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Norwegian Rain

He pulls in their driveway with a broken tail light
He grabs his jacket and he yawns just like
He always does when he's coming home
Feeling like the hell in a fiery pit
Of a life broken
He's never told her this

He picks up a bouquet of yellow and reds
Walks past the dog and pats his heads
Inside he's steady, cause he getting ready,
To give her a bouquet of a dozen roses

(Chorus 1) With a diamond bracelet wrapped around it,
"Maybe I'm not so broken; maybe I'm the only man she loves"

She's sipping Kahlua; she's smoking again
While sitting at the table - they’re her suppertime friends
He walks into the door with a smile on his face
She feels his mood and her heart is torn
He's still so distant
She couldn't miss it

He hands her the bouquet and says,” I love you, babe"
Inside she's dying cause so afraid
He doesn't know her; but he's trying to show her

(Chorus two)
"I don't need roses, I don't want diamonds
Give me rivers; show me flowers... in the wild.
Let me drift in their sleepless eyes
I'm getting older
And roses and diamonds whisper death
To me …
Wrapped inside a fantasy

“I was born in the wintry Norwegian rain
I walked into your eyes, not the money in your name
You showered me with diamonds
Diamonds and roses”

"Thanks, but no thanks" she says as she walks away
I know you're trying but don’t bury me this way
I fear night and fear the cost
Of life with distractions and a mission lost
In field of empty causes
I need streams and dreams
I need emotion
Yeah there is sacrifice,
If we want the best in life"

"All I really need
Is just a shower of proof
That there's laughter in rain
And love in the pain
A guard of my heart and a showering mist
of emotion ...
It’s such a small token
When you cherish someone the way
I've cherished you...
Why couldn't you cherish me, too?"

With shaking hands, he tilts his head
"Do watcha gotta do; let me leave instead
I brought you roses; don't rub my nose in it
Telling me you told me so
Laughing while you're letting me go
Yeah, I'm better alone
I'll keep the diamonds, the diamonds
and roses
For someone who appreciates it"

(Chorus three)
Diamonds and roses
Two hearts broken
In a bouquet of yellow and reds
And sleepless eyes inside a story that always ends
It’s a painful death
But it’s the only one they get

He pulls out of the driveway with a broken tail light
He left his jacket with the diamonds inside
He left the roses
Hoping she notices
His broken life inside the mountains where her Norwegian heart reigns;
His broken life and the dark side of his name
In diamonds, diamonds and roses.

Written by theresa smith halfacre

September 29th, 2005, 4:39 p.m.






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Outside Illusions

We tremble in dreams
Believing in some sort of rainbow
We follow what seems
The answers to our prayers
But if we stop to listen
Just what will we hear?
Temptation all around us,
Reality seeped in fear…
And who really loves you
When the end is near?

We dance in the night
Believing in some sort of magic
We kiss songs good night
Then put them away ‘til the next time
If we stop to listen,
What does the song say?
Does it say “I love you?”
Or, “I must go away”?
And who really knows,
And who really cares?
In the end we’re left with the tears
A promise we’ll see better years.

We wake in sun
Believing that sunshine will calm us
We step out the door
Raindrops fall from the porch
We step into the feeling
We love the way it plays
Softly rolling on our skin
It’s sunshine wrapped in a dream
But who will believe
Those raindrops are not a burden?
They’re joy from within
A storm blowing through us again
It’s laced with love and laughter
And placed inside for ever after
It’s not just a dream
It’s not just a moment’s thunder
It’s what you believe
It’s wonder and wonderful

And love never ends
It’s more than magic and dreaming
It’s weaving a plan
When we feel we’re at the end
And when we don’t know the reason,
We need something to believe in …

Believe in…
The tremble in dreams
The dance in the night
The walk in the sun
The wrapping up in raindrops
Then sadness will wash away
It’s just imagination
That makes us turn away
But hold to the dream and believe
And the dream will believe in you
All it takes is the illusion to make your dream come true.

theresas smith halfacre, august 21, 2005, 6:49 p.m.

