Human Fitness and a Healthy Conscience

Shouts from my brother, like a plague upon a desert
That's not done so well these last few years
With famine, and flood, and a handful of sandstorms
Letters from my sister like a sword thrown through my shoulder
Through the smallest gap in my thickest armour

There's a couch beside the window, moved it there 8 days ago!

Food from my mother, like a fever on my stomach it says
What you did you know was wrong!
Even though it's what you know you had been always longing for
Words from my father like a hole within a dam
Upon an always rushing northern river

I remember you beside me as I prayed 9 days ago!
In the morning for forgiveness and direction for my soul!

Silence from my dear friend like a lake without a surface
And my muscles ache from all this climbing

Spotted from my window like a bucket filled with air
I can breathe but as I breathe it stales
And my friend mussed up your hair as I stared 10 days ago!
And my mind dreamt up what I should have done when we met 5 years ago!

As your eyes return to mine, my conscience gazes like a doe
At a thousand stage lights all reflected
Like a mind that never wants can never know!

As your lips press onto mine, my conscience gallops like a stallion
Through the wild woods he's always called his own!
As your hand holds onto mine, my conscience trumpets like a red deer
Like a heart that never wants can never sound!
As your breath goes into mine, my conscience follows only instinct
Like a bison that's the last one in its line!
As your warmth belongs to mine, my conscience caught up to the memory
Cowers down and looks around and can't be found

A mind that's never chased can never flee
A body never wounded never bleeds
A heart that cannot falter can't believe

Shouts from my brother
Letters from my sister
Food from my mother
Words from my father
Shouts from my brother that subdued the raging stream!
Letters from my sister that cut out the fevered parts of me!
Food from my mother that sustained me!
Words from my father that cleaned out the festered wounds I'd received!

I can know you
I will always choose to