To love you is to jump through hoops
And we are surrounded by suits 
Telling us what to do
But you always walked on your own, didn’t you
And I admire 
Your defiant, blazing fire 
And, the smoke, it plumes 
And fills all the rooms 
With your stardust
I seemed to have just brushed 
It off my shirt
The bathroom and the way it hurt
As I hide in bed 
Back to playing in the shed 
When we were ten years old 
Before the streets were paved with gold 
As I find 
Something time left behind 
I pick up the broach
As, subject to reproach, 
I stand still
And their diamond will
Can’t move me 
Now that I pulse like the sea
In a current deeper due 
And the hue
Of the evening sky
Reflects against my waning lie 
As I learn to be true 
And lean back into You
The one and only that ever is 
There are times I call it His 
Because the language that I’ve learned 
Is to speak of the shrub that burned 
For Moses in the cave 
Or St. Paul and the light that save 
All the Christians from his wrath
It’s a revelation that won’t turn back
From its origin, from its source
And all the remorse 
Washes like waves and the tide 
Pull the heart that keeps me alive
In this body and warm 
As the house is battered by the storm
That I resist
And exist 
As torrential rain
Would I go through it again
Just to see you smile
And all the while 
You endure 
And I pure 
Clash with the waters deep
In the secret that we keep
Enclosed and safe
Entering the holy cave

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