Nature's Embrace

As I run through the woods

Warm rain thrashes the canopy

The trees quench a thirst

Leaves glisten, renewed vitality

Heavy drops pound my chest 

Mud spatters up my bare legs

Feet sinking, the ground ingests 

Feeling hopeless, my heart begs

With each tenacious stride

I’m filled with deep emotion

Mother Earth I do confide

Tears and raindrops, interwoven 

As I travel through the hills

Footsteps drowned by nature's music

Wondering when I’ll hit the end

At that moment, all is muted

I look up and he is there

Majestic beauty, beyond belief

We lock eyes, Socratic stare

Sudden warmth abates my grief

Utterly still, among dancing trees

His crown adorned are antlers

My tears run dry before he flees 

This love, has all the answers

Always

Collaboration Artwork with Claude Panneton 

I'm me

Always been me

From our first hello

To our love's first high

To our love's first low

From the time we first touched

To the miles that separated 

You, the one whom I loved

We, ever so complicated

It's green

Always been green

Love on the other side

Budding divergeant shades

We trusted, to feel alive

And thus we reunited

Lives, much as miles away

A destiny was plighted 

An ambiguous passageway

And you

You've always been you

From our first goodbye

To our love's first low

To our love's first high

And gloriously we've flown 

Resting in hallowed meadows

Dear love, no other has known

My soul's internal crescendos