Daniele's music is a breath of fresh honesty and often what seems almost too close a look at the reality of our human frailty. Be prepared in listening to this weaving of poetry with unrestrained frankness to take a journey with her into brokenness and vulnerability and possibly end up with a strong desire to die to self and take up your cross. Music @ reverbnation.com/daniele


Songs{lyrics}

{Sometime soon I will rustle up a few more songs for you to read. Until then, here's a few from my last EP and maybe from this next album...}

Memorize
Memorize the lines between you and the sky The places that you've run dry Because you don't get good sleep of a night Where do you think that your God hides? Behind rusted intellect Behind clouded men and lies?
And isn't it just hard to start anew? When you try your trust again and you're lied to You're beaten to the end of yourself Not by someone else but by brokenness You didn't want to race anyway Now you can't stop running
Memorize the lines between you and the sky The places that you've run dry Because you don't get good sleep of a night Where do you think that your God hides? Behind rusted intellect Behind clouded men and lies?
Count your measures learn them well And when your will fails you again sing them to yourself You don't need someone else To prove who you are It's not that kind of race anyway When you can't stop running
Daniele Clark


Don't Wash My Feet
Still I turn and I turn, one more sleepless night, one more page Can I waive and re-write my rights and wrongs everyday, everyday
Your'e a little bit old for me, but I'm a little bit lost You're a little bit more clean and a little like God You're a little bit good for me but I'm a little more hurt I'm a little dirty, don't wash my feet I'm a little dirty, don't wash my feet
Hard and sure to stand unsoftened mixed in wavering, in line drawing I'd like to help in my helplessness, I'd like to save but I can't save myself
Your'e a little bit old for me, but I'm a little bit lost You're a little bit more clean and a little like God You're a little bit good for me but I'm a little more hurt I'm a little dirty, don't wash my feet I'm a little dirty, don't wash my feet I'm a little dirty please wash my feet I'm a little dirty don't wash my feet Daniele Clark (Honestly Daniele - The EP)

Still
Still to feel a little empty, feel a little lacking, feel a little lost. Still to feel a little quiet a little lack of motion a little peace was gone
You to have and hold, to hold my hope inside your soul You to push the pull further on toward you, you are all I know
Need a constant in a churning, quite stoked and ready burning, a little peace with God. Need a strong and quiet waking a trust is in the making. A little hold is all
You like the sun to rise again as I always fall. You are all I want you're all I need you as I grow old.
Grasp beyond the fears strong holding, a groping for a molding and taking up the cross. Grasp the solid love you leave me, though you never leave me, the constant is your love.
You to have and hold, to hold my hope inside your soul You to push the pull further on toward you, you are all I know
Daniele Clark (Honestly Daniele - The EP)


Less Than Constant

Please write me off as something less than constant
As somehow undeserving, as someone who has lost you now
Please pass me by as someone with a past
Who fails the ones she loves the most and may never get past you

I, I thought I'd grown in loving
I hope I last in staying and have found peace in lasting
You, you're such a calming steady
True and that's enough. But have I learned to trust?

Please love me less just in case I hurt you
As I'm known to stumble where others fall in love
Please give me grace, though I think I don't deserve it
All these ways you think I'm perfect, well that's your only fault

Daniele Clark (Honestly Daniele - The EP)


Poetry{Blog}
:: To Blog is to journal in a public forum : To Journal is to write : To write is to pass time on paper ::

Feels like a year, like nothing
In three days it would be our anniversary
I count it with pulse, in heartbeats
As I reach for a handle to shut the door again
I touch a spot in my mind that is yours.
There are millions of them, no, more.
No two alike but every one the same...
Every one poignant, sharp... all beautiful
One year of love for one year of heartbreak, an even exchange
I closed the door and found myself wishing for strange things
Half hoping that you never learned to walk away
Half hoping you would stand up and hurt me again
So I had reason to feel this much pain
And maybe this time I would scream, cry or fight back.
No, love doesn't end it's torture, time doesn't put you out of your misery

Daniele :: August 2010



Suicide Ride for Hope South Dakota
We went from Sturgis to Bear Butte SD on a Suicide Ride for Hope To raise awareness about the suicide epidemic caused by poverty and oppression among the Native American's specifically on the Pine Ridge/Rosebud Reservation
Here are a few statistics, though seeing things first hand, has a much bigger impact. There is so much need, not just here, but all over the country, people are hurting and hopeless. We, especially if we call ourselves Christians... do not have time to waste in apathy.

The suicide rate is 5 times higher on the Pine ridge/Rosebud Reservation than the National Average...
The Number One Killer is alcoholism...
70% of highschool students drop out...
Pine Ridge is one of the poorest communities in America where the average income is $4K a year and 97% live below the poverty line
The average life expectancy on these reservations for men is a low 48 and 52 for women... I know this is true, I met a woman yesterday who was 42 and looked about 70, this is common

I know not everyone is called to work on reservations or even to travel, but there is so much need everywhere, look for where God can use you where you're at today.

