
someone who has proven his worth in gold.

But the silence behind it all
is the torchlight, for everyone.

We look for a little sunlight in every
mirror, to find our way
through this dark part of the world.
All these secret things stored up inside of us
disappear in the fog of steps we take
to get from one place to the next,

it keeps us from finding value in things
where there is none.

(October 8, 2008)