It’s easy enough to decide how to think
You just have to steal a bulldozer
Plow your past if it made you feel small
It's a new road where your home once stood
Plant a garden for the times when you felt kind
Those were your roots trying to become tall

I don’t read opinions dripping with money
I’ve not found an honest one yet
The real experts are living in the streets
A poor woman looks beautiful in a pond
Her reflection denies the reality of her life
If she would let me I would wash her feet

There’s too much information in the air
Everybody is trying to convince me
It’s like ear bubbles that won’t go away
They think they can learn all my secrets
But the wind pops them where they float
Until there’s nothing left for them to say

My idea of being subversive is believing
Being your friend is to ask nothing of you
Even if I know that you want to help me
That’s not the deal I want to make with you
I’ve asked God for life so that’s enough
While he decides I’ll just try to leave you be

You believe as do birds not to sow away
The winter harvests as does the summer
A thief tried to sell you your own jewelry
You said your soul wasn’t a raven or a soldier
He was puzzled by that but still he lingered
You clinched your fist tightly around his voice
And only then could he hear himself breathe
You didn’t care if he died, that was his choice
There is no sense in convincing an old man
Did you think he waited that long for you?
He didn’t want to think about it anyway
It brought him into the wrong space of view
So where does that leave you, without a jacket?
The way you pray should be the way a bird flies
It’s not something I would talk about too much
To speak of it is the way a false prophets lies

I know that’s as close as you will come
I have to bring you home myself
Like a ship that cannot stop
You still need help
Someone to hold your hand
While you leave the car
Or walk up the stairs
Because you are a lady
And what a lady does
Is wait to unpack her bags
Until someone else does it for her

There's nothing you have to do
Except be yourself
It's not what we accomplish
It's what we feel
You won't remember what we did
You'll just remember you were happy
It's not a plan
It's a life
Together
It's not proving anything
It's being comfortable
With each other
You'll know it
And so will I
That's what we have to trust
Because that's how it works

I know why you don’t walk my way, I know,
Even though you keep looking over your shoulder
You want to love a man the way it should be
But you’ll wait even though you’re getting older

There’s something you carry inside you
It’s not anything a man can really touch
You thought of saving it for a special person
Now you’re wondering if it means very much

I don’t know why they made you that way
A woman knows how to love;
even a world that won’t
You’re tired of crying over a man
That something inside wants to believe
You do too even though you think you don’t

I don’t blame you for knowing how the world works
You were born to be disappointed more than the other half
You can’t make someone remember who forgets so easily
The only thing for you is to dry your eyes and try to laugh

I thought about what it would be like to grow old with you
But I don’t know if there’s enough time for me to grow up
You’re gonna have to live with what you already know
I can’t fill your heart, I just hope you’ll take half a cup

I don’t know why they made me that way
A man doesn’t know how to love;
that’s why the world won’t
I’m tired of making a woman cry
That something inside wants to believe
I do too even though you think you don’t

What is a real man
Crying in the ocean so there is no record of it?
Being brave
Attacking the world because his own has ended?
Searing eyes
Burning a hole into you knowing what he wants?
What is a real man
Loving a woman so she will know the difference?
Being gentle
Caressing a sage bush because God is watching?
Acting mysterious
Like a light that can make shadows in the night?
What is a real man
Waiting years and years without compromise?
A dreamer
But living life between open and closed eyes?
A truth seeker
Knowing what he sees is not what you see?
What is a real man
Uplifting joy within his heart so you may know?
Anger and fear
To lash out or run away in equal measures?
Love and peace
Knowing the impossible lives inside his heart?

