One Less - to Daniel Sabin

I sit and stare as the music 

Tears the shingles I’ve been using 

To hide my sight from the phantom of that night 

Hanging beneath the tree of knowledge 

 

I had only a second 

To chance and to beckon 

Your sight and your mind to my sign 

Hanging in my closet four nights 

 

But you gave 

And you took 

With a gaze 

And a book 

You prayed to me my friend 

 

May there be 

One less reason to end 

On a course that is not retractable 

One less reason to live 

In a mind that’s inconceivable 

Nothing can be said and done 

We are who we have now become 

 

But the children have a chance 

To live by a different chant 

To eat a different plant 

To find a natural dance 

With the planet and all that’s in it 

 

That’s what Christ had said, isn’t it? 

A world fill with peace  

Where we all can feast 

And not one is left to beg 

That’s where one of the stories end 

But that’s not the one we’ve found a trend 

Of investing and enslaving  

For a gluttonous excavating 

Of our mothers most beautiful pearls 

And we trade them away as jewels 

 

But all the sounds 

Of millennial’s of time 

Can be traced back to ones 

That act without knowing what to try 

And we create such a cesspool 

Of lust and half felt lies 

Of tried and measures true 

That maintain a level that you 

Must invest in to be found eligible at your time 

 

When you touch their face 

With no thought to wait and trace 

The lips you leave for the very last time 

Oh, I’ve thought of this so plainly 

With a pet, a spouse, a family 

The sober reality that dust is the only thing left 

 

But to lose someone 

That you never thought found 

Peace in the thought of taking a last breath 

And to have sworn 

He would try to warn 

Especially being my same attempt at death 

 

God, this is so unfair 

God, do you even fucking care? 

God, was that really the last time? 

God, can’t you trade his heart for mine? 

 

My lungs are already 

Frozen in so many 

breathes fill with smoke and screams 

My mind is already 

Adapted and squarely 

Focused on attacking anything 

My heart is already 

Fucking broken and heavy 

Why the hell him and not me? 

 

But as I’m dug in the trench 

Of self pity and stench 

Bombs spiraling in consistency 

I look at your life 

And each person who’s eyes 

Are filled with the scent of your smoke 

 

There was something almost unnatural 

The feeling of being invincible 

Being heard, seeing, believing 

Everything's not lost 

You look back to my thoughts 

And whisper so gently 

 

May there be 

One less reason to end 

On a course that is not retractable 

One less reason to live 

In a mind that’s inconceivable 

Nothing can be said and done 

We are who we have now become 

But the children have a chance 

To live by a different chant 

To eat a different plant 

To find a natural dance 

With the planet and all that’s in it 

 

Learn the science, learn the language 

Shout and scream like a raging tangent 

Never stop till you feel it all 

There’s still shore when you sink under the wall 

They could live in a church made of green 

A river flowing becomes the composer when they sing 

And in it all we can finally know what it means 

To live freely with minds grown like trees 

 

Falling back in 

The texture within 

The soil, rocks and clay 

Growing up swift 

An open context 

What would natural humans make 

 

The culture, the pastures 

The animals and their masters 

Found equal in emotional respect 

The Mothers, the Fathers 

The unwedded daughters 

Living un-heedlessly wherever they are lead 

 

Goddammit, I know it’s possible 

And if we make it probable  

I want to stick around and see it unfurl 

Because a generation that’s conscious 

Could unravel all of this 

Going back, the first thought that rippled 

 

The way the world wants to be 

The world that I beg of life to see 

Daniel, please tell me 

Could we live and be proud of our history 

 

I imagine him sitting peacefully 

Waiting for the break to my symphony 

And answering me with eyes unwaveringly 

 

May there be 

One less reason to end 

On a course that is not retractable 

One less reason to live 

In a mind that’s inconceivable 

Nothing can be said and done 

We are who we have now become 

But the children have a chance 

To live by a different chant 

To eat a different plant 

To find a natural dance 

With the planet and all that’s in it

 

Without the traumas that now inhibits it

May we dream of a world befitting this

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