Quietitude

The waters are suddenly still
Though I feel the wind blow through my soul.
Slowly, all sound ebbs away
As silence, pregnant with joy, descends.
The world has stopped turning,
The clouds have ceased
Their aimless wandering across the sky,
Not a leaf moves
Nor a mole, nor a mouse,
Nor even the tiniest of creatures
That make up our life.
The world has gone quiet,
If only for a moment -
That stretches out impossibly in my mind.
My restless soul is hushed
As I come to terms with this beauty
And my beating heart is slowly stilled
When you kiss me.

Daybreak

A new day is dawning
On a planet cold and bare -
Dark clouds that blocked my view
Part, burnt by golden glare.
A new sun is rising
In a sky born blue at last
Saved from bleak obscurity
That abounded in its past.
A new ocean is forming
Where was only ice floe
And the coldness recedes
As warm winds start to blow.
A new land is waking
From a slumber aeons old
Beating out the feelings,
Coming in from the cold.
A new mountain is standing
In dawn's melodic light -
Removed, at last, from the pall
That hung through endless night.
And new plants are growing
Where earlier were none
And more animals walking
Than e'er seen 'neath our sun.
A new world is beckoning
To this new, free heart of mine.
Held enthralled, I seem to be,
Suspended here in time.
A new life is being lived
And new feelings awoken,
Goodness and love exist,
Tho' not one word is spoken.
And now my view closes up
And I see my own bright day;
Hand in hand we go along,
Together, quiet, on our way.