# rushfamily snakesandarrows


Out of the Cradle
It’s a hand
That rocks the cradle
It’s a motion
That swings the sky
It’s method on the edge of madness
It’s a balance on the edge of a knife
It’s a smile on the edge of sadness
It’s a dance on the edge of life

Endlessly r o c k i n g

6 25
2020-05-02


Freeze
The menace threatens, closing
And I’m frozen in the shadows
I’m not prepared to run away
And I’m not prepared to fight
I can’t stand to reason
Or surrender to a reflex
I will trust my instincts
Or surrender to my fright

Sometimes I freeze

7 46
2020-04-29


Earthshine
Floating high
In the evening sky
I see my faint reflection
Pale facsimile
Like what others see
When they look in my direction
Earthshine

Reflected light
To another’s sight
And the moon tells a lover’s story

9 35
2020-04-15


Earthshine
On certain nights
When the angles are right
And the moon is a slender crescent
Its circle shows
In a ghostly glow
Of earthly luminescence
Earthshine
A beacon in the night
I can raise my eyes to
Earthshine

7 41
2020-04-13


Secret Touch
Out of sync
With the rhythm of my own reactions
With the things that last
And the things that come apart
Out of sync
With love in the land of the living
A gentle hand, a secret touch on the heart

A healing hand, a secret touch on the heart

9 38
2020-04-11


Vapor Trails
Stratospheric traces of our transitory flight
Trails of condensation held
in narrow bands of white
The sun is turning black
The world is turning gray
All the stars fade from the night
The oceans drain away

5 35
2020-04-06


How it Is
Here’s a little trap
That sometimes catches everyone
When today’s as far as we can see
Faith in bright tomorrows
giving way to resignation
That’s how it is – how it’s going to be

It’s such a cloudy day
Seems we’ll never see the sun

7 35
2020-04-03


The Stars Look Down
Like the fly on the wheel, who says
“What a lot of dust we’re raising”
Are you under the illusion
That you’re part of this scheme?
Seems like a lifetime ago
You could look with pride
On your world of dreams

10 44
2020-03-30


One Little Victory
A certain measure of righteousness
A certain amount of force
A certain degree of determination
Daring on a different course
A certain amount of resistance
To the forces of the light and love
A certain measure of tolerance...

7 39
2020-03-14


Good News First
Some would say they never fear a thing
Well I do
And I’m afraid enough for both of us –
For me and you
Time, if nothing else, will do its worst
So do me that favor
And tell me the good news first

7 38
2020-03-08


Faithless
I’ve got my own moral compass to steer by
A guiding star beats a spirit in the sky
And all the preaching voices –
Empty vessels ring so loud
As they move among the crowd
Fools and thieves are well disguised
In the temple and marketplace

3 28
2020-02-28


The Larger Bowl
(a pantoum)
if we’re so much the same, like I always hear
why such different fortunes and fates?
some of us live in a cloud of fear
some live behind iron gates

why such different fortunes and fates?
some are blessed and some are cursed

3 37
2020-02-19


Wish Them Well
People who judge without a measure of mercy
All the victims who will never learn
Even the lost ones, you can only give up on
Even the ones who make you burn
The ones who’ve done you wrong
The ones who pretended to be so strong

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2020-01-28


The Wreckers
The breakers roar on an unseen shore
In the teeth of an icy grave
The human chain leaves a bloody stain
Washed away in the pounding waves
All I know is that memory can be too much to carry
Striking down like a bolt from the blue

Thx

7 40
2020-01-20


The Wreckers
I made my way back to Poseidon, and found a berth on a homeward ship. Caught in a terrible storm, we seemed to find salvation in an unexpected signal light. Steering toward it, we soon learned it was false-

The breakers roar...

5 25
2020-01-17


Carnies
The glint of iron wheels
Bodies spin in a clockwork dance
The smell of flint and steel
A wheel of fate, a game of chance
How I prayed just to get away
To carry me anywhere
Sometimes the angels punish us
By answering our prayers

6 33
2020-01-09


The Anarchist
The missing part of me that grows around me like a cage

It’s the root of our anxiety, our road to self-destruction. Peart’s words lent vocabulary to my feelings and freed me from my cage. I stopped working 4 tomorrow and now enjoy today.

6 21
2020-01-09


The Anarchist

WALKING AMONG THE PEOPLE – who are so content, so blind – the Anarchist hears the pedlar’s call, and sneers derisively. “What do I lack? Ah … vengeance?”


A voice so silent for so long
For all those years I had to get along...

7 19
2020-01-07