First Gong Vol. 8: Thrust FIRST GONG 8 THRUST | Page 55

NOT ALONE - Soonest Nathaniel
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I still do not know what you found
When you looked through the windows of my soul,
Into the hull of this sand castle.
I wonder if what you found
Was just my fear, or the truth
About how women become leaders.
2.
You say you will stay
Through the storms,
I say it leaks through the thatch,
But you remind me,
We cannot leave
Saving the plants to the environmentalists.
3.
I say it’s a season of grief,
You ask me to savor the salt
And see through the tears.
You say we must learn to walk
The Brazilian wilderness,
By seeing the world through Abrahams who never cast away their lots.
4.
I say I cannot see through silk to silicon,
I say I cannot see through the eyes of innocents.
But you say I am a marooned child at the shoreline of time,
Searching through the eyes of Katrina.
You say I must learn never to rush through the early days of childhood,
So I am learning to see through the crack, I am learning through vanishing point,
The essence of space.
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