Daniele Clark :: August 2010


What You Don't Know, Can Hurt You
What you don't know can't hurt you
So you don't know anything anymore
See just where your fortune takes you
Take self assurance at least that far

Don't be afraid anymore
Nothing can fight you but your own silent heart
Don't beat it, it's still a beating
It's a loving every minute
I know it's still there
Mine still knows it's rhythm
But what you don't know won't hurt you
Daniele Clark :: End of Spring (without you) 2010


Unblind {downstairs in my head}
Your noise is dark
No voices picturesque
Like pigeons roosting
Where anointing breathed
A slow trains de-rail
Majesty in starkness
And light prevails
Spotlights deception
And rigid pre-ops
Pretend you're teal green
Pencils write thru me
You're stiff hearted
Lovers will find out
Last nights dream boat
In the mornings nightmares
Shirk & groan & cross you
Smoothe betrayals chewing
Smugly on flesh beside you
No hindsight to what lies before
No microscope feels what's behind you
Almighty incandescent light
Your face covered and tight
In the peeling daylight God
A healing love asks not begging
Screaming no Patient answers
Unblind your sweet heart
The left brain doesn't know
What the right hand is doing
Daniele Clark :: 2010


If Love Is A Choice
I guess this is my chance To make something great To rise and to fall To silently fight dreams To find friends enemies To weigh rights and wrongs To know who I can't trust And to question my placement In time & in heartache

I will wake and will live (As it runs through my system) As love begs for hate As pain bleeds through joy As treaties they ripen As age mellows & shapes As backbones straighten All prides melt and fade in You write and you post them

I guess love is a choice The best or the fastest The strong or the easy The woman or a yes man The vice or a best friend The bed or the children The fear of commitment In sickness or health Through death or thru self

And over and over again I guess this is my chance I wake and I live I guess love is a choice But I already made it I can't make it backwards You can't push me forward Don't speak in backhand If love is a choice, you haven't made it
Daniele Clark :: 2010



The sky is my canopy
I had to get outside for awhile So I wouldn't suffocate I headed up the driveway and I stopped, I stopped and I shook and I stood I was probably dizzy Things where a little constricting I probably would have cried but I was preoccupied with hyperventilating I was preoccupied with the life that fears are making I thought I would lose my mind But I didn't because after an hour of breathing hard I came back If I had lost my mind I'd have slept outside for my health If I had lost my mind I'd have stayed inside
......
The sky is my ceiling the branches are my canopy the leaves are the thoughts that keep me wanting and aching Beauty keeps me motivated, it's a supplement... when I remember to take it, it strengthens my limbs When I forget to look beyond what's roaring around me I fade and weaken, I chasten myself... God is a Father that isn't afraid, He won't respond in accidental ways I don't have to remind myself he's human and I don't have to forgive the insecurities that make him just like me Love is understanding and understanding is trust, trust leads to understanding... all of which live in forgiveness If I don't forgive myself I don't believe anything, I dont' trust, I don't love... I don't understand and I'm harsh, but not on purpose, to those who love me most When I start to forgive those who hurt me deepest with the least intent to harm me, I start to believe in God When I believe in love I understand God is near, I understand He is not a man and He does respect persons after all, because love and respect are entwined,just beside trust and obedience. Perfect love casts out fear... If you're still so afraid it's because you don't understand your God. You don't understand Him if you're still distrusting Him, you don't know how to love, because you've made love finite and constrained, you wouldn't write that on paper but it's on your heart.
When you let God love you, you love yourself, you love others, loving others is saying, I may not understand why you are who you are or why you do what you do but I forgive you, To you sometimes that may even mean saying, I forgive you for being who you are... (but then there's also remembering to look closely at the heart beyond the actions... that can be hard... I spend hours putting myself in other peoples shoes and places to remember to love and to let them know I hope in them)
saying I forgive you means I love you, it means I believe in you, it means I trust you It means in fullness that I know you will hurt me sometimes but i also know your heart is for me and for God And I'm willing to love you which means I hope and believe the best... when someone is believed in and hoped in it makes them a new creature God is love. He makes all things new

When people understand themselves more and understand how God sees them, they may let themselves stop trying to find all the answers on their own, They may stop trying to prove other people are wrong, instead of hoping that they act on the right that's in their hearts I may try to spend more time showing that I care so that I then have a platform to speak the truth in love from
Daniele Clark 2008

To Love (Suicide To Dignity)
Hats off again to love You gave it your best tries and after all is quiet and the tumult dies You'll slip out the back door to stand at the corner crying
Oh tear stained eyes you'll stay You'll sleep with hope Though your heart on waking dies and breaks and dies Though your backhand weakens as sharpness heightens
You'll sleep awake, You'll sleep alive In your other pocket, where he kept his Bible You'll ask your Mother if pain is dying and she'll get more tired So you'll know she's right.
If he comes knocking, He won't come knocking... He'll be running, he'll be driving, anger soothes and justifies it
When there's crying, When he's crumbled, Like he has been and nothing's comfort You'll lie there reaching But you won't touch him He'll be grieving and you'll be watching It will break you, you will love him
Pain won't see it, you'll get shot at Love revives you You will know him Till he dies And how his heartbeats How his hands rest
No ones sees it, No one has to Love will kill you and will wake you It will keep you It will bless him It will hold him Till you die Love will live, you will die
Daniele Clark 2009


Truth Finds You
Oh, by the way, time goes on just beneath us in the hallway after noon
Nothing escapes us things filter through on the back steps in the black soil like gardening
Birds have freedom we don't exercise we know our lines find the limits and walk through
If your motives question you find their source their timbre and birthplace
When you falter within, I see it I swallow and digest far away in here nothings lost
As you search for home and birthrights take inventory invest in mirrors look for God
In fear you won't trust anywhere Time will prove this You will prove nothing things happen
God may use braille if you need it you may use God or use me as shelter truth finds you Daniele Clark 2009


p.s. a blog is like a journal, I keep years in my journals :: Daniele