Of Gravity and Levitation

I bond to water like air

While fire scorches the earth

Set aside silent prayer

Then cast a beam of hope for rebirth

A friend once told me the sun

Would shine regardless of ritual hope

But if tomorrow the sky came undone

We might be at the end of our rope

My fondest wish is to smile

To levitate above deadweight compiled

Before the dreamers awake

And find their spirits defaced

Perhaps their wish could be worth their while

But now I'm grounded again

So for a while I'll deal with the torture

Until I've circled my Zen

And find my way into limitless fortune

I taste the salt in my teeth

While reminiscing of times out of reach

Before the tide rolls ashore

And follows hopes to restore

The undertow is the final release

Alas the evening prevails

The sky is lit with explosive detail

The sound of thunder perhaps

Or fireworks being hatched

It doesn't match the escape I've inhaled

Like lost balloon in the sky

I'm falling up with the blood to my mind

Until the atmosphere breaks

Burdens I tried to forsake

They leave me stumbling blind

Like fingers sifting through clay

The sky is grey and the mold has been broken

But now you've drifted away

I stand and wait at the foot of the ocean