Member of The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers & The Songwriters Guild of America

Member of Nashville Songwriters Association International & Tennessee Songwriters Association International

1996 & 1997 International Society of Poets "International Poet of Merit" Award Winner & "Poet of the Year" Nominee

Elected by the Board of Directors of The National Library of Poetry to The International Poetry Hall of Fame (1997)

I slip off to sleep in shadows that creep

Toward a gold morning to come

Another gray day may lay me away

Or maybe this may be the one

I dream what I dream of what does life mean

With questions it seems I have grown

Why should I go for it?  What's there to show for it?

Where does time fly when it's flown?

Still I keep dreaming on searching for the day

Where I will find after all that's gone I have found my way

To the spot where the brightest light is shown

Just to say I can stand alone

I've made my way on my own

The tougher it comes the harder I run

No matter the going gets rough

I won't turn away… I mean what I say

I need that I can't get enough

For what's in a dream without any steam

To follow the wind where it's blown

I've got to go to it… not to say no to it

Dreaming is all I have known

Still I keep dreaming on searching for the day

Where I will find after all that's gone I have found my way

To the spot where the brightest light is shown

Just to say I can stand alone

On my own

Still I keep dreaming on searching for the day

Where I will find after all that's gone I have found my way

To the spot where the brightest light is shown

And I'll stand on my own

Still I keep dreaming on searching for the day

Where I will find after all that's gone I have found my way

To the spot where the brightest light is shown

Just to say I can stand alone

I've made my way on my own