The thunder
from the other side of the river
And a rush of wind sends leaves and wings
To scatter
And people run for cover
As though the rainwater
will melt their ruffled feathers
Aimlessly she meanders
Taking shelter
From the rain that pours
Into a high end store
Which at first she ignores
Before she recognizes
The shapes colors and sizes
Of stones from her own homeland
She crouches to read the caption written by hand
'Healing rock'
and stands in shock
as seeing the price tag
Twenty times higher than her leather bag
She looks around
And realizes she is surrounded by pieces
Of her childhood
From furniture to books
She had taken for granted
And now commercialized
And tainted
A ceremonial shawl
Much like her mother wore
Makes her heart sore
To see it is no more
But remade to be a bedspread
She shakes her head
Then her eyes rest
On photograph perched on top of a wooden chest
'sacred skies' it read
of the stars she'd known shining
from east to west
for the first time she sees
the leaves
she found what she'd missed
and kissed her light filled city
goodbye.
There's a place next to the fire
So look up
Feel the sun shining on your spirit
That you bring
And the stars that guide you
Into the higher ground
Say goodbye
One day they'll fall from the sky
When it holds the dreams
that you and i
Have all been wishin
When you need that fire
So look up
Feel the sun shining on your spirit
That you bring
And the stars that guide you
Into the higher ground
Say goodbye
One day they'll fall from the sky
When it calls the dreams
that you and i
Have all been wishin
When you feel that fire!
Home.
It seems she left so long ago
Stepping out to taste the night
Alone
She sighs in sadness
At the lack of insight
That everything she needed
Was right there.
Trying to shed old skin
For the new one is too thin
Racing towards an unforeseen future
Blindly rejecting the old culture
The foundation is like quicksand
Trying to find some ground to stand
With nowhere to turn to but up
She searches the sky
Until her eyes stop
On one star
No bigger than a drop
Amongst the millions
There's no difference
But she senses her soul reflected
And her spirit so long deflated
Begins to fill with the light she had waited for
The gate opens to flood her emotions
And saturate with the stars she thought had faded.
There's a place next to the fire
So look up
Feel the sun shining on your spirit
That you bring
And the stars that guide you
Into the higher ground
Say goodbye
One day they'll fall from the sky
When it holds the dreams
that you and i
Have all been wishin
When you need that fire
So look up
Feel the sun shining on your spirit
That you bring
And the stars that guide you
Into the higher ground
Say goodbye
One day they'll fall from the sky
When it calls the dreams
that you and i
Have all been wishin
When you feed that fire!