the benefits of patience
What about waiting?
How about going with the flow?
If all the stars burned out,
where would we go?
Would we fly to a new world?
Would you take me to heaven?
When the stars fall will you find me?
Will you live with me for a thousand years beyond the sun?
In a place where the wildflowers smell like cinnamon
and diamonds line all the pathways to the Milky Way?
If I wait for you,
will you sing me your song?
The one that calls the angels from their posts in glory,
holding their breath to catch the love?
Will you write me a poem that stops time,
clocks gathering rust,
because we are suspended
in a miraculous raindrop?
Why are we ever in a hurry?
The best things always take their
own time –
like watermelon growing sweeter on the vine
or your touch moving slowly down my spine
Grant me patience to live
with you
in this delicious moment
for all eternity
AL 6/11/13
life: acoustic & amplified 
Patience is not being concerned about this moment.
The past we cannot change.
The future we cannot know.
But in this moment we are free to act and react however we want.
Regrets are the past and dreams are the future.
They are important and they inform us, but in the end, it’s always about this moment.
So the task at hand always remains… be not concerned… without guilt or fear, each one of us look as best we can how can we share and care and love in this world we are in, in this moment.