Diogenes Travels

Diogenes travels, dispossessed

I need to know, brother

Odysseus, lost and dispossessed

Needs to know, father

Divorced from all meaning to hold it dear

We need you near, will you appear?

A loss of all purpose can lead to death

They need to know, sister

Without our bearings there’s nothing we can defy

Without a ground beneath our feet

The best of us won’t know why

And there’s a place that reaps the fruit of hopes that die

Under a Berlin Bridge

Where others float and our dear Nico lies

The strayed and lost travel dispossessed

To kill the void, Brother

The sold and fooled tremble, well bereft

And hide the shame, Father

To seek all the answers, unappeased

From the dawn of time they’ve seldom ceased

We’ve given up everything to know

I need to know, Sister

Without our bearings there’s nothing we can defy

Without a ground beneath our feet

The best of us won’t know why

And there’s a place that reaps the fruit of hopes that die

Under a Berlin Bridge

Where others float and our dear Nico lies

I can tell you all you see

Was first made from what you can’t

So futile is my search far beyond

Exploration far within

Moves beyond a place to hide

Where reverie and matter shimmer all

I can tell you what I see

When my eyes are closed and I Cast

Out a thousand dreams

And reel them in

Everything is answered there

All I need is waiting for me

Seas of growth and nourishment for all

Please make all my dreams

Come running back to me

Please make all I love

Come running back to me