Just a scratch in a sketch,
A drop in the sea,
A grain of sand on a beach,
A leaf on a tree,
A hair on a head,
A blade of grass in a yard,
A lesson learned in life,
A step walked so far.

A piece of a puzzle,
For no one to solve.
A moment before,
When a step was a crawl.

A word in a chant,
A tear that you cry,
A stone among thousands
That mark who has died,
A drop of rain in a storm,
A voice in a hurricane,
A single beat of a heart,
One nerve in your pain.

That's all I am.

…to be the spaces
between your ribs,
gaps along frets
laced against the neck
of your guitar strings
mending cracks on
sidewalks with moonlight

Take this useless tongue of mine
I am merely a passive observer in this game we call Life
              All ideal;
                            No action
Egress my soul through the impenetrable  fortress
               splitting a difference between the realities
                    of Hip and Loneliness. I find my spirit
                              obscured within the latter realm.

                                    Take this loveless heart of mine
I am merely a conquistador's familiarity with failure
            it beats in rhythms;
                               consider it a charity
Descending from the heavens of my imagination, a
              radiant lioness swifts into my being and lifts
                     above...above into El Paraiso Del Deseo
                                   It's time to unfurl these eyelids


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