What would you say
To a tree where it lay
To roots too exhausted to feed
Like a snake
Upon the tail of its own seed
Fasting in this very moment
When shadows are spurned
And the rivers beneath it
Boiled by the torment
Of leaves one by one burned
By the fire your wounded heart lit
What would you say?
I will never know
For who can hear their own wake?
I am ash
And you now the wind
Upon which only sorrow may blow
Like smoke that forgot to pray
Losing its only friend
In the blink of an eyelash
A life, once a forest
Now scarred by an erstwhile promise

When you have nothing
and they walk away
I will kiss your breath
and fill my lungs
I will swallow your tears
to mingle with my own
when you whisper in my ear
like a shell I just found
I will love you more than them
even if you lost your crown

I never dreamed about living without you
But waking up, I am now
Things I never believed have come true
And I don't know how

Thinking anymore about darker shades of blue
Maybe yesterday, but not now
I'm gonna have to change my point of view
It's just a matter of how

Life is not only who will be someone new
Tomorrow is the same as now
Taking it slow, somebody else is doing it too
But meeting her, I wonder how

I say a lot of things
I'm not always so careful
But it is the first thing I think about
Every time I decide to show you my anger
I've already killed much worse in my mind
But the way I want to come to you
Is to fill the soft places you have saved for love
I want to fill them with what remains inside of me
Because what was able to survive my own life
Is the only part of me worth giving to you

I don’t know why I should change my clothes
You can’t reject me no matter how you say it
Swimming in the deep end is still living my life
You live under water but you can’t walk on it
I once believed that you could
But sailing across too many horizons taught me well

I’m not telling you what to do with me
You can’t know with someone who prefers to row
The waters of my birth remain close to me now
I have found my place and it is better that you know
If only that you could
But watching me sail away is the story only I can tell

An old sailor learns how to love a memory
What he once held close has become who he is
Never fear the strength of one who weeps freely
You asked yourself for such a heart and here it is
If only that your heart could
But the sails I raised because of you finally fell

YES!
That's what they want
Tell them
The depths of your despair
How your darkness will eclipse the world
How the light of day will become a memory
How the stars will disappear
Becoming black holes
Imploding within themselves
Drawn inward by your heart
So desperate for light
YES!
Tell them
So they know how hard a smile can be
How hard to hold back the tears of yesterday
But also how beauty can carry itself gracefully
Like you my love
And then they will know what I know
Because it was I who put the darkness in there

Being so hard to reach
Don't waste my time
That's me and you
But does your heart want
All the love I feel for you

I want you to feel the same
That desperation in your touch
I want to feel it from you
But your hand won't reach across
The love between me and you

It's the only thing worth living for
You told me that in a dream
I was laying next to you
I could feel your warm breath from
The love my heart put inside of you

So many things you don't want
Missing a lover missing his kiss
Missing him say I love you
But a life like that
Is a life only about you

I know you're in our place
Maybe thinking of my name
And what it means now
Let me tell you it's no game

We can laugh in bed
Talk serious at the ranch
Let our hearts bleed like freedom
Carve our names on a branch

I know what I want
It's you on the inside
What you think
How it feels
I'm coming home
With arms open wide

I know how to love you now
You showed me as you loved me
A woman teaches a man how
Now your eyes at night are all I see

I know what I want
I know what I want
Love from the inside
Love from the inside

Your beautiful face is just the start
Just the start

I want to take a trip back
I hope it’s not too late
I never seems to have the time
But a memory will always wait
The words feel the same
And they always will
If they are gone, the story is complete
If not, then there is time still

It’s just to be in the same room
It’s not that I want something
Though it may seem like nothing
To me it would be everything
I don’t have to think of regret
And there is nothing of haste
Because what happened before
Is a faded line I can always retrace

I’m going back now
To a time called when
To a place called then
And today I think of it again
I can see it with my eyes closed
I can hear it in a song I compose
And though I bleed from thorns
Still, I can always smell the rose

It’s not the time to say goodbye
That is what we say every day
Within each mind’s eye we travel
Will it be the last thing they say
But to see a moment already played
Is to know how much it really meant
And while you wonder about me
I tell you that meaning is where I went

