Words of Acadiana

  A skeleton of stars   Strewn across the desert night sky A streak of memory of what once was  Stardust Remnants of lives lived before  There’s no perfect crime We all do the time Until it undoes us in the end  Alone in the graveyard of our own creation 

 Sitting here at this table  My cigarette burning to ash  As it hangs from my lips like hope  About to fall into oblivion  Aces up my sleeve  Not wanting to believe  You thought I’d come crawling back to you  But I saunter in with a firmness  That could crumble mountains to dust  A tectonic shift in energies  A real reversal of fortune  These games with you just ain’t it  They’re the reason my heart has to run  Like a frightened horse  Thundering in the opposite direction  So simmer down  And pucker up  It’s bound to sting  Buttercup  This leaving a love that can’t sustain  This walking away before the pain  Treading against a lonely earth  In search of the next new me  As the wind blows life back into my lungs  I’m struck by a glittering cloud of dust  Choking away my human remains  Tip my hat to it  I’ll skip the wake  Burial leads to rebirth...

 And I stand on my hill  Embattled  Distressed as my jeans  From crawling across this arid earth  Begging for love  Longing for acceptance  ‘Til it struck me  Under this desert sun  That I hold the power with my faith  To overcome  These desert valleys echo my screams  Shattering limestone with my intentions  I rise again  Slowly at first  Shaky wings  Healing can feel like hell  Eventually I ascend above the hurt  My view, heavenly  Put my past to rest  A funeral for who I had to be  I have a ministry I was born for  My destiny written in the brail of these night stars  West Texas under my feet  A song in my soul  To Overcome