Strum

The path turns fallow beneath my feet
bare and brown so much youth beat within
a sin it seems to shod the truth
and casually walk around
as if time wasn't a circle you woke to

God is the question still
and though I see the warming light
it is my own with wings and flight
and the guts of glory that came from drowning
and the question who is dead

I have loved the lace in time
such pretty weaving catches me
planting well the seed that wonders
always asking slow or fast
detesting the blood of the righteous
to save the sisters and daughters
from the strangle of skin

The petals mold and droop into goodbye
even from the rigid frozen winter
and to see them stir the air
takes purity and I despair my lack

Though I have taken songless wind
and with my ear created harmony
unglued the glass and rubbed the wood
until my fingers ached
and still questioned why
I worked the love into the finish
to feel it there smooth
and unafraid of weather
while my soft skin ached from the strum
yet still with joy succumbed