Lyricist - Author, Poet Suzanne Mondoux - SONGS / POEMS OF THE DAY DECEMBER 2020

Glancing at the world tomorrow In you I trust Implying that all will be well In you I trust Believing that what you say is true In you I trust Playing with me as though I know no different In you I trust Clogging the minds of the human race In you I trust Taking what belongs to all life on earth In you I trust Trampling all over habitats In you I trust Making sure there are hungry bellies In you I trust Denying life to all Beings In you I trust Luring the innocent into corruption In you I trust Dreaming of a world just for you In you I trust Accomplishing all your dreams In you I trust Dreaming of world for all Beings In Animal Being I trust

Dreaming is what I did to survive this world It’s was all so beautiful to see myself free and wild Even when I tugged at the chains around my feet Am I dreaming Don’t be fooled by life in this place I heard the other Animal Beings say When the human beings finger points at us so savagely Remember, don’t be fooled by life here and now The dust will settle one day They will see what they have done They will feel what they have done Don’t be fool by life in this cage I wonder how I can I go on Each day I witness the corpse of my friends dragged on the ground From day to day I sing don’t be fool by life here The sadness in me ranges greater and further than I’ve ever walked The tears in me pour out more then the rivers flows Don’t be fool by life in such a place They too carry sadness greater than they ever walked They too pour tears greater than rivers flow How can they go We Animal Being whisper to them Don’t be fooled by life you see before you Don’t be fooled by the knocks you give one another Don’t remain a fool believing this is what you need to survive The shadow cast over you isn’t what you need to run from The range of your mind The depth of your heart Know this Don’t be fooled by life as you know it Don’t be fooled by you

We are all part of creation Though some are created better than others, it seems It’s believed to the core of these beings And so where is the miracle in life with such a state of mind Can we find peace on earth One caress needed can it make a difference The mighty can carry their careless stories throughout the world Can Human Beings live in harmony with Animal Beings In delight with their habitat and share the land One caress needed maybe for considering the idea The chambers of debate with doors slammed shut Made of snares, the conversation continue Can one caress needed be a way

Don’t steal my love This is not a bargain made No trade to be made Admiring me from a far Engaging in the inevitable Don’t steal my love Attending the counsellors of justice Bewilderment never too far Darkness grows in the brightest of lights Don’t steal my love In your haste we board an abandoned ship The traders at bay Don’t steal my love Even when you don’t hear my pleas Beyond what’s been borrowed and stolen Don’t steal my love for something you don’t want That ship you boarded You moored her stern and waded in the inevitable Don’t steal my love when you can’t go on When you first laid eyes on me Upon the land of where we stood together Alongside our ills Our eyes spoke our truth And yet you forget Don’t steal my love in haste Don’t steal my love beyond yourself

At last touched by the simple pleasures of life I’m simple in every way The source of my joy My cheeks steaming red with glee My mind rest peacefully I’m simple for my sanity I’m simple for my soul No conversation needed The damnation of my soul was such a possibility No defence and no where to go I’m simple for the suitors of my life walk by They kept their eyes on my silence Meanwhile, I surrendered to the simplest ways The fragrant of my shadow lingers The treachery of others reach for me I’m simple in my defence There’s no tomorrow that can make a difference now Very soon all this will be over I’m simple in my simplicity With my hands cut off I reach high With my eyes closed I see far With dry mouth I speak I’m simple on this journey hunched over with grief I’m simple for all that I’ve seen I’m simple for what’s never been

In the distance where all the soldiers have disappeared The manner in which they lived Their ship has sailed Throw out what you know of another This great big world dares not make us similar In the distance where some have walked and others not The unwanted images of others memories The stares in their eyes The shiver in their skin Throw out what you know of this great big world So beautiful the dreams you dare not share Some may have done it one way, others another Throw out what you know of how things are to be done In the wide and wild fields of life Many creatures roam The battles of many are the paradise of others Throw out what you know of humanity So sad the eyes of the many So sad the smiles of the many Throw out what you believe Don’t believe everything you think Know the difference to feel the difference Throw out what you know of me

