I put my heart
in a carefully preserved place
Covered in steel
put in a safe
locked in a cell
in the middle of the Earth

But then an adventurer came
he journeyed to the center of the Earth
went to that prison
and unlocked the door.
Slowly my heart became more open.

He cracked the safe
then slowly began
chipping away the steel
Then he leaves
leaving my heart open and
vulnerable

So it weeps now, for
the steel, the safe, and the prison
it took so long to build
and
the adventurer
the one who finally did
open it up
and
the ones who came before him
trying so hard to make
the heart open to them
yet failed to do so

The following
of music
d
  o
    w
       n
the steep hill
to a place
where life
must exist

here
there
singing
but no words

only sound
emotion

down the rabbit hole
to wonderland we go

do you see?
no, you don't

Do you remember when I was small?
When nothing mattered, just that we were happy?
I miss that,
I want that back, please,
All I want
All I miss
Is
That
Love
That we had,
The happiness
bring it back
for me
before it is all
Lost

Follow the stars
Where will it take you?
To the Earth

Follow the Earth
Where will it take you?
To America

To the home of the free and the brave
To the home of failing economy,
To the home of homelessness and poverty

Follow that,
Where will it take you?
To a High School just inside Kansas

Follow the High School
Where will it take you?
To a Lonely Girl with no one to love

To a girl who thinks the only way out
is to cut, to
                 f a l l.

Follow the girl
Where will it take you?
To her heart

Follow her heart
Where will it take you?
To A dark, dark, place

Go into the dark place.
Fight it.
Follow it.
Open the heart
What do you find?

A

  S e e d

       S l o w l y
    
            B l o o m i n g
FULL
OF
LOVE