The Stones and the Sky
Denver Pike
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It's saturday afternoon,
and our multitude of plans revolve around
someone that's never here but will be soon
You've made the point that we have one for each of us,
so you cave to the pressure and come
four, the three of us are in and off
The conversation in the car turns in a strange direction --
westward in motion,
south in tone -- and we're starting to feel it now
Suddenly, we're eleven stories up, and as we sit in the grass,
we hold our stones up to those
glass goliaths and look out over our city
We warp with the clouds and move in levels,
under the streets and into a future
where we're lost for a little while
And even before we find our way, when i look to you,
you're nothing but smiles, and we've got nine miles to go
Two parts shake hands with being on the green RIGHT NOW
The whole damn city's in between
No one can say they're seeing what we see right now, up here
Distorted and that makes it crystal clear
You've made a list of things we've missed and now we'll miss them all
again, because as bright as it was
in there, it's getting dark outside
And once we reach that hollow center,
we'll walk through the steam we'll soon
become and pick a cardinal point to follow
To the south, the lights are dazzling -- the reds and blues of
closed-off streets -- and though briefly we'll
dabble in the east, we'll soon head north once more
I lock eyes with a backalley woman who holds
a rock of her own and i decide to close my eyes
And so we walk blindly back to the sky,
determined to retrieve just one more stone
I muse a study in self-image and note that the only ones who
understand our current trajectory are the ones like that woman,
and that if we're going to make it up in one
piece, we're going to have to recenter first
It's five a.
m.
and now we're home, and we're no longer in so deep
I'll take a shower to wash away the
hours, we'll take some pills and fall asleep