We need light and darkness
We need the spaces in between to join in revelry
And we need noise to hear silence
Like joy needs tragedy
and time breathes memories
My soul needs you to see
I pining for a feeling I had as a young boy
The summer days growling long with nothing to grasp,
nothing demanding my time
That was in the mid to late nineties
My parents had packed away the gaming systems
The T.V.’s cable had been removed
There was a quiet you can ease into like a warm bath on a crisp evening
It surrounds you,
pulls you to the dance floor like and eager and bold friend
The shrill invasion of cut grass
and the hurried beating wings of the bees racing for the last falling fruit
I lay there on the ground,
and although I didn't realize it then, the days fell rested upon my mind.
I was listening to the wild and domestic fields,
The birds as they get churned up and squeezed,
The children as the get tossed.
My skin rising to dance with the sunlight
as I sink into the Earth’s warm surface and deep cool belly
The sun shrinking before me, lighting up in a spectacle each and every night
The chorus begins
First, the crows with their casw as they flock home
The crickets they build in their rhythm
And the coyotes they take the lead with their mystical, beautiful, haunting yip
We need light and darkness
We need the spaces in between to join in revelry
And we need noise to hear silence
Like joy needs tragedy
and time breathes memories
My soul needs you to see
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