When you let your mind wander
Wondering who it is that you are
Like holding the hand of a child and turning your back
You let their hand slip
Out of sight
Out of mind
Out of sight, out of mind
Children are to be seen not heard
Out of sight
Out of mind
When you let your mind wander
Like a cat straying too far from home, in an unfamiliar place,
Will lose homes' scent
When you let your mind wander
The cat will have found a large square window of a strangers house
Will sit upon their windowpane
Crying out into the coldness of the night
When you let your mind wonder
Your soul wanders outside of its body
Like a string to a ballon cut loose
Like a kite cut from its string
Plummeting onto the earth
And like carcass it soils the earth
When you let your mind wander
Like holding the hand of a child and turning your back
Even if just for a moment
Their hand slips loose
And they are gone
Out of sight
Out of mind
Out of sight, out of mind
Children are to bee seen not heard
Out of sight
Out of mind
Have you heard them say that the eyes are the gateway to the soul ?
When you let your mind wander
Your soul does so too
Taking sight with it
[Have they told you yet, that seeing begins within the mind?]
And you become blind to foolery
Enslaved to the rhythm of this void
One too large, too endless to fill
When you let your mind wander
Like sitting in the movie theatre
The same film on repeat
Over and over again
To be seen not heard
When you let your mind wander
Your soul will stray much like the cat
And lose its way back home
The fragrance of home sweet home
Gone and forgotten
Now slave to the human god
A different kind of demon
And you're left empty
The carcass of a mighty king
Fallen
Empty
Empty
Empty
Luck works in threes
When you let your mind wonder
Like a smile that doesn't reach the eyes
Like crying tears that smear down your cheeks as bruises
Onto the curves of your lips
And onto the tastebuds of your tongue
Like a word you can't remember
On the tip of your tongue
Home sweet home
When you let your mind wander
Like holding the hand of a child
And turning your back, letting go
When you let your mind wonder like this
You'll spend the rest of your life retracing your steps
Retracing the moment you might've let go
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Once Upon A Time, Time Stopped
PoetryDon't let your mind wander too far, for it will lose its selves - soul, thought and body. A soul that has lost its body is like a cat straying until it cannot pick up the familar scent of home anymore. It never returns, falling slave to a human God...