Right to the end we run wild The prey and predator unite Under the opening of the big sky Animal Beings risk all to survive Right to the end Right to the end we sound the alarm Animal Beings alerts the Human Being Assemble your people and unite with us Beings of this world can live in harmony Right to the end Right to the end we turn to one another We hear the cries of the Human Being We see their hungry bellies We hear the ringing in their ears Right to the end we remain steady to help you through Right to the end

At a glance I see what’s been done Attach me to nothing to see the ending Nothing can hold me for what you desire My instincts dictate how I’m to live There’s no reason for me to live as you desire Attach me to nothing of your world confined I hold true to who I am, wild and free We are all species destined to lived as we were created I’ll ensure I remain as I am, Animal Being Remain as you are, Human Being Yet attach me to nothing Wait for nothing else to occur Otherwise your life continues to be hard Imposing you on to me Right from the start, release us from one another And attach me to nothing Enough said about our different Beings Beings we are, with life and right at life This can be done without dominion over another You live free when I’m free

You may have heard my name I am Animal Being Can barely stand on my feet now What Human Being has done to me Can you see Can you see the sun rise It lights up the trenches you have built for me Hold the sunset in your hands And the shadows follow you These are the souls of the many Beings These are Human Beings What you believed you have done to me Because of where you see yourself in the Animal Kingdom You have done to yourself Oh, repeating history never ceases Oh, see the sun rise for your sake Repeat the syllables of a harmonized world Oh, see the sun rise for the generations to come

Now is a time to honour my faithful heart I see the errors of my ways And those never seen before My faithful heart never led me astray I did that all on my own If you want the truth of me I’m much more myself alone than I ever was with you All that was not for you to fulfill My faithful heart showed me the way Knowing this leads me back to you with an open heart Never shall my untruths burden you again I’ll always love you for leaving me And yet I’m left more humble for the love you continue to show me We are a couple again, living a new life My faithful heart remembers the way My faithful heart is my center In this place my feet are grounded I stopped searching hard for everything I found me and everything in stillness In me I felt the power of my faithful heart My faithful heart for the love of me

Set in the tiny flame of life On the grass I set a single seed Nothing else really mattered then Nothing was too late I looked onward toward the truth Where on the grass I set my truth I bowed my head in anguish, for a moment Then life spoke to me On the grass I set myself free The sun dipped for me to see The flame grew on and on On the grass I set my path Nothing mattered behind me With each conscious step Awareness Soon I had become awakened On the grass I set my voice Mother nature opened her arms to me I walked gingerly not to disturb the Animal Beings I walked gingerly in harmony with all Beings On the grass I set the Human Being I knew On the grass I set myself on the path with another Never did I lose myself Everywhere I found myself On the grass I set…

Are you in need in of love What can you conceive without it How do you think of you and of us What do you pretend And would you be otherwise

Under the lofty demands of humanity Are you in need of love What way is shown to you Is there magic in your knowing To be held in unknowing expectations

What is overheard What is ignored Inside your mind Is this place a farce Are you in need of love

The stranger that roams in you The laughter in your ears The turn of the heads The whisper of words The end of all talk Are you in of love

Do you know the ghost that surround you Are you familiar with your crowd Have any ever kept their word Who carries the bulk and power of a dictator Are you in need of love

How are comments interpreted Does anyone see the beggar Who wins this game And who stops this game How is this change lead Who will swear the oath

All who are in need of love I give unconditionally I stand here for the love of me For I too am in need of love

Careful where you hold out your hand Will it be true what comes back Will you know the difference How can it be so to be in such indifference of self Careful where you hold your hand In an instant it can be cut off It can be withheld The grip maybe to tight Watch the shadow it cast on the wall What monster or creature does it portray Careful where you hold out your hand You may never get it back

Hopes and dreams for many or the few What’s the privilege in such feelings of desire Thoughts and images of what can be None can be too small We Animal Being dream of a better world for you We Animal Being see what can be for all Hopes and dreams for all Beings Wishing for something to happen Is there reason for this Is there good cause for such arguments For hopes and dreams for all Beings

Please don’t go so far Fall to the ground is where you’ll find us There’s no taking this away It’s all but an illusion Never did we not love one another I will find us Remember that day I found us I loved you then And I love you still Fall to the ground is as far as we’ll go Even when I reach for the stars It’s so easy to stumble away I had no idea life could be so cruel Fall to the ground onto broken hearts Can’t you see it’s crawling back onto our feet Where we reach us Fall on the ground to save us Fall on the ground right here Here is where I’ll be when you return to me

