To find this strange detour

To find this strange detour

Unknown destination

Familiarity gone

Demands concentration

No way to turnaround

Both distance and time lost

Forge ahead, move onward

No matter what the cost

Here I am, can you see

Here I am, can you see

Can you hear me calling

Running and shouting, yet

My message is crawling

If you should read these lines

Then I am not alone

Tear me apart until

You discover the bone

Absent in the present

Absent in the present

Wallowing in the past

Ignoring the future

Plans never seem to last

The details swallowing

Magnificent visions

Sketches fail to blueprint

Thoughts full of divisions

Moments become minutes

Moments become minutes

And minutes become hours

Days into weeks and months

Into years as time devours

And now I am older

And so the world has spun

I can see the ending

Feels like I just begun

Here again the winter

Here again the winter
The falling of snowflakes
With long nights of darkness
And cold morning daybreaks

Shadows of bare trees fall
On white blankets of snow
Where Spring bulbs are sleeping
Deep in the ground below

Yesterday is a blur

Yesterday is a blur

Today doesn’t matter

Layers of graffiti

Splatter over splatter

This daily coat of paint

Tomorrow just the same

The walls keep on mounting

Without a picture frame

More like Spring than autumn

More like Spring than autumn

But apples on the tree

And leaves changing color

Tell me differently

Feels like the end of snow

Yet it’s about to start

Although it’s October

April is in my heart

Why relight the candle

Why relight the candle

If not to shed some light

Or find a source of warmth

For the encroaching night

If not for a signal

Or a symbol of peace

Why relight the candle

If only to appease

To stand as an equal

To stand as an equal

To pull at my heart strings

As if clouds could whistle

As clear as the bird sings

In the morning of Spring

When the light shines above

Two shadows become one

And our souls are in love

We strike a chord when we’re

We strike a chord when we’re

Together, you and I

In a flash, an instant

In moments passing by

And when we separate

The chord becomes a note

Singular and unstrung

No melody is wrote

There’s a wall with one side

There’s a wall with one side

Thinner than rice paper

So thin, it is almost

Mistaken as vapor

Yet on the other side

It is thicker than thick

As if it were made of

Impermeable brick

The moon has released us

The moon has released us

Our crests have been set free

We crash against the shore

And head back out to sea

No longer relevant

No footprints on the sea

Our time has come and gone

Another wave will be

Restless and exhausted

Restless and exhausted

Never out running time

Unable to find peace

And always on the climb

Every day spent in dirt

Rare to find purity

Losing foolish youth for

A hard reality

Ask no questions today

Ask no questions today

Wearing weather’s light coat

The sunlight on seashores

Is falling on white boats

There’s no need to ask why

Or what will happen next

Life is multiple choice

With all the answers checked

Let there be light and yet

Let there be light and yet

It shines on pain and hurt

Disease, crimes, death and war

Destruction, hate and dirt

Is this perfect design

It begs for revision

If you could rewrite it

What would be your vision

The cornrows are curling

The cornrows are curling

Up over the hillside

The occasional tree

Spreading its branches wide

The hand catching the breeze

Racing through fingertips

The sky is an ocean

Full of floating white ships

Seeking infinity

Seeking infinity

A shout that never ends

A radio signal

Progressing as it bends

Past the rings of Saturn

And the moons of Neptune

Leaving the galaxy

All perfect and immune

Struggling to examine

Struggling to examine

The forces deep inside

Never looking outwards

At the great open wide

At the company of souls

Staring into their eye

And those within the scope

Beneath this patch of sky

Are the petals intact

Are the petals intact

Are the blossoms broken

Have all the words been said

Or still to be spoken

Living in the fractions

Wanting to be complete

Heroic in battle

And refusing defeat

Yet another corner

Yet another corner

Where there’s no turning back

Everything here and now

Disappears in the black

A new chapter or book

Bridges crossed just collapse

Too late to ask why or

Suppose, maybe, perhaps

Rub it out, erase it

Rub it out, erase it

This ugly blemish flaw

Rid it, release me from

Its tight and pinching claw

Scrape it until it’s gone

It’s deep as tattoo ink

All my efforts fail, it

Won’t disappear or shrink