Racing for finish lines

Racing for finish lines

That don’t really matter

Making calligraphy

Amid the paint splatter

The days, chipping away

Without brilliance and light

Slipping into darkness

The silence, out of sight

On the edge of changing

On the edge of changing

Forward, not looking back

A point of no return

Dipping the brush in black

Hoping for the future

Around the corner turn

Even if there’s failure

A badge of courage earn

Searching for a white page

Searching for a white page

An untouched shoreline beach

Wanting a new knowledge

A depth to deep to reach

Discovering a new

Chemical reaction

That cannot be reversed

Once put into action

At the pilgrim moment

At the pilgrim moment

The start of Life, natal

Embarking on the path

Until the last fatal

Trying to understand

The veins rushing with blood

Wanting for clarity

Ending up in the mud

Scandal of normalcy

Scandal of normalcy

The courage to be true

A builder of bridges

For the masses, and few

Wake the sleeping giant

Try to enrich the poor

And can living with less

Feel like living with more

All this lamenting for

All this lamenting for

Time forgotten, once tocked

The endless mysteries

Never solved or unlocked

Look, the first butterfly

Another busy bee

In the moment breathing

Not been, or was, just be

Again the daffodils

Again the daffodils

The tree has earned its ring

Magnolias blooming

The beginning of Spring

No time for remembrance

So much yet to unfold

The demand for action

And new Life to behold

Only writing echoes

Only writing echoes

The stripped screw is spinning

Yearning for a new voice

And a fresh beginning

Foraging the future

For clues or just a hint

Striking the great unknown

As if it were a flint

To capture the carrot

To capture the carrot

Destiny is complete

To look back at the past

On two steady, firm feet

The journey, the chasing

All in front of the eyes

At last the embrace of

The most singular prize

What is left to be said

What is left to be said

Maybe how hard it has been

Rolling with the punches

Taking it on the chin

Or feeling abandoned

Plainly misunderstood

Your love has conditions

It’s should have, would have, could

Avoiding this feeling

Avoiding this feeling

Ignoring it exists

Forging onward, upward

As this anchor persists

Suffocating the thought

But left gasping for air

Looking the other way

Just becomes a blank stare

Hide it in the ocean

Hide it in the ocean

Get it out of plain sight

Somewhere without shadows

Or any source of light

Just make it disappear

This failure, this doomed fate

Pulverize it, burn it

Make it evaporate

Our arms out of reach and

Our arms out of reach and

Our tired voices are spent

Though the times that you spoke

Never knew what you meant

Still longing to hold but

Reality sets in

The magnet once there has

Vanished into air thin

Just one way to fix it

Just one way to fix it

To let it fall apart

And pick up the pieces

To build again, restart

A better foundation

Calculated design

With nothing haphazard

Misconstrued, out of line

Over my shoulder, I

Over my shoulder, I

Will find myself alone

Glancing back, not seeing

The love that I have known

Moving forward with time

One can never go back

Racing in the lightness

Between two points of black

No knowledge of this limb

No knowledge of this limb

Branching from the same tree

Distant on the trunk that

Gave life to you and me

Growing in different

Directions from the source

I face the morning sun

You chart a western course