As a Spirit

- In love, sometimes we would like to see our selves shine, glow, incandesce out into the world - glowing in the night, like some stoked up fire fly, or falling star. At least sometimes, that is. Or maybe we want to be stoic, and strong - we want to be a rock, a foundation, a support.  Or, after a long time, we can dip into a strange world of just being, of being content - of feeling love in this moment of "just right for this moment".
The following song is from the mid eighties

As a Spirit

My hear stands as a castle,
Shape'ed by the rain
Hewn from the ice of a winters storm,
by a lovers gentle pain.
And now the walls lay newly stilled,
from the songs they used to sing,
The chambers seem so merciless
no solace do they bring,

The master door is open wide,
the gates are thrown away,
yet no one wants to come inside,
And I seem to hear them say -
"Do not go there, my friend
I think it is unsound,
and you might be inside of it,
when all the walls come down..."

You can say your life's half over,
or you still have half to live
You can stay outside, not risk a thing,
or come in and see what a house can give
Now won't you come and live in me?
I'll keep you warm and dry,
If just you'd fix my leaky roof,
and move your things inside.

But don't close the door when you come in,
this house is too large just for you,
It gets lonely in the winter,
Have some friends over, if you choose
If they don't mind a slightly haunted house,
Haunted by a single ghost
After all these years of loneliness,
I'm you're spiritual host.

(C) 2011 Dave Cox