tell me truly
When you said bread did you mean blood?
When you said desire did you mean desert?
When you said people did you mean punish?
When you said thought did you mean terror?
When you said read did you mean riot?
When you said friend did you mean fraud?
When you said connection did you mean kin?
When you said love did you mean leave?
When you said law did you mean lie?
When you said army did you mean Armageddon?
When you said health did you mean hell?
When you said together did you mean token?
When you said we did you mean war?
When you said fat did you mean fate?
When said soil did you mean oil?
When you said earth did you mean own?
When you said destiny did you mean decimate?
When you said honor did you mean hunger?
When you said mother did you mean murder?
When you said father did you mean fatal?
When you said couple did you mean capital?
When you said poetry did you mean passive?
When you said hope did you mean hype?
When you said freedom did you mean forget?
When you said last did you mean lost?
When you said fame did you mean game?
When you said name did you mean nobody?
When you said tomorrow did you mean never?
When you said meekness did you mean mockery?
When you said faith did you mean fanatic?
When you said politics did you mean power?
When you said wealth did you mean wall?
When you said poor did you mean prison?
When you said foist did you mean fast?
When you said fellow did you mean follow?
When you said feeling did you mean fallow?
When you said brother did you mean brutal?
When you said sister did you mean suffer?
When you said man did you mean master?
When you said woman did you mean wither?
When you said white did you mean welcome?
When you said black did you mean back?
When you said yellow did you mean yield?
When you said brown did you mean ground?
When you said I did you mean island?
When you said ideal did you mean idol?
When you said God did you mean greed?
When you said they did you mean threat?
When you said us did you mean use?
When you said succeed did you mean sucker?
When you said joy did you mean joke?
When you said end did you mean endure?
When you say art do you mean act?
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Power by John Keene
I am the wind which breathes upon the sea,
I am the wave of the ocean,
I am the murmur of the billows,
I am the ox of the seven combats,
I am the vulture upon the rocks,
I am a beam of the sun,
I am the fairest of plants,
I am the wild boar in valour,
I am the salmon in the water,
I am a lake in the plain,
I am a world of knowledge,
I am the point of the lance of battle,
I am the God who created the fire in the head.
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– Amairgen, ed P. Murray
traditionally believed to be the first poem ever composed in Ireland
i am the fire on the mountain
i am the fire by the sea
i am the fire in the forest
burning down trees
i am the fire in the desert
i am the fire in the snow
i am the fire that will warm you
when your bones have grown cold
i am the fire for your shelter
i am the fire for your bread
i am the fire for your hunger
whenever you go to bed
i am the fire on the water
i am the fire that is near
i am the fire burning your words
consuming your doubt and your fear
i am the fire of your longing
i am the fire of your soul
i am the fire of your loving
i will never grow cold
i am the fire for your winter
i am the fire for your spring
i am the fire of your living
passion i bring
i am the fire of destruction
i am the fire where you die
i am the fire of your Phoenix
as you rise, as you soar, to the sky
Amy Lloyd (AL)
Let’s be nothing
You and I
let’s stand together
Souls naked
skin removed
take me into you
I will do the same
We will be fog
Rising as Mist
absorbing each other’s colors
You will become me
I am already you
our hearts are one
and always the same
as we fade into this ethereal moment
nothing for eternity
everything this is
for all the existence thereafter
☁️
Amy Lloyd (al)
Breathe, breathe in the air
Don’t be afraid to care
Leave but don’t leave me
Look around and choose your own ground
For long you live and high you fly
And smiles you’ll give and tears you’ll cry
And all you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be…
~Pink Floyd
life: acoustic & amplified 