Babble On

Water over stone speaks to me
Voices in my head or reality?
Bubbling, babbling, a fluid oration.
From liquid, an opus of reverberation.

Closer I get, speech becomes blurred.
A child, a crowd, an implicit word?
Retreat a step, lucid communiqué
Desire to immerse, ingest the parley.

Sit between banks in tears from on high
Hear her voice in the brook as I try
To understand, and follow the sentence at hand
A cacophony of silence sifted through sand.

Meaningless, mindless, numbing address
Just what’s so important she’s trying to stress?
Words from the distant, ghostlike, perchance
Wispy and passionate midsummer’s dance.

My ears reject resonance, but the mind draws it in
To decipher the past and percept an old sin.
Apologetic, pleading, no mold to this play
Just babbling on, with no true thing to say.

Hands growing numb from water’s icy hold
Must leave this brook, for so I’ve been told
That mystery lives in the motion of hearing
Of water’s sweet journey beyond my heart’s clearing.

A Whisper of Winds

Lying in the sun
I feel the breeze
blowing through
the grasses and trees.

It passes through
the woodlands like a whisper
carried on
by the gossiping leaves.

I don’t know, but I think the wind stole
the words I was trying to say.
Words of you
Spoken true
It carried them away.

I tried to chase them,
I tried to catch them,
But it carried them away.

On a mountain in a field
where shadows hide,
I built a shield.
I made it strong,
I built it high
to keep the wind from passing by.

But as I spoke my words that day,
the wind blew through anyway
and carried my words away.

I tried to chase them,
I tried to catch them,
But it carried them away.

Those words,
are they gone?
Will they ever be heard?
They’ve been lost in the clouds
like a high-flying bird.

If they ever fall down
I hope that you’re near
so my words of love
will fall in your ear
and let you know
I need you here.

So I’ll speak once again
and hope that the wind
is blowing today,
blowing your way
to carry my words away.

I won’t try to chase them,
I won’t try to catch them.
The wind will carry them away.