I know the color of your eyes
But I do not know them as I desire
I can hear them blinking in the dark
It is the sound only a blind man can hear
Or one who dreams while he is awake
For the soundness of my slumber is not true
Until I know the longing of your gaze upon me
And the sky at the bottom of your tears
While you exclaim to yourself is that all there is
A man who only thinks of his fulfillment
By a woman who life must be his fantasy
But sheath your sword my love
It is not expectation that you must serve
It is not disappointment that you must guard
It is only a meadow that sees the entire mountain
Or a seagull that sees the entire ocean
And to be all that I imagine is all I have
Draw me near and I will forget these things
But until you do I will console myself with a painting
The colors I choose are your arms
The brush that describes them is your heart
In my hands I can make the beat that pleases me
And until I know your eyes like you know mine
I can only stare and hope you know why I act this way

Your hair is already dry but you’re not ready yet
For most people
it would be the end of the day but staying up late
is how you avoid the world’s problems
But really it’s your own because it seems everything
bad happens under the sun
While the moon asks you why do you come here
You expect too much

There’s someone like that in every town
But you fell in love with him
And he injected you with what everyone tries to avoid
You had too much time to spare
Whatever amount he needed didn’t matter anyway
It was going to happen
You were ready to write the story of your life
But it became his

You didn’t even get nominated as supporting actress
That’s all it really was
The man who runs your life while you live for him
But now he’s on your mind
It can never happen again like that but you know
You’re weak
Ten years have passed and you’re still over your head
Because that life is too hard to resist

I think it’s easier to talk about tomorrow
There’s nothing wrong with it
I’ve not spoiled it for anybody
And neither have any of my promises
The past is either untrue or too much to take

I’ve been told of a universal force
As if telling the truth can change the world
I don’t know about anything like that
Nobody wants to change
They just keep buying bullets

A poet can scowl at the world
While picking flowers for his mother
There’s so much I can’t prove
But I know something is very wrong
So many people are yelling at me

I traveled round the world in a day
It took Magellan three years
He didn’t really make it all the way
Neither did I, but I did make a friend
And it was her smile that parted time

Crying has become something to save
It’s not an unexpected moment
It’s when you clean your face in the shower
Or driving into a parking garage
While people notice how loud the music is

The way of the world is how afraid we are
Every tribe tries to survive
Bad news is a way of life for all of us
I could never send a child away
I wonder if that's what I'm doing to you

It is better not to say anything
So many words spoken
So many promises broken
So many to be forgiving

To be human
Is to see nothing except another human

To not take but instead imitate
That which is good from within
To not judge nor begrudge
That which is an honest mistake

To be human
Is to see everything that makes them human

To know of their past struggles
Their people and their mind
To listen even if they are angry
To answer the call of their troubles

To be human
Is to see the differences that are in every human

To know they are not like you
Neither their skin or how they see
What they see from life is failure
Will you make their expectation true?

Over in the corner
It seems unimportant
But that is only because it's really not yet
Not yet
But is it not yet or are you not ready
What draws your attention
A crowd looking up at something all together
Or something in the corner
Ignored but inspired
It will never be greater than the day before you notice
Self-conciousness does not exist in a dark room
Purity does not exist when it tries to please
Ambition is not virtue
Anonymity is not death
And as poverty is not noble to those who hunger
Ignorance of those discovering themselves is not bliss
Instead it is you who wait in the lobby
Waiting for the show
While those who may never reach the stage
Exist not to impress or entertain you
But instead to live their life within the sounds only they can hear

I only had minute to dance with you
Then another cloud tried to cut in
I said not this time not this time
This picture is mine this picture is mine

Today was your special day
The ice in my glass didn’t melt
My umbrella made no shadows
That’s not really true
But this time it seemed that way

If you think I’m happy
that’s not the point
If you think I’m sad
that’s not the point
I can be any of these things
But I know what I want to be

I only had a minute to say I’m sorry
Then my pride decided to cut in
I said not this time not this time
This girl is mine this girl is mine

Today was your special day
What once froze cooled my mind
What was dark lit candles for us
It’s all true my love
It really did happen that way

