The Garden

There are laws and there are lines
Watch me cross them a thousand times
And she says to be wary
And I always respect the fairy
At the bottom of the garden
I watch positions harden
On the news
As people pay their dues
By hunkering down on what they don’t know
I felt it bite so I let go
Of that particular stranger thing
And I don’t know if a Sí has a wing
But I know I do not trespass
On their particular piece of grass
And there are thousands of other creatures
Different in all their features
Who walk amongst us, who are
Not foreign like a burning star
But intimately connected
To the god who was resurrected
From the cross
I feel the pain but all is not lost
On me
I am set free
By the daggers in my side
And just because I’m not alive
In the same way I was before
Does not mean that I am not something more
Than I grew to be
There is a mystery
That has always haunted my vision
And the derision
Did nothing to dim
The connection I had with Him
In the form of prayer
Coz I just know He is there
And listens to me
And everything I’ve come to be
In the growing time
I thought it was a curse to be forced to rhyme
Each word with another
And every brother
I ever found
Had a preoccupation with the lack of sound
In the sky
To be born you have to die
And I woke up on the floor
And I don’t know what for
All I know is that Truth
Reached into my youth
And asked me to become
The bridge on which the coat is slung
As I dive right in
And I met him
When he was a brigand wild
But I could see his inner child
Longing to be let loose
So I sigh at the proof
He seeks to find
That he should not be left behind
And I smile
I’m gonna love you for a while

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