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When you say I paved the way For all that’s happening now The breath that courses into me And beats upon my brow Mistakes me for the one who recognizes All the gifts they’ve sown In heaven’s secret places, In my precious heart of stone
The seeds that fell upon the rubble Or the misty shoal Admit the past and seek to feed Its creases and its wolds But those that fell within the heart That looked so cold and bare Went troubling its cracks And took their humble roots in there
The stone cold circle rumbled As the roots were gathering brawn And suddenly a piercing cracking Ripped apart the dawn A river flowed where none had known It’s raging path before And I arose, a chalice held aloft With glowing core
The gifts that had been given Ever deigning to receive The fruits of many labours That had seemed to crush and wreathe That finally built a circle That could be seen and believed That mystified but never sought To chasten or recede
If you say I paved the way Your blessings I can feel If you acknowledge What I have denied, I know it’s real If you believe that I have given More than I could see Then I’ll believe you, as I begin to Believe in me
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Dear John By which I mean the planet I’ve been living on For so long Dear John
Dear John By which I mean the fear that has been so strong In my mind So long
Dear John By which I mean the planet I’ve been living on For so long So long
Dear John By which I mean the body I’ve been speaking from The idea in my mind that kept my fear strong So strong So long
Dear John By which I mean the planet I’ve been living on The beings I’ve shared ideas of identity through physicality With for so long So long
If you look at me quantumly you’ll see I’m gone Was never here I’m gone
The love we’ve shared in truth is all that’s still strong Ideas of physicality are long gone Long gone Dear John
And I’ve come here to share a new idea so strong in me It’s so strong To tell you if you’re fearful or you’re lonely That it won’t be long
I’ve come to share my certainty that truth is all that’s left of me That I was wrong I’ve come to share my certainty that we were only ever free To love and loose the bounds of time From all that we had thought we’d seen Dear John, dear John
And now we dance forever to the songs we wrote together in eternity We’re free, dear John Dear John, we’re free Dear John
Dear John If you look through the eyes that can see quantumly You’ll see, we’re gone With love, Dear John
In gratitude for those who’ve walked this way before
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There’ll always be poems for you The one who has held me, encouraged me through A myriad distractions, a myriad of days On paths that felt stony although they were paved With the certainty of those who’d walked them before And left in each footstep a beautiful star
There’ll always be poems for you The one who has stood still and shone your light through The darkest of terrors, the stormiest nights Your beam ever present and clear in its sight
There’ll always be poems, there’ll always be stars For those who have loved me while I fell apart And cradled my soul as I crashed to the floor And welcomed me, whole, as I rose, as I soared
There’ll always be poems of love in my heart For the brothers that know me beyond where I start For those who are centred, their clarity breathes The verdure of life in my heavenly leas
A corner’s been turned in the misty air’d fall I believe I feel life, I believe I see dawn Up ahead breaking into the heart that has learned Finally to give away all it earns
There’ll always be poems for you In beauty and power and infinite truth They well up inside me and break their way through All troubles are quenched as their river runs true
Yours are the hearts that have shown me the way Intrinsically fearless as love takes its place In the mind that was hoping but couldn’t be sure Now your light is my clarity, happiness, law
There’ll always be poems and deep gratitude For the ones who have voyaged before me to truth Who’ve conquered their demons and wrested their scars From the jaws of the tempters and lifted their hearts
To the ones who’ll devour them until you stand Vulnerable. Beating, it rests in your hand Peaceable, strong, in the knowledge so clear That the only thing left to attack you is fear
They’ve stood at the altar and laid themselves down And discovered the sword was dismissed with the crown They’ve torn down their statues again and again Stepped into the fire of the purging of men
There’ll always be poems, there’ll always be songs For the ones who’ve discovered as they marched along In the discipline of their surrendering minds The peace that surpasses the self they’ve declined
There’ll always be poems for all that you are As evolved revolutions of wakening hearts Are roused at their centre, welcomed and hugged The poems that flow through for you are my love
“And left in each footstep a beautiful star” — This is an idea taken from the Course.
“His step is light, and as he lifts his foot to stride ahead a star is left behind, to point the way to those who follow him.“
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Stop looking with your eyes Start feeling through your heart And life will arise in your sight Stop thinking with your mind Start feeling with your heart And pain will dissolve in your light
Do you realise you’re the one who lifts sadness from them all? Do you understand it is done, we’re just watching darkness fall? Can you leave behind what is gone, and open to what is shown? ‘Cause if you can, if you can, and if you will, then you’re ready for it all
Stop listening with your ears Start breathing through your heart And the mists of time will divide Stop listening to your thoughts Sink down into your heart And the breath of life will decide
Do you realise you’re the one who gives credence to it all? As you release your mind, the whole thing will fall Can you look beyond to what’s true, and open to what is now? ’Cause if you can, if you can, and if you will, then you’re ready for it all
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A silent smile within the heart A grace that lets the waters start to run An opening upon my brow And my body is alive again With the pulsing energy of your release
A gentle opening within, The centre breaking open To admit an aurora of heavenly sensations
Light fills my body Drenching my heart, my throat, my bodily mind Deposing my form and loosening binds to all that I believed myself attached to Just one instant before
Vibrations become me My whole experience My whole identity Relieved from the suffering of separate responses And separate forms
Breathe in gratitude Breath becomes light Energy dethroning form Visceral, thick, flowing through extremities Expanding their walls Searing within Revealing depths of unhidden space
I can meet you here I can invite you deep into this circumstance Deep into this sphere of relief, of releasing mind I can see you, vivid and alive, shining within the greater mind that we share Shining upon me, in all the glory misinterpreted through separate mind As distinct from what I am
It is in our shared mind, The mind that encompasses the whole, That is the whole The mind that, in singularity, is my mind This is where I find you This is where I receive you And this is where I adore you, Forever, in this timeless instant of eternal communication In my desire to be free
Holly Rose Thomas 