If you think I’m gone
that’s not the point
If you think I’m here
that’s not the point
I can be any of these things
But I know what I want to be

I don’t care if this is where I start
It is the touch of your sweet breath
That is the only thing that is real to me
But there is one blank left to fill
It's the name of the last living heart

I can stay ahead of my dreams
I know where they are going
How could I not as I confess to myself
That’s the freedom of being honest
At least I know what everything means

Even a smile knows how to say goodbye
You don’t know when you will start again
Watching somebody else’s luck is hard
I keep thinking if she only met me first
But it’s my problem to catch her eye

Memories always try to eat someone new
But what’s on my mind is stronger than that
I’m going to stay and see how it feels
Nothings over my head because I know myself
It’s just about you believing what I say is true

It's not a matter of where I went wrong
I know exactly how I've lived my life
I can't say that the moon is any different
The sunset tonight watched me instead
We decided to me my mistakes all belong

It is not enough to travel
For a mountain is a mountain
Grand but a foot stool for the sky
It is not enough to take a photograph
For a picture is a picture
Beautiful in stillness as you take it with you
But can it feel how a child may cry
Or even tell you why

It is enough to think it through
If you will only do it
No matter where you are
Night after night
Pure empathy
Able to see food flow to their stomach
To see the part of their mind their father killed
To describe the sky not as blue
But as black
Decorated with lights hung by the gods
Because that's what it is
So tell them it is so

No matter what you are today
You can be someone new tomorrow
If you will only talk to them
Not the mountain
It won’t help you
It can’t

But actually it can
It will remind you that it is there
And that what is greater than you is true
It is not a trick
You can believe it
Being overwhelmed is not a lie
It is life
And it will accept you as you are
If you will let it happen

A bridge
Between people
Your past
Tomorrow
Life
Death
Love
Hate
Knowledge
Ignorance

You know enough now
You have the mind
Build the bridge

To see both sides
Is to become both sides

No matter where you are

In their hands they held nails to end a life
in the pale light of his final hours;
In their hands they held books that told them so,
forgetting who preferred flowers;
She gave an apple but we took it too literally,
it was her love that opened his eyes
They wanted to believe that what came about
was truth but they only told lies;
Who will be sorry before God when what was
proven was nothing they could accept;
It was never so plain except that the law was
no comfort to those who wept
In their hands they held their own judgments
because it was all they could see
And in the pale light of the morning sun he
saw forgiveness was not to be

My face fell but not too low
I wasn’t ashamed
It’s only how you look when you can’t explain
You say something true
But it only makes sense to you
What was important was a mistake I’d never do again

There’s something you want me to say
You said I didn’t love you enough
It’s not what you think because life is so hard
I thought about what time would bring
Did I do the right thing?
I can’t prove how I felt or how I’m scarred

There’s a cloud over your head now
Blue skies don’t always wear make-up
You told me then you showed me and now I know
I never thought you would
You proved to me you could
I wonder if five years is enough to pay the debt I owe

I want you for the part
You must be spot-on
Every mistake must be made
Every tear must flow
I want to remember what is like
To love someone the right way
No matter their flaws
Because that is not the burden
Of being a fantasy
But instead of living a life
How could I want anything more
Than to prove to you my love
Yet how can I do it
Unless you let me down first

It was so easy
To make a man love her
Or to think she loved him
They could meet on Tuesday
She would then pick the day
At least until the weekend
He would be thinking of flowers by then
And breakfast
It wasn't ******
Being lonely wasn't her idea
Besides men don't ask questions too soon
That was good
She had nothing to say like that
It was better to seem simple minded
It made him feel secure
While she grew apart from him before church
Guilt made it seem as if she tried
Even though she knew it was a lie
She wasn't in charge of civilization anyway
Only the condition of her heart
She thought of her new name for next week
Bronte
Yes that would make him write poetry
What else can a man do with a name like that?

