spreads its petals to the starlight
drinking moonbeams in its open throat
as it sighs its fragrance
into the velvet darkness
-Elise April 6, 1996
not alone
in a profound sense
is that drives us all
all the struggling
for life
for love
to reach
if only for a moment
another being
-Elise April 11, 1996
I might answer the questions
if I only knew what they were
but I am learning
for the questions are the key
to the ever-changing answers
instant after instant
like flash cards
but the questions
the questions are older than age
and lay carved so deeply
we may stand inside their caverns
and never know
-Elise April 11, 1996
and together we'll go
to unknown lands
and invisible shows
Swim the silent seas
drink your destinies
who knows where it ends
Open up your eyes
walk your inner lives
footprints change in the sand
Just take my hand
and together we'll go
to unknown lands
and invisible shows
Sing the moon to sleep
cause the stars to weep
see them slide from the sky
Reach within yourself
through the fires of Hell
like the Pheonix arise
-Elise Oct. 21, 1997 -Song