2 Older Poems

I Know I Need To Know
(Poem for Pastor Boillat)

I watched the waves
Wash Away,
I watched the sun
Set today.
I listened as the wind blew,
I listened and listened,
Until I knew.

I watched as the clouds
Changed.
I watched as my parents
Aged.
I listened as the birds sang,
I listened and again they began,
Then I knew.

My life one day
Will wash away.
When I'm done my light
Will fade away.
The wind will blow
Over my grave.
Until it too will pass,
Into another age.

I will be as the spark,
A small part of any song.
Oh God, make sense of this,
For soon I will be gone.

I watched the waves,
Wash away,
I watched as my parents aged,
I watched the sun
Set today.
I know,
I need to know.

****This one written for my Pastor at the time...just diagnosed with Cancer. He died about 2 years latter.

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***And a funny teenage poem.

Love is a Bird

Love is a bird
Yet a bird-so absurd,
It flies, free, 'tis true
Until it lands on you.
Then it will starve to feed,
Meet your every need,
Pluck its own feathers,
To keep you warm in cool weather.
It will offer its flesh
To fill your emptiness.
Yes love is a bird
Plucked and torn, yet unheard,
Are any cries of woe.
It doesn't want you to know
That love is free and unearned.
What a bird!

*** Some Really OLD Poems...we're taking my late teen  years here...so over 20 years ago!!!