Thinking of Kennon





What Have We Become?

I have walked the desert
Falling in the sand
Choking in the heat of time
Blooming in a clouded mind
I dance in the fury
I hide in the fear
I live in the worries
Of every single year

CHORUS
What have we become?
Traveling lands of such extremes
Hot by day and cool by night
Exploring newer dreams
I believed a colored rainbow
Would always see us through
But the color of denial
Leaves me cold and far from you
Cold and far from you

Years we have wasted
Meet an irreplaceable end
Lost in the moment
It’s so easy to pretend
That all the lies you told me
Brought this journey to an end
While a desert abandons all it traps
In a sun that never sets


What have we done?
Walking in the rain
My dreams were in a cradle
Rocking all alone again
Sadness shocks me in my sleep
It’s early morning once again
I never would have walked away
Had you only been my friend
Had you only been my friend

What have we become?
Will I ever be the same?
We’ll never be together
Or play these foolish games
Still my lies need your bitterness
They’re calling out your my name
My lies need your bitterness
To share some of the blame

What I have become;
Will I ever be the same?
The truth is I just don’t know
How to live with all this pain.

Written by theresa smith halfacre, June 22, 2005, 11:19 p.m.





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Layers of Life

Layers of life fall to the floor
Swept under carpets and broken screen doors
Like dust in the desert and dreams of desire
Layers upon layers surround me like fire

Memories resurface, piece by piece
Mostly in quiet refuge, I process my grief
The mind will protect every dream ever lost
Frightened and alienated, we suffer the cost

Never in my life would I believe I would break my vow to God.

I have searched for you in my sins and creations
I have struggled through every lawful temptation
Ouestioning every damaging thought
Sickness and contemplation were the answers I got.

One more layer dresses the floor
It weaves my mistakes into one hundred more
Confused and bewildered I stay in my shell
Looking like heaven, but dreaming of hell.

You never broke your vow to God or silence.

For a lifetime I accepted rejection with a smile
Understanding complacent lives firsthand in denial
Standing seconds away from one who protects
Others will benefit from my loss and neglect

I’ll never again believe in fairytales
Like layers of life, they slip into failures
Remind me again sometime why I’m foolish
And I’ll remind you again that I’m not what I wished …
Or hoped I could be in your heart.

This grief is ours to share equally.
Finally, we are united forever in what we have broken.

Written by theresa smith halfacre, april 29th, 6:17 p.m.






An Angel For Mom

When you wake she sits in your sunrise
When you travel she stands along cotton fields
When you look to the sky she gazes back from willow trees
When you're sad she gathers buttercups and rainbow butterflies,
And scatters your worries in crystal lakes where they become miracles.
when you sleep she cuddles you in yellow roses and whispers your name to God.

theresa smith halfacre, may 16, 2001

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An Angel For My Aunt

When you are lonely, she brings you companionship.
When you feel pain, she brings you a gentle hand to hold.
When your dreams are uncertain, she brings you the bread of life.
When you feel quiet, she brings you the song of the white-throated sparrow,
And spills her loveliness into an everlasting ribbon of hope.
She only drifts from your side for uncommon occasions --
To re-color every flower when you fear imagination.
She is your carriage. She is your self-control. She is the mirror of generosity.
She is the angel who speaks your name softly to God, and seals your life with His kiss.

Written by theresa smith halfacre, March 25, 2005, 1:46 a.m.





Nicholas Road

It was his last supper and my last song
One more reason to walk along
The dusty curves that wind their way
To a memory on that old highway
There’s a sparkle of sadness and a miracle of life
In this story of Nicholas Road

I can hear his voice clearly as he giggles a little scream
“Spaghetti please, spaghetti please
No sauce, no sauce, just parmesan cheese”
Smiling through that freckled face
His green eyes they lit up this place
Just before it became Nicholas Road

(Chorus)
Nicholas Road
Nicholas Road
I can still hear the sounds on Nicholas Road
Nicholas Road
Nicholas Road
He was seven years old that day on Nicholas Road

Toy soldiers in his left hand and peace his right
Riding in the back seat, the Calvary didn’t fight
The Indians or any man, why should they hate?
In this life we’re all one, we must cooperate
We must cooperate if we’re ever to believe
In the lives Nicholas saved unknowingly
That day on Nicholas Road

He was a little Robin Hood
A miracle of life
A just communicator who taught us wrong from right
No one could imagine the gunshots that day
A fallen hero and a mighty lad
Taken in a foreign land
Taken but not forgotten, his heart still beats on...
On Nicholas Road.

