Silence is the fleeting promise that we never heard
while waiting for our deliverance from all that's good
between waiting for permission to take a chance
and hiding from what we really wanted to last

Ignorance is bliss but knowledge is deceptive
because first one lives and then remembers to live
all the while we return to our same perception
after so many years of battling the deception

They say the jokes on the one that didn't laugh
or as the one that laughs first laughs last
but whose laughing when they see their reflection
of the same person that they denied revelation

The joker grins because he sees the difference
between ones passion in contrast to ones presence
as if the world was really a riddle of opposites
between what one feels and what one experiences

Maybe the shadow knows better than the bearer
because he that follows cannot blame the leader
or if somehow the leader now became the shadow
would the follower now become the lost traveler?