You lay to waste
All of creation
Under setting sun
Every step veiled in low fog

Wrapped in circled thought
Is the future taught?
Is it already known?

Grasp at strings just like a puppeteer
Games of black & white
When it’s love you rely on

Waiting for a long sigh
And wasting all my time on
A storm that’s never coming
Crimes of invention

Holy beads that hang around my neck
Slowly turn to sweat
At the thought of escape

So pull the ropes, I’ll show you pieces of me
Not too high, you cannot see
Out of frame, there’s a man offstage
Debating to set me free
Oh, I’m dancing now
Coaxing shadows to follow my move
But the light’s never right, the floor crudely
Bends & distorts the symmetry

Haunted by the wayside
And wasting all my time on
Dreams of better answers
When I know they won’t come
No, I know they won’t come
No, I know they won’t

There is a light that never goes out
Illuminates a darkened sea
Many nights, I swam out to meet it
To find my home ablaze behind me

“You are a mountain, a peak in the clouds
I am the wind, quiet in carving you out
And when it comes, when it comes you’ll find out
The fear of God will not calm the storm’s shout”

Am I just a consequence
Of what I was not returned?
(Gave away my love for free)
(Gave away most everything)
(Nothing taken, nothing earned)
(Simple question, lesson learned)