The clouds are coming...

Dreams are my inspiration, 

they are my shining visions 

but I do not live in dreams... 

I live here and now. 

I work hard to manifest my dreams 

but they are not free, 

there is a cost. 

Perhaps they will manifest, 

perhaps they will remain dreams 

but I wont spend my day wishing 

when I should be working,  

I wont pray alone when I should be planning 

and I wont inhabit my dreams with angels, 

they will be populated with people. 

In time, I will learn patience 

and I will learn humility.

I SIT AND THINK

I sit beside the fire and think 

Of all that I have seen

Of meadow flowers and butterflies

In summers that have been

Of yellow leaves and gossamer

In autumns that there were

With morning mist and silver sun

And wind upon my hair

I sit beside the fire and think

Of how the world will be

When winter comes without a spring 

That I shall ever see

For still there are so many things

That I have never seen

In every wood in every spring

There is a different green

I sit beside the fire and think

Of people long ago

And people that will see a world

That I shall never know

But all the while I sit and think

Of times there were before

I listen for returning feet 

And voices at the door

~ J R R Tolkien