Fugitive Song (a response to Rainer Maria Rilke)

Just because love and loss

Forces the song from your lips

Does not make it a good song

That ain't the trick

Words can be so carelessly constructed

They can be toppled with a kiss

Do they cling so honestly

To the one that you address?

Fugitive song

Come home to me

Fugitive song

Come home to me

Will I chase the spirit

Through blinding defeat?

Or do I simply wait

To pinch the leaflet?

Wisdom sifting through the breeze

I feel the space between all things

Is this just an excuse

For poetic distance?

Fugitive song

Come home to me

Fugitive song

Come home to me

You hold your guitar

Like a rebel exile

You just gleaned the suffering

From the 21st century

What happened to dance?

And the freedom of any ism?

You know it found the underground

And a taste for cannibalism!

Fugitive song

Come home to me

Fugitive song

Come home to me

Come home to me

Come home to me