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A far Country

A far Country

 

A place that freely creates a state of mind the silk tapestries that flow and hold the shimmering glory

Told by exotic locals Madrid of Spain Tangiers of morocco Istanbul Turkey the music’s beauty strains

 

Through side streets and hideaways where love is discovered by chance or design only know this life

Crackles as a consuming fire the dance sweeps you along through mystery’s eye the smoke floats in

 

Layers in clubs with names that echo old Hollywood movies possibly you will feel that you have been

Introduced to Bogey and McCall a walk of desperate hours that spill out into rolling hills where laughter

 

Escapes your throat as if you were a long time prisoner and finally you find yourself suddenly free a

Richness pervades your soul as you stole away on this secret schooner with a stranger you traverse

 

Warm waters and calm seas a voiceless place where more can be heard as you slowly attune you inner

Being to rhythms at first foreign and then so natural stones in a jungle with writing left by other

 

Adventures that no longer could stand the staid and endless boredom now the sounds and sights hold

Danger that brighten the senses you were nothing but a tortured soul but now as if years have fallen

 

Away you feel as if you delved into centuries of secrets that have opened up to you because you took

The steps of chance and found a friendly world waiting to accept and adorn you with riches never

 

Seen in the safe life that only seeks shelter in the howling storm where all rootedness is torn loose

You go to a place of discovery where random harvest are stored lovers know their location as passion

 

Swells you rush across great waters and finally spent you drift into inland waters a cove of rest to abide

In after chaos of the stormy sea now when you speak there is a deep understanding that flows again on

 

Silk as at the beginning within has been created a sense of belonging whether you visit an African’s hut

Or a villa in France you are the spice of India or the bundles of silk that flow back from the desert

 

Caravan not just in the present but in ancient days to old Cathay you are a master in your own right

You set with the sheiks of the desert and they marvel at your presence of mind and it liquid quickness

 

That is as cool as an oasis and smooth as cool water to the parched tongue you are as the wayward wind

You come and go as you please mighty mountains you ascend or you’re brushing through the black

 

forest Your fitting place is a castle grand all because you decided life is a dream to be lived not an ordeal

to Endure get your ticket at freedom’s gate get on board child it’s never too late

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Mar 30, 2012
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