The Castle Builders

Now speak of anger
forget all the fears you've kept about love and sex and death and
faith, erased, or swinging sweet from around her neck and
between her breasts.
Let every lonely body finally break its fear of flesh and say
"How strange it must've been back when we shook at the sight of sweat"
Let our worries wander out of like water streaming from a spring
and sing of all the things our heads have failed to ruin yet.
There's so much they have failed to ruin yet.

Bright as lightning
Loud as thunder
We'll move all the hurt aside to let love sustain our passions, and
Move up and onward.
We are not our losses
we are only the extent to which we love.

So build a home for your family, and
build a castle for your friends. Now
set their beds with sheets and blankets
Keep them safe until the end.
I've felt the damage and burn from the fallout
My love failed but theirs prevailed.
My friends, I'm only flesh and bone but
I won't let you die alone.

So leave our hearts at the foot of the mountain.
Let our burdens be locked in the stone.
If you will help me roll it upward
I won't let you die alone.

I see a beauty springing upward from the earth and from out our hearts.
For all the bad that seems to plague us, I swear to you there's good.

I won't let you die alone.
My love, I will not let you die alone.

They say that death is not a problem, it's a promise
I can only say for sure that when it makes your bed
I'll kiss your head
"Goodnight."

So speak of all the love we lost, and what it cost us
Left us beg our breath to stop but we kept on and
We were strong.
We stayed bright as lightning
we sang loud as thunder
We moved ever forward.
We are not our failures.
We are love.