Sally Barris

Photo: Bare Trees Near Body of Water by Brandon Huff.  Courtesy of Pexels. 

River how you taught me
Even in the deep love can reach me
Even through the ice 
good can break right through
Storm how you showed me 
Even in the dark love can hold me
Even when I’m lost
I will be rescued

I want to magnify not the storm or the river
But the hand that lifted me up

Love I want to magnify, amplify you, love I want to recognize, intensify you

Crash how you threw me
Middle of the night on the highway  
Spun around in need of mercy
But unhurt
Some came to help me
Others came to try and harm me
But it was the angel
That got there first

I want to magnify not the crash or the highway
But the stranger that held my hand

In the impossible place
Help me to see your face

Photo by Katarina Bibova

Did you know that in Albuquerque New Mexico   
Old Route 66 highway
Has an Intersection with itself, which way

would you go
I don’t know
I’m making this one up as I go along 
Right or wrong a part of me 
Keeps one foot in this world
And the other one living in the mystery

 

Did you know that the center of North America
Is in a town called Center North Dakota
One night in a bar they got a globe and string  

What a thing 
The truth  
Is stranger after all, on this tiny ball
Right or wrong a part of me
Keeps one foot in this world
And the other one living in the mystery

And you and I fell like two random leafs together
In all my life I could have never planned it better

So it goes
This road
Is brand new everyday, every step I take
Always reminding me
To keep one foot in this world
And the other one living in the mystery

Photo courtesy of Pexels Road Under Cloudy Sky by Pixabay

Trouble go away  
You’re not welcome here
Trouble go away
Time you disappear

Trouble go away
I think I’ve had my share
trouble are you listening
Do you even care

I’ve been fighting everyday  
Keeping every leaky dam at bay           
Holding back every tidal wave
And its wearing me down
I’ve been locking my door
Begging you not to come knocking anymore
Every time it rains it has to pour
When you come around

Trouble can you see
The sun is shining bright
You could take a break
And let everything be alright

I just want to breath
Have a little peace of mind
Say goodbye to you
And to all these troubled times

Photo by Sam Williams

Fireflies
lighting up the summer grass
their curtain call has come at last
waited so long     
fireflies  
Its 8pm follow me
I’ll show you to your front row seat
out on the lawn     

Chorus:  
See how they spark     
The child in your heart  
emerald wings               
shimmery things                
here for another run     
The firefly dance has begun    

Fireflies
pirouettes and chasses 
taking our breath away
this starry night     
hypnotize
now we are in a trance 
lost in their enchanting dance
of tiny lights  

Photo by Sally Barris                                                                                   The Sun is rising
the backyard is thriving
I’m the one that’s moving slow
I wish I had something
but I ain’t got nothing
and I don’t know which way to go

After all this free time
all this endless me time
I’m like a road thats lost its way
All I’ve got to show
is a garden overgrown
with weeds I’ll pull some other day

The birds all keep busy
the grass grows like crazy
the corn moon is doing just fine
I’m feeling broken
not ready to open 
with an under construction sign
soon I’ll go out an play
September I wish you could stay

Photo by Sally Barris                                                                                                                                                                                                       This too shall pass 
Tell your soul to relax
Nothing here will ever last

From joy to pain
Then back to joy again
We move along from sun to rain

loves all around you loves all around you
love will surround you, always surrounding you

This too shall go
Like everything we know
The wind will change which way it blows

From weak to strong
From darkness to the dawn
we’ll find a way to carry on

loves all around you loves all around you
love will surround you, always surrounding you

here and now
in this place and time
a time and place for everything
what remain’s
what fades away
lets see what tomorrow may bring

Photo by Sally Barris.                                                                                                                                                                                                            I miss the old black phone 
It just rang when nobody was home
No messages
So I could just be a kid
Back when everybody left you alone 

I miss the 5 o’clock news
30 minutes and then it was through
Here’s what happened today
There’s nothing more left to say
Cause there’s more important living to do
 
                                                                                                              Pages in a book that you could turn and they would yellow with time
records you could play, and drift away and leave your cares behind

I miss the big blue sky
Where I spent most of my time
Dreaming my dreams
Without any screens
When there was just miles and miles

Photo by Chuck Roberts

Floating through the air 
Swimming through time
Just like it’s water 
In a sea of days
riding every wave
this life can offer
I’ve been drifting out
As far as I can get
Without letting go....

You hold
Me close
When I am sinking
Down
You pull
me out
Your love won’t let me drown, drown
when I’m sinking down

I sent out a dream
Long ago
Then I forgot it
I still can’t believe
reeling in the net
Somehow I caught it
Somehow it returned
After I surrendered 
Letting go

deeper then I’ve ever gone before
dare to love you even more
without letting go