(chorus)

Every time the wind blows
I hear his voice and kiss the face of Nicholas.

Written by theresa smith halfacre, April 30, 2005, 5:30 p.m.





His Dream

He said, “I have a dream”
It’s about equality for every human being
Men and women everywhere
Hear my labored prayer
Intolerance has a consequence
In God’s eye’s, we’re all significant
And free…(free, we have to believe in the dream…)

The path he chose in life
To change the world through sacrifice
Inviting every child of man
To believe and understand
His witness to the world
And make our hearts more pure
And free …(and free, we have to believe in the dream)

Living for justice
That’s what love is
He challenged a nation
To free racism
What’s the price we pay
When we pull ourselves away
From the dream, his dream,
The dream for which he died?

One man spoke God’s words
As he walked in a daring search
Of what we need from birth
The dream of our self worth

Don’t pull yourself away
Pain is the price we pay
When we turn ourselves away
From the dream, his dream,
The dream for which he died.

Written by theresa smith halfacre, May 7, 2005, 11:02 a.m.





Unforgiving

There’s a woman who sleeps without dreaming
There’s a woman who dreams without sleep
What should they do when the night is through?
There’s a woman without you.
They keep on dancing cause love never ends
Yeah, they're still laughing in lies and pretend
But there are dreams and there is sleep
They wonder when the two will meet …
If ever.

There’s a man who gives without taking
There’s a man who takes but doesn’t give
What should they do when the night is through?
There’s a man without you.
They're praying and praying ‘cause love never ends
And they're living and dying in lies and pretend
But someone gives and someone takes
They wonder what they must forsake...
If ever.

There’s a child who is crying in stillness
There’s a child whose stillness is tears
What should they do when the bruising is through?
There’s a child looking for you.

And we’re all the same in this little game
This game of unforgiving
We sacrifice the best in life just to make it, just to make it
Bend the oak but don’t break it, no don’t break it
Fake it little fool, fake it.
Life is everything no one told you about,
And you’re nothing with everyone else
If we don’t help each other make it.

Let the woman sleep
Let the man pray
Let the child cry ‘til he mends his breaks
Take the battle ground from our backyards
‘Cause we’re better than this, we’re strong, we’re free
We can walk right out of poverty
If there’s you, there’s her, there’s him and me
If there’s God, then there’s life, the hell with them
We’ve got to start believing in unforgiving
Or we’ll never make it.

Written by theresa smith halfacre, June 12, 2002, 2:40 a.m.





Final Sunset

How I wish you were in love with me
You use to love so easily
The way you’d hold my hand and stroke my face
We would walk down to the small café
And I would softly say your name
Over and over again in my mind
I wonder what’s become of us
Now I’m just a shell of what I used to be
Time has slipped away from us
Years they’ve passed, my feelings have gone
And all the gods they stare down at me
And laugh aloud so cheerfully
What’s become of us, why should they care?
We’re one less broken soul for them to fear

There’s a man in the window looking at me
His eyes tells me he’s lonely
His white hair hangs far below his face
I swear I overheard him say
To the picture on the windowsill
“How I wish you would come back to me,
You walked away so easily
Life, just like feelings come and go
All those memories mean so much to me
I hold you close and make believe
Safe beneath my chest, you’re in my arms
Won’t you please, please come back to me?
We can love if you would just believe
But then again, I don’t even believe myself.
And all the gods they laugh so cheerfully
I wonder what it is they see
A frail old man who’ll die alone and scared
What’s become of us, why should I even care?”

