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Glow
02:41
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Hold what you love
watch it glow
watch it shine
watch it hunger
we cannot claim to know
true love at new throats cut
if you’d trade hands to hold
for dogma and spiritual rust
but what good is the lift to wings
if they fail on the fateful day?
“I wish I had more time”
I wish I knew the simple law
all of us are frail and marked
all of us walk lost
all of us
“all of us is just me now”
there’s nothing sacred in the garden bloom
-the altar of lust you throw stones from
Hold what you love
watch it glow,
watch it shine
watch it hunger and starve
no wonder
no romance
no time for forgiveness
everyone I know is starting to disappear
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2. |
Random Acts of Silence
02:29
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I don’t yearn to see you hurting
or to multiply the miles
I don’t want to see you burn up
in the waking summer sun
You will know me by the quiet moments
the recession of the will
The muted sense of self
He hides in the back of the room
waiting on the rain to break
choking on the words that will to fold him in
everyone you know is going to do this alone
I can’t wait for the gun to dull the smoke
I can’t wait for my legs to finally give out
for blank stares, and cold hands
those white walls and old calls
that never land
I can’t wait
Do you know me at all?
In the awkward way I compose
my words, my hands in yours
the who and what that wills
to sing and write it down
before I lay my head
in the dark of the lot
everyone you know
all of those you dont
everything you love
all the pain we cause
When will we know?
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3. |
In the Never
02:18
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You won’t see an invitation
to my next state of being
or a welcome party
for the meek and weary
I must go away now
attempting the unseen
I’ve seen the void in me
the great undoing
I know the west wind call
I hear the bell that tolls
I dread the hands that Ill hold again
bury the “my”
void the hunger
long drives, gold light
no words, just right
We had a dream to cross the sea
tuck hands
cold rush
breathe deep
blue blush
In the quiet corner of the room
hangs the wreck of looming doom
a moment’s notice
all I need to disappear
to yield-
I’m out of words and withdrawn luck
I have no words
I know the west wind call
I hear the bell that tolls
I dread the hands that I’ll hold again
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4. |
Elm Park
02:56
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wandered off towards the city lights
couldn’t find the way to your house
when the night called on the road
tucked my hands behind my head
laid there watching planes come in
it’s funny what they say:
“I don’t know where it went”
let me into a finding that can bind
(I’m walking on)
let me into the quiet of the night
(I’m walking off)
I’m wandering out of the dream.
longing for my place in the scheme
let me into the quiet of the night
What am I supposed to say?
for grieving young “remember whens”
those piercing needle pins
that reach under the skin?
the peace you learn you don’t deserve
so convinced of wrath and then-
gone, gone, gone
just like we all once heard
let me into a finding that can bind
(I’m walking on)
let me into the quiet of the night
(I’m walking off)
I’m wandering out of the dream.
longing for my place in the scheme
let me in
I’m writing here, I’m watching rain
wishing it didn’t have to be this way
It’s quiet here, no passing trains
a memory folds, a lifetime grays.
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5. |
Midnight in Kabul
04:17
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Did you find yourself awake
staring into God’s muted face?
“I approve of this curse
it’s better to be, than not at all”
That’s the gift of grace:
to watch skin tug at bone
and years crawl on the face
everyone will lose it all
Will you make divine those
oaths and odes that
I cannot seem to keep
or shake or stir in me?
I keep losing track of the pen
so I circle back again and again
to bleeding gums and broken bones
“it’s just the way I am”
I lose faith in maps and lines
but not in time, or what lags behind
against the sand that grips at fate
that’s never truly mine to take
everyone will lose it all
(It’s so easy to reminisce like this
a springtime dress, her name on your lips
a smile in passing or gaze from a bridge
tombs of luck that slip from our hands)
I will sanctify the mind
against the waning light
we’re guided towards the night,
we learn to say goodbye.
we wane
born blind
in time.
in time.
we learn to say goodbye.
in time
in time.
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