Rhymes

Welcome to Blue Skies

At last this feeling is finally back
Here we go, let’s have a blast
One step at a time from the first to the last
Let’s create memories worth calling the past

Allow these hardened walls to crumble away
Insecurities from a different time, the fears of yesterday
Let go of the pain you’ve come to know
Come in closer and let me show you
This is how the Universe has thrown you
A unique perspective aware of it all
Aware of the rise and of the fall
Here for a moment to haul in all these memories
Slipping seconds of new and old dreams
Fleeting senses in the midst of your journeys

Welcome to life, here is your mask
No defined purpose, no specific task
Welcome to the moment, one not to grasp
But to truly let go, feel absorbed at last
For this is what truly matters
Keep working and growing
Disregarding other factors
Choose a life that your heart can follow
Live it well and avoid that hollow sense of void inside
Where all you wish is to run and hide
You’re not alone, you have friends by your side
So stand up tall, become a hero to recognize
Resonate with emotions that continue to amplify
The sense of connection with all under our grand blue sky

Grow, My Friend

I’m trying to fall into love
To exude it like the sun exudes its warmth
The power to heal not given just to time
But in these hands, in these words
These moments of mine
A power to shine
But at the same time
Growing uncertainty begins to unwind
Any fought for sanity, my calmer state of mind
And enter the scene comes a part of me I ever wish to deny
The part who doesn’t care, the one who lets love die

Because he doesn’t quite understand how it all works
As love on the surface appears like something to be obtained
But rather, it’s already within you, flowing through your veins
From your head to your toes, love always remains
As there’s no better time than now to renew
A stronger sense of living true
Your dreams of late deserve daylight too

So let this re-spark an inner passion, let me lead you towards action
Perplexed consciousness amid a world of big numbers and small fractions
I know you feel stuck
But I need you to move
This is your life
Whose time there’s little left to lose
All I want is for you to grow
For you to choose
A life worth living without the self-abuse
Making smart choices so you can produce
Works of art instead of a noose

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Photographer: Dustin Scarpitti

Live Undivided


Close your eyes
Breathe in
Breathe out
Other distractions you can live without
As you already know the next step
The path only appears forked to those with hesitation left

Open your heart and truly listen
To the rhythm of the world
A life that glistens
Accept your pains and begin dismissing
States of mind which cloud your vision
Become aware of the illusion of division
Between the Universe and you, there is no fission

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Photographer: Joe Parks

Today You Triumpth

Something about living right feels so amazing
Once that inner fire is lit, just let it keep blazing
No, the road isn’t easy to allow your heart to keep displacing
All your fears and doubts before life starts fading
It’s the heres and nows that require your attention
This very moment is the ultimate lesson
Not yesterday
Not tomorrow
Today is the moment to no longer borrow

For time is not a currency that can be repaid
Dreams are meant to be lived
Not merely stashed away
Hoping for another day
Praying for the energy to come your way

You don’t exist alone and you’re not the only one
Who has unfinished business with matters of the heart
Take these words in and let them kickstart your path to playing the better part
As we’re all just acting between the roles of hero and villain
Often depending on the day, it’s one way or the other
For one reason or another, we either triumph or we suffer

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Photographer: Chris Sardegna

 

Happiness Resonation

We are the universe
Among these stars lay our own verse
Of a song sung by everything in existence
Every breath of life dancing to each passing instance
Of impending death advancing, yet still in the distance

The line between where we start and where we end
Is as blurry as it’ll ever be, to know is just pretend
For in this very second
This fleeting moment of time
Here is consciousness aware of being alive
Able to experience the days and the nights
The darks and the lights
Wrongs and rights
All seem to come together
When understanding one does not exist without the other
As ‘yes’ is what gives meaning to the definition of ‘no’
To understand hot, you must also think of cold
A persistent polarity revealing the secrets I wish to know

That a life of happiness can only be led by living one with sadness in tow
While resonating with our World, and always choosing to grow

