1.
And when there’s a path you follow it.
And when there’s a question you ask it.
And when you need to stand and yell at someone
you do it.
Be the strength that everyone knows you have.
And when you need to dance you ask whomever’s around,
extend the hand and turn and take a bow,
demure and daring, your face the expression of all
that’s in your heart
and radiates out
across the void
between your face and the face of your chosen star.
Twinkle at them
messages of
joys
to be shared
if only
a person’s
to dare.
2.
A stone and plaster circle
mud caked on your jeans,
extended and extended like a ripple from your knee,
the walls I want to build.
The walls I want to build
not to lock behind the scenes
reveal the ones who come upon my baby ‘fore she screams;
an empty field defended.
An empty field defended
and walls that can’t be hopped
prepare yourself to treat yourself and tell them when to stop;
stand your ground,
persisting and resisting,
stand your ground.
3.
But place many gates in your walls, my love
and invite the others in.
Be welcoming and exciting.
And take the pleasures of a host.
See the moment,
eat the moment,
each and every moment, for what it can
and what it can’t
be:
the best-of-all that’s possible,
and if not that, then
an improvement,
just an improvement,
an extension of yourself
that stretches way beyond the walls
and comes upon a valley
where the river lies
open to us all
to swim and take a drink
and if not that,
then
what’s an improvement?
4.
Remember through it’s only through
communion when we dance around
make your music
make your music
make your music
start
Remember through it’s only through
communion when we dance around
make your music
make your music
make your music
start
Remember through it’s only through
communion when we dance around
make your music
make your music
make your music
start
Remember through it’s only through
communion when we dance around.
Remember through it’s only through
communion when we dance around
Remember through it’s only through
communion when we dance around
Remember through it’s only through
communion when we dance around
Remember through it’s only through
Remember through it’s only through
Remember through it’s only through
communion when we dance around
and make your music
make your music
make your music
start.
5.
Can you be kind?
Can you realize?
That not all of them
need to be let in.
Stretch beyond yourself;
Exit through your walls
and sometimes
return to me when you’re ready.
You are safe
to exceed
because I am always
already here,
ready to defend,
ready to defend,
whenever you need me.
But keep,
I shall not do,
nor would you want me to.
The path
always leads
away out there,
and what we’ve said,
what we’ve agreed to,
is that there’s this,
the thing to do,
when there’s a path,
you damn well follow it,
that’s what you do,
you damn well follow it.
