A rustle, a breeze;
A coolness embraces me.
I walk through the night
Not seeing my way.

The darkness surrounds.
A silence so loud;
A stillness so thick;
I cannot breathe.

My hands reach out;
I try to find my way;
To touch something;
Anything that will anchor me.

I feel warmth;
A hand perhaps.
Someone reaches out.
We are connected.

Two people lost in darkness;
We stumble together;
We break the silence;
We find a light – in ourselves.

Reflection
Written by Elaine (Chequred)

Look into a river, tell me what you see,
Reflections of a person just like you and me.
Sometimes like a river, our lives go rushing by,
Forgetting to say we're sorry, and never knowing why.
But if we stop and think awhile, just what we try to do.
The person we should say sorry to is looking back at you.

Death Is All Around Me
Written by Elaine (Chequred)

Death is all around me.
It's everywhere I look, but you will not get me just yet my friend, I am not ready for you to come and take MY soul.

Death is all around me.
I will not bow down to your existence, I know you will always be there hiding, Waiting in the shadows, Waiting for me to falter and ready to take up the challenge.

Death is all around me.
But when night falls there are no shadows, That is when you cannot find me, As I dream my dreams of living, That is when i am truly alive and you are not there.

Death is all around me.
The black and grey fade into insignificance, as they make way for the bright vibrant colours of the night, this is where the living dwell
And death has no meaning.

Death is all around me.
One day you will have your dream and finally get your challenge,
Away from the dark greys and blackness of my own existence and into the colour's of the night that I have dreamed of, Where I will live forever.

Believe
Written by Mike Hayden

To believe in a dream, is to have a dream.

To believe it will come true is to wish for it. There is no such thing as a dream come true. For if a dream comes true, you know it for a fact.

Then it would not be a dream, because a dream is to believe in.

Dreams are not meant to come true, just something locked within your heart.

If you have a dream, never let go.

Never let it go.

Never let it die.

Never stop believing.

... to the friend I lost this very morning ...

Other friends have come and gone
And each have played their part
But only you filled that empty space
deep within my heart

There is a bare hand, and too a bare wrist
another hole in me
for that empty space, that bare wrist
is where our friendship bracelet used to be

I guess it was hard to tell me
It would be hard for me to tell you
And know I know what they mean when they say
'A heart, true blue'

And now that you have come and gone
And played your little part
I have a hole, and empty place
Deep within my heart

If you read this you will know, and you will know whay I mean

XXX
jayhay

Hope
Written by Mike Hayden

Running from my life
The face I see in the river
The memories I'll leave behind
I've watched it all before

I look back at my front door
It's not too late to turn back
But if I do
Who will be there?

It always was this way
The way they wanted it to be
But it just wasn't good enough
And it's all for the best

Some envy me
Those who don't hate me
It would do them better
Wouldn't they be better without me?

They say it would be better without me
But is this what they mean
Just one more little step
And I'm free

All my life I've lived in shallow waters
But muddy all the same
And now come the tears
The tears of scarlet

I'm now heading into deeper waters
Muddy waters all the same
but that's what they have
that's what I want

Maybe these tears of Scarlet will go away
Never know until I try
I've lived for years
The torment will never end

Tears of Scarlet
Muddy waters
Immortallity

Hope...

The light flickered and slowy died,
The sun set and spent itself but no one cried. The night set in the darkness real,
Fell hard on hearts that could not feel.
And when from sleep they finally woke, by stroke of dawn,
They search for it, but it was gone.

Breath of the faces of the dark
Huge moon of the space, with cloudy times abrade
With breath with crowns of glory
While in cycled earths falls the ways
Over the spirits and change, o'er the seas
With ravenous rage with souls revenge for taking
Tears fall while seen with fury not with prey
Soars the eagle high above the earths treasures
Kiss thy forehead night to day
Dream a loves far away heavens
While thee is torments demented left
The melancholy the dance, a shrine of resting
The stranger l left at the tower with a castle fair, resignedly beneath the stars

Quotes by William Goodman
by William Goodman

"God gave us the autumn that we might know, -----even beauty passes."

"Flowers are nothing more than the footprints of God as he passes."