i have never met a girl

that I couldn’t find love for in this whole wide world

no, I have never met a girl, oh no

that I couldn’t find love for in this whole wide world

she is so powerful

so oriented

so connected to her light

she is so cyclical

so spiritual

i hope there’s more like her to find

she knows when she’s right, won’t take no shit without a fight

she might just change the world for better here tonight

she is so concentrated

so contemplative

the freshest fruit right from the vine

i have never met a girl

that I couldn’t find love for in this whole wide world

no, I have never met a girl, oh no

that I couldn’t find love for in this whole wide world

never change whatever they say, be who you wanna be

live and let live, live and let play cuz the truth loves company

find your true north and guide us home, love

find an old love tell them they’re why you know love

cuz you have been seen, imperfect and free, with heart-first remedies

i know what’s driving you

love has been guiding you

ground your roots, lower yourself to the earth

center your solitude and breathe

i have never met a girl

that I couldn’t find love for in this whole wide world

no, I have never met a girl, oh no

that I couldn’t find love for in this whole wide world

she is

so powerful, so oriented, so connected, so for the generation of more just like her

she won’t take your shit without a fight, knowing that she’s right

she is

so cyclical, so spiritual, it makes me sick to know

there’s a fear that goes along with being held down for so long and I

I know, that this is just one song and won’t change the world, won’t change the ignorant

so many people lost lookin for who the winner is

when all along we combine when we’re simmerin

like two sides of our inner gem, glimmerin harmony, carvin each gender out of wholeness

true soul is born in what you lack and how you act when you hold it

so hold back when you’re scolding hot, don’t attack your better half

you better not, cat, karma gon hit back quick and she gon spit that at her next concert and that’ll be far heard

love’s true account of misdimeanors

missed marks in between where fists parted with their leader’s strength to stay parked in the heat of eden’s greed to get even and bark

you need to be a man and step off before you make a mistake

take a breath, examine the weight, summon up peace in the presence of hate

stumble as we may sometimes all it takes is just one mind open

or at least I’m hopin, that all we gotta do is stay focused

utilize both sides of our soul, it’s a common divide between men and women when we vibe

both sides both thinking that we’re right

not limit to the fight

slow livin, showin no forgiveness, no givin in to right it

cite it, take a note rewrite it

if it gets away, pray that you’re reunited

if it’s on the tip of your tongue promise me you won’t bite it and say something to someone

i have never met a girl

that I couldn’t find love for in this whole wide world

no, I have never met a girl, oh no

that I couldn’t find love for in this whole wide world

oh my goddess how can i explain?

everything that's been running through my brain

i feel you in my DNA and in my veins

i hope i can find the right words to say

oh my goddess i can't believe you've harnessed

all of the energy of universal progress

beauty and humility in the largest

oh my goddess

i must offer you praise

for all the ways that you amplify my days

all that i can say is i believe that i could need forgiveness for the things that i been thinking bout you lately

but i'm just a simple man

a part player in your plan

wish i could feel what life was in it's

entirety beyond all my limits

atone for all that i don't see

vulnerability in a realm beyond belief hell i'm in it

you flash before my eyes

i quickly realize

that you are i and i are you oh how we multiply

as i go walking through the darkness of the night i find your light and all i know is that it saves me

we could make a baby

but you know that that shit'd just be crazy

oh my goddess how can i explain?

everything that's been running through my brain

i feel you in my DNA and in my veins

i hope i can find the right words to say

oh my goddess i can't believe you've harnessed

all of the energy of universal progress

beauty and humility in the largest

oh my goddess

i wish that she

properly

could find a way

to mix her soul inside of me

free my wholesome song give us someone to hang our hungry passions upon

i know you see it's emanating out of me

never told no one just how much of her heart i bleed

it's not the first time that these words i speak deceive me

you catch my feeling and flip it with deeper meaning

i can't begin to say the many ways in which i do revere her presence here

with all her patience and wild ways this child of both sides paints inspired incantations fit only for a queen

still i know i don't get it

but i'ma hold on to the hope that she'll set us free

we need a pathway to peace

please can we follow your lead

oh my goddess how can i explain?

everything that's been running through my brain

i feel you in my DNA and in my veins

i hope i can find the right words to say

oh my goddess i can't believe you've harnessed

all of the energy of universal progress

beauty and humility in the largest

oh my goddess

Word power through soul, like water through stone, carve beauty to earth.

