...THERE'S ALWAYS HOPE... (I HOPE...) THERE'S ALWAYS HOPE... (I HOPE...) THERE'S ALWAYS HOPE... (I HOPE...) THERE'S ALWAYS HOPE... 
THE WRITTEN GARDENS...THE WRITTEN GARDENS...THE WRITTEN GARDENS...THE WRITTEN GARDENS

NEW STRANGERS GARDENS
(where I come when inspired by people I just met or people I don't know)


I've been looking for a friend for a long time
living in my written gardens within my rhyme
every time I reach out I feel something more taken from me
and so far so little comes back I sometimes feel empty

ripe for a flood of misery
betrayals have left me for dead
barely holding on to sanity
amazed within my own head
somehow I come through the darkness
somehow I regain the light
no matter how hopeless or depressed
something inside me is right

and I know I can survive anything
but the one thing I can't do alone
is share something real with a friend
some nights you'll hear me moan

I've been searching for a friend for such a long time
cultivating my written gardens with my rhyme
through it all somehow finding one more ounce of energy
so I self-sustain my personal humanity

safe within all the complexity
simplicity is my guide
agape for the whole world to see
blessed be the child inside
sometimes sheer stubbornness
is all I have to give
somehow it is enough
I continue to live

dreaming of
the ideal of true love
believing in the goodness
in each heart

holding on
when every hope seems gone
keeping faith in life
this is my part

but still what I want most right from the start
was someone who would share the part

I've been with you my friend for such a long time
you've been feeding my written gardens and my rhyme
subsconsiously I knew your energy was out there
reaching beyond aware to the sublime
for all we may yet share, this is your rhyme




Agape
(Jessi's Song)

Ric Candor    ©2000



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