Our hearts are like hurricanes

Pinned down and abused for being water
Our hearts are like most others'
Just left alone for us all day
Our hearts are like hurricanes
Swelled up and abused

 

All around you, all around me
The storms, the seas, the skies
I've often tried to calmly see
The sun, the fields, the tide

 

Brave it now, hold it down

 

If only we knew the energy we waste
Thrashing through torrential typhoons in our wake
Chaos spinning history's need to exact
While obscuring lovers' dreams of eye contact

 

Brave me now, lay me down

 

If only we knew the time we lose
Blowing air at another's deluge
When salty tears all fall ashamed
And dying hearts run around unnamed

 

Brave you now, slow it down

 

If only we knew all our hate is in vain
That shaming windswept victims solely brews more pain
That churning toxic soup as a weapon is insane
Because home and enemy soil is one and the same

 

Brave us now, lose the crown

 

If only we knew the consequence of denial
That our futures are as fragile as lisle
That our recoilings merely widen the aisle
Leaving us like marooned mole-rats on eroding isles

 

Brave space now, be fogbound

 

If only we knew our true potential
How purely we're endlessly existential
With freedom to float into different forms
In each direction we envelop storms

 

Brave one now, we resound