As the heat rose from the street and the passing cars created an incredulous beat, I took his dirt covered hands in mine and we (the World) sang in unison until the sun did shine:
“A journey tells what a book can’t read—
A master sells only what he can see—
So this is our ledger, this is our coin…”
With smiles gleaming our minds wondered to thoughts of carefree drives. We called upon youth—broken steps fleeing the scene of an arson, and with wings in our bellies and boulders in our throats we sang on and on:
“As the truth is stolen
from our hands;
as we toil knee deep
in the waste of years,
hearts pounding in our ears,
dread perched on the window’s sill—
with a thousand TV ministers
trying to break our wills,
with a billion points of light
trying to sell us life from a screen,
with not much to give
but what we have within—
we, the World must sing this anthem:
‘Nothing above me but the sun!’”
When the first beam of light crept over the roof tops a stillness settled around us that cannot be described, only compared, to the calm after the last drop of rain disturbs the last blade of grass; to the pause—the sigh—after that last line was read of the book that changed your life.
As the sun rose and rose I noticed a serene silence, which lived in-between mine and his frequencies, a beautiful, calming silence that wet my eyes and drew the corners of my mouth. For sometimes the only thing to know for sure is silence…
credits
from desperate songs,
released March 7, 2009
Sing along vocals: Neil Parsons, Chris Slack, Richard Marques, Dunja Kurtovic, Ljuban Kurtovic, Callie Parsons, Andy Fabian, Larry Dale Miller, Wade Schifferli, Erik Totten, Zach Heggan, Wesley Bayard, and Ian Baker.
"Nothing above me but the sun"-- quoted from Ayn Rand's Anthem
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