My collaborations with the very talented writer and poet Yvonne White.
‘Nature’s Canvas’
Rushing blues, glimmering gold casting a spell on me I’m in a living dreamscape
walking the path of angels in reality
The sky, she sings
the water painting in the shades of jewels
and I am but a witness
as Nature casts her magic with these tools
And in this moment, when color collapses my fears
I can feel the air filling my chest
with the perfume of Life melted in the air
I sit before Nature’s canvas, at her best
She was built for starlight all glitter, glow, and fire She had the heart of a lion
and passion that would never tire
With a mind as sharp as any blade
and a tongue to match
She could tangle a man’s soul with a smile
their hearts, in her delicate hands, she’d catch
Always saying she’d never be tamed always promising she’d go her own way yet Life is a funny and fickle thing because it listens to the things we say It was a moment out of the blue the thing that caged her heart and like a tamed beast, she gave in never thinking she could fall apart
But like any promise that’s ever made all the things he said where just lies and while her heart was caged within his gaze her very soul started to die The night he left was like any other to the world around her, all was the same but in her cage, her heart stopped it’s beat and her soul’s raging fire became but a flame
She is built for shadows now all ghost, shadow, and ghoul there is nothing left of the queen she was she’s no longer royalty, but the joker, the fool Her heart is still encased, to this day in the very cage he entrapped it in but its still, its quiet, it never truly beats her out of the blue romance was an end … … that never should have been
There is so much I could say things built up in my heart, trembling and afraid I long to express that which crushes my chest but my words have again failed me
They say that actions speak louder much louder than words, yet I cower so afraid a mistake will be made I hide myself so you won’t see
I don’t want to lose you it would break me in more pieces than two And so I’ve come here with just this rose, my dear in hopes it will say all that I never could
I chose it carefully because it’s just like you – see? So pure and white so true, so right you are my world, be that as it should
All I ask with this single rose is that I can be the one you chose To love, to hold may I be so bold? I want all of you, have all of me
I’ll close my eyes now and with all my hope, bow to wait with baited breath heart pounding in my chest for this single rose to bloom for you, for I, for we …
Streams running with gold flowing over the rocks of her soul ever changing their path shaping and smoothing her edges
And when the rains come the streams only become rivers with more strength, comes more change with more change, more growth
So let the rains come let the rivers flood over their banks I don’t want to be this broken thing I want the gold to seep in … and change this soul forever
Soft blushes of color flood through the fields changing with the wind as broken hearts they heal With every whisper between fluttering petals a whole new world of delights shifts and settles Soaking up the light bathing the land in sweet scents we are reminded of the beauty as velvet fairies shimmer in decent
