Holding hope
Holding patience
In a time
When waiting feels wasted
Yet to listen
When people scream
So angry
That I’m not sure
What it all means
But change happens
Not in a day
But in a lifetime
So I am holding
Hope
That we can do better
One day at a time
For today
We celebrate
What we can do
And release what
Is beyond our control
That is just for today
And tomorrow
Will come
Preparing for the worst
Hoping for the best
On these nights
Of little rest
All words
Come from human
Mouths
Hands
Today
I use words to say
Hopefully
We have a future
That includes all
Even me
We are stronger together
Then when we fall apart
But first, we must learn
To open our hearts
What I knew
What I know
What I have given
Up
For where
I want
To go
Heaven’s go
Where the land can’t
Above our heads
And way in the Woods
Where the winds
Can’t push through
That’s where heaven’s go
These blundered words
Have no further meaning
Beyond the stated
Amount
Given here
Incandescent observation
Is not as luminous
As I had hoped
Or illustrated
That somehow
We rise together
And fall apart
We all can play a part
In this
Path forward
My ossified plans
Didn’t play out
The way I was hoping
To make an entrance
Instead defeated sounds
Mumbling
In a time of exclamations
More of a comma
I should have know
That is life
The real drama
Sculpt a world
That I want to live
In
With notes
From a marble throat
Lifted to the highest
Heavens
When music is
Resurrected
To be played from the living
In moments like these
Lift a song
Lift us up
Notes from above
A Cup of Songwriting 