Earthly Pullings

The earth is pulling, and I'm on my feet
I'm adrift in the evening sun's glow
It's been a long hot summer, I've been going slow
Dropping every tempo to my own

Beyond the next corner lies a field of cob
Last winter its skeletons froze
Now the drought leaves cracks in the earth
I look on with the eyes of Van Gogh

In a quiet corner of a lonely town
All the rooftops are outgrown by corn
On a porch enthroned, fifteen feet apart
An old couple in clothes they've outworn

Beyond the next corner, a sunflower field
Last springtime we pulled up and posed
Now their heads are weighing them down
It's the weight of how beauty implodes

Now I turn my eye back onto myself
Counting back to the day I arrived
There's a soothing stillness in the fields around
And I'm feeling how time's on my side

Beyond the next corner something unfolds
Life leaves a twist in the road
It's time to go home, but before I turn
I breath the sunlight right into my bones

There've been many days, when my heart was closed
Feeling this world could not be my home
But I've found that I am, like the world around
A light that holds life on its own

Beyond the next corner, my life extends
Whether I go there or turn
Of all the truths that glow in the sun
Maybe this was the one thing to learn

There are earthly pullings, there are soothing lights
They will catch you and cure you of need
From below the surface, and from high above
There's a stillness washing over me

Beyond every corner I'll find a place
To where my closed heart can return
Of all the bridges that I've kept alive
Maybe this is the best one to burn