Have you ever been there
Have you ever been there
a lightning struck petal between the cross‑hairs
It’s like being a long lost brother… to everyone
Though the price is high and the visions haunting
You are an adult at seven and you loose your toys and mother
In an unclouded stairwell you witness your first birth
And two doors down the death of a saint and soldier
It’s a mad capped world in the desert
You and your black horse
The sun penetrates the ground beneath you
But the heat has no mercy
It raises sweat from your brow
And tans your naked son
There is beauty in the darkness
And she brings salt for the palate and wind for the hair
If there is not pain coming from your hunger
Let there never be shame
For hunger may never be satisfied
And shame is at the edge of every step.