I could find somebody new
Maybe somebody prettier than you
I could find a girl any man could love
Yeah, I could do that
But my heart knows it’s not you

I can’t fool myself
I can’t play house
I can’t play pretend
I could if I didn’t care

But I do

That’s why you were my friend
That's why you were my friend

I could find somebody new
Maybe somebody to love more than you
I could find a girl any man would want
Yeah, I could do that
But my heart told me it wouldn’t be true

Dreams never sleep
Neither does saying goodbye
I keep saying it over and over
But my heart’s not just some other guy

I could find somebody new
But my heart knows better
I could find somebody new
But my heart knows better

I could find somebody new

But my only heart
Only knows
What only it
Ever knew

I have not forgotten you my love
The years between us have passed
But I have no choice except to wait

Every morning I remember
But still I walk slowly on distant shores
Because love said it's never too late

There are no broken mirrors
Or paintings of jagged emotion
You were always my friend
Though you once said I was the one

We both know how we once felt
I don’t know if you live for something new
Or for someone who believes in fate

Maybe I’m just a bridge you once crossed
But the fire you see in the distance is my torch
The line destiny draws is not always straight

There is no broken glass
Or songs about bitter love that was lost
If we can only be friends
I will always smile no matter the cost

the hot white light moved into position;
the aurora borealis traced each leaf,
spawning a shadow that sprung to life,
laughing, defiantly at its soon to be short life,
it silently, tightly, embraced the door;
once fire engine red,
now a grey, lifeless shell;
unable to make a sound;
the paint could feel its own age,
but the shadow fooled the painter again,
he thought grey was red;
so he poured himself another drink
and called it a day

a cloud drifted into the picture,
a jealous rage coloring its cheeks;
its shadow, merciless,
a whale swallowing an entire neighborhood;
but no more than our fears for tomorrow,
casting itself all about inside your mind,
choking your heart of all desire;
because you can’t imagine love inside a storm,
waiting and living with doubt and uncertainty;
not knowing what to expect,
but you must stop thinking like that;
there is no point to worry;
because that is not nature’s way

once my body was on fire
i could burn down anything in my way
the way through the forest was not my concern
only that what I burned down you would never forget
i looked at the hair on my arms
and where they once stood on end because of you
they now lay quietly asking why I set fire to your pride
everything that ran away begged you to come
but still you stood your ground
you thought the way to live was to die like that
at least you knew that what I wanted was worth it
you were too beautiful to live without pain
it was the only way to know you were real
and it was me who decided to tell you

To start all over again
Don’t tell me unless you want to
I can be your friend in a new world
Or someone to drag through your past

I’m not going to promise too much
We set our sails to discover but instead run away
Horizons can’t promise anything except to dreamers
And I can’t  live a life tied to the wrong mast

I can tell you think I’m like everyone else
I want to go to heaven
I want to love someone
But I don’t have you
That’s what makes me like everyone else

My eyes give me away
Still alive in fields where I want you to wander
I have a story too, you can see the lost roads
Night or day, sun or rain, my life still holds fast

I want to know all about you
The things that make you so sad
You think about it but you can’t go back
Somebody was your first, let me be your last

I can tell you think I’m like everyone else
I want to go to heaven
I want to love someone
But I don’t have you
That’s what makes me like everyone else

She always made him laugh
She'd say crazy things like
"It ain't cheatin' if we done it before"
He couldn't argue with that
'Cause some of him was wantin'
what she was wantin' some more

That country straw logic
He knew she was a good girl
But she lived like a survivor
The scars always did the talking
She remembered how good love felt
The way it was is why it wasn't over

Burnin' the bible with sin
She cried and cried over him
She found her another
And he said he loved her
But true love was the devils friend

She never finished school
but she was smarter than him
Having to 'splain her to his friends
She said that's how it would be
He said let me worry about that
But her heart was too hard to mend

Burnin another bible with sin
She wanted to love her old friend
What's wrong with a mistake
One kiss for sinners sake
Then a prayer before death do her in

