(Cross)Roads of life

Standing alone in the silent rain...
Looking on as lightning flashes...
Peering deep through the clouds inside...

Seeking not shelter nor warmth...
A pungent dread, a nameless fear...
Of the unknown, of tomorrow...

To turn left or to turn right?
Frozen on the crossroads of life...
Looms indecision as adventure fights comfort...

Haven't we found ourselves at this junction?
How many times have we had to choose?
But aint that the beauty of this journey we tread?

That its we who create our own destiny...
Seeking but those jewels of happiness...
Staring down the road less traveled...

I have a dream...

There's a land in my dreams...
My dreams that fly off...
Without waiting for me...
Without taking me there...

There where the sky does meet...
With the beautiful sea...

Where the songs are sung...
With melody ringing...

Carpets of flowers while the brook flows by...
Green lanes as the golden Sun passes by...

Vague but tantalizing...
Silent but calling...

There lives my pretty dream...
That I may never reach...

But leaves me with a tease...
Of where I can hope to find peace...

The Evening...

The fresh breath of the evening breeze...
The crimson splashes on the evening sky...

I stand 'neath them shady trees...
With branches low and the path below...

The crisp air and the fallen leaves...
Play the swan song for today...

Birds and cattle drift back home...
As Mother Earth watches easy and away...

Nought have I my heart fixed...
Drifts easy as the caressing breeze...

The day draws close to its elegant end...
As drops of dusk fall among the grass...

Like a distant dream at that late hour...
I hear the soft silence weighing down...

I watch as the night breaks in...
With the bright stillness of the pallid Moon...

Teachers' Day

I know I wasn't among the best behaved,
Neither was I the among the most attentive...

Nor among the most appreciative,
And definitely not among the most studious...

But for preparing me to appreciate life,
And everything in it...

From the birds in the sky,
To how the rainbow appears...

From gratitude to say 'Thank you',
To courage to speak when I should...

For the times when I haven't thanked you,
For the times when I haven't appreciated...

At this time when I look back,
I greet all my Teachers on Teachers' day...