All I Love

I’m interested in letting my soul
Shine on fathers kissing tears
From their baby’s eyes

Mothers playing ball in parks with their sons
Grandma sitting in a clinic
With a teenager holding her hand

Wondering what the future will bring
The moment that door swings
Open to all that I fear and I hate and I am and I love

I am really not concerned
To negate the clown you think I am
Or should be

Where your ringmaster fears association
I’ll turn up the flame or ask you to leave
Absolutes change with my mood

Wondering what the future will bring
The moment that door swings open
to all that I fear and I hate and I am and I love

Standing on the sand on the fourth of July
I take a walk down a memory and under the light
I hear a man speak of opposition

“Juxtapose this!” Two fingers stretch
Connected to this hand connected to this head
But what’s the use in self-abuse?