I think we're all holy
It's just we don't believe it
Some of us act like it
But it's just talkin' instead of prayin'
Well I believe it now
And that's what I come to say
I'm no better'n you
And when you bury me
Don't be sad about my closed eyes
Being mad won't matter anymore
But I can live with it
It's just I want you to know
I'm acceptin' of my time
And I'll pray for yours
If you'll pray for mine

I thought the future would be different
All my problems would be solved
And I would be floating on air
Instead I am drowning in sentiment
And the fears that my emotions are real
I have filled the ground beneath my feet
With the tears that I gathered long ago
It was then that I floated upon your lives
A presence that made me happy
And when you left the air was dry
As was the meadow and the streets
And now that I am growing older
What I once thought was me
Is really you flowing out of my heart
There is no place I can go anymore
Without  seas and oceans surrounding me
And I know now why the rains have fallen
The tears of a lifetime were given to me
Because I knew you long ago

I don't need a diary
What is between the lines
Is not where I hide things
Behind a locked drawer
Is not where I live
If you think it's about you
Then it is

I found faith standing next to ridicule
And hope standing next to despair
It was up to me to choose
But the power of my own weakness
Made me think of nothing but confusion
Yet without the possibility of belief
Or of doubt
How could I know the difference between life and death?

You have a heart made of glass
Everyone can see how you live
But it is too easily broken
By a heart made of stone

I entered without sound
Everything about you was there
But because I am light
I did not break into your home

Whatever the world may see
It is not how you feel
But to hide ourselves
Is to be always be alone

You said you felt the shards
As I left to rejoin the night
But it was not blood that spilled
Only love deeper than your own

I will soon return my love
When the moon lifts the sun
So you may find your way
To the dreams I have sown

I saw you talking to him
You touched your hair
Then his shoulder
I saw that laugh of yours
That’s when I knew
I lost you right there

I asked if you were attracted to him
You didn’t answer right away
I knew what it meant
Usually you have something to say

Finally
She whispered softly in my ear
And the sweet breezes that I once could hear
Swept in the clouds that made the sun disappear

We left together
It was a quiet ride
I couldn’t find the words
And neither could you
He was like an ocean sunrise
Our love was lost in the tide

I asked if you still loved me
You didn’t answer right away
I knew the answer was no
You always knew what to say

Finally
She whispered softly in my ear
And the sweet breezes only I could hear
Swept in the clouds that made the sun disappear

No matter which side you're on, the truth has it's own lane...

If you
If you would
Listen to me
Then I
Then I would say
It’s you that I see
But I want
I want to hear you say
You want the same things as me
I was
I was not right
The first time
The first time we tried
I held you tight
Then I ran
I ran into the night
And you said
I didn’t want the same things as you
I thought
I thought it was you
And it was
And it was true
But then
But then you flew
And I
And I saw a light
But a shadow proved we were never right

I want to love without need
If pain and fear bring me closer to God
Why can only comfort bring me close to you?
Was I born only to find my sinful nature?
I was not born into a religion
Only a culture
The barrier between myself and myself
I don’t know if I can be cleansed
The prism of my perception won’t let me go
Is there enough time now that I know?
I know I am real
I know because you remember how I hurt you
No matter how much time has passed
I know I am real
Because I can only think of unworthiness
Why would an illusion be so weak?
I wonder if love is only in nature
Not like a doe and a fawn
But in a cloud or a tree
There is so much power that I lack
What human could love like that
Without memory of mistake
Or of grievance
I don’t know that I can do that
I know I am real
I can only love what I need
I don’t want to be like that

I want to open the door
I want to see you standing there
I have a pocket full of keys and a mouth full of please
But they're not working like before

You seem better when we're apart
I don't know where to start
I don't want to open the door if you're gonna leave
Am I on the right or wrong side of your heart?

I want to talk about trust
I want to talk about forgiveness
I have a dream full of tomorrow and a heart full of sorrow
But you said it's not about us

You seem better when you're with him
I don't know where he's been
He doesn't know what I know about your life
Will I be a lost or found memory as a friend?

