Here and There

Half of the time

We're waiting for a hand of kindness

To break us like a wave

And turn us toward your face

***

I wanted to be the sky

As I looked at the seagulls

lazily soaring above the ocean

My heart opening up like a teardrop 

at the Jersey Shore and I thought,

Nothing matters but You, Your voice 

among all the muck;

the schoolbooks of money and death

and people saying,

"When is your future?  When will it start?"

So

I ran out to see the bay in the morning

Excited to catch the little piece of heaven

called Pivo Point, Ontario, a place I'd never been

The first retreat of this new life I'd chosen.

The water talked to me playfully as it went 

over the rocks in little waves

And I thought, I'd never seen anything more beautiful

With all of my planning, it wasn't me

who brought me here

to feel this galaxy of fire inside

You brought me here

To

Columbus, Georgia, where

I walked along the river until I 

found a waterfall

And it made me wonder 

why I even had a body at all

I wanted to be the river

I could feel the force of thousands of people

singing my song under this rainy tent

"Peace is flowing like a river..."
Wanting to close the School of Death

And as we remembered those who passed away,

we became the autumn trees and the wind,

holding our little white crosses

high in our hands

Each one had a name

Their names were our names

"Presente"

And we became each other's past,

each other's pain

And I was the river

We were the river

I was the sky

We were the sky