Words & Music

by Mike Power

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  • The Way I Came In

    I’m going out the way I came in: Naked, bald, and screaming I will sink like everyone else Into the quicksand of lost dreams And fading, faulty memories I’m going down the way I came up With the weight of the world pushing in Pushing me, always, forward Read more

  • Lucky Man

      Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its little care. Yesterday you were trembling for the health of one who is dear to you, today you fear for your own; tomorrow it will be an anxiety about money, the next Read more

  • The Path

    There is a path inside my heart that leads to you A path of sand for naked feet to sink into I walk the path while the sun comes Out of the sea And follow footprints that can only Come from you I walk the path on a cold night without a star I reach Read more

  • This Foreign Land

    This foreign land I once called home is calling me back again now that the hours have rolled around and the hands on the clock point back to the start I hear the old language, cracked in some places, broken in others, but familiar enough to be recognized still telling the old stories and laughing Read more

  • This Night

    This night That is so much like all the others except For the way the wind whispers And the way the trees tell All the stories that they have been hiding And the secrets that slipped through their snares This night That is not like the others at all Because nothing is standing between us Read more

  • Overlapping realities…

    We live in several overlapping worlds, and to believe that one is more real than the others is to miss the whole point of existence. They are all equally real, but some deserve higher priority than others. The one that deserves the highest priority is the one based solely on love. Read more