Join Me

2010-02-28: Worshipping the Sun
I know you have the capacity
To treat your own self with animosity
Not afraid to attack who you’re trying to be
Whether or not it’s consciously
You seem to battle constantly
Between competing desires
Of both motivation and apathy

Look back over the past few years
Though change has been plenty
We still share the same hopes and same fears
Unable to shake these same tears
Mistakes aplenty like one too many beers

My friend, I need you to listen close
And close your eyes
Open them to this surprise
That here you are, so alive
Take a breath and recognize
Your heart’s still pumping
Soul still thumping
With a brain whose memories remain intact
In fact, already aware that this moment won’t last

Hear my words and let me ask
What if you decided to pass
Pass on the things that you know will hurt you
Skip over the part when you feel Love desert you
Instead join me here in this moment
A renewed chance to continue to grow yet
The road ahead that no one can know yet
Your life is now, it’s time to just own it

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Photo: 2004-02-28: Worshipping the Sun  by  Will Green

Embracing Dreams

snowyphoto

What we need is some inflation
Of positive sensation
As we’re growing in this nation
A nation of once slave owners
Once blatantly segregated
Yet now that the visible walls are down
It’s time to break the ones that can’t be seen
To move beyond frames of mind which embody racism and hatred

A scene of obscene lack of empathy
As if people don’t care to be one connected family
On this tree of biological entities
In an existence marked by the intersection of the emotional and the logical
The true and nonsensical

Where we have more power than we think
To change and affect the flow of our human race
To champion a cause
Bringing meaning to our Place
Not through demeaning based on a face
But through acting with Love
With the whole world embraced

 
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Photo: Samuel Zeller

Fractal of Life


Patterns
Series and sequences
Turning in all directions
Containing no meaning until cognizant perceptions
Visible connections
Audible reflections of the vibration that surrounds us
Everything linked in this World of the Wondrous
Look around and you too will see
The ever-present work of Love, this desire to be free
To aspire to be me
Continually growing into my potential to become as bright as the shining Sun
Sharing warmth and comfort to those who’ve just begun
Not stressed enough to forget about the fun
As these fleeting moments end just like they begun
Here for a second, and now already done

Synchronous Emotions

You’re not expected to do this alone
Pushing back against the darkness all on your own
Coldness surrounding, finding it difficult to be bold
Difficult to hold onto calm states of mind
Resisting the urge to let life leave you behind
Struggling to surface above rough waters too high

Though the journey is greater than the destination
It doesn’t make the pain any less frustrating
For as much as I want to move forward
I desire to fall back
Self-damaging choices bringing my ideals under attack
As if I wasn’t grateful for all that I have
I still can’t help but feel crushingly sad

That’s when I remember
This pain was never meant to be borne as one
Together we empower each other
Just like the warming from our Sun
With the responsibility to be open and honest
As we progress through our darkness
With various moments of fleeting bliss
A chance to show this truthfulness
That Love is the ultimate light to our wishes
The guide to our visions
And in working together
We lessen our fissions

Dance to Life

Zedd at Arena Monterrey en Parque Fundidora, Monterrey N.L.

Zedd at Arena Monterrey en Parque Fundidora, Monterrey N.L.

Stress
Begets moments of relief
Small wins to weave together
Stories of growth
Joys and sorrows
The mixture of both
A story of hope
Choosing to hold onto a lifeline’s rope

A continuous experience
Of unpredictable situations
With memorable sensations
From crippling doubt to sweetest elations
Here we exist in this world of temptations
World of frustrations

But once you see life as a single chance
To grow into the best romance
Falling in love with your own heart’s dance
Life starts to feel a bit enhanced
When overcome with emotions as abundant as oceans
Losing one’s soul to the flow of their motions
Heartbeat inducing rhythm eroding dark notions

That there is a certain way to be
That we do not live free
Instead we dance for you and for me
We dance because we can
Because it makes us happy

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Zedd – At Arena Monterrey en Parque Fundidora, Monterrey N.L.