My time was spent
in perfect circles
and around every bend
was the chance to pretend
that everything I saw
was new again.
My life has read
stranger than fiction
and a turn of the page
yields the key to the cage
I imagined myself in
all this time.
I disappeared
from the face of the earth
and reappeared
in the heart of it all.
I left my love
at the feet of a god
and awoke with it falling
from my eyes.
My belief
in my knowledge of truth
made disbelief
so much harder to grasp.
I left it all
on the side of the road
and drove off down a path
I didn't know.
Do you know what it's like
to leave it behind,
do you know what it's like
to see?
Can you form up behind
the lines of the time
and finally believe it's a dream?
Will you ever know why
it all came to pass,
will you ever know why
you saw?
If you form up behind
the lines of the time
will you feel for once that it's real?
Did you ever know what
the tale was about,
did you know what
it's all for?
Will you form up behind
the lines of the time
and carve your own path to the truth?
I showed up big.
The Colossus of Rhodes,
the colossus of the road,
and my smile stretches
from ear to ear,
horizon to horizon
as the message sinks in
and floats to the surface
of all this is important
Scars
are all I have to show
for reaching for the
stars
after all the beauty
I chased through time
mars
the purity I held so dear
so that all I have left are
scars.
Acceptance seeps slowly
through me,
spreading throughout my being
carried through veins
clogged with emotion.
Like ice cold water
in a parched throat,
acceptance soothes
this aching heart.
The spark is a sound,
the fuel is my soul.
It starts in my chest
and rolls outward,
a spiraling ball of
furious flame that
ignites all that it touches
but remains beneath my skin.
At the sound of your voice,
I glow.
Above the din of battle
a sound is heard,
it cuts through
the grimy layers of the day
and puts a sheen of
polished brightness on
all that can be seen.
The parting of lips and
the air escaping them,
in the midst of the
raging battle, lifts the
chaos away and replaces
it with a serenity that
completely frustrates me.