Nancy Imelda Schafer
"Looking West To Everyman"
His eyes...
Soulful.
They stare at me now from a piece of paper.
They look through me
...to my soul.
He doesn't even know I'm alive.
I hear his voice.
I see his soul through his words.
To his very core he exposes ...
with every word.
I am afraid at tymes,
afraid of a giver of such gifts.
Unconditional gifts.
A price cannot be paid for such joy.
I have cried,
I have laughed,
and sent deep within myself too look beyond me
...for the answers he knows we all have.
Again his eyes.
Are they looking east?
Indeed.
I see Everyman in them.
For he truly is...
Everyman.
They look so wise.
I can almost see Joseph and Maria.
I feel them.
I was to one once...
his Lady Of The Well.
What an honor bestowed upon me.
ThankYou for giving them to us.
I hear his heartbeat everywhere I go too.
The times you've come to me have been the sweetest I've heard.
A man with me
...yet not.
He holds true to himself,
uncompromising,
Value.
I hear you Everyman.
I hear what you say.
I think.
You force me to think.
To step back
...to consider it all.
Laugh it off,
or cry instead.
I have cried.
I will cry now.
I hear ;
" Fragments of songs carried down the wind...
from some radio. "
I hear you,
telling of a love
that has passed on.
How I cry when I hear this.
I cry for that same love that has passed.
You are showing me your soul.
How very brave of you.
I thank you my friend.
I am reduced to tears,
Everyman.
Your eyes...
tell a story as loudly as your music.
Stand back,
Advance.
Love me.
Take me in...
please don't hurt me,
not again,,,
P l e a s e .
Not again.
Please forgive me...
your words back to you I must:
" You're the color of the sky
Reflected in each store-front window pane
You're the whispering and the sighing
Of my tires in the rain
You're the hidden cost and the thing that's lost
In everything I do
Yeah and I'll never stop looking for you
In the sunlight and the shadows
And the faces on the avenue
That's the way love is
That's the way love is
That's the way love is
Sky Blue And Black "
Tears abound my face and soul.
Everyman ?
I am so rich,
So very rich.
You have given me wealth un-measureable.
A bounty in my heart.
I understand your words.
How lucky the Woman..
who lives within your heart.
How very lucky she is.
You live within my soul.
For as long as I am alive...
You are there.
ThankYou Everyman,
ThankYou.
...................
LOOKING WEST...
TO EVERYMAN
©
Written by
S.D./F.D. March 21, 1996
5:30 A.M. EST)
Written for and about:
Everyman:
Jackson Browne, who wrote the song Everyman.
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AUTHOR'S NOTES:
To a Man:
Everyman.
One of the most influential voices I have ever heard.
He has shaped my hands on the keyboard
through his words.
He has made my mind reach in new directions,
and search.
To him,
I am forever in his debt.
"...and when my silence replied,
they took me inside ."
ThankYou Jackson .
2 Empires ThankYou too.
Posted March 7, 1997
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