When You Left
  When you left The world it cried All the people died inside All the mountains fell to earth And all the money lost its worth All the oceans dried to dust And all the buildings turned to rust The birds once free lost their wings And none can hear what no one sings They
I Walk Through The Sky
  Since you are gone I walk through the sky And lose myself there Where all the clouds die I walk through the sky And gather the light Thats hidden in stars That fall through the night I bring you the light Wrapped in a kiss And prostrate before The woman I miss My heart
After You’ve Gone
My love when you stopped I keep going on My love just gets deeper After you’ve gone My heart just breaks further My lips never heal The wound just gets bigger The more that I feel The sorrow increases And now it’s a flood The cut bites so deep I’m emptied of blood The fire
Dove
I called to the dove As she flew in the tree Come over here Come be with me She flies to me here I whisper so soft A message for someone And she flies aloft She flies to wherever You happen to be She whispers to you ‘Please come back to me Come over here
Heart Call
Heart broken am I Broken and torn Still that I love you From dusk until dawn Still that I worship The place where you stand Still do I put my glove in your hand Still do I breathe the fragrance of you Still do I know that my love is true Still do I run
The Bird
Everything will vanish The bird I heard her say Flying in my garden Where she came to play Every day she told me Whispered in my ear Then it seemed she’d leave But always she stayed near One day was too empty The bird she never flew The same day that you left me And
Ode Of Icarus
              I gathered up the feathers And made myself some wings And glued it all together With tar and sticky things And perched high in the tower Readied so to fly Amidst the general warnings Not to rise too high Not too near the sun Which burns all it
I Came Upon A Creature
                                        I came upon a creature As soft as soft can be In a trap of loneliness Pining to be free I took her to my heart I worshiped her complete I loved her with a
The Fake Enlightenment
            I drove to the seaside Feeling very blue Sat down by the ocean And pondered what to do I took my trembling mind Put it in a jar Gazed at the horizon And threw it very far Out to sea it went Bobbing on a wave Carrying my thoughts
Visitation
                You step into my room of mind And sweep the dust I left behind And light the lamps that stood so bare And make a light that trembles there You are the Goddess breaking through A world I glimpse but never knew Bliss is streaming through my
One Heart
              I long to hold you in the night When the shadows turn to white Where the owls are deep in flight One Heart churning in God’s Light I long to kiss you in the day When the rabbits are in play By the sunbeams where we lay A

I Once Had A Bird

          I once had a bird She set her free She flew far away from me   She says we’ll talk I don’t see how She flew so far away Now   She says the language of our own Is gone And so I sit at home And look at where

We Fell Into A Cloud

I saw you from afar You sat before a king I asked the queen to sing A song I couldn't sing You stepped into my heart The castle was made new The world became the love I couldn't bring to you And then something turned The kingdom was aflame The armies marched again And now

‘Vishvamitra And Menka: A Love Story Of Our Times’

From ‘Pritchop’s Fables’ ‘Vishvamitra And Menka: A Love Story Of Our Times’ 61 x 91.5 cms acrylic on canvas After Fifty Seven Years of Heroic Sadhana It Was Over In A Flash. Poor Vishvamitra, The Fierce Ascetic, Had No Leg Left To Stand On. Recently His Siddhis (Spiritual Powers) Had Been Growing And The Jealous

Like A Swan You Glide

        Like a swan You glide along The body of my world Your beauty Soft and pure and white Your feathered heart unfurled And when I love you in the night Drifting in your lake I dream we are two swans in love And both our hearts awake

I Wandered In A Field Of Flowers

                        I wandered in a field of flowers In wonder there for many hours One flower there so caught my eye I knew I’d never say goodbye She was a blossom beauty grace Petals played upon her face Her fragrance melted all my mind

Like A Feather

                  Soft like a feather Are the hearts That break before the Birdsong starts The dawn that cleaves us To the day Where I found you And lost the way And though our loving Falls like rain The rainbow bows it’s head again And kneels before the

In Love Like Sun

  Jewel in the night Your eyes a flash of light I move to hold you tight The moon is trembling white I take you to me strong The night sings you its song I love you full and long And cancel all the wrong I lead you through the wave Of all the thoughts

We See The Ocean Be

          Take a walk with me A while along the sea And all the while we walk We see the ocean be I wave you to my heart And what amazes me Is all the while we walk We see the ocean be And when I kiss you soft Your lips

The Mind Factory

                Art by Odilon Redon   Had a few sales reps contact me from the Mind Factory They are a bit concerned. Since I stopped buying their products they are very worried they said. They noticed I’m enjoying myself a little too much. They think it’s not good. They

World To Me (for mum just died)

            World To Me (for mum just died) Mum you mean the world to me Father’s all I couldn’t see And yet to know, unknown to me But mum you are the world to me You are the earth where I was born The fragrant field of ripening corn Your

Climbing

                Artwork by Simon Pritchard   Why does climbing takes so long? I climbed the mountain Far and wide And never did I look inside For if I did You’ll see I hid A ‘self’ That never was it true The self I could not give to you

The Psychiatric Hospital

                              Artwork: Atman. Artist: Simon Pritchard   When I was a young man and living at home with my parents I was suffering from a depressive disorder of my mind that was so extreme each moment was almost impossible to endure