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