When the Levee Breaks (2019)

I made a link with the rations gave tenant fees and made deals with my passions. Kept a chain on the greed and the hatred. Patience, doubled down when I paid blood My reality buckled. Broke walls, fought bulls and built strength in my muscles Set sights on horizons. Made good on promise, made a place in the noon sun. But I just needed your touch Words and forget-me-nots were never enough. No flesh in your Eucharist no blood in your wine Just shadows of meadows and slipping of time I chased dreams and cut the ballast off Bound my demons and took council with the giants and their thoughts aloft. Rewrote myself without these callouses. Married duty to my trespass, my kingdom to my vagabond. Drafted up maps melodic syntax and harmonious geometry, Finding meaning and the vibrant in the vaulting and the in-between. But I just needed your heat A sign of your presence, a soul I could meet. All word on the wind and mistakes of the mind There's no breath in an absence, no spirit in kind.