Here, in this time of healing,

There will be no pain –

No room for doubt –

We show despair the door

As Love we share….

And, in this time of Love,

Will be no loss, but gain

In strength and hope –

Each day, new dawning joy

Will banish care….

As from the ashes of our fears

New songs of Love arise

New promises and faith re-born,

Love, with Her gentle wings,

Will brush away all tears

And lead us to the Light –

Reflected in our eyes –

As smiling now we greet each dawn….

© Lisa Gabriel, 3^rd September 2005

The air I breath,

Resonant with your Love,

Will sustain me in this.

This inner peace,

Tranquility itself,

Lends powers to my spirit.

Surrender no more a challenge,

I hitch my soul to a sparrow’s wing

And, trusting, fly

Wherever Love will take me….

© Lisa Gabriel, 17^th September 2005

Soft words sung to silent walls

And hung with stars

Flow sweetly in the arms of night….

I see such scars in light of day –

Light so stark, you stand alone,

Where tender dreams seem foolish lies,

Cannot sustain….

I sing the beauty in your soul

And mourn the lack of time-

Your plight –

A trap that holds you fast

Where love and laughter

Wear a veil of pain….

So freely would I give

To win your heart at last!

So lightly brave

The maelstrom tide

To swim and hold you safe,

And thus we live!

So, gladly share the burden

That now weighs you down?

It is not mine to take,

But yours alone to leave.

So -

Sad and silent, stand aside

And watch you drown?

Unless

You free your soul to rise

And rising know me as I am,

Love radiant in those eyes?

Believe –

Only believe –

And love yourself….

You see?

Beloved by God,

Loved by so many,

Cherished –

For all time –

By me….

In playful beams

Your smile lights up my face.

A hint of fragrance in the air

Transports this heart to places new.

For just an instant, we are One

In time and space -

I feel a breath of Heaven

And the wind of rapture in my hair -

My Love, I’m beautiful when I am You….

High soaring hills

Where mountain streams run clean

And damp, dark pines perfume the sky

Transfix my vision through and through –

Restore the dream that All are One

Where Love has been….

So cherish now this moment

As soft mists frame rainbows up on high

For Love, I’m beautiful when I am You….

Sweet present! Sense

This happiness I feel

Complete, content in all I am?

Accepting self and trusting Love

Surrender fear to peace and joy.

My faith is real;

This world may be illusion

But I know Your Love could not be sham –

And Love, I’m beautiful when I am You!

Sometimes in the night

Your vision fades and cold dreams

Draw down darker sight….

Feel you close the door….

Am I too near? Too distant?

Could I love you more?

Then Reason assures

We are all One,

And Love will set us free

To see our Sun….

 © Lisa Gabriel, 26^th September 2005

Losing the path

In gentle hills,

Spirit afire

When Sun streams through

The living canopy of leaves.

Light plays my senses,

Green hued Summer promise

Gold drenched Autumn leaves

And sweet desire….

I am not lost,

Just passing time,

A state of grace –

Confusion’s gift….

Remembrance? How I lost my way?

For Life’s directions missed,

Love lends reprieve in wonder;

Heart too awed to stray

From such a place….

© Lisa Gabriel, 27^th September 2005

I am blessed –

As One with you….

On wings of Love

In all I do.

My soul takes flight;

This joy is real

In gratitude

For all I feel….

I am blessed –

I feel your hand….

My soul alight,

I understand….

Fond spirit wings

Enfold as One,

In hope and trust

We seek the Sun.

I am blessed –

To know my heart

And feel this Love

Of which I’m part.

Though far away

Know this is true –

I am reborn

As One with you….

© Lisa Gabriel, 30^th September 2005

Here Time and Space

Meet in the moment

And in that moment

All you know is gone

Where shades of the familiar

Now seem cold and erring….

And would I turn back Time

To win security?

No, I would rather wait -

Would rather be as One

With consequence unknown -

Until you call my Love at last

Within your changing….

© Lisa Gabriel, 1^st October 2005

Love,

Come to me softly,

Catlike,

From the silent darkness -

Redemption shining

In the hour of giving.

From such brooding trees

Your song will come -

Which path you tread

I cannot say…

What sadness

Fractures living?

This innocence so taken

They also stole from me

In ignorance -

For we are One…

Radiant through it all

Still shines such beauty –

Takes my breath away -

When Understanding sees…

Hidden from cold sight,

Your Love so dared and won -

Though once betrayed,

You seek the Light…

So lay your head, Love,

Soft dreaming upon

This Pillar of Trust I give –

Darkness speaks no more,

Holds no more sorrow

Now Life has begun…

© Lisa Gabriel, 2nd October 2005

Take time to stand!

Steal from the clock

That steals the soul;

The clock, the lie we all pursue.

Unlock your hidden dreams

For, timeless, they will make us whole

And what we have, we are –

We stand to gain -

Is there for all to find…

Take time to hope

And learn to love –

All Time is Ours….

Take leave of silent pain;

Then in our darkest hours

Pure Love will see us through

Where open hearts dare tread in Joy

No fear can yet remain.

Creating what we will

Where brave Love leads, there follows Mind….

© Lisa Gabriel, 15^th October 2005

Sometimes

In winter-dark streets

The Impossible

Dreams itself into fruition….

Sweet rain,

Drifting veil,

Softly haloes glowing lamplight.

Smile,

For in this moment

All is known –

All that Is,

And all is won….

One in the Magic Dance

Of light and shadow.

From alley-pitched blackness

Mellows timeless incandescence –

Heart bursts forth in song.

Rain-distant Cathedral

Rings Angelus in rapt mind.

Haunting, fragile,

The little sparrow –

Drab and Promethean –

Coquettish….

Eternal….

Rises from the street;

Soars unbound,

Unbidden,

To new heights!

Sometimes

I wonder where you are….

Not in the City;

Too fine in the hustle

Of human plight….

Then I catch

The sound of laughter,

Flash of light -

The pulse of neon -

Bright on the skyline….

Not in these country lanes

I must pursue;

Stop!

Wind down the window;

Then I taste the scent of rain

And hear the mystic music of birds

And silence….

Not here,

Where I smell sweet fragrance

And, dreaming, rest my head

Where once you lay….

Not in my silent room;

Yet silence sets the scene

To play awhile and you awake

My inner smile and make my day….

I’m lost and found in finding you

Somehow I know

When speaks my solitude -

Why wonder where you are?

I feel you all around

You’re with me everywhere I go….

© Lisa Gabriel 13^th December 2005