Who Wants to Live Forever?

Who am I?
What am I?
Why am I?
I am life!

I pause my mind deep in thought,

Mmmmmm, Silence.

There is nothing outside of blood but death and me.

Sigh. Silence.

I have the unlimited power without constraint in my capabilities,
Yet I live with the sweat, tears, toil and dreams of humanity.

I rest my head in my hands. Silence.

I feel no repentance in what I do in my unforgiving ways.
I am the all-powerfulness amorphous in my immortality,
But yes, I am perpetual never ending they say I am immortal.

I smile for I am still confused within this shell. And yet again silence.

I have mortal thoughts, flaws, mortal dreams and feelings.
If this body is wounded I bleed, my blood seeps out a deep red.

Feeling of pain returns, sigh, mmmmmmm silence.

Should I become deeply wounded this mortal body dies,
But my life, your lives can never die, we are forever.
We are. We are. I am. You are. We are life never ending.
We are immortality forever and ever.

I smile as music and word suddenly come into my head
I find myself singing the theme song from Highlander.

There's no time for us, there's no place for us.
What is this thing that built our dreams, yet slips away from us?
Who wants to live forever? Who wants to live forever?
There's no chance for us. It's all decided for us.
This world has only one sweet moment set aside for us.
Who wants to live forever? Who wants to live forever?
Who dares to love forever? One love must die.
You touch my tears with your lips. Touch my war with your fingertips
And we can't have forever, and we can't have forever.
Forever is our today.
Who wants to live forever, who wants to live forever?
Forever is our today.
Who waits forever anyway?

I sit in silence.
Then I am reminded that this mortal coil is not forever.

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Yesterday

Yesterday, I would have said to you that love could only exist with touch.
It is a word that helps to describe a feeling within that no other can see.
To touch, to kiss, to hold, to be forever near, feelings that are material.
To look into the eyes of a love that is in your arms and smile so warm.

When you're away you miss them and time drags so slow that it stands still.
Then exhilarance, you are on your way back to them and time moves a little faster.
Until you're back in their arms and a kiss, a hug, a look, three words I love you.
They mean the world to each and nothing will sway them to see different.

But today. Today is different. I know that love can be a friendship so very dear
A touch that is not needed between two, a kiss that can be spoken.
A look, a hug that can be felt from afar, to know when the other needs a gentle word.
To miss them, and know that they are missed too, to dream of that friend and hold them

Where time means nothing, when talking to the early hours is forgotten.
A frown can be a symbol, a laugh can be a moon, a smile can be warmth.
Feelings that are description provides how we feel from afar, and yet more.
To reach out and give support whenever danger is near
That's the love I have for a good friend my dear

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The Hill

I have sat here for so many years
And seen many a man-made change.
I have seen trees from acorns grow
And a grass that's so lush and green.

So many have come and passed me by
And some have lain by my side.
But many a tear has fallen here
Why must most of them be mine.

These men come to reach the top
To gain the upper hand.
The cover I give them is all they want
Won't they stop, and rest, at least.

But more men come to take the top
And leave behind the pain
Of death not needed here in my place
But I must their souls do take.

Now the trees lay broken, ragged and burnt
And the ground a crimson red
And my tears do fall for all mankind
As they lay here in an unknown bed.

Why do I sit here you may say
When all around me dies?
I cannot move. I cannot try.
Can't you see? I am the hill.

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She

How was I to know that within the year of contact with her
It would start to take my reactions, exhilaration's and feelings back to my youth,
the feelings that returned of my first ever-wonderful kiss.
A heady memory of long ago.

The feelings flowed over me engulfing me in a sensuality that grows with each contact.
I feel a loss each time I have to go.
There are a thousand reasons I can think of for not going
And each time a hundred less of why I should.

I'm sitting waiting and you return to me.
My heart beats loudly sending blood coursing through my body
Satisfying a pleasure that I awaited
to see you, to talk to you and so much longing to hold.

You become my reality in my dreams, an angel to watch over me, but I know you are real.
I awake and open my eyes just as the sun has risen.
Outside there is a Blackbird singing its song.
I lay and listen, it seems to be saying wake up pretty dear.

