Here All Along

Try when you can to see me
Here I am in front of you
I don't expect any grand welcome
I've grown used to solitude

Try when you can to hear me
I can only whisper what I feel
I don't expect an answer
I know now its not real

Try when you can to love me
My intentions are all true
I don't expect any comfort
Its the price for loving you

Try if you can to understand
I cannot find my way
I don't expect any kind of mercy
Or any pleas for me to stay

Try if you can to say goodbye
Its okay if you don't wave
I don't expect I'll ever walk
Upon this road again

Try if you can to watch me go
In a moment I'll be gone
I don't expect that you'll be missing me
But I've been here all along

Darkness

As the darkness descends upon me
turning daytime into night
Sometimes I just feel ok
Sometimes I just feel alright.

And in that moment when I suddenly
find myself happy
I think what a strange emotion
come from some foreign land.

It isn't ok
It isn't right
That happiness has become a stranger
And day has become the night.

Homegrown

Home
Where the tree has grown
Where once we stood
Eye to eye
And limb to limb
Where once I ran round and round
With my feet upon the ground
Where the tree now towers over me
Strong and tall with memories.

Alone here on this road

Alone here on this road
Just a somewhere else I'd rather be
And though I wish with all my heart
That I was standing here with you
To hold your loving hand
I am lost
Alone here on this road.

Eileen's Journeys

Early morning
Feeling sorry for myself
Leaning on a railing
Wishing the boat would turn about
Its too calm to feel this stormy
Eileen appears and speaks of the sea
Of her family, of her life
And the many trips she's made across the gulf
She loves the boat no matter what way she turns.
She made me see I have many more journeys to make
No matter which way I go

And yesterday. ..

And yesterday I was in Newfoundland
Walking in the presence of mountains
Breathing in the ocean spray
Partaking of the humble cod
Gathering with family and friends
Greeted by dolls and lovers
And yesterday I was in Newfoundland
My heart's still beating there