My sunrises are growing shorter,

Hands cold but that's okay,

I've accomplished enough and prefer the dusk,

And never wanted to grow old anyway.

Old trees will sing and wind ever blow,

Rain and sun nurture forests I'll never know.

Generations to come from all the spiders saved,

Slimed creepy crawlies and a caterpillar from being paved.

Felt a full spectrum and expressed in forms of art,

With impure edges, pulled back together even after falling apart.

Walked a lonely trail steps in the dark but still chose my fate,

Insight to lead others through and their path illuminate.

First response to wildfire and let an ocean of tears be the rain,

Things that burn gave me fire; much can be learned from pain.

Ran up a mountain trail where the wind blows,

Following in the wind's path because forward's all it knows.

Felt grass between my toes and life under feet,

Waltzed with the wind and waves, danced to the earth's heartbeat.

Spoken in lonely hours the master artist of life,

Who engineered my loving family, every husband, child, wife.

Dear friends please do not cry,

No matter what comes with the sun,

Remember each sparrow and its song,

He does not forget even one.

Living like the moon through phases,

There's no need to fear the night,

For God promises another sunrise,

So friends keep up the fight!

Seem Yourself

I don't feel myself

Out of reach somewhere on the highest shelf

Please save yourself

Put away in a box on the highest shelf

Just another day I watch the sunrise

From another night I couldn't close my eyes

Take a picture in my mind

Save it for a rainy day when I go blind

Can't you see

There's nothing to be

But yourself darling,

Won't you trust yourself darling?

Eyes sometimes play tricks you see

Leaving days when you don't know what to believe,

Put on a poker face to

Say it's okay but it's all part of the game.

I don't feel myself

Out of reach somewhere on the highest shelf

Please save yourself

Put away in a box on the highest shelf

You don't seem your self,

Trust me darling please believe,

These are days like these

Stretched on by sleepless nights no one sees

You don't seem quite right,

Somewhere in the world we'll all be up tonight,

But just hang in tight,

You'll find your way in the dark or the coming light.

Love and Let Die

When I was a girl I had a piece of earth,

Which every year died, And then brought rebirth.

There was a little flower that I watched grow

From the ground low, towards a sky it'll never know.

I painted it's petals into shapes in my brain,

Each day took in its colour for it would never be the same.

Each day grow, each day change,

Grow from the sun but also the rain.

Always underestimated for its delicate form,

So young and soft, but it weathered each storm.

It grew so slowly but each day was new,

From one night through she decided to bloom.

Pretended to forget that it would never last,

And one day those colours would be in the past.

There was nothing I could do to make her stay 

So I watched my dear flower wither away.

She said "We may grow again so please do not cry,

For now all we can do is learn to love and let die."