Thoughts in the Silence

(Written 5/9/2006 by Julie C. Gilbert)

 

Sorry for the deep silence between us.

I know you can read my mind

When I want you to,

But I’m not ready to say

What I feel aloud

So these thoughts are mine alone

Or are they? 

Do you feel what I feel?

You’ve got my mind working overtime.

All that is clear to me

Is that I don’t understand you

And I don’t understand me

When it comes to you.

Thought I was braver that this.

Funny how it’s easy to face death

But not oneself.

Didn’t think I was the type

To fall so far in love,

But your eyes lead to your soul

And when I look there

It’s like coming home.

 

Beautiful Land

(Written 7/25/2006 by Julie C. Gilbert )

 

Beautiful land,

You hold much power over me.

See, you have my heart and soul

Just as you have my body

Locked here by gravity.

My dreams go no higher than your peaks,

No farther than your seas.

Once or twice they brushed the stars,

But always my thoughts returned home.

 

Wish I could spend my days

Wandering hills, fields, and forests.

Duty may keep me palace-bound,

But one day I’ll climb a mountain

Or walk by the sea for hours,

Listening to it whisper

Or rage as the case may be.

Until that day, dreams will do.

 

Beautiful land,

Do I love you because you’re home,

Or are you home because I found

Love here?

 

Tell Me Your Story

(Written 8/8/2006 by Julie C. Gilbert )

 

Behind every young man or woman

Lies a story waiting to be told.

Tell me your story.

Where did you come from?

What have you experienced?

Where are you going?

These are some of life’s

Big questions.

Funny how it’s easy to not see

How amazing life can truly be.

So tell me your story.

What makes you smile?

What makes you laugh or cry?

What do you fear most of all?

Who are you trying to please?

What are your life goals?

Whatever your story may be

There is much more to tell.

So tell me your story thus far.

Maybe we’ll write something new.

 

After the Windstorm

(Written 2/14/2007 by Julie C. Gilbert)

 

The wind stole my heart,

But left my mind alone.

So, I am shattered, broken, lost,

Yet alive enough to say,

“Never was a better place

Than the land I call home.”

 

You and I might have owned the universe

Or nothing,

And all would be all right.

For the longest time

Home was not so much a place

As it was simply you.

 

Now that the wind has swept

All I know away

How can I still say,

“Never was a better place

Than the land I call home.”?

 

The long and short of everything

Simply lies in this fact:

This land gave me you.

Never was a finer gift in the course of history.

Every day, hour, moment

Will be cradled in my mind

So home will always live.

 

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