in the deep blue September sky

I look up the deep blue sky and ask myself
If I can find courage in the wind
To fly beyond what is beyond me
Or I have forgotten the songs of my wings
Nothing can I give
No more than what is within me

Bring me a bottle and I will fill it up with memories
Red, blue and green
And pour them out in the sun when my days are dry
And watch each image dance and swirl
Soaring up high deep into the blue September sky

What will the future bring?

Since you’ve asked, I will search for an answer
Under the rocks and behind the curtain of the waterfall
The mysterious lines joining the stars in the night
Paint me a map for my journey that disappears in the day
What is left are lines seeking directions on the earthen clay

Where are my dreams, where are my dreams
My dreams lie somewhere
Somewhere deep
In the deep blue September sky

inspired when I was embraced by the deep blue September sky in Nagoya

dancer in the dark

I see with my ears
and hear with my heart,
I’m blind when it’s silent
whether in the day or in the dark.

A tear may fall
when no one sees,
darker than the darkest
is the sound of it.

Into the endless pit it falls
till it touches the surface of my soul,
in quietness I hear
the liberation of the imprisoned echoes.

The echoes resurrect remembrance
of many forgotten songs
and I begin to dance in the room of my mind
where every step of mine never goes wrong.

I dance like falling autumn leaves
having an affair with the wind,
the melodies fill my heart
with colours I could only imagine.

Endless are the ripples
in the cycle of life:
spring, summer and winter chill-
a thousand colours in my mind.

I hear the time ticks away
with every beat of my heart
I breathe in the colours of the air
till the day my body and soul depart.

inspired by the movie, dancer in the dark, watched in 2003