Closer to Paradise

Veiled in icy silence

I cower in the dark with broken wings

Seeking my inner guidance

My mouth is shut

Yet my heart still sings

Like a distant calling

From deep within those pits of gray

A strange unrest comes crawling

And raw emotions fi ght their way

Craving for more than meets the eye

For a piece of open sky

Where I can breathe the air of liberty

A fi re I can‘t explain

A desire not to remain here

To be closer

Closer

I want to get closer

Closer to

Some place

Something

If only I knew …

How to reach that vision

Those mysteries and images

wrapped in a sigh

I need to break my indecision

Release this troubled soul

And start to fl y

Higher to the stars beyond the moon

To the center of that gloom

To the meaning of a deeper truth

Closer to my childhood dreams

Closer to what it really means

To be closer

Closer

I want to get closer

I keep searching and pondering

And looking and wandering

To get closer

Closer

Closer to where my senses arise

Closer to paradise