05) A Bed
Put on your coat
'cause we are going to take a walk outside.
Watch where your feet fall,
'cause the river's fast and swollen wide.
Winter slips away downstream.
Springtime answers Summer's dream of a bride.
And she is waiting
for your touch upon her velvet skin.
If you've intentions,
then you've found the place to put them in.
Stand and take your turn to deal.
Plant your fortunes on the wheel as she spins.
(chorus)
Put your fingers in the earth.
Make a place for her to hold
whorled seeds of rebirth
as light stands up to shake the cold.
No matter how complete the code
that is entrusted to each grain,
only a bed within the earth
can wake it to this world again.
Step rather carefully;
I've planted big surprises there,
in hopes they might grow
into something that we both could share.
Hopes as high as thirty men,
but just if we don't step on them,
so take care!
Turn slowly round,
and if you're looking, then you ought to see
the rolling tide of glistening potentiality.
Use it as your metaphor,
and don't stop looking for the door.
You're the key.
(chorus)
Both knees on cold ground,
but the way I'm feeling,
you'd have to peel me off,
except there is no ceiling,
and if my eyes are on the stars,
we might lose this time of ours,
and I'm still kneeling.
(chourus)
(© 2003 by Colin Halyk)