Inside Of You, In Spite Of You

I am in the air now

I am in your lungs

I am written

I am spoken by a million flaming tongues

I'm the lens through which you see

I'm the process

I am the key

I am synapses firing bullets from a gun

I'm the world's mystique

I am the words you speak

I am language

I am hidden memories that you seek

I am the sun before you see me rise

I burn still when you close your eyes

I am the soul that never dies when flesh is weak

I am inside of you in spite of you

With strength and sacred grace

But for all you do

I'll carry you now

From this bitter place

I am in your future

I am in your past

I'm the echo of your footsteps

I'm your shadow cast

I'm the heat you radiate

I am the fury and the fate

I am each beat within your heart from first to last

I'm your action without thought

I am the instinct born inside you

I'm the bones from which you drape

I am protective skin to hide you

I'm the pull that the earth exerts

I am the rain that stings and the snow that blinds

I'm the architecture of your world and mind

I am the dawn of ages

I am the days seen through

I'm final entropy

I am inside of you

I am the clouds that cover

Your way into the blue

I kiss with life to give

All this in spite of you