Time To Pray, Praying For Time Time to pray Praying for time The clocks have stopped And begun to unwind For what's the sense They seem to say When no one seems to mind No church can temple you From the vivid signs That have begun their tour All around every part of our world If you can't see that any God Would cry to see That man seems to believe We can survive without the trees Without the bees Without the love for all and everything That everything natural needs Every woman, every man was once a child that played and dreamed and cried And now how many of us are letting the dreams die? We fight, we make war, we chase, we want more Do we stop to ask who will really care about the score If no one and nothing is left If we pillage and plunder and rape and leave it all bereft Of the very beauty we love Of every beauty we love There can never be enough doves To create peace if we do not release Every single dove that lies within each of Us. ~t.m.u.~ Dedicated to the almost 300 stolen girls in Nigeria and all the stolen children, women and men and all the girls and women fighting oppresion and inequality all over the world. #BringBackOurGirls #nigeria #endviolence #equality #education #peace #love

You Have A Knack With Knots You have a knack with knots, Setting the heart strings soaring Whirling in a whirly swirl Warming up the insides Setting them aglow Like a sun rising from The core of me Until they turn Those strings and turning They burn with the ropes of the largest vessel Tugging and dragging all in their path Until entwined and tied in lilting loops and circles Like the sound of your voice and your words Heavy with the waiting and the wanting Into the heavy knots that anchor in the pit of my stomach Then slowly turning again With the wattage of warmth In the twinkled blink and bat of a lash That softly and deftly loosens them all Unleashing an army of butterflies With your smile. Your skills could save a #life Or send one drowning In the dream. Of you.