Michael Foster - Does the Light Mean Day

How do you unlock the secrets, into someone's inner soul
How do you fill a goblet, which has never been full
How do you plant an oak tree, on ground that's dry and hard
How do you repair a friendship, that's in a million shards

When do you yell farewell, to someone who's never gone away
When do you go to sleep, if there is no night or day
When do you wake from sleep, if you life is only night
When do you fear the darkness, if all there is is light

Who do you trust with secrets, when the secrets you have to give
Who will take them if they change the way you act, and judge if you die or live
Who will keep a silence, if no one every speaks
Who will fix a pipe, that has and will never leak

Why do you live in this world, where we pray to have no pain
Why do people live these days, if there is nothing to gain
Why does the sun rise in the west, and why then in the east
Why does it set and end the light, our souls seem all the least

Without anyone to love, why do we praise it so
Without anything to covet, you surely wouldn't know
What you would like have, and what you keep away
Does the dark mean nighttime, and does the light mean day.

Michael Foster

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