Inferno

'I stand in clay and I say "I am soft like new ground"
I stand in the mountains and I am tall like deep stone
I stand where I met you and I think "I was born to come here"
I stand in the ocean and look at the moon pulling the tide on silver strings
But I am not quite clay, and I am not quite stone
Not quite the day I met you or the currents that brought me here

I am so quiet the deer don't hear me coming
I am so bold the storm rolling into the green hills knows my name
I am real and I am fairytale alike and I know all of this the way you can return to a place where you were once a child
And you know that place in your bones

Everyone is asking you secretly to save them
You watch as everyone drowns a little when you can't
But you and I are moving forward the way the world is moving
In looping arcs across the Universe so full of light and color
Everyone is asking you to do what they think is important
You watch their disappointment when you choose instead what you love

But you and I are moving forward the way the world moves forward
Burning like an arrow as it streaks towards its mark
Don't let anything put you out, love
Don't let anything put you out
You are denying physics and astrology both
People put their palms together and greet you with 'Namaste'
But they don't see you

I know you're trying and you're failing to meditate with your fever-pitched heart
Everyone wants to ease the places where you scorch
They want to file your nails and pet you gently and be able to say 'Look how nice you are'
But don't be nice to me, love

Be enormous and wild-eyed in the morning singing a song you're just making up and will never remember to sing again
Don't settle down and make it work and get through this the best that you can
Don't retire your dreams before you live them
Let yourself dream in a way thats soft like red clay and deep like old stones
Dream in a way where you're pulling the moon into your arms
Dream from your wellspring of embers
And don't let anything put you out, love
Don't let anything put you out'

L.L