Hope

what is this life without travel?
what is this life without love?
What is this life without children?
What is this life without vigour and youth?
Subtle harmonies come into play
How to harmonize your mind
To enjoy this life I've been given
To see the fish, to feel free
To be unburdened with problems
To see the children laugh and laugh with me
To see my dear love smiling up at me
My child looking down at his loving daddy
My daddy looking consciously happily

I'm drowning in expectation
I'm seething with my failings
Have I the strength to exorcise this negativity?
Life, just come my way and I won't let you down
I promise I'll take you and my friends to town
And you'll let me sleep smelling your long brown hair
And I'll see you sleeping and leaping bravely in the air
You shall be silhouetted by the ocean sea
And you will be silhouetted in our unfamiliar liberty

The time is closing in now
The crux of life is coming
Nobody knows
What could happen
But me
God give me the strength to see
What is awaiting with your strength for me
Through my eyes such intensity
Give me some rest in the Autumn breeze
And on leaves so gold I'll give myself to thee
For God is Love and love I know
Even in blizzards, the rains, the cold
I hope no deeper I have to go
Where the deeper you sink
Like the Behemoth in fathoms
Below
And the deeper you go
The harder to throw
Off this yoke of isolation
Beneath dense drifts of snow
And the worse is the worse to know
It's you alone that's told you where to go
Hiding cold alone in deep drifting snow

Sweetheart dig dig dig me out
Of this frozen snow
Lie me in front of your hot fire
And I'll do nothing but love love you so

AJ Buttle (with laptop in the drifting snow) November 12, 2010