There was a baby in the middle room
I remember looking out to her
Little baby you left home way too soon
Your eyes they closed, then mine did, too
I never thought I’d lose you
A minute without breath, then you were gone
All my hopes have turned towards the dirt
My God what’s left here on this earth?
I’m just a shell, there’s nothing left for me
I look down and kiss broken wings
My little baby girl and me
I’ll meet you there in heaven in just an hour
The gods are laughing in your dust
They’ve taken you away from us
You’ve fallen; you’re nowhere near
And left me in this world alone again.
I thought you would have been a better friend.

Oh my God what has become of me?
I’ll never know, my dreams they shattered distant in the ground
And every branch that’s staring back at me
Is broken and afraid of me
They push into my thoughts and hold me down
I know the gods who laugh so easily
They know my thoughts, they trust my fear
They know that I’m right here
And I’m never, ever really going home
‘Cause I can’t wait another day alone
All the world has gone away
I’m sure that there’s a better day
Right now’s “better” is too far away.
Lives - just like feelings - come and go
And the gods, they’re the only one’s who care.
I know cause they’re the only one’s who’s there.

“How I wish you would come back to me
My child, you slipped so easily
I look in fear that you never will be found
I never stop calling out your name
Or fight the gods and their wicked game
All in the name of human gain
For souls to live inside their brain
The nightmares will stop I promise you
They’re just dreams that won’t come true
Let them go and give them all to me
I promise once you do
You’ll see you’re home in heaven
And everyone’s waiting here for you
You died a long, long time ago
Feelings, just like life, come and go
Let them go and come into your home
I promise you will never be alone.”

Written by theresa smith halfacre, March 21, 2005, 10:25 p.m.





Crippled Dandelions

Silent days carry me from moment to moment
Like the continuing chime of unforgotten spoken words.
I piece time together under a veil of blue while picking crippled dandelions.
Surrounded by water they thrive alongside wilted memories that weave between my fingertips, floating within heaven and bordering hell.
Thin layers of crystal shelter them, just as the skin protects emotions that seep inside.
Soft-spoken words and crippled dandelions meet in the middle, and somehow become
A beautiful centerpiece on my breakfast table.

Written by theresa smith halfacre, april 4, 2000, 1:37 a.m.




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One Day

One day
one prayer will touch the world
God will listen and not wonder what he heard
Fallen heroes everywhere, severed in the ground
No one ever notices, they’re faceless in a crowd
Disposable and dying in the lost and found.

One day
one prayer will touch one little girl
Standing in the prowl of her sacred little world
Bruises blacken up her back, following the attack
No one ever notices because she’s black
Close your eyes and just forget, just forget

One day
one prayer will touch the enemy
And those we think we care about the least
Their face is different but their eyes still shine
No one notices it is we who divide
The history that ultimately unites us in one vine

One day
one prayer will touch every ailing man
Who seeks shelter for his family and food for friends
He is weak physically, but I promise you he believes
No one notices while he’s praying on his knees
“Dear God, please protect us with your mercy.”

One day
one prayer will touch Mother Earth
And restore what we destroy, it has no worth
The animals are weak, we made them so
We lock them up and kill their souls
In a canned hunt and victory show

One day
one prayer will touch this heart
Healing fears that keep my eyes apart
Playing in the playground, dancing as I please
One day no one will notice me
One day isn’t soon enough for me.

Written by theresa smith halfacre, May 1, 2005, 10:02 p.m.





Mixed Bliss

Clusters of voices suck us into
Deafness while outstretched arms
Rise and fall like imitations of
Birth and death that live
In The Continuum.
Who will bless the losers who drink God’s
Mercy in one end,
And piss it out the other?
While darkness breaks through light,
And raindrops whisper laughter,
The sunlight screams in chaos.
We adorn ourselves in robes
To cover sin,
While bliss tries to decipher whose blood
It is that sends mixed messages.
The flesh on our skeleton seems to reveal
The truth through the face of a mime.
Truly, I wonder what brought us to this place,
Apart from Christ and The Fallen?
I lose grace and am weak with fear,
For I know midnight waits on neither the
Bride nor groom
Who only take root
In the needles of a Carolina Pine.

