Daniel Garcia Poems #1

Gradually

This is take 63

Though you stopped counting long ago

And still the darkness comes

The anguish blanketing your soul

The game of life is Loss

It's gonna come again my friend

Sometimes it's big or small

But it's all even in the end

There comes a time

When you're just listening

There comes a time

When you're just gone

I didn't know this once

The answers come to those who wait

And then for 40 days

You let the dawn pick up the pace

The game of life is Love

It's gonna come again my friend

Sometimes it's big or small

But it's all even in the end

There comes a time

When you're just listening

There comes a time

When you're just gone

Gradually growing wholeness.

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How in the world

I can't see what's down the road

Might as well just let it be

Let it be

Let it go

And I can't pray away the pain

Might as well just settle down

Settle down

Settle in

Settle down

Settle in

How in the world do people

Carry on with so much

To carry around and no teaching

On how to free our minds

How in the world will people

Fix the world when changing

Other people starts with

Learning how to free yourself

How to free yourself

How to calm yourself

How to quiet your mind

How to stop the war

Stop yourself.

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Aging Hands

"Hillside lullaby

You came into my life

Not a moment too late

But just in time

All of my wisdom

All of my fortunes

Had drifted far from me

In a blackened sea

Then you dragged me out again/My outstretched hands/My pleading hands/My desperate hands/My praying hands

Wings on the mountain

Lift me high

I'd give up a year of laughter

For a day with you in the sky

There's no changing

The condition I'm in

Show me light in darkness

I'd probably doubt it again

Yet I see with my very eyes/We're holding hands/Holding hands/My open hands/My aging hands

Can you feel me? Can you tell that I'm not that strong?

Can you hear me? Can you tell that it's been too long?

But I know I'm not alone

It's in my hands/My healing hands/My breathing hands/My aging

Poems by Daniel Garcia

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