Rise

If I am asked to perform again, this will be the one. I just hope the children get it...

“Rise”

I’ll bear your hand
In this time of need
Guiding you
To the possibility
You forgot existed
There within your heart

Courage deep
Together free
We shall rise
Over land and sea
The key
Possibilities
To remember dreams
Lost beneath the cobalt wave
Echoing
On a forgotten branch’s sway

I’ll bear your pain
If you will listen
To stories old
The cautions they foretold
To songs that bleed
Of strength
Of need
To rise above all that is seen

Courage deep
Together free
We shall rise
Over land and sea
The key
Possibilities
To remember dreams
Lost beneath fields of dread
Echoing
In the sorrow of bowed heads

You bear my words
For a moment brief
As the time between
Joy and grief
But bear our dreams
In your lives extended
For a moment lost
Cannot be recaptured
But a moment forgotten
Can be repeated

Courage deep
Together free
We shall rise
Over land and sea
The key
Possibilities
To remember dreams
Lost beneath pallid sheets
Echoing
On batons that beat
To remember dreams
Lost beneath riffs and beats
Echoing
On your forgotten streets…
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