Heaven and Hell reconcile in our minds.
Welcome to life as we know it, live it,
And prefer it.

theresa smith halfacre, October 10, 1999




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The River

He walked down to the river
He couldn’t get away
The nightmares kept on following him
Day after day

And there in the river
He washed them all away
Washed all of his memories
Into another day

She walked down to the river
She couldn’t find a way
His promises kept following her
Day after day

And there in the river
She washed them away
Washed away the promises
He gave her that day

Chorus
I’ll love you until I die
I’ll love you until I die
For the rest of my life,
I’ll love you until I die

Dreams in the river
Nightmares left their side
Swallowed in the waters flow
They left them far behind

And there in the river
Understanding runs free
For two young lovers
Who never came to be

Their love is known to no other man
Nor, bride to be
Kingdoms and far away lands
Hear them call perpetually

Chorus

Written by theresa smith halfacre, May 3, 2005, 2:43 a.m.





Self Image

Evenly balanced in bitterness
Unbeliefs remain uncertain of their ability
To live in broken pride
Striving for independence
Away from criticisms and judgments
And pressures of other minds
I step in a willow of shyness
And self pity slowly dies

Jealousy is nowhere
Only sadness in my faults
Wandering in what interests me
I fall ten steps behind
Trying to gain acceptance
And finding it nowhere
Except in excuses
Hiding another hostile lie

Fear of betrayal and nights of decay
Wrap around my sighs
I’ve taken for granted my life as a wife
And avoid uneasiness tonight
A conflict, a convict, a memory splits
Elsewhere and unknown
A common suspicion; I think I should listen
Instead, I speak in rhymes

Guilt touches my inner thigh
And isolation stands inside
Fear of failure and love of pleasure
Never do I hide my humiliation from Christ
I simply stand at his feet
Mourning in inferiority and disbelief
That He might still love me
And all of my disappointments

Sometimes intense but more often dense
My self-image steps aside
Elsewhere I travel and quickly unravel
In hopelessness and beaten cries
Seeking to please; my motives seem real
Though unattainable by pressures of life
My heart will stop beating one last time
And leave me far behind

Falsehoods surround me everywhere
I feel it happening all over again
Stubborn and subtle I choke inside
A punishment easily justified
A wrong situation in a dual mind
I cripple myself for life
A signature makes me a widow
While a lover quickly recognizes
How very small am I.
How very close am I
To nothing.

Written by theresa smith halfacre, June 20, 2005, 2:27 a.m.




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What Becomes of a Woman?

What becomes of a woman
when morning no longer awakes
in a gentle sunrise?
What becomes of a woman
when she borders heaven
and hell,
and cannot see which one
dances in violins,
and which one dances
in fire?
It can become a winding dance.

What becomes of a woman
when one hand collapses as the other
guards the soul?
What becomes of a woman
when she borders reality
and dreams,
and cannot see which one
is forever,
and which one lingers
in the abstract?
She sees life as an enemy from
which she cannot escape.

What becomes of a woman
when she becomes common?
What becomes of a woman
when Little Explorers drown
in twin springs that never tasted
life across water?
Lifeless bodies with little
hands reach beyond dirt,
but never does she hold them.

What becomes of a woman
when falling in love and
going home become one
untouchable beauty?
Everything she loves naturally ...
All of her laughter,
All of her joy,
All of her tears,
All of her fears,
gather in a world she cannot follow.
Ultimately, the journey must end
within a society that refuses
to travel into an unexamined
wilderness.
She said no to him when he
promised log cabins and swing sets.
When he was certain of life,
she hesitated in moments.
Caught in her reality and
commitments, he left
her with the promise
that he would love her
in darkness and light
forever,
and life would be good
to both of them.

What becomes of a woman?
What becomes of a woman?
I guess I’ll never know.

written by theresa smith halfacre, march 23, 2000, 1:34 a.m.





