The Tree of Life

from The Wolf at the Door by Ben Mish

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THE TREE OF LIFE

What is the next step, I don’t know
And what have you got left to show?
When all the people have gone away
The electric lights have all gone gray
Now I built this world for you
And I’m sorry that it’s not the truth
But after the comfort and after the lies
After we lift this cold world’s disguise
I’ll make it right, I know
Where the barmaids laugh and the children go
I know I’m not too young to care
And I’m old enough to be aware
It was just a moment in time
And I know that I am walking on a tightrope wire
And it’s just another ring in the tree of life
And I’m glad I made it mine
Glassy water and glassy stair
In the porcelain brigade of the theater chairs
Sweep the floor and sweep the night
And sweep all that was ever wrong or right
After the lake and after the noon
After we wake to break our final croon
All of the windows and their festoons
You look at yourself like a distorted cartoon
And the ice cube breaks into a thousand shards
And I’ve heard the words of a thousand bards
And I’ve thrown the lasso around the night
When I thought that I could make the world up just right
It was just a moment in time
And I know that I am walking on a tightrope wire
And it’s just another ring in the tree of life
And I’m glad I made it mine
Now I know I’ll be there until the very end
When we’re no longer lovers and we’re no longer friends
And even if I never, ever see you again
You had the champagne eyes, you were the highest ten
And I can’t believe you’re gone away
And that I’ll never see you at the end of the day
Was it all worth anything I hear them say
Was it worth all the anguish or the play?
The candle will burn until my wits end
I’ll emerge from the sea like a diver with the bends
Now after the dinner and the afternoons
After the winter and the wine and the ten tall loons
Beyond the earth and beyond the sun
When you and God and I are one
Beyond heaven and beyond fear
Beyond the jungle and the heavy tear
And beyond the scope of my own life
Beyond my words and beyond my sight
I want you to be there for me in the shade of the tree
That we use to laze beneath when we were free
It was just a moment in time
And I know that I am walking on a tightrope wire
And it’s just another ring in the tree of life
And I’m glad I made it mine

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from The Wolf at the Door, released June 7, 2018

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Ben Mish writes songs and performs them frequently.

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