Stars In The Southern Sky (A Quatern)

Glenn Frey Photo © Gus Stewart/Redferns; Photoshop Creation by Colleen Breuning

Stars In The Southern Sky ~ A Quatern

There are stars in the southern sky

Smiling as the full moon floats by.

Hear my voice on the summer breeze,

Sweet songs drifting across the seas.

The world keeps spinning, do or die.

There are stars in the southern sky.

The candle flickers, growing old.

Starkness of winter blowing cold.

My days get shorter, wracked with pain

In this deluge of freezing rain.

There are stars in the southern sky,

Hidden by clouds as angels cry.

Watch as I defy gravity,

Set free from this purgatory.

And when I twinkle, you’ll know why

There are stars in the southern sky.

Colleen Keller Breuning © 2016

January 19, 2016

Written in memory of Glenn Frey of The Eagles… inspired by one of my favorite of their songs, “Seven Bridges Road.”

Stairway to the Stars

Stairway to the Stars

He speaks to me from an anguished past,

His gentle words wash my troubles away.

Lone spirit walking with a wooden crook,

Tending sheep in woolen clouds of gray.

He beckons me to pastoral meadows

Where white tail deer frolic in the rain.

Cool winds to soothe my fevered skin,

A healing balm to soothe my pain.

I know you are out there somewhere,

I feel you up there in night skies afar.

Do you have a beacon to shine the way?

Do you have a stairway to the stars?

I look toward the blue ridge mountains,

Where a solemn sunset begins to glow.

His voice echoes in the strains of music

A song of sorrow that we used to know.

All I ever wanted was to dance in the sun,

Free from my worries and free from strife.

You led me to that place of serenity,

You promised me magic, gave me life.

I know you are out there somewhere,

I feel you up there in night skies afar.

Do you have a beacon to shine the way?

Do you have a stairway to the stars?

I do believe that second chances exist,

For I see your smile defy the foggy mist.

But I hear that rumble of that distant train.

I lost you once -- don’t leave me again.

I know you are out there somewhere,

I feel you up there in night skies afar.

Do you have a beacon to shine the way?

Do you have a stairway to the stars?

Colleen Keller Breuning © 2014

September 4, 2014