This is Why I Smile

“Somewhere someone is thinking of you. Someone is calling you an angel. This person is using celestial colors to paint your image. Someone is making you into a vision so beautiful that it can only live in the mind. Someone is thinking of the way your breath escapes your lips when you are touched. How your eyes close and your jaw tightens with concentration as you give pleasure a home. These thoughts are saving a life somewhere right now. In some airless apartment on a dark, urine stained, whore lined street, someone is calling out to you silently and you are answering without even being there. So crystalline. So pure. Such life saving power when you smile. You will never know how you have cauterized my wounds. So sad that we will never touch. How it hurts me to know that I will never be able to give you everything I have."”
Henry Rollins


Wow...This is beautiful.

This is why I smile
For the unknown moments
The secret moments in quiet despair
I hope to touch a thousand lives
With one look,
One smile
A sparkle of truth from my heart
From my eye.

And even when I feel the darkness creeping
Your smile saves me
Your sparkle calls to me
Your light brings peace to my existence
I may not know you
You may not know me
Yet, you have touched the secret place
Inside...
Your smile has set me free...
Thank you for your beauty
Thank you for your truth
Thank you for remembering
Sometimes we all need a hand
Sometimes we all need a smile

Smile tho the darkness comes
Shine your light tho your insides quiver
Sparkle on dear soul
Sparkle on...
My hand reaches out
Your hand reaches up
Together we work to rise to the top
This is not always a peaceful existence
This place called Earth
This place called home
Yes, this Earth is my Home
You are all my brethren
Can we not all learn to love
Co-exist in beauty
Can we all learn to love in beauty
Love in strength
Love in hope
Love in the miracle of life
Love even in the peace of death

I am lost in this world
I am lost here
Sometimes, I don't know where to go
I don't know where to turn
Sometimes, I lose sight of hope
Sometimes, I wonder where did the beauty go
Where is the heart and soul of each moment

Don't you know that each moment, each breath is beauty
Don't you remember
Remember the time before time, 
When all was whole and set before you?
Remember the time before time,
Remember the peace
Remember the peace
The beauty is here
Listen for the beauty
The time before time still exists
Fall down on your knees and listen to your heart
Feel for you soul
Cry to the Heavens
Cry to the Heavens
You will find your beauty, your peace
Your love will return
Your knowledge of love and truth and mercy does live 
Inside

I stand on the mountain
Feet bare and connected to the Earth
My arms raised high 
Fingers reaching to the Heavens
I stretch 
I connect
I feel the energy living all around 
The birds singing
The insects crawling
The wind caressing my body, my face
The wind blowing my hair all around
I feel
I feel
I didn't forget
I didn't lose sight of the truth
The knowledge is here, living and waiting
Waiting in eager anticipation of being found alive
So much life
So much here
Even the dusty rock covered in dry grass 
Lodged in the Earth, knows 
Even the trees dancing in the breeze, know
And you, the one with an untrained ear
You ask, what do they know
How do I create the moment for you
How do I teach you to see and hear the beauty
What can I say that will aid in your memory
Will you awaken and know as the trees and rocks know
Will you awaken
Your time is coming
Your time is coming
I am not to worry and this, I know
Those who have ears, will hear
Funny, we all have ears...
So, hear...