There’s fluid in Daniel’s chest
He wheezes and coughs
All day
But it doesn’t stop him
He said
You don’t have to have religion to have faith

I went to the Easter mass
And I had to leave
Those people were crazy

Mubi was saying some men
Pray 3 4 5 times a day, even more
That would leave out time to help around the house
That’s pretty much the same as a Catholic’s alcohol addiction

Who is religion for?

For the adolescent males?
Grabbing the fattest part of the wheel
To keep steering us down the drainpipe?
They got me too

Where is love?
Where is empathy?
Babies
Family
Community
Friendship
Self-love

Like what the ****?

We are on a rolling ball in the middle of no-where?
Really.
Have you stopped and looked?

You don’t need religion to have faith.
That’s right

I have faith in my life
That it will go towards something right
That I represent that fight
As all life does
I’m part of it
And thank you for it
Thankyou for all of it
Thankyou

I have no brothers
Only sisters

My blood is made up of cowboys and addicts in part
And strong men
And fierce women

For the most part, we are winners

But like I said,
I have no brothers
Only sisters

I’ve made brothers along the way though
Each of them a dark force
Shaping me like a stone

I’ve looked into my own darkness thru them
Seen the light

I’m not the biggest
The toughest
Or the smartest
But there is one quality unique to me
And that is bravery

Sometimes my brothers howl like the wind
Or rattle chains of lies and deception
Filling me with a rage enough to blacken the sun

But my bravery has remained

Few men have it, few people have it

In the future, I’ll take on many more shapes
Places, peoples and race
Because I am brave

Because I am king

It was something a friend said
A passing idea that you could give yourself to
There were waves of change
So I go up early in the morning, like a kite off the floor

They were putting waves in boxes
In other parts of the world
But I could be only here
Living my life

As if this were the only time this has ever happened
We lifted our eyes and raised our hands
And tried to feel for the spaceship of revolution
Battling every kind of crippling resistance

I’ve never been here before
Same here I replied
The first few words of truth spoken in years

I could still break like a stick every day
But I wanted to make it true, and I could
To shake myself up like a cocktail
Of Kings and Queens and everyone in between
Of Beggars and Dregs
Of Blue Skies and White Streaked Fuselage

There's Something in the Air

I always start with a crash
A boom
A gong of doom
And so it was
On April’s
Pink Moon

It wasn’t the people that meant nothing to me
That hurt
It was that you
Sided with them
With a nastiness
You can’t deny
Now your actions apologise
Right?
I never want to see that again
You see that river?
I make it bend
Isn't that mad?
Forgiven
Friend

Truth,
I was there
When you were leaving on the air of my breath
Mixing with the vibrations in my throat
With the ideas in my heart
Into speech

I was there in real time
Connecting with surrounding minds
That nodded with recognition
Touching
Watching

Truth,
I’ve been away for some time
I’m putting words together on which to walk
But for them, I’m a drifter

Truth,
I’m onto you, returning to you
Sniffing like a hound

I feel like a thick residue
Smoked membranes, gasping slow

I'm leaving standing up like clear glass
To another day

The cold grey sky
Coming in like clouds thru my window
Is leaving my eyes crusty
And overheated with thought

Someone gently crack my skull open like an egg
**** my brain up thru a straw
And mix the skin and muscle of my back with soda water

It's time to take it easy