Sep 2011
Finality
It’s commonplace way down here
We learn from the moment
We’re capable to comprehend
That not all is perennial
All has an inception and an end
The way a day shifts
From light to dark
The demise of an artist
And the last beat of a beating heart
A beautiful night that
You don’t want to forget
That moment you lose all ties
With a friend
The breath you breathe
Of the last of summer air
And the patterns of lace
Draped across a bride’s hair
We’re human so we’re afraid
Of something we don’t know
So we reach to an unnecessarily
Dark place just to find an answer
To what we’re looking for
Whatever’s beyond
Is beyond our capacity
So we must not search
For an answer
And that’s beauty enough
Isn’t it?
Stretch it out, stretch it wide
And slave away just to
Desperately find a miracle
To stay alive forever
But to live till two-hundred-and two
Is to suffer through something unnatural to you
There’s a reason this life
Has an expiration date
We mustn’t question
Because we’d waste away
A clock
That never ceases to tick
We have to take time to seize it
To clench that clock close to our hearts
And transform each and every experience
Into art
Once the paint on the canvas
Has all but dried
You, the painter will take a step back
To find
Astonishing beauty at the mere sight
And when you reach it
You’ll accept the fall of night
Pull out a book and read all night
And see how it changes you
Drive down a road that you’ve never been
And see where it leads you
Tell a story and change someone else
Give away the love you yearn for
And it’ll find its way back to you
Run across an open field
With no shoes and forget,
Just get caught up in the wind
Laugh until you find yourself
Curled up on the floor
Forget it all with the people
Who know you best,
Who pull you up
Everything will just finally make sense
It’s in the moments that are impossible
For one to repeat
That make the all of everything
So bittersweet
Don’t milk a miserable life
Just to say you’ve made it through
What’s it matter if they care?
You have to love and lose yourself in you
And hold the love you receive
Dear to everything you are
Authentic and inventive
Innovative is your art
One day everything that breathes now
Will cease to breathe again
So what can you do to change
The world to be remembered in the end?
It’s commonplace way down here
We learn from the moment
We’re capable to comprehend
That not all is perennial
All has an inception and an end
The way a day shifts
From light to dark
The demise of an artist
And the last beat of a beating heart
A beautiful night that
You don’t want to forget
That moment you lose all ties
With a friend
The breath you breathe
Of the last of summer air
And the patterns of lace
Draped across a bride’s hair
We’re human so we’re afraid
Of something we don’t know
So we reach to an unnecessarily
Dark place just to find an answer
To what we’re looking for
Whatever’s beyond
Is beyond our capacity
So we must not search
For an answer
And that’s beauty enough
Isn’t it?
Stretch it out, stretch it wide
And slave away just to
Desperately find a miracle
To stay alive forever
But to live till two-hundred-and two
Is to suffer through something unnatural to you
There’s a reason this life
Has an expiration date
We mustn’t question
Because we’d waste away
A clock
That never ceases to tick
We have to take time to seize it
To clench that clock close to our hearts
And transform each and every experience
Into art
Once the paint on the canvas
Has all but dried
You, the painter will take a step back
To find
Astonishing beauty at the mere sight
And when you reach it
You’ll accept the fall of night
Pull out a book and read all night
And see how it changes you
Drive down a road that you’ve never been
And see where it leads you
Tell a story and change someone else
Give away the love you yearn for
And it’ll find its way back to you
Run across an open field
With no shoes and forget,
Just get caught up in the wind
Laugh until you find yourself
Curled up on the floor
Forget it all with the people
Who know you best,
Who pull you up
Everything will just finally make sense
It’s in the moments that are impossible
For one to repeat
That make the all of everything
So bittersweet
Don’t milk a miserable life
Just to say you’ve made it through
What’s it matter if they care?
You have to love and lose yourself in you
And hold the love you receive
Dear to everything you are
Authentic and inventive
Innovative is your art
One day everything that breathes now
Will cease to breathe again
So what can you do to change
The world to be remembered in the end?
