The Bookshop Sessions #12
The other night, I was wandering through
Lost in the town that has no clue a water bearer lifts up her son. In the middle of the market
She stands tall
so tall
That when the chin lifts my wind up
I catch a whiff of her cycling through the trees
Her smell is rooted so deep
Oh I’m just a kid
Losing his religion
For the settlers ain’t got no love and the ambassadors watch the towns crumble
It’s a sound I’ve heard around
Split tongues, vertical eyes
Cutting through your ventricle
Oh I’m just a kid
Maybe life will be just one great sleep
For the sadness in your eyes is living you
And it takes the fee of life to be
Oh you may love in circles, but even donuts have nothing in their hearts….empty of
Oh I’m just banging my feet…
Riding this dilla beat back to her thighs
As the oldies outside open windows
Look in
Look in,
and you’ll find
One single goblin
Sat on a lotus leaf
Living a whole life
Before your eyes
Where he dies
as you pluck the lapis from his throat
Lucky you,
Coz’ yesterday the dolphins danced on her lower back, and now her knees look like mushy peas
Oh I’m just a kid
So in the name of degrees
I freeze not in the face of justice
And with this whiskey,
I ask just ice
Frozen in my desires
A dark fire starts this journey again
illuminating the corner by the piano
Where John sits, frozen never
as his fingers bleed,
for blood
It never sleeps
blood
it never sleeps
and I’m just a kid
Can you feel it in your feet
The stone I left
In your right shoe
So that when you step
To the beat
You’d remember
What it's like
To feel the beach
beneath your toes
So I’m just a kid
That coldness knows
So when these old bones pull you in
Hold on dearly to this changing embrace
As the shardy winds cut through
may our hands hold onto the near and few miles left of…a warm touch
I’m just a kid
Who learns to love a falling leaf
Like the birds that rest on these shouldies
They sing a song I can’t make,
it sounds so much like you
and you
and I
For time will steal away
When the petals turn to ash
And the ashes lose its way in the wind
Forgetting its kinship to the soil
Oh I’m no longer a kid
Since I met you
Everything has changed
I’ve started to remember time and
what it feels to step away in autumn
Forever between the lines
So listen up you kids
Hear the silent voice calling
Slowly inward it turns
Into the scene you imagine
Relentlessly plaguing your sleep
But what if the dreams sewn deeply in
could be
For this world needs only three
Willing to dive deep into
The scenes beneath that seek release
And if the deceased could speak
Wouldn’t anger be beautiful
When spoken to
Oh kids
May your well open
When you speak to the few
May your eyes break through
And allow whatever chooses to fall
For when we gather round these well built walls we see that
Together through the pain
We shall rise
Together through the pain
We shall rise
We
shall rise
