The Truth
The year the birds didn't sleep
and fences became more invisible with each blink,
we got up to stand on holy earth.
Our energy we drew from stars,
our dreams from dew.
We bathed our bare bodies in marigolds
and spent days lying face down, toe on toe,
not looking but breathing.
The houses we had occupied only hours earlier
lay in front of our feet
like waxen statuettes waning in windy weather.
Wind couldn't hold us down.
We would climb on roofs and pick tiles like apples
and stare at dusk and dawn alike
to see what grace was.
We prayed to the gods of little things
and instead of folding our hands
we painted our feet
because for the first time
we didn't need to know better.
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The Truth
The truth is that the truthlies between
two songs, between
two pages, after
day, before night.
It lies right
at the bottom of
the top, at the middle of
the end, half way between black
and white, where today
ends and tomorrow
has not yet
started.
The truth is that our
words, dear, can never
hit home the way we hit
rock bottom every time we
rise and try to get it just
right, be it the cake we let
burn that evening in May or the
lawn we simply refused to mow
because we would much
rather lie flat on
each other's backs.
And the grass grew against walls and up
into the windows and up
to the ceiling where it covered
not only the cracks but
also the silken spiderwebs I had woven
while you were asleep.
The truth is that the truth
lies.
It lies
in wait.
~ voice, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mellotron, electric bass, drums ~
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