Snow

Please don’t let me fall into hesitation yet

Cause it’s these moments when silence

Starts sliding downhill quick

And I’m watching trees go flying

Never digging in my heels to walk among them

And the amnesia of this traveling

Begins to blur the memory of what I set out for

Snow, my contact between me and something I remember

A voice moving softly through the trees followed my people

Around the caspian sea

And have we ever really listened

With our stiff necks and broken wisdom?

Picking berry-laden branches

And did our trade or our surrender

Make us any less of pretenders?

Tell me

Break whatever’s in me

That makes me dull and makes me dream

Of lesser colors lesser things

You can unzip me from the seams

Kick all the props, cut all the strings

Divert generational streams

Dig out my heart and make me scream

If that is what will make me sing