There Is A Light

there is a light that you have inside

it hides in your mouth and behind your eyes

it's gold and it's white, it's right as the sky

and out through your mouth, it leaks when you die

out through your mouth and into the night

you hover between the earth and the sky

and what now is yours, someday will be mine

my father, my son, arranged in a line

and you were my mouth when i could not cry

but you'll hold my hand when i lie

and i will hold yours when it's my time

there is a song you hear when you die

the clapping of hands or voices on high

but out of the dark your voice will arrive

so close to my ear, my old lover sighs

the darkness you'll find will come like a tide

you separate from pain and all that can bind you

and you won't have ears and you won't have eyes

and nor will you want for whiskey or wine

and i have a name, a place and a time

more solid than stone and stronger than vine

but weak as a word is my body aligned

and thin as the air i'll be when i die