Just One Step Away

12/8/09, 1/5&7/10

Baby won't you sing my song
can you walk my way
and lay your body next to mine.

Life doesn't want me to rest
she tosses waves at my shore
blows indecision in my ears
and sends doubts through the rain.

But I can't rearrange the way
the blood runs through my veins
any more than the way the wind blows my hair
and the water rinses me clean.

just as quickly as the waves hit my chest
the sand and the stones wash out with the tide
I can stay and pick through the seashells and weeds
and look out to sea for the beckoning sails

at times I just stand and look at my toes
and watch as the ground is sifting in rows
earth is moving beneath me, nothing is still
i feel my heart beating inside me, forcing its will.

Baby, won't you walk my way
lay your body next to mine
let's erase the time.

when the night falls on the coast
the air reeks of memories, jasmine and brine
the energy is lifted, beneath every breath
leaves one of your thoughts gifted, to stay with the dunes.