What we may discern from our certainty
Is rather a matter of scope
Than of integrity
If we provide for the limits of our comfort
We save your eyes from the truth
But ignorance we will court
I could take up the matter up with the sun
To pry from it as needed for guidance
For light when there is none
But it is far too busy to care for closed minds
Everything of the past felt it’s rays
Everything except time
It is my humility that remains tethered
To the front when charging a hill
To the back if honored
It is the only way we can find our purpose
To walk in hand with common men
To look beneath the surface
The fears that insist upon our opinion
Must be regarded as trespasses
Upon our souls dominion
And if the measure of our chosen domain
Is a circle drawn by our bare feet
Then truth will die in vain

The love born from a mother
In her soul will love ever recover?
Why did you take her Lord?
Why do you make her suffer?

“Verily there is no greater love
than to give your life for another
but there is also no greater pain
than that borne by a mother
and as she sees her child rise
as only the holy spirit can carry
I have blessed her soul again
as I have the ****** Mary”

The love felt by a father
In his soul will love ever rise?
Why did you take her Lord?
Do you see the tears in his eyes?

“I know of his pain for
I too have felt it in the lamb
and I have spoken of him
the same as I spoke to Abraham
who offered his own son
as I would later offer my own;
I will raise your daughter now and
your faith shall be forever known”

The love known by a family
In their souls will love live?
Why did you take her Lord?
Will they ever learn to forgive?

“It is written that to believe in me
is to receive the grace of eternal life
but I must ask for a deeper faith
in order to soothe my own strife
for I have made man in my image
and I also feel pain as do you
but though I have made all things
my heart needs an angel too”

I am not old
I am alive
I am a new discovery
I am not living to survive
I am not old
I am older
I am not feeble
I am a strong shoulder
I am not old
I am wise
I am able to tell the truth
I am not a lie
I am not old
I am strong
I am able to say what is right
I am not afraid to admit I'm wrong
I am not old
I am not possessed
I am able to control my desires
I am able to live with what is blessed
I am not old
I am love
I am able to live life with faith
I am not waiting for a twig from a dove

Like me
What is like me
She thought about waiting

Like me
Who is like me
She thought of someone else

Like me
Am I really like that
Distant in my thoughts
Close to my past
Like me
Ready for tomorrow
Ashamed of weakness
Defiant in desire
For love

Like me
Will someone like me

Because I'm like me

I didn’t know I needed to travel so far
A cup of coffee in a Sunday café
That was all I needed to explain
the things I found inside myself

But how could I know if I remained behind
Next to a fence deciding which side I’m on
And I knew that it was both
I can come and go,
remembering you either way

Mile markers waving goodbye
The top of the world,
white caps and wilderness
I knew where I was from,
what I was to become;
will you walk with me?

Winter carved summers underneath my feet
Glaciers waving to the lakes left behind
So much, the melancholy of nature
But I wasn’t sad,
No I was not

I longed to tell you something
I wasn’t gone; only away
But in everything I find new
I was reminded of why I love you

It is better to suggest than to proclaim
Even as I proclaim that which I suggest
For faith can turn a man to God
While a demand may turn him away
To call a man evil for unbelief
Is it to make him more than human
Or less?
You give him power by declaring him to be so
And those who believe in him
Grow strong as they defend their right
As you grow weak by abandoning faith
Defending the universe you placed in your mouth
Claimed from Krishna as your own
Because silent prayers draw no audience
And desire is mistaken as God's will

Getting away with it
It's only for those without a conscience
When things happen to people
Sometimes they don't know why
Even when they do
But isn't that it
Something happened
Somebody was involved
I try to keep my ears open
There's so much suffering
We can only see one way to live
The choices we make are so permanent
It's not right
Life is not a song
That's only how it felt in four minutes
Living it is like a painting
You couldn't sleep and still you're sad
You thought about it for weeks
You didn't even know it
Now we see what you tried to say
But who really knows you?