no answer in sight
I’m in a dry that rain can’t end.
There’s a howling carried by a hot desert wind.
A vulture sees me and zeros in.
In my bath there’s a shark’s dorsal fin.
Voice says, “We know you got it,
No matter that we can’t spot it.”
I ask what it is it’s lookin’ for.
It says, “If I told you that then you’d know more
Than why it is we go to war.”
Thief looks down on a bleak landscape
Curses the day that leaves nothing to take.
Sees my chest with a heart full of dreams
Says, “Nothing is like it seems
But I do believe I’ll use some for my schemes.”
I say, “What did you really take them for?”
He says, “If I told you that then you’d know more
Than why it is we go to war.”
Woman stands on a barren street
Sees that the pickings look really bleak.
I ask directions to anywhere but there.
She says, “You can’t escape the length of my long hair.
I say, “Somewhere there has to be the right door.”
She says, “If I told you that, then you’d know more
Than why it is we go to war.”
Man of scorn giving free advice.
Saying we’re all born to play with loaded dice.
The house always wins no matter what you throw.
And the house follows you everywhere you go.
I say, “Can’t I go and leave it all on the floor?”
He says, “If I told you that then you’d know more
Than why it is we go to war.”
Name caller has forgotten the spelling
It don’t matter he keeps on yelling.
Naming names to be called in first light
For what you did wrong when you slept last night.
I ask, “How can it be, all I did was snore.”
He says, “If I told you that then you’d know more
Than why it is we go to war.”
Justice is searching for honest scales.
Looking for an angel in the details.
I’m blinded by eternal night.
Looking for an honest man holding a light.
You’re forgetting the purpose of it all
Looking for the memory behind a wall
That’s got no sides but can’t be breeched.
That conceals the answer that can’t be reached.
Within us and far as the eye can see
And beyond that to the great mystery
All we want to find is what came before
That makes it so hard for us to know more
Than why it is we go to war.