Lilies drifted across the silent sea

The silver bells made a quiet plea

And wintertime it came to pass

Like slowly slipping molten glass

A warming fire in the cold stone hearth

A softly beating gentle heart

The robin's wings placated the sky

With a rushing swirling gentle sigh

Life as we know it ceased to end

As we turned and looked around the bend

Hands parted like the curtains of time

And the golden watch hands began to unwind

And I saw myself in the sea again

And perhaps I was dancing once again

Or never to dance forevermore

My soul is like a frozen door

To a cave of ice in an ice hotel

And my spirit like a freezing bell

That tinkles with its own cold ring

Deep inside my spirit sings

Korea looked like a rainy rose

And I never ever wanted to impose

On anyone or anything

All I ever wanted to do was sing

To myself in my thoughts in my world in my time

And when you slipped in my window my soul did unwind

A quiet echo on the cement walls

We were always quiet under the stars

Loneliness is like a quiet peal

When everything is fully completely real

And waterfalls slide into a sigh

And you were dancing over nigh

The Yule Ball sparkled with silver wonder 

And the wedding bells were torn asunder

In the fullness of time

You and I

Would pass into the river's eye

And flowing into the setting sun

All I ever wanted to be was one

Seven sparkles were a silver glimmer

And in your eyes I saw a shimmer

Of sleep and light and life and love

And every time you speak I think a dove

Floats on down on heaven's wings

And suddenly I was asleep

In the monsoon rain and the globe of glass

Under the sky out in the grass

A music box reminded the light

That the moon was here to be so bright

That we could sleep in the glow of a soft moonbeam

And drift away in the glassy gleam

Do you think that the echoes will just fade away into nothingness

Like the tide retreating across the beach

Do you think I will ever stop looking for you

My soul searching like a wind over the waves

I broke all the stars into glitter because I wanted to impress you

I wanted to impress myself

And now after it all I'm left lying around in broken stardust

How strange it is to be alone on this path

The light bulb cracked

And the liquid light spilled out, spreading its glow across the room and drifting up towards the ceiling

But it's not the same as when it's inside its glass home

Let me cry a thousand rivers until the rain falls from the sky

Let me whisper a thousand times until I get an answer from the night

The questions pour and tumble out of my lips like a cascade of water over rocks in a stream

And I don't even know where to begin

Why does love feel like lava and the earth feel like a dream

Let me find an answer to the myth and wrap my arms around it

You know above all else I would never let it go

Sometimes a drop of dew drips from the leaves above

And it seems the earth is sighing along with you

I want to be pulled into the symphony

And listen to the whole thing

The heartbeat thumps along and it feels good to take deep breaths

But why is it always the waiting to exhale

It's dawn somewhere

The sunlight glinting for the first time over the tops of the buildings

A new day, a new time

What happens to time when it slips into the funnel

A swirling rainbow whirlpool that surrounds us and whips us all around

Did you slip into my window at night?

