Have I shared kindness with the world?
Has any compassion seeped through?
What I gave it took from me.
This you have stolen from everything.
In a hundred years what will it mean?
With time would I get the same as I gave?
Don't forget the things I sent before.
Do not keep only things taken as they seem.
Can't the world find me some other way?
Find me taking more from it one day.

You've got a wink in your eye.
You're looking for optimism you can't describe.

Here is the world!
Your oyster!
Your opportunity to see it all!
How many hearts do you think each of us has let fall?

This is the chance you're waiting for.
The moment you swore you'd change everything.
You're hoping for happiness that isn't a disguise.

"I won't be like the others"
You told me once.
"I won't be like the ones who let it pass them by"
You were looking far away.
"I won't be like everyone stuck here"

There you go willfully wishing it all away.
Wishing for your 'Over the Rainbow' dreams

I've got a wink in my eye too.
I know someday you will waste a little hope.
Fearing you wished away love.
And you'll never be quite sure if it was mine.

Trees struggle to rise
As cacti take their sky
And shrubs move into place
The mountains are blue
They seem like an ocean
Closing the distance
From here to wherever it goes
If nothing else is free
Only windmills are oddly alone
Is there a place in the heart
For things that want
Not to be without but also
To be apart from their own?