Mood for a Day

With my back on the floor  cold linoleum icing my growing pains watch the ceiling fan turn it’s shape again my threads are coming loose Yeah, I’m one spoon away from setting the ends of my hair on fire If I’m kindling for a little while, at least I’d feel of use Maybe then my breath could embody a wildfire starting I’d sweep up the forest floor and my body breathe life into the corners be a darker soil Making lists, folding laundry, keeping tidy with my radio show I’d be lying if I told you I’m keeping tidy anymore    Yeah, I swing from believing that maybe my working will all pay off to considering drinking with Molotov I’m halfway out the door Promise me that you’ll start where I end and I promise to give you everything that I am we’ll go on and on and on again In the end, all I hope for is to be a bit of warmth for you when there’s not a lot warm left to go around 

A winter’s day In a deep and dark December I am alone Gazing from my window To the streets below On a freshly fallen, silent shroud of snow I am a rock I am an island I’ve built walls A fortress, steep and mighty That none may penetrate I have no need of friendship Friendship causes pain It’s laughter and it’s loving I disdain I am a rock I am an island Don’t talk of love Well, I’ve heard the word before It’s sleeping in my memory I won’t disturb the slumber Of feelings that have died If I never loved, I never would have cried I am a rock I am an island I have my books And my poetry to protect me I am shielded in my armor Hiding in my room Safe within my womb I touch no one and no one touches me I am a rock I am an island And a rock feels no pain And an island never cries

Think slowly, try to remember I'm alive My body is here and I am inside Think slowly, try to remember I'm alive My body is here and I am inside Think slowly, try to remember I'm alive My body is here and I am inside Think slowly, try to remember I'm alive My body is here and I am inside Think slowly, try to remember I'm alive My body is here and I am inside Think slowly, try to remember I'm alive My body is here and I am inside