And slide into my dreams

Any way for me to not be alone

Sometimes things in real life are written in italics

And sometimes peaches come without pits

Let the sigh of the sea drift over all of us

And pull us into its everlasting hum

Sixteen things split across the fabric of this time

But they slipped away into memory

Can I trace the lines of the cracks across the wood

And wind my way back through

Like the light shining through the frames of a stained glass window

Silver sighs drift across the ocean waves

And I was passing by

Like a visitor who will only stay for a little while

Touch the water with my toes and then float away

And I could see the carnivals and ice cream cones as I floated on by

And I wondered what it would feel like to slip into a sigh

Beneath a canopy of mangroves in the Indian rain

Or below of whisper of cloud on a Bolivian plain

And I could see the voice inside yesterday and today and tomorrow

And before I knew it I was just passing by

Like an angel touching down on the ground

Like a breeze with a sleepy sound

The pillows of gold sunk into the sun

And solar wind grazed my neck with a quiet hum

And I was on the streets of Zanzibar

Hoping to write a symphony from afar

The music swells and the crash of the bells

Cascade in piano keys upon the sea swells

That slip across my toes in a sliding tide

And I ride and I ride and I ride

Across the keystrokes of light in an electric blue

Humming with light like life made anew

A moonglow trapped inside an echoing moonbeam

Once I breathed in the sigh of a dream

Slanted candles flickered in the wind

And there was a part of the sky that wanted to win

The battle against the sun and moon and stars

That glowed like ripples in a long-lost heart

Sometimes I think that Neptune was gone

When I touched down upon that distant star

And looked back with a telescope at a glittering Earth

Where I couldn't hear the hum of cars

In the closet of life the light bulb paused

In blinking out once more with the shift of Mars

And considered again the chances of waiting

For the dreams of tomorrow that left the lips aching

A sigh slipped out on gentle breath

With yearning eyes left sad and bereft

The driftwood was the last thing to lose

And I was sleeping before I even knew

That Mount Olympus drank the rain

Before it spoke to Lake Champlain

And told it to throw the mountain pass

Down the Rockies to the land of Steve Nash

And the Arizona sky breathed out a hum 

Which lingered on the lips of the Amazon

Th largest rivers hold the quietest tales 

Of river dolphins and seaweed gales

From Lake Titicaca to the Sargasso Sea

My toes dipped in a symphony

Of flying wind and fizzy bubbles

In Egypt I found a bird in the rubble

That gave the answer to the secret key

Before it flew away from me

And I was left searching like a forlorn ghost

For marmalade on morning toast

Which somehow came with tea in Spain 

Before I found myself running in the rain

Across the plain with the lions and zebras

And I fell asleep next to a cheetah

And awoke in the spring of Madagascar

With the festival of bells and wells and laughter

I couldn't remember at the first time of asking

Why I was there while you were fasting

I guess it was a way for me to live on

In the lilypads and the creek that runs

A babbling brook is like a forest potion

That your ears drink and your heart goes floating

I want to slip away from this place

And never touch down, down, down

Somewhere in the sky there might be a place

Where I could hear the sounds of grace

Sunlight drifting in through my window

As I am drifting off on my pillow

Why does the moon turn red in the evening?

And why does my bloodline keep on healing?

I never wanted to lose any blood

I never wanted to witness the flood

Noah's Ark just passed me by

And I was just waiting with a sigh

At a bus stop corner when in came the waves

As the tide crashed around I forgot to save

And I was just in awe of the rising sun

As it peeked its way in on day twenty-one

The calendar turned over to another year

And I just wanted to slip away my fears

The pen writes with an invisible hand

Sometimes in cursive and sometimes in slant

And God's fingers click across the keyboard keys

Like a modern churchlike symphony

And I was asleep at the first time of asking

And somehow the chance kept passing and passing

To open the closet to the pouring rain

The monsoon of light from heaven's refrain

I slipped through the door to another world

And slid across the marble floor

In the space airport a million miles away

And I sighed in the sleepy space rain

Don't let the echo catch in your throat

Don't let the water into your boat

Just drift away along above

With lightness like the wings of a dove

And I came back to the glow of bells and humming glasses

With little memories of mountain passes

I threw a rock into the ocean

And watched it come back to me with no commotion

These are the secrets of the gliding dew

That slips along the plant leaves too

These are the secrets of a crystal cave 

With a bright blue cool and lovely lake

Sometime ago and sometime again

Can the flute whisper again

Into the quiet lovely ears

Of yesterday and yesteryear

The snow is falling outside I think

Perhaps the deer stopped for a drink

I know the setting sun spoke to the stars

And told them it was their turn to veil from afar

Pinpricks of light and pinpricks of sound

Underwater you're in total surround

And you come up for a breath and you see the lighthouse

And take in a breath and return to the brighthouse

Night is brighter than a platinum flame

Day is deeper than a lake in Maine

Sometimes a sigh floats along with the breeze

And dips its feet in the springtime stream

Sometimes I float with the shimmering bubbles

That float away, away from me