Who will help me with my spark?
Whom can I help make their mark?
Who will help me build this ark?
Whom can I help get through their dark?
When Dorothy landed in the land of Oz
she needed a lot of help because
she was a long long way from home
and could never make it back alone
Who will help me with my spark?
Who wants to build a brand new ark?
Who will help me through my dark?
I cannot do it alone
Dorothy met three brand new friends
Each lacked something they could gain
Headless, heartless, spineless -- needing
something to reach completion -- giving
something to make completeness
Who also has a struggling spark?
Who also struggles to build an ark?
Who needs help with their own dark?
Who is tired of struggling alone?
Who will help me build this ark?
Who will help me flame this spark?
Who will sail long after dark?
The water's rising
I cannot complete it alone
I have timber I have nails
I give up without sails
Help me if you care to sail
If you want to build this ark
dark and light
light and dark
Dorothy left her new-found friends
Each had found, each had gained
I want to ride on the ark
together, not alone
Who wants to help me with my spark?
Whose light meets mine in the dark?
Who longs to build with me an ark?
to sail far into the world?
to float to a new-found land?
to reach where we belong?
to make what's ours our whole life long?
Who will help me with my spark?
Whom can I help make their mark?
Who will help me build this ark?
Whom can I help get through their dark?
We cannot do it alone
Elsa
November 8, 1997 - versions 1 & 2
January 25, 2024 - combining
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WHO WILL HELP ME WITH MY SPARK?
A cry from the heart.
One of a number of
PLEASE HELP POEMS,
HELP ME PLEASE LYRICS.
A heart felt I NEED HELP poem.
The cry is for a very specific help:
Who Will Help Me With My Spark?
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THE CRY
I can feel the cry
from deep inside
coming out in
PLEASE HELP POEMS,
HELP ME PLEASE LYRICS,
POEMS OF LONGING AND ALSO HOPE.
More than one
I NEED HELP POEM.
An outpouring of
PLEASE HELP POETRY,
HELP ME PLEASE LYRICS,
POEMS OF LONGING AND HOPE,
hope of being heard,
hope of a hand reaching to me.
And so I keep writing ...
HELP ME PLEASE POEMS ...
And time flows on,
and on,
and on ...
trying continuea,
and some reach happens.
Then the poems - so many poems -
are put aside for years.
Now they pull at me again.
I am listening again.
And the call is still there.
This time the call is to me -
that I help with the spark.
Elsa
February 16, 2024
