Monday, September 26, 2011
The Lost Horizon.
The Lost Horizon.
I pushed my fingers up,
up through the dirt, to find the
putrid haze of yellow light.
And everything was a catacomb
around my blinded eyes,
up through the dirt, to find the
putrid haze of yellow light.
And everything was a catacomb
around my blinded eyes,
wounded in the heart.
I stole a breath from
choked air, polluted oceans
of gray smoke, filtering
through these cobweb shelf lungs.
My cotton numb tongue
stretched for filthy blood,
to taste the fruits of life again.
And all I found was dust.
My Gay Friend
My Gay Friend
He was just a normal kid,
Except that he was gay.
He liked another boy.
He thought that was okay.
“It isn’t right!”
Is what they said.
His heart was broken,
His heart was dead.
Why couldn’t he love?
Why was it so wrong?
Then the people said,
“Gays don’t belong!”
Didn’t God love everyone?
No mater who they were?
Isn’t true love universal?
Whether it is a him or a her?
He thought everyone was equal,
And everyone had rights
Whether gay or straight
Whether black or white.
Then they used lies and deceit
Twisting all the facts
To get a proposition passed
Which would stop love in its tracks.
So sadly in California
Love is no longer free.
People now practice hate.
Equality is not meant to be.
Someday they will learn
That tolerance is the key
And to everyone, even gays
Love is universal and is free!
Say Yes
Say Yes
when two violins are placed in a room
if a chord on one violin is struck
the other violin will sound the note
if this is your definition of hope
this is for you
if a chord on one violin is struck
the other violin will sound the note
if this is your definition of hope
this is for you
the ones who know how powerful we are
who know we can sound the music in the people around us
simply by playing our own strings
for the ones who sing life into broken wings
open their chests and offer their breath
as wind on a still day when nothing seems to be moving
spare those intent on proving god is dead
for you when your fingers are red
from clutching your heart
so it will beat faster
for the time you mastered the art of giving yourself for the sake of someone else
for the ones who have felt what it is to crush the lies
and lift truth so high the steeples bow to the sky
this is for you
this is also for the people who wake early to watch flowers bloom
who notice the moon at noon on a day when the world
has slapped them in the face with its lack of light
for the mothers who feed their children first
and thirst for nothing when they're full
this is for women
and for the men who taught me only women bleed with the moon
but there are men who cry when women bleed
men who bleed from women's wounds
and this is for that moon
on the nights she seems hung by a noose
for the people who cut her loose
and for the people still waiting for the rope to burn
about to learn they have scissors in their hands
and for the men who taught me only women bleed with the moon
but there are men who cry when women bleed
men who bleed from women's wounds
and this is for that moon
on the nights she seems hung by a noose
for the people who cut her loose
and for the people still waiting for the rope to burn
about to learn they have scissors in their hands
this is for the man who showed me
the hardest thing about having nothing
is having nothing to give
who said the only reason to live is to give ourselves away
so this is for the day we'll quit or jobs and work for something real
the hardest thing about having nothing
is having nothing to give
who said the only reason to live is to give ourselves away
so this is for the day we'll quit or jobs and work for something real
we'll feel for sunshine in the shadows
look for sunrays in the shade
this is for the people who rattle the cage that slave wage built
and for the ones who didn't know the filth until tonight
but right now are beginning songs that sound something like
people turning their porch lights on and calling the homeless back home
this is for all the shit we own
and for the day we'll learn how much we have
when we learn to give that shit away
this is for doubt becoming faith
for falling from grace and climbing back up
for trading our silver platters for something that matters
like the gold that shines from our hands when we hold each other
and for the day we'll learn how much we have
when we learn to give that shit away
this is for doubt becoming faith
for falling from grace and climbing back up
for trading our silver platters for something that matters
like the gold that shines from our hands when we hold each other
this is for the grandmother who walked a thousand miles on broken glass
to find that single patch of grass to plant a family tree
where the fruit would grow to laugh
for the ones who know the math of war
has always been subtraction
to find that single patch of grass to plant a family tree
where the fruit would grow to laugh
for the ones who know the math of war
has always been subtraction
so they live like an action of addition
for you when you give like every star is wishing on you
and for the people still wishing on stars
this is for you too
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