arecibo
Arecibo
Bring your circuits and a
Cloth to hide your eyes
Arecibo
Something tells me you might
Make it there in time
Don’t forget to pack your records
And a tennis game for two
Arecibo
Little lamplights won’t be
Sad or lonely with you
Mississippi
Sending wavelengths out to you
Through inky black
Mississippi
Something tells me you don’t
Want me to come back
But a stuttered silence whispers
Pulling up to the drive-thru
Mississippi
Thank you kindly for
Leading back to you
My battery’s low and it’s getting dark
I always thought I had fin’lly lost a spark
But upon a shattered alter
In a quiet sideways room
I first saw you
How you stood against the moon
Esperanto
Singing softly for a
Crowd denying their eyes
Pocket veto
No one told me they could
Also see the sunrise
And if I should see tomorrow
I would want no one but you
Arecibo
And I so hope you
Want to see it with me too
unwilling
I stepped before the pots and pans
And bowls and ladles daily
I sat and steamed all vague and mean
And crawled all shrunk and scaly
I had a hope that stunts and ropes
Would lead me safely hither
But traps and springs and subtle things
Could throw me in a dither
And you in wisdom and your grace
Still stood with sting that lingers
And smote upon that sickly face
With quiet, gentle fingers
And others still would try to kill
Or sit in stuttered silence
And you pertain the lack of grain
As not inciting violence
But you can’t see the almighty
In ways that others can
And claiming such a sacred touch
Would stain a stronger man
So till we learn to safely earn
A home amongst the order
We all expect a great reject
And stay within the border
But I still know you cannot grow
Into a somber stepper
Until you see the bumblebee
Be beaten by the leper
And till that day when those that pay
For honesty in blood
I cannot stop the endless mop
And halt oncoming flood
I’ll step before the pots and pans
And bowls and ladles daily
And weep and scream “how cheap a dream
For such persistent wailing”