80. Life abroad

Filled to the brim with beauty and love
I feel myself float and rise off the ground
I gather momentum and continue to rise
and break through the atmosphere with sonic sound

Within a few seconds I boom once again
and land on a planet of somewhere afar
I'm met by a man who gives me a drink
enabling me to wander about

I see a vast culture of cities and people
going about, their very own day
but I'm also aware as I feel people near
of a slight twinge of darkness, of pain and of fear

I once had a vision to heal my own kin
and fill all of their lives with love and with grace
but it seems that this vision will also extend
to all of our brethren, spread across God's own face....

79. Medicine from afar

A gold Moai stands to a backdrop of stars
shining yellow and gold as opposed to our white
A star scape or night sky of a land from afar
is what I now look at in wonder and awe

Rongoa or medicine comes from our plants
it comes from the earth, the water and air
Similarly must it come from the elements
which give this new World it's own life and own form

"May I have some? Not for me - for my planet?"
I ask the Mowai who looks down with a smile
and instantly do I breathe in gold air
and bask in the radiance of these foreign stars

It fills my whole body, my spirit and mind
and fills me with beauty and lifts me up high
I turn and I thank the gracious Moai
for these gifts and his grace, which makes my heart cry...

78. The Light Within

The temperature in the room, goes really cold
and the dark seems to be even darker still
Impending fear and doom start to creep in
as waves of goose bumps run over my body

Somewhere a door slams and window glass bangs
and feet slowly move about my own house
and even the timber in the walls and the framing
start to creak, start to move - expand and contract

Deep in a slumber I hear the door handle
of my own bedroom door now twist and then turn
and far, far away from 3 blocks away
the voices of dead relatives taunt and torment me

Now gripped with fear and nowhere to turn
in a small, tiny voice come the words of a prayer
until louder and louder does my own voice now sound
as I belt out the words like never be for!

I swing from my bed and turn on the Light
hearing the foot steps now taking flight
I rip open the door and belt out a tune
about my little Light and how it will Shine

And whatever thought to taunt and torment me
by using the voices of those ones I love
You better be running straight back to the dark
because if I see you, I'll rip you apart

I wake in the morning and I'm really upset
but then take a deep breath and reflect on the night
I begin to realise as the Sun starts to shine
it's the Light that's inside us that makes the dark hide...