A Day In the Sun

I long for silence a day in the sun when all these harsh whispers are quiet and undone I hear an angel somewhere calling falling softly in his rage of flight burning out in the twilight A prayer in silence is a blessing a life lived hard through the testing what can the blind be missing when god is in the art of kissing A portrait of a saint a face in the mirror my heart in hand my love inferrior A tree comes down a tree now dead on ground i heard it cry yesterday now no sound or anything to say Is this the earth i wanted to save full of broken hearts and unmarked graves I bled so long, i've done such wrong every broken life was a job well done Soldiers in handbags sally forth sally forth a cross in a fist to show you god's worth I guess it makes some sense for some to show some recompense for all the things they had done oh god the things they had done For just one day of silence a day in the sun where I didn't hear a gunshot when we weren't killing someone