Hidden Made Known

Just be brave, she said to me. for the earth, is all that lasts.

         

As we walked the stars, Venus and Mars, like lures hung from a branch

     

We hugged the shore, so impossibly poor

      

Our treasure was wave, & stone

                 

And from Wounded Knee, to Sault Saint Marie oh the hidden shall be made known

It was a lightning strike in the dead of night that set the farm a-fire

With the children safe, they watched the blaze, the flames crept higher & higher

With my barn burned down he said aloud, at least now I can see the moon

While the corn fields glow, the the sirens moan oh the hidden shall be made known

                                                                       

I have something to tell you when I get the chance

                                                            

We're all just waiting to happen accidents

                                                                               

My shipwreck heart knows it's not just happenstance

                     

That i knew you at that first glance.

With a careless shrug, on a day not far the seas will rise and devour our maps

While the gods of all things great and small is screaming one last chance

The old monk said that the greatest sins were to pick to wildflowers and threaten a child

When we've picked them all, and the mighty fall what was hidden shall come to call

Now the Juniper tree gives its berries free for the ghost beads protecting power

The ones i brought you from San Xavier have kept you safe this far

Over field and farm, far away from harm

My heart upon your sleeve

Through emergencies, to slow fade dreams what was hidden shall be made plain