I turn and look into your face
Kiss your lips and you smile for me.
My dreams, my heart, my love, and my life never ending, just one more kiss.
I smile. Just one more kiss.

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Mists of Time

My thoughts wonder forever through the mists of time,
searching for the one who is the missing part of me.
The wind blows through the trees whispering her name,
each fluttering leaf moves as if waving to say goodbye.

In my heart I know she is forever like the wind,
moving elusively and yet I must continue forever onwards.
My mind never sleeping, my thoughts never stopping ,
she is my dream, my heart, my life never ending.

I have reached so near yet still been so far away,
feeling her breathing, her chest moving in rhythm to mine.
Her hair lying on my arms, her breath on my face,
the sweet smell of her body, I reach to hold her.

My arms embrace her, my lips reach to her and that kiss,
but again I awake and we are no longer there, the mists move on.
I stand on my mountain the king of the glens, and she?
Soars forever in the sky out of my reach an eagle of gold.

There is a time to come where the sun pushes away the mists,
the moon closes out the sun and again for ever we are one.
Until that time I search forever onwards, my dreams getting nearer,
and I can hear you calling me through the skies.

The dreams push us, and we move our destination calling,
across the highlands we move to our homeland of Skye.
The mists roll across sea from the Isle, calling us, calling us,
our hearts yearn to go and I hear you call me, and I swim.

Your wings of gold spread leading me through the mist
and my heart gains strength with each stroke
till again my feet touch the shores of our home.
Our time is near, my heart beats with emotion.

My speed carries me as if I to have wings
the wild mountain thyme and heather a blur beneath my feet.
We are here, we are in our place, the mists roll away
and we stand together waiting.

The sun reaches down holding us to our place.
Tears fall as the moon reaches forward darkening the sun
and we change, we turn and we are whole
our hands reaching out for each other.

The breeze brings to our ears the music that has forever been playing
and we have taken our song and lasted our journey.
Where the angels have walked we have conquered.
We have gained forever our eternal love, two are now one and will never part.

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Healing

On top of the world I can see forever
The clouds beneath my feet running with the wind
Dancing as they clip over the mountains
Swirling as they come to the edge to roll onwards.

I can encompass what I see and feel the earth as it moves.
My heart beats with emotion and I wander.
The breeze passes over me and continues its journey
Never resting busy looking for another place.

My heart like the breeze always searching
aching out for what is there for me if I look.
I am one by myself, I am one with you as a whole,
loving each other freely, touching each others life.

In our souls we can feel the change that is on us.
Each beat of our hearts tells us that we are forever.
Every smile is for you and each kiss a token of well being.
And each prayer I make, is a prayer for you, me, everyone.

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Glenn Quioch Forrest

As darkness falls on a sleeping land
And the wind does blow the leaves
The tree's they move their branches now
In a dance that we can't see.

A tingle jumps from leaf to branch
A message from tree to tree.
They talk about a maiden fair
That keeps them company.

And as the moon a rest does take
Behind a darkened cloud
A silver sparkle enters now the glen
And spreads upon the ground.

The lady of Glenquioch forest comes
A guardian of the Highland gate.
She has come to say its time to go
And they must step in haste.

The whisper spreads from tree to tree
And from the branches flow
A magic dust that moves the earth
And flowers down below.

And slowly out the moon does step
And there for all to see
A forest walking from the glen
To serve in history.

They march on swiftly in the night
The lady at their side
Passing farms upon the brae's
Where children start to cry.

The lady sings a gentle song
That calms them into sleep.
The breeze it lays a softened hand
With a dream for them to keep.

In the dawn they rest a while
And from the hills the people see
The glens where once a burn did flow
Filled with filled with leaf and tree.

And as the battle now approaches
The trees hide the highland folk.
The enemy is then sent asunder
Into the ground below.

Many a tree has fell this day
And as the folk now see
Its more than us that won this land
Its place and history.

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Dreaming of Friends

It can let you do many things in a lifetime of seconds.
You can fall in love with an angel; yet never know its name.
You can travel the oceans blue on the breath of a wind.

They can take you to the top of a tree for the purest of fruit.
It can make your heart leap and let you run like a deer.
Without even a breath you can walk for a hundred miles
And return to your sleep with love and all smiles.

