Author's Inkwell

To Be or Not to Be

Posted By: Douglas Newsom
Date: Monday, 16 January 2006, at 12:33 a.m.

To Be or Not to Be

If I could reach out and hold your heart
I’d stave off the dark and return the stars
Carry your name through the wind
Across the seas and back again

If I could just once bottle your tears
I’d carry them with me through the years
Showering the earth a million times over
Covering the land with four leaves of clover

If I could just couple your hands in mine
I’d banish the seasons for all of time
Call forth the angels to bring back our Eden
And open all eyes so the whole world could see them

But if you didn’t find that this made you happy
I’d wilt every flower cut down all the trees
Banish the birds banish the bees
Vanish the water from ocean to ocean
Level the mountains halt the winds motion
Rip out the sky and tear it asunder
Snuff out the stars the spring and the summer
Then start Armageddon so everything dies

So it would be best to give me your heart
Bottle your tears every one that you drop
And couple your hands forever in mine
Or Life will end because everything’s dying

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