Being

Looking through your crystal stares
The scatter leaves me lacking
But every doubt the smiles declare
True lustre, cut and setting
When everywhere is chance to better
You store away each shed piece
As if to lose would sacrifice
A mine that is much too deep

Tomorrow will be changed
Like when the soldiers came
They broke our backs, our schools, our homes
By smoke they did invade
And ashes rose and hung for years
Baked blood and steamed the rain
On return, our hearts were full, but nothing was the same
As the day the soldiers came

Sometimes I wonder about the key
Through doors to the obsidian night
The falling leaves twirl down towards the waiting winter’s bite
And in the cold the inkblots tell us stories of the summer
Breaths of warm seas, touch of cool breeze
Open storms of monsoon wet
And underneath the changing skies
The spring is all I need

Forever

Carry us through when we are weak
Hold onto just a flicker in
Warmth in the glow, by the fire that we built
Lie in the sun, beneath which we grew

Finding you there in many ways
Hidden by the shadows of your glass curtains
Fragments reflect and distort your true colours
Still I can see you within

There we were speaking to none
Looking, but seeing nothing
To the world we were wary, to ourselves we were thin
But today we are strong, we begin

Forever should hold onto us
Learn what it means to be this

Forward

Forward on a head I stumble
No longer by the fly
I stare with human eyes toward
The girl shedding her disguise

The shrouds, they fall to dusted floor
The words, the take due leave
Oh sight, on eyes to mouth, not I
Each piece has one's own right

She will leave into the space
Still thinking of you-that-night
It was just the beginning then
As is this departure pending

I will miss you so
Every curve, every fold
As I stray to you, my head will rest
With you, despite my distance
For you, despite my distance