The Same Sun

This is an interesting time in my life. In our lives. In America. There's too much going on right now for me to coherently compose my thoughts. Others have already said it more eloquently than I ever could, anyway.


HAVE HEART - "The Same Sun"

"Son, did you stare too long in front of that mirror?
Did it break when your conscience didn't get any clearer
because of the stomach you'll fill with all the food you eat
and the lack of pain you feel for the eyes that weep
outside of the windowsill in the castle where you sleep?"

Has the sun stopped shining upon the crown you hang?
Has your love and your hate begun to feel the same?
Did that leave you feeling empty, feeling sick,
feeling as empty as a poor child's stomach?

As alone and forsaken as you'd like to be,
there are shoreless miseries of oceans, not seas.
While you wallow and wait in your tower of ivory,
your sister is starving, your brother is begging.

Your sisters are starving, your brothers are begging.
Your mothers are mourning, your fathers are folding.
Unseen, unsung -- under the same sun.

Wake up, look up, there's a warmth up there.
A reminder of peace and a reason to care.
A reason to care.
Wake up, look up, that's something you share.
There's more to life than the boy in that mirror...
Wake up, wake up, wake up."

...From the depths of this hell -
where the free are slaves,
no difference between the cowards and brave,
where our love and hate have become the same -
it's time that we "unbecame"...

Where the ears are deaf, and tongues too dry,
where the arms don't hold, and seeing eyes go blind.
Where nothing is everything and everything is nothing...

"Arise-my soul, and sing."