This is an adaptable poetic lyrics set that I wrote with guitarist-composer Ari Joshua. We delineated, triangulated, and channeled this at The Music Factory in Seattle, WA US in November 2020. This can be played for, interpreted, and re-written. Whatever this might become in any other version or iteration, this is its first pure form, fresh from the mist.
–
The Grand Narrative
–
PLANET
perspective of the grounding center
home place encapsulating
coming from a place to be in a space
the where and why and how
flowers bowing, sending love their emissary
filling my vision with color
and grace in the lines of shape
the warm caress of meeting
life in its own place
where I am only what I can be
–
THE CLIMB
it begins somewhere
I look around
I’m where I am
but there’s somewhere else to be
something that I need
I know that I can get it
so I’m going to go do that
send myself upslope
there’s something to be seen along the way
which may be a point in itself
I’m keeping myself going
with the ache of believing
steps of being and becoming
go along with overrunning
to that fundamental exhaustion
that’s completion of a task
I do it because it’s better than contemplating it
I may as well be on my way
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SHATTERING
the tumble of beauty undone
what may have been
that kept us in the dream
no longer what it seemed
that which was not and will never be again
from now on it can only be this way
sharp edges of the breaks
where continuity was lost
scuffs of the descent
the never-swept dust of microscopic shards
knowing it’s coming
watching it fall
carries an almost sweet surrender
in the way it can’t be changed
the wreckage is magnificent
fulfilling by the time it happens
–
OWN JOYS
rise
Stretch
unfurl
ready for life
when everything is here
that makes me care
sunshine
every tone of light
on the eye on the skin
breathing in
feeling it from within
thrill
rhythm in motion
bring it to another
mind to mind
each to each
we reach a peak
to find the view
and hold it in
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LOSS
there’s a having in the losing
once it’s gone it’ll only be that way forever
it’s one way of reaching acceptance, finally
that’s all it could ever be, when it’s done
and then it’s a part of me
only a part of only me
that’s the last thing it can be
before it’s truly gone
like it never even was
and when things go back to never having been
what else might they become?
if anything
is a story real
is a thought something you can feel
what do I really have at all?
something that I had once
is something that I’ll have forever
until its return to never
when it’s really gone, can I even say goodbye?
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OTHER WORLDS
looking around
light in the sky
revealing details, expanding
coming to an understanding
finding where a path may lead
within, down, around, up
what there is to give and to create
from the self to the other
growing into being
all that lays within expansive seeing
gentleness in remaining
receptive to the blessings
some things echo harshly
from the marks they’ve left
just standing and knowing
about all this is part
of everything that comes after
savoring the reality of this existence
strange lands scenarios environs habitats biomes realms
this body is home in all of them
all of it home to this body
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Author Eva Lisa Elasigue 