my heart tried to skip town
and i almost drowned

my heart tried to skip town
and i fell heavy
a brick to the ground

my heart tried to skip town
and i was good as tied to the pyre
singing the funeral durge of desire
match and strike in hand
seducing the worst face of fire
were all come to pass
but for Lady Grace
with her gentle gate
and her coaxing smile
she brought me back my heart
cradeled in her arms as if it were
some sweet child
sweet child
given to me
tender babe promise me this once
don't run no more
your birth was a promise made
to heal the wicked world



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i have crawled into the space
where i am that youthful lover of the sky
completely
the dawn
this is all i know of innocence
my childhood home
wrapped up in sound
wrought from hammer and bow
entranced by radiant flame
a cat perched on a cloud
struck by awe struck grace

a fools paradise
knows no masterful escape
but i can find my way out
i've done it before
and now i know better
than to stay so long
that i forgette my letters
and the lines of your face

when the real dawn comes
i will awake
decend from where i've spirited away
open to you
and join the wisdom offered up
by the workings of the day
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it's now i have a blade i use
to cut a door in the sky
and a ladder of braided from sturdy hemp
that reaches all the way to the ground
i can climb down or
invite you up
so that you can see the wilderness
i know so well
i never need a map.
but, the days
when i would call this
the only home i know
they are gone
it's that i became curiose
and set to exploring
the world that is shared
it's that i've been fortunate enough
to kiss the sweetness of my kindred
celebrate our love
and take pleasure in the fullness
it's abundant state incures
it's to speek the languege of the heart that i return