A dream is the time that lets you see into.... whenever
And maybe, if you're one who can return to the same time and place
To continue your travels and enjoy hazy days
You will fly with the wind like my friend and me.

For me there is always a time we can share
With my friends from the oceans and lands so fare.
In my dreams we are souls who can travel back to the past
And each angel of light a guidance to last.

We watch over each soul and care for each heart.
We are friends who can travel and meet from afar.
We each can give guidance and love that is free.
We are friends of healing love that is you and in me.

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Dream

In my dreams
I will always be with you.
And in my heart
I'm there with you now.
I could be the summer's breeze
That caresses your cheek.
Or the brightest star
That shines for you in the night.
Or the whispering leaves
That rustles in the wind.
I could be the night shadow
That you don't fear.
Look and you will find me
For I am in your heart.
Reach in
And you will find my desires for you are my heaven.
Dream
And you will find me sleeping, waiting.
Listen
And you will hear me whisper I love you.
Look into the mists
And you will see me smiling.
Reach out
And I will take your hand in mine.
Close your eyes
And I will caresses your lips with a kiss

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Clearances

As I sit by this old and dusty road
And think upon its past
Of the weary traveller walking by
And the men who rode it fast.

The dust that even now is spread
Whenever the wind does rise.
And the sprits of children playing
In the burn and near beside.

I close my eyes and I can feel
The homes that stood nearby
And the presence of my fathers folk
Standing at my side.

I open my eyes so close to tears
At my country's fate in time
The scattering of its highland folk
Who held this land with pride.

The clearances of a people
That changed a land so good
For the greed and might of others
Where once brave Scots had stood.

I sit by this old and dusty road
Where the wind has blown away the past.
The road that once now is no more
Just a path now covered with grass.

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Ask Not of Us

Ask not of us this time we need to stop our way to fight
To feel the way we felt before, to stop our full run flight.
Hasten not to cast a spurn upon our talk of dreams
But give us freedom that we've earned for us no less it seems.

Let us tarry in our stance as we say a prayer to friends gone by.
Each tear that falls reminds us all in sadness we wonder why.
As the scarlet red do the fields adorn where once the soldiers lay
We remember them for what we have and freedom what we pay.

Just imagine one single prayer from a child upon his knees
Is taken on by just one more and it grows and grows with ease.
That single prayer is now a throng of people all in one
From country leaping onwards in a sound that won't be gone.

This prayer it gathers running fast from mouth to mouth it leaps
And the world is praying all as one, we stand upon our feet.
Then in one voice the world can say we in our time have made
A peace that conquers all our fears and never should it fade.

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Moonlight Of Emptiness

I sit here looking out of my window upon a clear star lit night
the infinity that surrounds making me feel the void inside,
the vastness of Time playing with the strings of my heart
each note echoing in the hollow left behind.

In my head the music has fallen silent, no longer wanting to play
My ears no longer listening to the world of noise that I have lost,
each time I gaze out upon the stars I see a face I loved
and with each vision come smiles that spreads across the heavens.

A fleeting smile comes to my face and the blood pounds through me
The pressure sounding like jet engines rushing within.
As suddenly as it came the sound has gone
And once more left inside is an emptiness without hope.

I close my eyes as a silver of tears appear in each corner
And once more look out my window the stars glittering wetly.
A flood of tears bursts forth as I shout her name in silence
My arms reaching out to hold… the emptiness of space.

They drop to my side slowly as my head sinks to my chest
And the void returns to pull at my heart strings.
Bright glittering, shining, sparkling stars that fill the heavens
They disappear above me and I rush down to meet the darkness.

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Walk with me

If I asked you to walk with me
would you put your hand in mine and let me lead you carefully across life.
Could I hold you close and caress you, whisper words of love
as we step together under the softness of a silver moon.

If I ask you to walk with me in light
could you place your arm in mine as we journey together
talk of our dreams, our plans, the future,
and all the wonders we will find as we go.

If I ask you to take my hand
keep you warm, let our spirits fly like the soft summers breeze,
would you laugh with me each morning, bring the warmth of love into each day
even if the future itself is uncertain.

If I asked you to walk with me in the heavens
laugh with me in the sunshine
would you have faith in this journey of life
could you take my hand and hold it till we reach the journey's end.

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