The Canvas of your Life

The canvas of you life

Is yours to do as you will

Fill it up with colour

But remember not to spill

The paints of life are precious

Commanding what you feel

The brush strokes aren't important

Expressing yourself is the real deal.

Paint it bright and sunny

Fill each space with life

Make your road upon this earth

Full of passion and spice

For the canvas is your life

Once full cannot be changed,

It tells the world your story

And how your soul behaved.

 © D Tarbrook 2008 

 

Inner Sanctum

Deep within my being…

Deep within my soul…

There is an inner sanctum,

A sanctum of old.

 

It's a place of great mystery

Of secrets not yet found,

A place to store past memory

From all the world renowned.

 

Within this secret sanctum,

Is all that I have known,

Every life that I have lived

Every life that was foretold.

 

What is this secret mystery,

That's held so deep within,

What knowledge can it give me

What help for this life I'm in.

 

I wonder through this life,

Learn lessons which I need,

Noble truths and knowledge,

All scattered around like seed.

 

Time is running short,

For soon I will reunite,

To the god of my inner sanctum,

The God who gives me light.

© D Tarbrook 2009

 

 

 

A Witch Accused

I hear them cry, with rage in their souls

Its blood they want not conversion

Compassion is lost its time to repay

For the sins of man… purification.

 

Bound I am carried to the test

Weary and for lone my soul cries out

My pleas fall on deaf ears

My judgement is sealed for I am doomed.

 

The bitterness bites at my wet skin

My breathing is erratic my eyes are wide

I daren’t look for I will be accused

For breathing, for being, for existing.

 

Revenge is sweet, entertainment for the few

The scourging, the humiliation, the trying…

My faith is lost and darkness descends

It’s the time of times for my being.

 

He gazes into my eyes with fear

An utter distaste he does have

Its meat he wants to quiet en the crowd

So that power and peace are restored.

 

The air changes and silence falls

A thousand eyes stare up to me

The oak has stood strong for many a year

My end has come on this plane.

 

But I will live on forever in this place

My body you can destroy but my soul will stay free

The wood of the trees and the water which flows

Will carry my essence forever.

© D Tarbrook 2009