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Wander

Did you find a new bridge
Did you make it across
Did you give it a chance
Or was it another loss

Did you feel it give way
Did you see a blue sky
Did you dream it was real
Or were you flying too high

Lost on a ship out at sea
Secrets are kept from you and me
Lost on a trip behind a veil
Tears are wept as we set sail

But I still can’t help to wonder
Why I must go on a wander

Did you climb a mountain
Did you go the distance
Did you reach a lighthouse
Or was there some resistance

Did you hold someone close
Did you watch a sunset
Did you rise above hope
Or were you filled with regret

Lost on a ship out at sea
Secrets are kept from you and me
Lost on a trip behind a veil
Tears are wept as we set sail

But I still can’t help to wonder
Why I must go on a wander

Why must I wander
Why must I wander

This song asks the question what have you done with your life and it has a reincarnation theme which is part of my concept album. Also, this song will be featured on a commercial release “Wicked Garden: A Millennium Tribute to Stone Pilots” Information located in “The Rich Love Band” blog.

Souls

Souls,
The journey inward Leads to success of life
But some need to lose
And change their souls
Behind a curtain
You find a contestant Some of importance
Others have appearance In the active living journal
We meet the natural monster It develops and tends garden
As we come into the light
We’ll be there too
As we accept all dialogue
Inspired by community
That’ll reach all goals
With great insight Of the northern light
We’ll reach upon deep
Within our souls

Written in 2006 during an extreme manic-state locked inside the psych ward. What this poem says to me is that I understand that I don’t understand and I’m cool with that.

In Him I Trust

IN HIM I TRUST I’ve given up everything
Just for a taste of love
Looking back I’m carefree
With YOU above
In HIM I trust
I stand here looking out My prison cell window
I see nothing out there
Except YOU my lord
In HIM I trust
I don’t worry
If the people don’t believe me
I got YOU lord
It’s more than enough
In HIM I trust
I’m not crazy
And know YOU won’t neglect me
In HIM I trust

Yet, another poem written in the psych ward or as I call it “The Awakening Center.”

Eighty-five cents

Eighty-five cents
I come to you
I come to you
I got a blank check with insufficient funds in my bank
I got a credit card with the balance overdrawn
I got eighty-five cents in my pocket and to my name
I got a half tank of gas and I’m smoking my last cigarette
I’m driving on that long empty highway road to you
Baby, all that I need is you

A true story written while on the road to my girlfriend’s house many years ago.

The One Upstairs

The ONE upstairs loves HIS children on earth
Although we cannot see HIM, HE never leaves us
Only a few share HIS great divine secret
Now and then HE dresses up as man and comes downstairs.

Lucky for us GOD loves HIS creation so much
Through endless time HE has worn many coats
HE comes down among us for a while
Just for the sake of HIS children on earth.

A few share HIS secret while HE’S downstairs as man
He stays with us and plays with us
Laughs and suffers with us
GOD is ONE, the ONE and only, HE alone exists!!!

Trust in HIM by leaving all results entirely to HIM
Don’t worry, be happy. When HE drops HIS human form
It just means HE’LL be back again when we really need HIM
My heart belongs to HIM and to the moon and stars
Listen to the sound of the song bird within
Even when other people say it can’t done.

LOVE is available to everyone forever and ever!!!

This poem means more to me now than when I wrote it twenty years ago. The Rich Love Band says “don’t let drugs; mental-illness or other people stop your wildest dreams!!!”

Eyes Of The Son

EYES OF THE SON Looking into the eyes of her son
Gazing through the windows of her soul
Giving all that she could
Blaming all that she wants, but herself
She’s just a mother
She won’t let him go
She’s just a mother
Never let’s him grow
When I look up to the heavens
My story unfolds
Sometimes I feel I’m motherless But I don’t let myself worry
She’s just a woman
Having trouble letting go
She’s just my mother
It’s hard for herself to grow Looking through the eyes of the son
Gazing into the window of his soul
Every new morning reflects another
And she loves him so, but
She’s just a mother
Having trouble letting go
She’s just a woman
It’s hard to allow herself to grow Rich Love

This poem was written to my mother I haven’t spoke to going on years. I was locked in a psych ward for lies she told Hennepin County and made my life a living hell. My mother was mad that I loved my grandmother as much as I do. I thank my mother now because I now know she has childhood issues to work out and she inspired me to write my concept album “TRANSCENDENCE.” Thanks MOM!!! When you can make peace with your mother then we will have peace. Be Happy, Don’t Worry.

His Endless Smile

His endless smile
Reaches far beyond the Nile
And it can’t be measured
No it can’t be measured

His endless LOVE
Touches everyone and rises us above
And it can’t be measured
No it can’t be measured

His endless beginning
Creates everything and nothing
The Master’s face is behind every mask
We all wear

His LOVE is like rays of light that shines down from above
His endless LOVE touches us all

“Someday, today will be a memory. And when that day arrives, that to will be a memory. So always remember to live in the NOW.”

This poem was written about Avatar Meher Baba during an extreme manic ordeal in 2006 by Rich Love.

Google “The Rich Love Band” for more information regarding “The Rich Love Story.”

He Gave You His Love

Do you know what it’s like
To completely give up
Could you imagine
Drinking from His cup

I just want to be free
And never have to worry
Change my life on Your time
So I’m never in a hurry

He gave you His love
Will you take it on
He wants you along
Will you sing His song

Do you hear His voice
Calling you to Him
He’s an ocean of love
You must learn how to swim

He gave you His love
Will you take it on
He wants you along
Will you sing His song

Do you know what it’s like
To completely give up

Dedicated to Avatar Meher Baba and all the avatars that ever walked the earth throughout history.

Empty Face and Flash of Death

EMPTY FACE

He soaked his mind
Into the sky
To absorb life
He could not find.

Distorted views
Decay within
The come down drowns him
Slowly to the end.
No drugs can cure
His deepest fear
Out of his brain
He tries to maintain.

Just another
Lonely soul
Soon to die from the taste
Of an empty face.

FLASH OF DEATH

To the human eye
a flash
To the soul
a crash
The feeling of death
deep within
the flesh of soul
No release
nor be relaxed
Like an axe to a heart
flash of death.

Rich Love (True suffering can lead to true happiness)

This poem was written and published in Images on the Wind (1987) when I was (Rich Hess) a sad teenager in Edina High School using everything and anything (drugs) to escape so-called reality. I was always searching for the absolute reality and the TRUTH. At age 39, I found it in Avatar Meher Baba.

R.I.P. Shawn Bell- “Third World Mind State”

We need to do it like the third world
and take it to the street,
not looting and burning,
but sniping police,
how much more should we take?
young brothers get deceased,
over how many years now,
we struggling for peace,
peaceful demonstrations,
instead of clapping the beast,
now its eye for eye,
listen close,
hear my passion released,
they can off us in the streets,
and still walk free,
while the rest of us ain’t nothing but talk G,
gangster records and thug life,
but ain’t really bout it,
injustice around us,
won’t really talk about it,
rather walk it out,
snap and jump like “jigaboos”,
and tough talk bout triggers used
ain’t workin no more……