World Apart

It’s one more winter and one more song
One more reason to walk along
A forest without trees
Bare branches meet curiosity
On the other side of me

There’s a canopy of memories
I cannot grasp their meanings
Let them settle in my corner world
Never to disturb the sacred unheard
Or touch the other side of me

Chorus
It’s one more late night winter
One more broken heart
One more feeling the grass is greener
In a world apart
I’m out of time and I’m out of prayers
I’m out of breath and I’m scared to death
Watching life from my side, in a world apart

There’s a melody awaiting me, impassable and still
An hour ago it haunted me from a windowsill
Endless blackness, endless night, feathers of a bird
Fall away, let the sun eclipse every smile and hurt
Lost and trapped in dreams not facts
Nothing ever merges; it dangles from words
That I never heard
On the other side me.

Written by theresa smith halfacre, March 13 3:35





Lost

Voices from multiple shadows
speak to me,
while the flesh of the moon
falls from the sky.
The light of The Son settles
on the harlot who hides
under eyes of scrutiny.
Wresting with the shadows,
she screams hollow thoughts
from empty,
benevolent strangers.

Discussions burst into silence.

written by theresa smith halfacre, 2/18/00, 12:32 P.M.!!!!!




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Falling Down

Someone told me you followed your dream
And became everything they wanted you to be
A scented notepad in your left hand
And the writings on the wall
You kept his picture in your locket
To make you swear that you’re never going home

Chorus
And the roses, they need water
As their petals fall to the ground
And a heart breaks like a daughter
Who’s longing for a love never found

You’ve been teaching common knowledge
But there’s nothing common about hell
Right or wrong you’re still falling down
Beaten in a common battleground
No one knows anything in this town
Next door neighbors, yeah they're never to be found

There’s inspiration in a whisper
When the average talk can’t be heard
Red rose vases in the bedroom
Arranged by a hand that never learns
He comes walking in the back door
Yeah, well who said opposites attract

Too soon tomorrow you’re face shaded
In the colors of the petals on the ground
Someone told me you followed your dream
And you’re everything you want to be
You’ve got your life and your perfect family
Tell me why then, did you swear then, that you
were never going home?

What did he promise this time around?
Broken dreams don’t have to break you down
A dime a dozen are falling to the ground.

Written by theresa smith halfacre, March 15, 2005, 12:13 a.m.





Hotel Belmont 25

All night driving on for hours
Hotel Belmont 25
Headlights breaking down my powers
Love fails and I never really know
Why he has my heart
And let me go
Hotel Belmont 25
It was the last time we said goodbye

Daydreams, thinking of a lifetime
Two cents
It’s more than money in my mind
When you’re receiving end of unkind
False eyes
Don’t count on another “next time”
Hotel Belmont 25
It’s just of memory
Another story left behind

I’m not sure why I feel this way
A little a crazy, a little shame
Forget this life and forget my name
In one more empty track of pain

What words called for this absurdity?
Full moon
Fades away with disloyalty
My one trust
My one friend in the walls of my sky
You walked away
When I pulled out of sight
From Hotel Belmont 25

I’m not sure why I cannot go back
Last glance, another cruel attack
Someone rained on my parade
Full moon; guides me back into insane
You crushed my dreams and threw away
All the magic from inside
The spiritual ghosts that you hide
From the second story of Hotel Belmont 25

Full moon and Hotel Belmont 25
You are my enemy for life
I’ll forget your light and the sign
That read “Hotel Belmont 25”

Written by theresa s. halfacre, July 21, 2005, 4:22 p.m.





Today and Tomorrow

I dress in black
With a diamond cross necklace
Prepared for anything
And ready for nothing
The day was fine
And things look good
So, what shall I do with today?

I walk down the stairway
My face towards the door
I catch my reflection uniting
With the heartpine floor.
My heart it beats a little reckless
And my thoughts … a little restless.
Awakening from my slumber
Once again, I begin to wonder
What shall I do with today?

Chorus
What should I do with tomorrow?
Where shall I lay your name?
In the crevices of sorrow
I crawl inside my pain.
There I find a safe harbor
And there’s peace on earth
And brotherhood and goodwill
And though I don’t know what to do with tomorrow
I know what to do with today.

