birdsong

written day 1 edge patagonia

Been among too many people
Exhausted and lost the plot
And so I retreat to the only place I know
Where people are not
To the place that I long
Surrounded not by their beliefs
but by the rustle of leaves
and the height of birdsong

Among the self described meat-eating pacifists
looking for simple answers, which is
the domain of teenagers and fascists
Making no difference between what is true and strong
Lecturing the serpent on what is right and what is wrong
Are they it, where I belong? Maybe
But perhaps it is in the rustle of leaves
and the height of birdsong

Among the most unconciousness conciousness-ers
Desperately explaining vibes past each other
Very cool how you explain the woo,
but tell me again, what exactly do you do?
Lecturing the cosmos on what is right and what is wrong
Are they it, where I belong? Maybe
But perhaps it is in the rustle of leaves
and the height of birdsong

Among the well-adjusted couples
Talking about travel vacations and dating
between social contracts I do not understand
Lecturing the basics on what is right and what is wrong
Are they it, where I belong? Maybe
But perhaps it is in the rustle of leaves
and the height of birdsong

Among the jaded idlers in the garden of knowledge
graudating to become emotionally distant
geniuses absentmindedly destroying the world
Lecturing the infinite on what is right and what is wrong
Are they it, where I belong? Maybe
But perhaps it is in the rustle of leaves
and the height of birdsong

Among so many beautiful people with beautiful minds
For the glory of Heaven meets Earth on the tips of our tongue
And even so, that is not where I belong
Rather, in the rustle of leaves
and in the height of birdsong