Free flow, juggling words, consciousness So to say - like jeweled crescent clouds Like river laugh - sawing earth-tree A sound erupts from the deepest depths of mind - Sorrow, no - something different - completely alien No language can speak the sound, For comprehension of said sound turns up no meaning No meaning in familiar form or shape - And so the flow flows free, back into the sea Far from you and far from me For we are all together, lost abound the creed Of having something to believe in - Like thinking that we’re free But as molecular structure Binds the soul to ground, The thought engine runs rapid - Thinking thoughts resembling ghosts of abstract lands Lands without land - space without dimension Seek like tomorrow exists, And drink to the sun - Tomorrow remembers nothing As today is just for fun We’re free as we sleep We’re free as we dream We’re free until we awake From the unsettling scene - reality screams The light gleams, past statues of Man, And petty idols and plastic song The light shines into the eyes of the knowing - For the knowing understand Nothing is permanent nor recognizable Once the sudden truth is revealed Through practiced art and dance and talk Know nothing ‘cept the ignorance of thought Say nothing save the chance to see Without ignorance, one cannot know Without knowing, one cannot live Without living, one cannot be Without being, one is without