Things look pretty good today
I can fake and pretend and make life real again
It doesn’t matter how I really feel.
I toss back my hair and rock in chair
I tune in to CNN and watch the war in Afghanistan
Blood and guts and war and death.
I begin to feel at home.

Written by theresa smith halfacre, November 21, 2001, 12:52 a.m..






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Sweet Dreams

She sees the daylight come to end
Pulls the shades down again
Turning thoughts inside her head
God, will she ever be the same again?

Learning more of consequence
Afternoons and nights progress
Her body’s telling her to rest
Walk away from emptiness



Looking just beyond his eyes
She was somehow hypnotized
Close the night and close the door
Sweet dreams are sweet no more

Years ago she use to pray
Now her prayers have walked away
From the child inside the dress
A child so young and innocent

She never hurried from the night
Felt his hands; knew it wasn’t right
God what was she to say?
Broken shadows lit her way

Free the dream and free the child
Let the lanterns calm the wild
History is history (2)
He is dead and dead is she

He still her kisses goodnight
And he’ll never leave her side
Good night (2)
Good night sweet dreams, good night

Written by theresa s. halfacre
June 25th, 2005 sometime after midnight





Writing in the Rain

I am writing in the rain,
I am whispering your name.
I am dancing ‘neath the stars,
Under heaven’s golden glow.
As you love me from afar
I daze in skylights with butterflies.
Colors gaze back in sweet array,
And I find my nesting place.

Chorus
I am going to believe
That Christ has captured all our sins
He has taken them away
He has covered them with Him
His eyes have filled with tears,
His scars begin to bleed
While all our answers lie in Him
All our lives begin again
I am going to believe

What promise do you need?
What stories must I share?
If I am to die with you,
Will you write me in the rain?
Will you find my face in clouds?
Will you cover me with wings?
Will you trace your life with mine?
Will I ever share your name?

Chorus

If we write songs in the rain,
If we whisper each others name,
Then all the blood will run into
A river that doesn’t end in the tragedy of time
Known only to Poe and Lee.

I am going to believe.

Written by theresa smith halfacre, June 6th 12:07 a.m.





The Difference

The broken earth unlocks a crematorium
to the classical existence
of my souls.
alternative losses meet face to face
like wind that kicks the
back of my knees ...
I twirl,
and twirl,
beckoning inside a cyclone of passages,
waiting for the arrival of One Moment.
I refrain from letting sorrow
close on mortality,
as lament hymns march with
silent horses.
Surrounded in dangerous threats
fabricated by my mind,
I encounter heaven’s compromises
rescuing my emotions.

As northern lights shine
on confusion,
I risk my thoughts
to modern medicine,
just so I may live in
peace,
and never know the difference.

written by theresa smith halfacre, April 3, 2000, 12:36 a.m.





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Dark Night

You’re like water flowing in a stream
Blue and full of life and dreams
Travel quietly; let my world run through
My darkest night and into you

You’re green and jaded like a flower garden
My sins, you say, need no pardon
I walk in your pain, this is my choice
In the darkest night, to hear your voice

Dark night fly away
Bury wounds on golden shores
All is lost if nothing’s gained
Bury us and leave the pain
It’s so insensitive

Fallen birds like fallen trees
Take to flight when they believe
Music flees to remember me
In the darkest nights it’s sheltering

Child so small and man so great
Why do you make words from hate?
We’re center stage in make believe
Instantly you seal my fate.

Dark night fly away
Bury wounds on golden shores
All is lost when nothing’s gained
Take us whole; leave the pain
It’s so insensitive

Fight the fallen angry foes
Needless villains with bullet holes
What has temptation done to them?
We destroy the fabric that lies within
A kindred soul.

Dark night fly into me
Knock me down to set me free
With discovery comes victory
Small wonders in a desert glow
Flowing in a jaded stream
Hollow, bruised and beaten
Transparent like insanity
I am more than tired.

Written by theresa smith halfacre, March 31, 2005, 12:03 a.m.





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