A land in constant shift. A born remembrance.

A splintered sun. The ray of ages.

The mist of a generation. The constant clash of war.

In an hourglass of enemies, when unison finds dissonance like shots in the dark where the wildlife find it's meal.

To the fine and hungry few.

The eager among us. The fortunate few.

Found limits. Forgotten sorrows.

Slighted truths and filtered realities.

Condensed.

Abridged.

Drafted.

Called.

Stoned.

Tired.

But reborn.

Now I see why y'all stay. Can we just stall the day?

A moment of silence called and given. Split this minute all the ways. Take. All you want to take.

Hell we were born to make more.

I'll stay that course until the force is filling all our plates full.

I didn't say I know everything. I probably don't know the way but. Still I find the shine in all your souls is pulling me up.

All the way or half way. This way. That way. My way. Your way. Or.

All these styles of different people make me so faithful.

We can get passed this hatred. I know the line ain't straight yet.

With all our common ground and sound intentions we're so capable.

You're my only faith y'all. Don't get close then pull away though.

You take me right back home. You take my breath and soul away though.

Take that strong hold away. Toil and struggle and teach and build, repair and stand for stillness in this midst and let your soul escape.

Just let your soul escape. Take a moment, kick back, stop and meditate.

Now I see all my mistakes. Help me explore the ways.

A moment in passing shifts as fast as sunlight cast on darker day I.

Lay my soul away. Damned if I'll hold this weight back.

I'll keep my motion forward, scope wide open, no more take backs.

Finally found you a teacher. See an X on the ground beneath ya.

With all these living lessons, time and essence, growth is made next.

I'm my only paycheck. Don't go deep then surface break next.

You are your one true home, you built it, will you cultivate rest?

Words of the wise might reach ya. It's heard from the finest preachers.

With all this inner silence. Eyes fixed on the signs of greatness.

I'm my only way to test. Don't go deep then hesitate next.

I am a soul, a wild notion, I'm my only safe bet.

Take everything that's left. Breath and quiet and peace and simplify to stand for stillness in this midst and let your soul have rest.

Just let your soul escape. Take a moment, kick back, stop and meditate.

I could hold the world in the palm of my hands

I could hold the world in the palm of my hands if I could let it go

if I could learn to let it go

Live outside.

Outside of convention. Outside of norms. Outside the status quo and arbitrary lines.

Outside their well-defined petri dish border walls. Outside of yourself and outside their expectations.

Outside in the wild and unencumbered naturesphere.

Live outside in the woods and oceans and jungles and snowfields.

Outside beyond the learned monoliths of societies adrift.

Out beyond the breakers where water weights level off.

Outside of the ticky-tack boxes on hillsides.

Outside where that sun comes from you embrace when it lights your inside spaces.

All throughout our most innovative decades, we have never completely lost sight of the shear humanity of the connections we share. I stand before you now, the product of my network. Built by the hands of the multitude of organisms I sometimes feel apart from. Organism Earth. Organism Universe. The cosmos in a body of flesh. Pieces of me scattered across the vast expanse of non-linear time and space. A vibrating waveform in every pore. Light particles and dark matter. No empty to be filled. No blank space awaiting structure. No emotion to it's own. No separation but of man's creation.

A game of realities. A contemplation of perspectives. A long, drawn-out exhalation cresting it's inverse. In verses of poets gone to depths lie, in silence, the meter of mother and father spirit. Each unto itself, but a reflection to gods and goddesses formed for allegorical theatre. Understanding the whole from within, while playing only a part.

Stand to the star we call Sun and pause in the brilliance of transmission. Love in every language and interpret the scrolls. Bind electrons internal with no thought of the process. In containers of flesh, bone, fluid, muscle, nerve, brain, spirit and heart. In here, the process moves on it's own. An evolution beyond our making. And beyond our understanding.

