Counting On

Sunrise crow and bird of thunder

Weave between the cracks of gunfire

Disturbing the soft mist around without a sound

Even the birds had stopped their flutter

And the insects quieted their chirping buzz

And the howls and the growls silenced in wait

Rachel and Morris raced across the fields

Soaken from the the heavens pleading rain

Muddled and slow in saturated mud from the blood and pain

The front lines were closing in every second

They've been counting on

They're all counting on

The way one wind blows

The way the lightning flashes

Allejah and Saheed

They survived their own Arab Spring and became a thing

Only three territories collapsed in disaster and, relief aside

No one ever came in from them to do much to hide

They've been counting on

Their all counting on

A way to make love last

All through the ages

And you're counting on

What we've all been counting on

Rewriting history

In brand new pages

Juanita and Angel

Among the 5000 strong, walked all the way

Till they break down

Till they all broke down in sweat and song

They've been counting on

What you've already counted on

The way the wind blows

The way the thunder crashes

The storm rages on

History pages on

Trying to make love last

All life long, all life long

Disappearances and appearances can be deceiving

Those coming, those leaving

Heretic and asylum seeker are just the Fortune 500

That have not yet been acquired or properly attired

Maybe God is a storm

Maybe God is a storm

Which way the wind the blows

How the lightning flashes