Pelican of the Desert

Server the nerve

The skin

The scale

Gather your bones from beyond the pale

Come out of the wild and into the world

Burn all the books

Put out your eyes

Lower your sword the end is nigh

Sink through the pinewood and into the dirt

Out of your body and into the sky

Out of your body and into the sky

Give in

Voices will carry us

Turn around.

Find your way back to the start.

Love is the way

Love is the only way

Love is the only way out

Love is the way

Love is the only way

Love is the only way out

Don't freeze up in the headlights

Welcome it in

Walk through the storm to the eye

The birth will be calm

The birth will be quiet

But the dark had such long arms

Pulling me down

Sliding back into my head

Where all of it is thought without awareness

Where there is no foresight only pertinence

I could scratch at the door

But I will never get in

So I rise above or I sink below

So I rise above or I sink below

Either way I am false

At the center is all

I tripped up at the breakthrough

I was scared to die

So the gate locked

The light vanished

Now where am I?

I was startled by the great height

I doubted my heart

Now the wine turns to water

I am coming apart