Hammer and a Nail

Clearing webs from the hovel

A blistered hand on the handle of a shovel

I've been digging too deep, I always do

I see my face on the surface

I look a lot like Narcissus

A dark abyss of an emptiness standing on the edge of a drowning blue

I look behind my ears for the green

And even my sweat smells clean

Glare off the white hurts my eyes

I gotta get out of bed and get a hammer and a nail

Learn how to use my hands

Not just my head, I think myself into jail

Now I know a refuge never grows

From the chin in a hand and a thoughtful pose

Gotta tend the earth if you want a rose

Had a lot of good intentions

Sit around for fifty years and then collect a pension

Started seeing the road to hell

And just where it starts

But my life is more than a vision

The sweetest part is acting after making a decision

Started seeing the whole as a sum of its parts

And I, I look behind my ears for the green

And even my sweat smells clean

Glare off the white hurts my eyes

I gotta get out of bed and get a hammer and a nail

Learn how to use my hands

Not just my head, I think myself into jail

Now I know a refuge never grows

From a chin in a hand and a thoughtful pose

Gotta tend the earth if you want a rose

My life is part of the global life

I've found myself becoming more immobile

When I think a little girl in the world can't do anything

A distant nation, my community, and a

A street person, my responsibility

If I have a care in the world, I have a gift to bring

But look behind my ears for the green

Even my sweat smells clean

Glare off the white hurts my eyes

I gotta get out of bed and get a hammer and a nail

Learn how to use my hands

Not just my head, I think myself into jail

Now I know a refuge never grows

From a chin in a hand and a thoughtful pose

Gotta tend the earth if you want a rose