Now you’ve seen me The early sunsets The drizzling rain The earth is thirsty The voices silent What have you done Where have you gone Now you’ve seen me for a moment No breath left in humanity What’s been What’s done What’s died All life Now you’ve seen me as Animal Being Now I’ve seen you as Human Being What an extraordinary place We see each other Now you’ve seen us

Is it so that you know so much Is it so that you never saw me What power was struck in such absence Absence of unity Is it so that never shall we see eye to eye Is it so that what’s been seen has been missed What’s been lost in the absence Right to the end we looked your way We followed your progress We followed your decline Is it so there was no care and attention Right to the end you let this go Is it so Human Beings never knew what was to come Is it so Human Beings left the scene of humanity Oh could have been a different world Is it so Animal Beings was just a dream Is it so Human Beings once lived on planet earth Was this a dream Is it so dreams come true

Wait for tomorrow in the shadows Wait for tomorrow in the light What’s to come Taking it all away today Leaving nothing for tomorrow Wait for tomorrow as you are Wait for tomorrow for all life What’s been said and done Do you remember Where do you see Are you the only one What have you captured My heart and my life What’s been destroyed on the way to waiting Waiting for tomorrow with a single sigh Every breath you take watch for the exhale Wait for tomorrow before you decide What you dismiss now may be what keeps you alive today Include me in your decision Animal Being here today, gone tomorrow Wait for tomorrow

So I am blessed with all that I sought in life The joy and the pain The willing and the denying The sick and wellness The living and the dead Bless all Beings for seeking life For choosing life and seeing death For seeing what it is For knowing death as a blessing Bless all Beings with a moment of tranquility Bless the Human Beings with sight for Animal Beings Bless the Human Beings with courage for their humanity Bless the Human Beings with will to live in harmony Bless

I want my freedom To blossom as I was meant to be Living with human beings is a tricky situation The simple facts of my life are that I am a wild and free Animal Being To be led by man is beyond comprehension All seemed to die and dwindle away There was no mending the broken pieces How I blossomed in the midst of such treacherous existence Life was hard, caring for such Beings, to remember their humanity We shall have trials for many days to come There will be cries of despair There will be great shame to face Many will die and be extinguished forever And somewhere in this mess I will blossom In memory and in spirit I am Animal Being

In a world where all life is meant to belong Where have we gone wrong What do we remember we’ve done right Is there any life remaining in our existence How close have we come to our own destruction How close are we really to the end of what we know What we believe to be this world for us For all life Inwardly we feel the truth Outwardly we deny the truth What world have we created for us For those to come What if I were Animal Being How would I see this world

Put heart in peace where it can rest In any situation when I look away I see where I once belonged Now being part of the soil Lying in the ground showing what’s to come Your future, our future Peace amongst all Beings can be so Animal Being and Human Beings The length upon the land of crimes Crimes against your own self Torturing your own souls Wearing our pelts for fashion How can we look away from what is strained Peace is withering amongst the Human Beings Before giving way to a new world Hold each others hands Look into each others eyes Where do you see yourself belonging Where do you see yourself in peace What does peace speak to you And do you seek anything but inner peace

Oh they say what is the purpose of life Why do we exist Can it just be day to day this and that What are we looking for How is life to be Long since I saw any decency in many I work every day of my life I see the small pay check for all to live on I see the sweat that many carry Life is but a dream for many They honour the great And look away at the weak Who defines the two Life is but a state of mind So many interpretations Some love Some hate There seems to be no rhythm Life standing on its own until all are free There are chances to be taken Others to walk away from Life seems to be repeated Generation to generation Like the leaves on a tree Life takes no prisoners Leaves no survivors At least there’s no such thing as time No real time of life To be perceived as such What remains in between the seconds Nothing stands still Everything changes Could it be all is decided for us Life bangs about here in there Look beyond the space around you Seek to be curious of your galaxy Our universe Life expands beyond the ‘I’ Look ahead and beyond What was – was Never shall it be again – if you do this Actions expands your world Life – more than ‘I’ Is it so Wait forever to find out Life goes on