The process continues. Within us. Without us. No need attempt ask why. Just enjoy the dance and laugh as the changes play.

I alone am a universe of wonder.

Today's Buddha must be extremely pliable and vigilant. To remain present in all aspects of daily life amidst an age of information and connection in real-time, across miles and multitudes of consciousnesses is a tall order.

A Buddha in the modern age of information.

Quite possibly, the here and now has expanded. And as such, quite possibly, the breadth of one's enlightenment has expanded right there in stride with it. Yet, the here and now has always included these consciousnesses from afar. The difference is, now they are amplified. They are more ubiquitous. They become glaringly obvious and much much louder.

How does today's Buddha handle and account for this?

Is it a deeper level to attain or is it the same?

Breath is always the best reminder. The closest of companions. The one true NOW foundation. Forever in step.

To focus here, on breath, will bring you back to the harmony.

When all our children have grown.

And all our elders gone.

When the chaos takes hold.

Who are we to say we're in control?

When all we build falls aparts.

And civilization's fallen off.

When the system takes it's toll.

Who are we to say we'll ever know?

Can I convince your mind?

Ease into it with a lifted spirit. Can you get this? Hear it?

Lift your fists up high.

Forget what the President says. He don't make no difference. Join the new resistant side.

Cuz me and my constituents added to our list of shit that we won't get with, right?

I'm not saying chose sides but who's coming along for the ride?

If all my days end up like this

And all my nights are clear

How could I end up like this

If all I need is here?

After the dust has settled, in the early hours of the brisk evening, by the skipping rock banks of the western most creek, the visceral sound of the call to gratitude can be heard feathering it's way steadily down from the mountain's top.

One might think the mist between would dampen the call's vibration but like a persistent child it rings it's reminder.

Somewhere beyond the fourth wall there exists a sidestep often overlooked in the search for integrity. A wild and natural born consciousness whose only touch of color comes through in altered states. As if to be reserved for moments unscripted like an unknown breath or windswept love affair. This kind of bewildered structure fills a space that acts more like a living lifeform than an empty to be filled

When morning breaks.

Before the yodeling fills the hills.

After the bars have closed and dreams completed.

Before the coffee and before the sausage hits the buttered pan.

After the prolonged goodbyes and the windy road. And after the nighttime laughter.

Before the morning songs of birds. And before the sunbeam breaks the peak of the bluff.

After the long day. And before the ship sinks.

Before the black sage on the dash hits my nose.

Before the first cars of sunrise.

After the mountain cracks let loose. And before the clouds cover the horizon.

Before the cigarette smokes. And after the ocean sleeps.

How many stars do you see?

Do you know what it looks like to watch the headlights of a passing car hug the winding mountain roads in the dark of night?

I have seen the coming and the going of the sightseers.

The passing of the light bearers.

The quandry of the needy. Hoping for one quick glimpse of the vast and nameless.

Like children in a maze. Hunters to the kill. Predators on a slow, thought-out stalk of wonder and amazement.

I have felt the pull of beauty so strong the oceans fill brimful with jealousy. They wake their ancient shores. A relationship so beyond that we know no language with which to describe their want. How simple we must seem - with no back and forth regular enough to satisfy their mission.

I am a hungry fish.

A jealous lover.

A star crossed Romeo.

An ill-fated star.

A disaster.

A natural rock.

A tired and unamused player with little at stake in a game beyond my capacity.

A laughing monarch.

A child.

A born loser in the robe of the victor.

I too have felt the lonesome call of an ocean of want. To touch the land one more time and wish for more. To steep in her wake. Awake in her steady silence.

Envelop me - I am Earth.

far and away from the world behind. tough to say and even harder to find. you light the path to my soul's escape. nobody told me love could go this way

I kno I'm safe and I'm bout to cave. simple love basics. I been tasting

the sweet fruit of the tree of life and I'ma drink. soften to your feminine now I'm sinking in. I've known for so long exactly what my place is. got me on a different vibe. new homeostasis

passing on love is not my style so I'ma stick around, take my time and let it out. girl you make it so easy to fall this way. you got the right rhythm and I wanna stay.