I’ve only touched briefly here on what you all know happened – my transplant and recovery, my wonderful new life. My spirituality has really grown through the whole transplant process and through the work I’m doing in seminary, and it’s showing in my poetry and lyrics. I’ve been getting encouragement of various sorts to share my writing with people, so I’m slowly doing that. A lot of the lyrics I want to ‘work up’ into songs properly, and that takes more talent than I can easily come by. (The melody line comes easily to me, but I struggle to transform that into sheet music and chords, not to mention any instrumental parts.) I have some friends that can help with that, but that’s not the most satisfying solution, either.
But while I’m processing how to get lyrics into “listenable” format, here are a few that I haven’t shared before, just so I get in the practice of sharing. I apologize for the formatting; I might have to switch to a different blog theme so the poems work better.
My Heart Breaks Open
My heart breaks open
At the sound of a baby cyring
A homeless man
begging for spare change
My heart breaks open
When a friend’s in trouble
A great-aunt
whose gone to her last sleep
My heart breaks open
When I hear of an accident
on the 6-o’clock news
My heart breaks open
When I hear of abuse
and there’s nothing I can do
That’s when I pray
May all God’s beings
be safe and warm tonight
May everybody
get the care they need to feel alright
May sadness and depression
leave and never return
May all beings
be peaceful once more
If we believe
The stories of the Garden
All beings living
in perfect harmony
If we believe
Religions teach us
It’s better to give
than to receive
If we believe
The world can be a better place
It is still possible
if we all pray
May all God’s beings
be safe and warm tonight
May everybody
get the care they need to feel alright
May sadness and depression
leave and never return
May all beings
be peaceful once more
My heart breaks open
May peace be with us
forevermore
January 18, 2012 at 7:13 pm
Lovely, my dear. Keep ’em comin’.