Sands call me
From arid places
Where none walk
And all that lives
Lives in shadow
And all that lived
Lies in quiet
Beneath the hot sand

Whispering

Silent shimmers
In the air
Unseeable
Unhearable
Untouchable

Yet they are there
Bending the universe
And we know them
By their footprints

The clouds burst
And the sun beckons
And the rain smells sweet in the air

Halfway is troubling
Halfway is challenging
Halfway is where my failures go to wait

Halfway is mocking
Halfway is scolding
Halfway is when the urgency sets in

Halfway is one point
Halfway is one stop
Halfway is just a place upon a line

Halfway is quiet
Halfway is nothing
Halfway is just halfway, just halfway

Man eats the fruit
That he might grow hale

Man eats the prey
That he might grow strong

Man eats the land
That he might grow rich

Man eats the enemy
That he might grow mighty

Man eats the sea
That he might grow vast

Man eats the world
That he might grow godlike

Man eats
Man eats
Man eats

Till nothing remains

I would hold to you
Through the darkest night
Through the hardest storm
Through the coldest winter
For I would need you, too

I lit a fire in me
That I cannot put out
That I cannot ignore
That I cannot hide

I lit a fire in me
That demands I act
That demands I do more
That demands I be more

I lit a fire in me
Yet I fear
Yet I fear
Yet I fear

It may consume me yet

Once I opened my ears
To the songs upon the breeze
To the whispers hidden there
To the secrets I once missed

And there upon the breeze
Was truth everlasting
A power greater than can be seen
Or imagined

There was a song
Sung by the trees
And the birds
And the grasses
And the soft clay and hard rock

Now when I open my ears
I hear it evermore