Float (a song)

Float

Dance around the Tree of Life
and Levity will come to you;
pull your own weight and strife
will give you that much more to pull
for elegance is effortless
its nothing that you plan or do
give up self-righteousness
and it will find its way to you

Give up this senseless war
with gravity and grace
holding yourself in store
or upright in some precious place
and float…

You say you'll lose control
and probably that is quite true
but only if your soul
is not what you consider you..
How can we live in peace
when we coerce ourselves each day;
holding ourselves aloof
from what supports us anyway?

Pride comes between the fall
and the forgiving earth
delaying for one and all
the day we find our second birth
and float…

Bridge:
So anchors of self righteousness
away
here comes the adventure
that you and the world
 
have conspired to enter;
the storm that you cannot stray
let yourself go
and not know
the way;
the needle must float in the water to show
were you are where your going
and when you stop holding
you'll find where you were
always

see how the lovely moon
floats high above the inland sea
Poised in its gracious love
'twixt levity and gravity?
that is the way things are
the way that we must learn to be
getting out of our own way
we come to set each other free

so may all of us stiff-necked fools
find grace and love some day;
fall from our pedestals
into the sea
of every day
and float….



By I-P Kerren Odori 2009