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Distant Skies

Kristen Cornwell

© 2003

your journey started years ago over a diff’rent sea

in your fathers eyes you saw the need to be

free as a bird, moving from place to place

the distant skies you’ve seen

are all apon your face

the day you landed here is etched in memory for me

the summer sun, the lemon tree, I didn’t need to breath

but now I see the look, it’s a call you can’t ignore

you’ve rested your wings for long enough

and now you have to go

I’m waiting to see your morning smile

you wear it to the core

such a breathless liason

how will I ever let you go

as we lie together again

bathing in lunar glow

I wonder how long will you stay

how long will you stay

I have my roots, my feathered nest, I’ve lived my life content

the starry blanket covered you and me before you went

the way you do. riding the waves

the tide goes in and out again

taking you from this place

waiting to see your morning smile

you wear it to the core

such a breathless liason

how will I ever let you go

as we lie together again

bathing in lunar glow

I wonder how long will you stay

how long will you stay

Lies

Kristen Cornwell

© 2004

Why do you seem to need to make me feel this way

The more I love you, the less you have to say

You think that you’re loving me

But you freeze me out

I know how I’m meant to feel

This isn’t what love is all about

CHORUS

You say you don’t tell me lies

Maybe what I am doesn’t satisfy

But while you’re still standing here

I don’t understand why you don’t want to see me fly

From where I stand you have it all

You think that life is a trap, so in you fall

I’ve been giving and giving and giving some more

Til my well is dry

The only one taking from you is that other self inside

Repeat CHORUS

You say ‘hey babe there’s something wrong with you’

And then and then the flowers arrive

The other you is untrue

All I can do is turn away

I say ‘this isn’t how I want our love to be

But you can’t see the way you’re pushing me’

We can’t go on, life is not a passion play

Repeat CHORUS

I think you’re running away, it’s the joy that makes you so afraid

You say the world is a mad and a bad place

All I can see is your face

You’d better watch out you’ll turn around one day

And the face of stone will be all alone

If you stand around and criticise

Don’t be surprised if nothing good will materialize

Repeat CHORUS

Breathe

Kristen Cornwell

© 2004

Grey days cast a shadow on my heart

I long for light to shine and life to start

Living in shadow is half a life

and not what I want for you and me

Empty feelings follow each goodbye

You hold my hand but tears still fill my eyes

I made my choices and I love you

but in darkness

all perspective disappears,

Drowning in my tears.

Longing for the southern sea,

Light embracing me.

No surprise I’m ill at ease,

though you try to appease my insecurities.

Winter catches me, lethargically,

deep in it’s drowning blue.

A new year dawns and soon it’s spring,

daylight’s sweetening.

Thawing like the ground beneath

I feel a deep relief.

Surrounded by aquamarine,

all at once serene, no longer trapped between

feeling lost; unseen, a refugee

and the girl that I always knew.

I wake before the dawn again my love

but now the dark embraces like a glove.

In shadow no longer, alive in my skin,

unfolding and blooming.

I can breathe again.

I Know You By Heart

Kristen Cornwell

© 2007

I recognise your touch

Your kiss I know by heart

My hands have traced your waist and back

It seems as though it’s years we’ve spent apart

A million times before

I felt your hand apon my cheek

Your words, a childhood song I know

and recognise the moment that you speak

We’re like mercury separated, no resistance to be met

A duet that’s lasted eons, no time for past regret

except it’s taken me so long to find you once again…

I will not waste a moment from now on.

I live a little death

each night I’m folded in your arms

And when I closed my eyes that first time

a heart beat strong and sure beneath your palm. 

River

Kristen Cornwell

© 2004

floating in the river, water kissed our skin

you took my hand and held me close

it felt like heaven we were in

dawn-light on the water

the moment bathed in gold

I can’t remember exactly when I felt myself unfold

and soon I was flying

a spiral spinning slowly

then higher in the air

soaring and gliding

I can’t believe it’s you that took me there

through the day I watched you sleep

wondering if I could keep on moving

you know I have to go away

my home is in another land

but I’ll be back to hold your hand in mine

so like children we can play

and soon we’ll be flying

spirals spinning slowly

then higher in the air

soaring and gliding

I can’t believe it’s you that helped me

see the picture from a higher place.

I never thought that I would find

the grace to ease my mind.

Longing

Kristen Cornwell

© 2007

Before the dawn light

before the sun hits my eyes

I’m all alone with my fears

feelings tumble and ride

A little courage, it’s time the child played it’s last.

You are my flesh and my blood

but tomorrow will silence the past.

I see you

and wish that you could be the one I need.

No reality is so clear every day your silence appears,

I can’t deny all the moments I needed you,

but there you were once more.

Your heart was cold,

you turned away again.

As the years fly and time is etched on my face.

I feel a peace in my world,

the longing has faded to grey.

A new day

and life moves on, a love in brand new guise.

I can safely say with a smile abandonment has faded with time.

Moments arise in a new life,

And spark’ling grace.

What grows inside is love,

despite the day

I had to say goodbye.