In reply to a great death I lived a great life For all to be in motion All had to be disrupted For all to be in the light All had to know darkness Death was well lived Death was well received Death was a great continuation to my life We made a perfect pair I enclosed myself in its despair I enclosed myself in its sorrow All was as I hoped it would be Death made life all the more beautiful Nothing random occurred Nothing unexpected experienced Nothing unnoticed recognized Death reached far into my life I saw it coming each day What a wondrous feeling The perfect beginning Death knew me like no other It was the closest to home I’ve come to know Everything was perfect Just as I had dreamed Death was the welcome of life I waited for for so long I lived my best life in the light of death

Glancing back at the ground What I know is mind Give me the sign to pick it up Lean into the song of forethought Laugh out loud to the quiet funny words Give it all to the song Sing out loud with heart Be wild and crazy in your moment It’s your moment to be yourself without judgment Songs for the soul Songs for the heart Songs for life If you want your truth Sing with heart Lean into the notes Be close to the sound Songs for the many Let them hear your voice It’s so easy to want It’s so easy to give It’s so easy to receive the joy of songs Take me to heart with each note Don’t try so hard for the music to come Songs of songs sing with ease Come to the curtain Take your bow Sing out loud in your gentle powerful voice Take your bow Thank the crowd Songs of hearts I never tire of the magic of songs

Poems of the heart Poems for life Poems for every voice Poems for every tear Poems for every smile Tenderness of words Simplicity of lines To be read or sung Song or poem The reader decides The voice expresses the meaning of every word No two reader read it the same No two singer sing it the same Poems of horses Poems of paper Poems of pencil Poems never cease to be created Poems never cease to be discovered Poems listen Propensity of living words Occurrence for all to know Existence of silent composition Magnificent their sound Poems emerge from a whisper

It’s all about fooling around Dance ‘til you drop Dance ‘til the world stops spinning Dance ‘til your feet fall off Oh so fun to let your body move every which way Freeing your body from the tension of life From the tension of oppression From the tension of societal acceptance Dance to free your soul

It’s all your way as a great performer Player of characters Doer of various lives Musician in action Artist of life I’m the great performer of my many personalities Entertainer for the masses Actress for the spectator Performer for the few Performer for now I’ve fulfilled by obligation Presenting my artistic work with my eyes My voice My body My soul Nothing to stumble over My heart on my sleeve My hand reaches for the crowd Performer for me My life on stage All is spoken in this moment Performer at your mercy I’m just me in all my splendour Gripping the mic for dear life I sing my songs Performer of songs Can you feel the music Can you see my songs Can you touch the magic Performing for you No simple task I look to you for joy Your arms in the air dancing Performer for the quiet mind Sometimes I wander away My body on stage I’m elsewhere This is an illustration of my life Curtain time I step on stage The crowd wild I run to the mic My saviour and I lean into it I feel the magic in my body The performer awakens Once again you’ve let me into your hearts I take my bow and sing away Before you a perfectly sketched performer

Imagine finding all that you desire Imagine seeing all that you’ve found Imagine knowing what you found Does time ever stand still in finding a moment A moment you recognize to be just for you Finding something just for you Finding a time meant for you Finding a place known only to you How do you explore these findings What more is there to find Catch a glimpse of beyond Discover the undiscovered Judgment is never found Obtain the impossible Recover the unattainable Learn from the unknown Finding is far from a conclusion Finding reaches far beyond results Finding ceases to be a verdict Finding measures to no outcome Mark where you are found Feel the effects of your findings Leap for the far reaching of all that can be found Know the impulse of an end Know the impulse of a birth to a new finding

Thank you Freddie Mercury You have inspired me to become who I am today I know nothing of you other than what you have shared with me We have shared a common love We have shared a similar dream F for the frame you provided me to work within R for the respect you showed me D for the drive you gave me D for the devotion you showed me I for the integrity of our work and being true to yourself E for the energy you gave me and the world M for the magic you performed each day E for the existence of such a life well lived R for the rush we experienced together C for the care you give to those you love U for the universal love of your existence R for the receiving of what you gave me Y for You and only You What a world you created for us with your Queen Friends What a world you created on your own I am but a reflection of what you have done What you have given me I will forever be in your debt for such a life I will forever be appreciative of our unusual friendship So real, so feeling, so gratifying You’ve been a great teacher Thank you