Get Up

Get Up The further I run into love I lose more and more of me Seeing the water run off the rocks and not understanding the rain Knowing that life has not aided the thoughts that I think Endless breath can you keep a secret of do I keep quiet It’s so lonely in here and I just want a confidant… Looking out at the time of day it’s not day anymore I close my eyes to see the light and its rays calm my soul The heart rate lower as I sink into my chair of realization Too close to emptiness and too far from declaration The music soothes the fear that has taught my feet to run… Grassroots grown in the topsoil of pain coach me But how can I be what I will be if I continue to be what I was Nostalgic hemorrhages touch the cool sweat running down my back Coercing me to look there in the crevices of yesterday to see you Find time to gather your senses and plan for the birth of yourself… The road is paved and path is determined before you were born Yet, so few minutes of the day has time except for desires just awakening Panting for the light where seeing and knowing is life ever more Paying so much to receive so little, not tired, but frequently desperate Loneliness did this and when will I get the courage to open my mouth… So blessed, but no one warned of the cost of the blessing How hard a task to love beyond my love which is insufficient Let me die so I can live for leaving me alone kills me Why do I believe in the thing that abandons me so often Only to reenter and cause me to believe yet again, O fool!... Get up. Get up. Get up I say! You are not what you have become LIVE! Yes, I said LIVE! Get up and speak to the Universe Call unto the winds and declare unto the earth that you are alive So much buried inside of you and so much waits to accompany you Love found you lonely; not dying to self has found you lonely Peace can’t understand you and hope exhausts herself with you Weary man the world waits for no one, but God waits… Yes, He waits to grant you your inheritance, so you must Get up now…Get Up! Andra Westmoreland/2014