No Man's Land

No man alive this planet can illuminate your path

No guide that came before can show the way beyond the pass

No footprints on the trail for you to follow in the tracks

For you to make it there you have to leave without the map

And no amount of pleading can release you from the trap

There’s no degree of toil that can serve to bridge the gap

You can trek across the plains without much weight upon your back

But if you’re tortured in your mind, you will crumble from the facts

So flee the shelter for the storm before the caves collapse

I’ve stood among them like a ghost they fail to recognize

Amidst the cattle and the wolves that roam the countryside

Stood between the trenches where the sound of battle cried

Where reason went to die along the ground where Hell and Earth collide

And now I stand where fortune shifts and channels open wide

Where essence flows within these rivers under open sky

I’m in that place where few have been though many tried

So if you stand for something, stand for something more than simply standing by

This that gem to find

This that certain kind

This the truth that hides

This is that great divide

Break out from that tomb

That empty room I’ve been inside

No method, no plans

No direction to advance

Just step across that line that’s in the sand

This is the land of no man