Filling the cup

Looking over people's shoulders
as they bow down to the boulders
waiting in the wings
watching everything
with a love way beyond grasping
with no single tought of asking
for an answer or a lie
that is joy for you and I
   
     our angels look down
     and we look up
     we're going round and round
     filling the cup
     with attention
     easing tension
     filling the cup

thinking 'bout each one's worries
how he dances, how she hurries
how the sun explodes
and the shore erodes
how the tale is never-ending
all our borrowing and lending
to the things that cannot die
that by being cannot lie

      refr.

seeing youths as they'll look later
their faces as they must be fated
dancing through sweet time
waltzing to its rhyme
full of feelings that evade
half of necessity's parade
and the answers and the lies
all the countless how's and why's

     refr.

the tears and flights of fantasy
the laughter that I am and see
adrift on your smile
such a weary mile
to run far and then much further
towards mystery and murder
and the answers and the lies
all the countless alibis

    refr.


1991.