Scared of planning for the future only to see those plans fail
But not trying was refusing to grow at least that's how I felt
My mother says my ears are hard
I seek the pain before I seek the healing
I seek the rain, the cards the clouds are dealing
It hurts to cry when tears are shards
Malice, hate, that metallic taste
I'm mad at the way they feel
The fact is they stay only when you delay accepting all that is real
To chase a ghost unable to grasp at the straws of a hand it's hell
Lest the solace of knowledge that you may touch fade away with the ghost itself
We wish to fill the void and block the light
To raise our hands higher than we can see and leave our mark over the marks of others before us
Expect the return of the light
Each machine has it's own music
The trauma of components producing sounds so therapeutic
Will you be the change-maker or join those who stand behind the change-makers huh?
Will you make origami that brings life to dead trees or cave into a fear of papercuts?
See the flower without the petals and still love
See the bird that does not sing and still love
See the tree without her leaves and still love
When the stars still beam but the moon adamantly remains unseen still see the sky and dream and still love
Underestimating the power of a helping hand how foul of us
It's not who you love
It's not what you love
It's how you love
The Brainfreeze Epidemic is one rarely mentioned
May these paramedics bury the hereditary gene for isolation
Caused by the resting of tired minds on top of our own cold shoulders
Or the windows of vehicles froze over
Moving through this age of silence
Where the hum and ping of our technology out-speaks the quiet
Where the rustle of pages turning
Speaks for the silent
They carried their baby on the train today
One cry, two cries, four cries
The baby shakes
"You must be popular" a fellow traveller jokes
Now the baby bawls
Screaming for attention
For every need to be attended to with haste
They concede and the baby is silent
Finally pacified
The baby is turned off and pocketed
