calling myself home

inside me are all the secrets i seek

written inside my eyelids
on the curves of my hips 
and the grooves of my fingertips

deep within me lie the answers
to questions i have been pondering since i was six
about nature, god and the universe


slowly as time has passed
they have presented themselves
and i have voiced them out loud
in attempt to make them more real

because something inside me
wants to doubt it
something made of shadows and darkness
wants me to believe
its just foolish to think


you have everything you need within

but a stronger pull tells me otherwise


it reminds me it has been with me since i can remember
guiding me towards those questions and answers
lighting my way
when i had forgotten
i in fact had the light all along


shadows fading in the light shining out from within


it has always been me.

i have the answers
i know the secrets
i am full
of love n’ light

it had always been me
calling myself home.

~  danielle helen ray dickson (09-09-08)

seeking more than this shell

staring down at fingers i recognize
but somehow they do not
belong to me really

i think about all the things
i have touched with those fingers

then remind myself
that it is nothing
compared to what i have absorbed 

within my soul.


i desire to run
but these legs will not move fast enough


this body moves slowly
when I wish experience how light moves

this body sleeps too long
when i wish nothing more than to be awake and doing

this body eats
when i wish only to absorb my surroundings

this body
seems so limited

a shell
holding my limitless mind
which is seeking

so much more... 

~ danielle helen ray dickson

field of love

i’ll meet you in the field
just beyond the valleys edge
in the place between now and forever
where even time stands still
allowing the linear to disappear


i’ll lay my soul down in the grass beside yours
letting our energies and scents mix
our physical selves touch
and true selves
just be.


i feel the ecstacy of this
run its way through my veins
i feel too full to find words


i take a deep breath

ideas, language, even this phrase doesn't make any sense

i feel as though i am bursting


taking another deep breath
i exhale
and feel your chest fall in line with mine

our hands move like mouths
across each others skin
as we communicate without words
revealing our deepest desires
and secrets we are only willing to whisper


its in these moments
i wish i was not on this linear timeline
i wish i had no watch on my wrist
i wish there was only this moment.

- danielle helen ray dickson

we are all one

matter is merged with spirit - sensing the magical ties

i see the connection
of every atom
every motion
and moment in the universe.

we can swim in the universal waters
frolicking like dolphins among the infinate waves

that rise and fall
that pull us together 
and set us apart

but this separation
is merely an illusion

it disappears in the mystical moments
when we feel all hearts beat as one.

- danielle hr dickson