These tinted glasses
Are for your protection
Lions and tigers and
Pay no attention!

But once I suspected
And now I am certain
That it's the same man
Behind all of these curtains

I wish that we could all have peace

And learn to respect one another

But though I think the war is dumb

I get why people hate each other

One side says "They attacked me first!"

The other says "They are the worst!"

The other then attacks them back

One side says "I have been attacked!"

Both sides say "They're attacking me!"

I simply cannot disagree

I simply cannot take a side

I wish there were a place to hide

From all this ******* violence

But if we didn't have this war

We would find someone else to fight

It's just the way we ******* are

Life claws its way upward

Through hard ground

Gnaws its way upward

Through the flesh and bones of other animals

Cuts its way upward

Through forest and wood

Digs its way upward

Through sand and stone

Burns its way upward

Melting pathways through the world

Builds its way upward

Wood and glass and stone and metal

All so that we can stand for a moment

At the top of the world

Until something beneath us breaks free

I can say anything I want to say
And you can keep yourself from hearing
But you cannot stop me from speaking

I have a voice
And you can block it out
Cover people's ears with tape
But I can say anything I want to say

Hey Blue
Looks like the tides have turned
Can you
Admit that times have changed?
I do
Believe in most of what you stand for
But
I have to say

I get
Why people felt betrayed
When your great dream
Was not delivered
And you stood by
As the piper
Led the children
To the river

Wake up Blue
No one will give you power
If you do not earn that
You've forgotten how to be persuasive
You need to relearn that

Return to when tolerance meant
More than ideology
Centrists were not the enemy
And neither was biology

And we didn't need all these labels
To decide who was more equal
We were people
And the people
On the other side were people

There is no reason to
Demonize people who realize
In evil times
It's not enough to be
The lesser of two evils

It's time to stop underestimating
What our fear is worth
Stop overestimating
How much people care about the Earth

Hey Blue
I am still one of you
But am I pure enough to be called Blue?
I guess that's up to you
One thing
That you still get to choose

If you got this far
You can go a little further
Just a little further
Day by day
And day by day
Go further and further
Still a little further
Till you go the whole way

I can still remember it

The moment that I lost my faith

I was just sitting in a classroom

When I decided to think it through

I threw Pascal's Wager to the wind

Held instead Occam's Razor

And thought, if God really loves us

These are all just empty threats

And how much else has been a lie?


I still thought there must be a God

And so I looked through all the books

And everything I read rang true

And everything I read rang empty

The books all sounded just the same

How could I choose one of these Gods?

I thought that either all of them were right

Or all of them were wrong.


And so I thought,

There is no God.

That answered almost all my questions,

But I felt a sense of loss

I had always been promised Heaven

Though I felt somewhat relieved

No one looking over my shoulder

No one judging my deepest thoughts

Suddenly the world felt colder


And even though I felt such wonder

That we'd got here on our own

And even though I felt so free

I had never felt so alone


And to this day once in a while

I ask in my mind all the Gods

To show me a specific sign

So they can reach me if they want

The signs I've seen all point to

The idea that we all are One

The God we seek is

The sum of our collective consciousness

In harmony with the Universe as a whole


But every time I think I see a sign

I remember in the back of my mind

How easy it is to see

Patterns in the sand

                    the stars

                    the static

And fill in the gaps

With a solid shape

Only the sharpest razor may divide

The shape back into grains of sand

The constellation back into its stars

The bolt from the blue back into static

God into the gaps in our knowledge

The empty spaces that fill our souls

With awe and mystery and wonder

Elon Musk has done so much
What would be different if he hadn't?
Whole new view, choose red or blue,
A whole new world for us to madden

Should he wish upon a star
Fly us to freedom like Aladdin
Write his name across the sky
Too bright to die like Esarhaddon

The more I look around
The more I am persuaded
That uncertainty is
The true meaning of life

In 3D
I stand behind a tree
In 2D
The tree is a part of me
In 1D
There is nowhere else to be
In 4D
What else would I see?