Tai Chi With My Dad

I drank coffee with a raven

Who said, "Empathy is painful

But if you want to eat the fruit

You gotta feel the rainfall"

I drank coffee with a raven

They said, "Don't you go complaining

Put your feet against the pavement

Your life is yours for the making"

I've been on borrowed time since seven

Unable to breathe

A week hooked up to machines

My dad tryna teach me Tai Chi

The sundial informs me I'm too early

For the universe's heat death

But hopefully I'm not too late

To catch my breath and get my bike fixed

I drank coffee with a raven

Who said, "Empathy is painful

But if you want to eat the fruit

You gotta feel the rainfall"

I drank coffee with a raven

They said, "Don't you go complaining

Put your feet against the pavement

Your life is yours for the making"

You looked at me through double glazing

Folded your voice to a gnostic text

Do you get lonely sometimes?

All I had left was to answer, "Yes"

Every morning, I've been talking

All my secrets to the trees

But lately, they don't return my whispers

They ain't talking back to me

I drank coffee with a raven

Who said, "Empathy is painful

But if you want to eat the fruit

You gotta feel the rainfall"