"it Just Gets Worse" by Bobby Torpey

It is so unhappy.
It has been this way;
Long time, no end in sight.
And every day,
It just gets worse.

I tried to give;
Tried to make it happy.
Gave it kindness,
Gave it space.
Accepted it,
Helped it.
But it just gets worse.

I don't know it,
Won't know it.
Can't seem to reach it;
And every day it just gets worse.

"God's Song" By Bobby Torpey

The priestess in the chapel
And her trembling hands;
And her enchanted eyes;
And her enraptured soul;
And the sight of her weakened body
As it sank to the floor...
And the sight of stunned onlookers seeing
In their eyes, a victim;
But in her own eyes,
In her own soul,
Her being was drawn
To a more liberating vision;
it was the presence of the lord...

The law was never passed,
The sin was never committed,
But, somehow, all the Earth seems locked
In hatred's squalid Dance of Death.

No one was saved,
No one was found.

But our savior is already within us.
He dwealeth in silence;
Awaiting the sound.
He stayeth in secret;
Losing himself,
In order to be found.

He stays in the womb of our souls,
Awaiting the birth of our hearts...

Laughter, By Bobby Torpey

"Doctor, my eyes cannot see the sky
Is this the price for having learned not to cry..."
~Jackson Browne~


Laughter is one of the first freedoms. So is crying.
The liberation and release borne on wings of expression.
Only through the free reign of emotion can we give birth to the human soul.
Only the emancipation of the heart can give rise to the myriad manifestation of human glory.
Children must be made to feel, to sense, to express, to touch and to revel.
In this climate, true life can begin.
In this climate of all that is wondrously human;
All art, all science, all games, all charity, all community
All family, all hope.

I only hope that i haven't unwittingly killed off my own feeling center....

This was written approximately 10 years ago as a first draft, and never expanded...

Keep Dreaming ;)