My White Cloak Part one: Place Entering day by day (1) Into a place to grow and stay Into the foundational walls of old

To puddle one’s words Few are willing to admit Myself least of all To fall and land upon earth Closer to Earth than before?

Red and orange glitter Dancing delicately high Above winding paths Falling to the great grey streams Falling for grace, or duty?

I pray for the day When my mind is clear Silence, sweet silence Schemes and impulses forgone To live without a shadow

Tiny flashing lights Figures entwine together Closer and closer ‘closer than ever’ they say Beside our computer screens

Just for a moment To glimpse from dusty pages A single white flash Tenuous seconds follow Until a roaring reply

Delicate surprise From behind blind-folded eyes That glint of glitter Sprinkle, sprinkle, floating down We reach out, we grasp, we drink

Life’s obligations A daunting sea of turmoil With crest after crest I’ll hide in this briny shell Till the tide forgets my name

Once my beating heart Matched steel drum lines to-to-toe Teaching metronomes But now my beat has fallen Into syncopated depths

Fresh Seattle rain Cleanser more of soul than streets I envy that sound Such simple pure harmony Don’t forget that umbrella!

I guess it’s about that time again time for another pointless relapse Time, like a dusty album record Spinning, around and around on end I want the needle to break or veer…

The darkest of nights It is on these nights I turn To these keys, clicking Fervently beyond reason Behind safely shadowed doors

Such an empty sky Countless pensive glances are Over and over Swallowed swift, before their time If only I could keep them

Words without meaning An open mouth seems empty Trying to express Something that dances lightly Forefront of a clouded heart

愛の歌 空に隠れた それなのに この忘れない 音、まだ響く