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20060602 - Half Empty I Know The World Is Half Full

from The Song Diary I by Paleo

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HALF EMPTY I KNOW THE WORLD IS HALF FULL

Too often I am tired, and I am paralyzed by doubt,
but I am fixing to stick until God drags me out,
like the ribbon of the bow of the last of His presents,
and stashes me in a shoe box in an attic called Heaven.
I can spare only fifteen percent of my memories,
the rolling through Boulder, these fire escape entries.
The chorus of our modems is the Homer of your hero,
with his alien poems wrote in ones and in zeros.

You say the world is half empty. I know
the world, the world is half full.

My hope is a wonderfly on terror bulls
that raze through the arena of my heart like a soul.
In the eye of an earthquake, we kiss in the door,
and it will feel like the surf waking up on the shore.

You say the world is half empty. I know
the world is half full.

I am a still life of a skull, and a bowl full of meaning,
and I pose here a finch at your feeder in the evening.
The persistence of memory, of memory, of memory,
we lock each the doors, it comes in through the chimney.
Today is the tomorrow that yesterday promised,
the watery secret in the closet of that cactus.
Alone I am lions of arenas of Rome,
and your eyes are two vultures, are perched on a poem.

You say the world is half empty. I know
the world, the world is half full.

Like hummingbirds, we won't experience time,
watching teeth grow, making death masks of pines.
Like bright eyes our passions will wink like a spur,
and the chiseled jaw of reason will lock up in turn.

You say the world is half empty, I know.
The world is half full.
The world, the world is half full.

DAS - Nampa, Idaho, USA

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from The Song Diary I, released April 15, 2007

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