SUNLIGHT
I had a dream where you were you
and yet you were someone else...
All at the same time… the most edible of fruits…
yet stemming from the same root
Was your shadowed twin, who I became so painfully aware,
sat out in the same sun
Yes, you both were one...
But one of you felt like they were slowly dying
Just which vision is the truth?
I thought I knew but now I know...
When I only see what I want to see
That's when one becomes blind
Blinded by my own hopes and dreams
Forgetting that what is most important to a flower
Is not just sunshine and water but where are there weeds?
And as my mind played tricks on me
I found myself being deceived by my own
Preoccupation with presumption and forgetting all reality...
Sometimes we can stand within the light and still not see
All because we're taught to be predisposed
To take what we want when we want without worry
Without a thought for someone else's wants
Without a thought for another's needs
Then I got caught
Caught up in myself
My conscious became lost as I forgot
That some others believe in ideals and beliefs
That often are different than me
Different than me and mine
And that that's okay
So long as I find myself rooted in love
Then the sun can shine down upon us both
Then hopefully and happily in time
we'll each get to see the light of a new day
It was only then that I
Became a stronger man
Once I sat back and thought
That it is a better way that way
Perhaps the light that shines
To each shall come at different times
So long as we keep open our eyes then everything is fine
Yeah, everything is fine... The essence of all truth
When love is love it defeats all lies
Yeah, it defeats all lies
Then there's no more lying to yourself
To him or her or to someone else
Gone becomes all selfish intent
That too often becomes so intense
It feels like the only feeling you have ever felt
Escape from that and the frozenness of hatred and fear
You'll find will all disappear
Leaving only yourself and those you hold dear
And I long to hold you, my dear
Yet only when you're ready will this ship steer itself
Sturdy and steady and all will be revealed...
Yes, all will be revealed...
I've set my course off towards the distant horizon
Chasing the setting sun seeking to find the one
No, not the one for me but the one I am for
Am I willing to go and explore
For it's only the sunlight that I long to see
Hence I sail upon the sea sailing as far as I can
To a new and faraway land not for what I know now is...
But in the name of what could be...
But in the name of what could be...