Earth Song

I will be ready,

At the end of every day I will be ready,

Will not say no to anything,

Will try to stay awake while everyone is sleeping,

Will not sleep,

Will breathe deeply all the time,

Breathe in all the air full of fear and anxiety and doubt,

Will breathe it and drink it,

So rich,

So when it comes I will not be angry,

Will be content,

Tired enough to go,

Gracefully,

Will shake hands with everyone,

Bye, bye, and then pack a bag, some snacks, and go to our volcano.

Earth, my visions blurring

Earth, through the field of haze

Earth, I commence my journey

Earth, at a curious place

Earth, a hint of rupture

Earth, peeks through the night

Earth, I view my body

Earth, through pools of light

Earth, my voice is broken

Earth, my body weak

Earth, the wicked years

Earth, wasting through the creeks

Earth, I shed my duty

Earth, I take a shape

Earth, I’ll share my demons

Earth, if you’d pick a date

They say that meaning

Will come with time

But all they do is cloud and shape your mind

The quiet tension in the background

Revealing their purpose

Earth, I come upon

Earth, A hidden nest

Earth, With a burning halo

Earth, I accept its test

Earth, It bares its teeth

Earth, I show it mine

Earth, It grows a conscience

Earth, And reveals the signs

Earth, With pathless woods

Earth, With restless shores

Earth, It maps a future

Earth, With what came before

Earth, A lack of purpose

Earth, In the grand design

Earth, It sits uncaring

Earth, In its own divine

I need no witness

I need no tribe

In my mind I wallow over

Over and over

Over and over

Over and over

(Mend my life)

Mother, I was born this lonely

Mother, I have always tried

Mother, I’m void of hope I am my own demise

Mother, then comes the hurt

Mother, then comes the pain

Mother, they plant their roots then everyday’s the same

Mother, I was born this lonely

Mother, I have always tried

Mother, I’m void of hope I am my own demise

Mother, can you feel my hurt

Mother, can you feel my pain

Mother, can you show me there is something to be gained

I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds,

Until the foxes run by unconcerned

I think the Earth remembered me

She took me back tenderly

And I slept like never before

Like a stone on the river bed

I rose and fell, grappling with a luminous doom

I want to be impossibly beautiful and afraid of nothing

If you have ever gone to the woods with me

Just with me

I must love you very much

Hey, this state of being

Hey, this perfect joy

Hey, aglow and rampant like a brand new toy

The sea, rejects all shackles

The wind, tears all apart

The cloud, encompasses all as I quietly depart

Waves, rolling in

Waves, rolling out

Days, slip past us disguised in screams and shouts

Witness, them char and break

Witness, them up in flames

Witness, as they burn down I ride and surf the pain

Earth, you’re warm and tender

Earth, you’re pristine and kind

Earth, you’re always there when everything subsides

Feel, my wilderness

Feel, my audacious joy

Feel, my incessant love while staring down my void

I’m losing precious days

To remembering

Finally I took my old body and went out

And sang…

If you have ever gone to the woods with me