Warning - Stations

Lonely white;
the only little light I know
is falling like a memory on the open road;
a memory of a meaning
that I never heard long enough,
leaving what I never learned.

Leaving what I never learned.

Holding on, cradled to the bruise-black sky;
swollen with the secrets of a living lie.
Pour me out like silver in a common world.
Lonely white;
healing like I never hurt.

I unfolded my life to a dream
beside that other ocean;
but I’m tied to the lines that must lead me
somewhere where I don’t know why.

And tonight, there’s nothing that
can reach me in the world outside.
It’s just another vast, aching hunger;
an emptiness of another kind.

And tonight, there’s nothing beneath me,
but the solid earth and the endless miles.

Now only this –
Whatever you leave me,
you leave me alive.