Born of Longing
Simon Joyner
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A baby begins chewing on letters on wood blocks To get to the root of the problem at hand All your language is splinters it can't stick together When you open your mouth you start loosing your head And you still can't explain why the sky is blue There is nothing so sweet as the milk of your mother That's how you bounce back when the bough breaks Now you've got these two eyes that go from wandering to wise Depending on the wind and how it's feeling today And you've been thinking about swimming upstream Are you embarrassed by legends of cowboys and maidens Do you remember how David caught a giant on his tongue? The light through the window holds the dust of past heroes And they're never destroyed only scattered around By the drunk wind spilling his guts So a child lights a fire just to look in the mirror For soon he'll be wearing his Papa's grey beard All his days in the country full of flame and born of longing Into the haze of the cityscape they all but disappear Like horses running out of prairie But if the stars can't quit dreaming And if the sun is still sleeping Then beholden they'll swallow the sad empty space While the moon casts her shadows and spells on new lovers Who must blush as they brush the hair from their faces And the crickets know nobody is immune You assume that I'm wounded because I'm hunchbacked and hooded But I've got a dream just like any honest man I might keep it hidden so sweet is my burden But if someone tried to steal it they'd have to cut off my hands For it's as heavy and as precious as gold.
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Written by: Simon Joseph Joyner
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