Storm of Your Love

When I'm feeling trapped

Let Your love burn through

The fear

Dry my tears

I know I am not this

This is not me

Remind me I am not afraid

Remind me I am Yours

Forever and ever

Love, just love

Is what sets me free

Besiege the castle

Send the walls crashing down

Down down down

Out of the dust and the ashes

I will rise a soldier

For Your kingdom

Wrap me in Your arms of love

You swoop down

When I cry out to You

The earth shakes

Whe foundations of the sea

Are laid raw and bare

In a fury, in the rage of

The storm of Your love

Caught in the Lyrics

This song is not trapped in my head

no I am trapped inside the song

it holds me captive at midnight

and still won’t let me go at dawn

I love the tune

I adore the lines

I’ve watched the music video

a hundred and three times

words trickle through my mind

The song is mine as I hum all day

until night the song belongs to me

but after sunset

I belong to the song

I’m a prisoner to the enchanting melody

as it twines through my restless mind

I’m held captive by trailing strands of

frayed lyrics

My sighs match the beat

as the night drags on

I can’t sleep

I memorize all but the the last two lines

in the long hours before dawn

I am caught in the lyrics

and when I finally fall asleep

my dreams whisper-sing

with the captivating inflection

of the unrelenting tune

Touching Air

You're under the deep
In the depths of the sea
Jellyfish touch your tail
Unstung you float through the seaweed 

Mermaid hair flows
Around your shoulders
And you fade through empty wrecks
Of ancient ships

Saltwater skin
Seawater lungs
Fingers try to catch the bubbles
The sun wavers through the water

You try to reach the surface
But shadows push you down again

The sailboats glide over your head
You fade deeper 
Pushing water like we 
Push againsnt the wind

Lonliness lives deep inside you
Heartbeat pulsing, longing
For what lies above the sea
You watch the shadow of a shark glide
Flicker past your underwater cave

Glimmer shimmer glide and sway
The ocean clings to you like a cape
But you shake starfish out of your hair

One trembling finger breaks the surface
Sea-blue eyes widen as
For the first time, you touch...
Air

Metal-Plated Dreams

Purple peanut butter jellyfish chase

Chocolate-covered lima beans

And tree frogs dance on a furry stage

While cactus unicorns

Run from lifelike artichoke

If you plunge into a lemon-flavored

Sea of grass

Don't try to catch 

The eagle-feathered fish

Ostrich juice flows through valleys 
Of summer wintertime
Careful, don't dip your toes in
'Cause rivers have high fevers

I wear a fizzy cape as I rescue

Baby army ants

From a deadly battle

Against exotic coffee cups

I know this makes no sense

But trust me because I know this:

Wrought-iron badgers

Sometimes come alive at night

Before you fall asleep tonight

Buckle on your gold-detecting socks

Because if you're not careful you may

Catch a metal-plated virus

The dreams you'll have are quite bizarre

You'll fly with backpack wings

To a land of strangest things

Don't ask me why

You'll understand it all

Once you've heard the liquid band

Strum songs on old

Crayon-stringed guitars

When I crash land in reality once more

I'll make sure to let you know

But until then I'll wander through

The cotton candy-cane hallways

Of metal-plated dreams