Twilight in India
Challenging
The Ocean
Bluebird
Fighting Gravity
The Path to Alhambra
Dissolve
Reflecting Pond

Twilight in India

It's twilight and the lights are on in India
You can see the clouds reflect them in the sky
And you are staring high
out the corner of your mind's eye

Somehow it is morning in America
It seems like more than half-a-world away
And somewhere, someone's praying

It's summer, but the springtime song has ended,
in fact, more than half-a-year ago
And nowhere is familiar soil
And no one is the one you know

so

Perhaps you should adjust your medication
It seems the green-and-white ones, too, have failed

Or maybe it's because you're jailed
Maybe it's because you're nailed down... lovingly

And the caravan moves on its way
Single file and blinders on
No oasis far in front or behind
No path but the trail well-charted
Many more have surely wound up dead who have strayed
But who has stayed has only wound up led

And you, my friend,
You don't belong here
Your mind and your heart are too free

But another twilight's fading in India
And you are still here
Nailed down lovingly


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Challenging

I bring a challenge to your table
so reply if you are able - here on this mortal plane
Define the point of disappointment
for the one who had anointed - so much trust unto your name
or will you remain
Silent?

The mystics say you gave us fables
sensing how we’d be unable - to grasp your lofty ways
Myself, I find such means abusive
Who stays aloof and so elusive when a child cries out, “save me?”
But still you remain

Always silent through the mists of time, while we wait in hope of revelation
As these broken days keep marching by I lose sight of reconciliation

So I guess we must be all alone, for no hand is reaching out to guide us
And we’ll stumble through the great unknown, on our own, if you won’t walk beside us
let it be
Revealed


I bring a challenge to your altar
If your powers never falter - and you’re so kind and can see everything
How do you justify these conditions?
Is it by some ethereal wisdom - which holds no relevance to human beings
While you would seem

Always silent through the mists of time, while we wait in hope of revelation
As these broken days keep marching by I lose sight of reconciliation

So I guess we must be all alone, for no hand is reaching out to guide us
And we’ll stumble through the great unknown, on our own, if you won’t walk beside us
let it be
Revealed

-=-

As I hear my hearbeat counting
my diminishing of days
I can feel more questions mounting
The passing years only thicken the haze

As a child I felt amazement
at the clockwork of the world
But on your watch I hit the pavement
watched your works into entropy hurled

And old father time won’t leave me alone
silently your seeds, we, have grown

Once I thought about life’s dangers
from a tower high above
But the whole perspective changes
when life grinds down the one that you love

and old father time won’t leave me alone
silently your seeds, we, have grown

So if someday my breathing ceases
and I chance to ascend to finally end my straining to you
I will clutch these days – ten thousand jagged pieces
and you’ll have some explaining to do

-=-

I’m raising Occam’s razor skyward
to divorce my wish from my words - help unhinge hypocrisy
Sever this superstitious thinking
I’m adrift and I am sinking in the sea, reality
So will you still be

Always silent through the mists of time, while we wait in hope of revelation
As these broken days keep marching by I lose sight of reconciliation

So I guess we must be all alone, for no hand is reaching out to guide us
And we’ll stumble through the great unknown, on our own, if you won’t walk beside us
let it be
Revealed


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The Ocean

What song is there to sing?
Whenever I’m without I can’t breathe

The air escapes from me
My voice is muted softly disappearing

Every melody in the ocean
Joins a symphony
Resonating waves that carry me
But if you’re gone I’m lost at sea

What song is there for me
if it must play without your harmony?

what calls a song to rise
if it won’t be reflected in your eyes?

Every melody in the ocean
Joins a symphony
Resonating waves that carry me
But if you’re gone I’m lost at sea

Turbulent, uneasy is this passage
Exodus unwilling to unknown
Every step an improvised performance
Unprepared to take this stage alone

From a distance you could swear I’m flying
as I dangle from a string
Solitary in the spotlight of the great dark opera
Sound and fury – sound and fury – sound and fury signifying

Every melody in the ocean
Joins a symphony
Resonating waves that carry me
But if you’re gone I’m lost at sea

What song is there to sing
Whenever I’m without I can’t breathe
The air escapes from me
My voice is muted softly disappearing


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Bluebird

(Instrumental)

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Fighting Gravity

Put the pen to the page, and try to erase what you know
‘cause the past year has changed you. Your new words betray you,
Hey, how did you think it would go?

Were you smarter than everyone else?
Describing the fall as you took it
Protecting your fragile ideals like a jar full of fireflies who’d die if you shook it

Now the ground starts to close, and impact can’t be far away
When the glass jar explodes what do you think you might say?
Are you stronger than even your self?
And can you remain at a distance
even when forced to replay all the days your nerves tingled and you didn’t listen?

And now the curtain starts to fall
Finding you’re human after all
You thought you’d found one high to trust;
a bubble the world couldn’t bust
But you were just fighting gravity

Now the poet hits the stage trying to face all his fears
He delivers his lines, but inside he's wondering
"Where do I go from here?"

Well, everything comes to an end.
Brace, for the impact is painful
Glass shards go scattering, fireflies escaping to rise with the birds and the angels

And the curtain starts to fall
Finding you’re human after all
You thought you’d found one high to trust;
a bubble the world couldn’t bust
But you were just fighting gravity


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The Path to Alhambra

(Instrumental)

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Dissolve

This could be the end
The closing of the journey
A lifetime just dissolving into air

So how could I pretend
after all the learning?
Life has taught me, deftly, to beware
Prepare for this

Welcome to the edge
The tip of no returning
A lifetime just dissolving into air


I become what’s left when dreams get lost
Just hanging out to count the cost
in twilight of evaporating day
Weary from these lessons learned, and
leery of the tale’s next turn
Must every story end the same sad way?
Always?


This could be the thread
where everything unravels
I’m picking at it ‘til the yarn is sore
A novel in the window
with a shiny title promising escape
Though everything is looking great
there’s nothing left in store


I become what’s left when dreams get lost
Just hanging out to count the cost
in twilight of evaporating day
Weary from these lessons learned, and
leery of the tale’s next turn
Must every story end the same sad way?
Always?


Soul     Missing
Left to mourn the loss
Here     Nothing
Just this tiny cross

Life     Taken
Harsh Reality
Hope     Beaten
Driven out of me


Turn the final page
A novel no one’s reading
A lifetime just dissolving into air


I've become what’s left when dreams get lost
Just hanging out to count the cost
in twilight of evaporating day
Weary from these lessons learned, and
leery of the tale’s next turn
Must every story end the same sad way?
Always?


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Reflecting Pond

Here I feel arising
the curse of the great beyond
Focus my eyes and stare, paralyzed, at the lethal reflecting pond

And black water starts to churn
on the dusk of days we learn
We're expendable

The moment we're born we are sacred
Little gods of our own design
But every new day leads us further away until one day we finally find

That we're lost beyond repair
And we're small beyond compare
And expendable

"Arise and go home"
"Rise and go home"
"Rise and go home, frail child"

See the reflecting surface shining back the stars
Lost in regret we can forget just who we are
In time

Standing on shoulders of giants
lifted my mind to the clouds
Now feeling the weight of such great expectations I see my reflection and bow

To the depths I must descend
just to find my own true end


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