2005-02-19
Artistry



run like a race for family
when you hear like you're alone
the rusty gears of morning
and faceless, busy phones
we gladly run in circles
but the shape we meant to make is gone

and love is a tired symphony
you hum when you're awake
and love is a crying baby
mama warned you not to shake
and love's the best sensation
hiding in the lion's mane

so i'll clear the road, the gravel
and the thornbush in your path
that burns a scented oil
that i'll drip into your bath
the water's there to warm you
and the earth is warmer when you laugh

and love is the scene i render
when you catch me wide awake
and love is the dream you enter
though i shake & shake & shake you
and love's the best endeavor
waiting in the lion's mane


Lion's Mane - Iron & Wine


It's all Hamlet and algebra and Olivier staring at me from a dvd cover and Chaucer and Iron & Wine and unfinished chemistry problems and looming exams on Monday.

And fleeting thoughts of you cross my brain, interrupt my concentration, carry me across the miles of blue lined paper scribbled over with endless linear and net ionic equations.

Shaking at the promise of a touch of a hand.

before & & after