This guitar you handed down,
Shapes music like a lighthouse.
Acoustic memory,
You’re tuning through the keys.
From where you are you amplify,
the song that’s calling me.
These same strings your fingers played,
Connect me to the words you say,
Because life’s foot is on my neck,
Your voice says “sing, until it’s dead.”
“The life you had was a cage”, you said.
“Sing Sweetie. Heart and mind are syncing,
This tower that you built is strong,
And this is gonna hurt,
So sing.
Sing through pain.
Because waves can’t take your breathe away.
Let the sound crash through,
Now that nothing takes from you.
Where your going you don’t need walls,
They never supported you at all.”
Still I’m sitting inland,
And I belong at sea.
“Sing Sweetie.
You shine when you have trimmed the wick,
That’s how you find your reasonance.
Your life is hidden in music.
Face it.
That’s your self healing circuit.”

I dont tell myself no anymore.
I dont fear the devil at the door
Cuz I asked the world for bread and got a stone
& I refuse to be alone
See, this is the love I show to me
The greatest form of bravery
To shine so bright that everything grows
A fountain that never ceases flow
This sunflower spirit reaches for light
An inextinguishable will to fight
& when shadows come
my face still turns for sun
Who needs many roots when your held by the sky
With energy that’s riding high
I’ve learned the art of balancing
There’s equal peace and passion inside of me
No matter how high I’ll never fall
There’s clarity in standing tall
So I don’t say no to me
I radiate self loyalty
That kind of faith is kinetic
I’ll watch it ignite you in ways that are prophetic
See now I love stones
I move through them so others can grow
Holding all the shades of me
All the shadows casting free
Groundwork- this is fuel
Soil to reach & feel through
See I’m in love with the sun
& the sun is me
& I can follow that heat with longevity
Extend that heat with loyalty
Wrap myself in shadows & shine
Cuz I don’t need more light
I dont tell myself no
I love the depths of shadow.