Forever Be

Such is life in a racing heart,

hidden passions and desires of color.

Dreams and reason are torn apart,

in lives so interesting before the curtain.

My days are now larger and smaller,

inside things much less certain.

A love like music is the night,

in a melody into the midnight lights.

As bright as eyes in daytime light,

is the star which ever shines upon mine.

And to closed eyes it still delights,

as heart and memory combine.

So here stands my confession,

hidden in my every unspoken word.

Waiting upon my own conviction.

I would be found guilty of everything;

Yet hope lies patient, undeterred,

in what tomorrow might bring.

Cares and joy become escape,

as you release the sun upon my face.

In my mind is an image and shape,

mapping a way into a new life's features.

Old landscapes vanish with a trace,

and with them tired creatures.

To a newer day should I awake,

with trust and truth still by my side.

further with journeys still to take.

Neither heaven or earth could shake me,

not while love and faith in me abide,

and by you I should forever be.

Brian Francis Hudon

October 17, 2018

A Light in the Darkness

No need to look to the night sky,

or to nebula and light years of dreams.

My hope is nearer than this and why,

why the sun, why the stars, why the night?

Beauty is more than the face it seems,

and more than hope or fair delight.

Love and our desire, these we seek,

happiness and laughter, love's illusion.

Days are short and the tides are weak,

as hearts beat beneath a September moon.

Time wanes before a shallow delusion,

racing before the night and so soon.

In warmth of flesh a steady breath,

a pulse of contentment and friendship.

Honor and trust, before life or death,

come the rather ordinary trials of the day.

Our journey as upon some round ship,

upon a sea of stars in the Milky Way.

Now all my roads have led to one,

the focus my one and only destination.

Would I rest there, I would be done,

and find rest from my travels in you alone.

Could I be worthy in your estimation,

to find myself once more your own.

Brian Francis Hudon

September 3, 2018

Greater than Words

A new day and the cold turns inward,

some untold story keeps turning in my mind.

Anguish and resentment moving forward,

we return to strength, the source of an inner light.

Love is a burning sun, somewhere the mind,

waiting there for my heart's delight.

The mind filled with endless concern,

judgement testing limits, trying our patience.

Am I the same? If not, how might I return,

how might the days go back to those yesteryears?

I linger here inside my ever fading presence,

too distant even for shedding tears.

Our practice makes perfect in theory,

but our hearts and minds experience the pain.

Living day after year, hearts grow weary,

and soon look quietly for strength in one another.

When all else has faded away, I shall remain,

finding hope, one day after another.

My trust is here and with you always,

from the beginning, yesterday and tomorrow.

Listen closely to a heart, hear what it says,

sometimes silence says more than any single word.

Your beauty and joy is greater than sorrow,

the sweetest heart I have ever heard.

Brian Francis Hudon

January 19, 2018