Welcome to Life
Welcome to living
To hurry and heartache
And later, forgiving

Welcome to living
Welcome to dreams
To swirling in this masticade to see what it means
To race into oceans that rise up against you
With none but your heart and the mind that they fenced you
To be born into riptides
And slammed to the floor
And hoping inside you that somewhere’s a shore

And you pour and you pour with the tears in your eyes
Feeding this ocean of humanity’s disguise
Till one day you crawl from the shallows to sand
With a whimper, a smile, and an outstretching hand

Welcome to land
To Earth, and her spinning
Her weaving of stories, the meanwhile grinning
For she knows what it is to be born from explosion
To flourish with life, but only through erosion

She knows what it is to be strung out in space
With no guidance or aim, except for the grace
of the pull of the souls who were flung out before
Roaming this darkness, searching for more
On this great looping track that leads back to the core

Welcome to shore
To the sands of time
Soaked in the waters of the utter divine
Teeming with life
Dreaming in circles
Careening through space
And embracing the hurdles

Welcome to grace
To darkness, and light
To finding our place

Welcome to Life