IF ONLY
AND THE AIR BLEW SWEET CARRYING LIFE
IF ONLY THE LAND WAS HEALING
THE DIRT BRINGING A REST TO IT ALL
IF ONLY TRUST WAS A THING TO HOLD ONTO
TRUST INSTEAD OF LIES
IF ONLY RESPECT AND RENEWAL
WERE REALITY INSTEAD OF EXTINCT
IF ONLY A MANS WORD
WAS RECIEVED INSTEAD OF TOSSED AWAY
IF ONLY......
LOVE WERE NOT SO EASILY LOST
BLOWN LIKE THE WIND....
OUT OF A LIFE OUT OF A HEART.....
IF ONLY TODAY WAS REALITY...
YESTERDAY....LOSING ITS POWER...
TODAY...RULING INSTEAD OF YESTERDAYS....
IF ONLY CASUAL SPEAKING...
WERE NOT TAKEN AS ABSOLUTE TRUTH....
OR TAKEN AS A COURT JUDGE HEARS EVIDENCE,
AND USED TO DISMISS A CARING HEART...
IF ONLY THE JOY ONCE SHARED....
WAS HELD ONTO LIKE A TREASURE...
IF ONLY THE TROUBLING WATERS....
DID NOT BREAK SO HARD ON...
A HEART SO FAINT...
IF ONLY WE COULD SEE...
THE TRUTH...THE REALITY....
IF ONLY MASKS WERE NOT SO HONORED...
IF ONLY DARKNESS WERE...
GIVEN ITS PLACE..NOT ALLOWED TO RULE...
IF ONLY...LIFE WERE MORE..RESPECTED...
AS THE DEAD ARE...LOST LOVES..LOST LIVES...
IF ONLY TODAYS LOVE WERE MORE HONORED...
NOT LEFT IN A HEAP OF CORRUPTED CLUES...
IF ONLY A LIE WERE UNDERSTOOD...
NOT MISTAKEN AS A TRUTH....
IF ONLY A TRUTH ONCE SPOKEN...
WERE HONORED AS THE DEAD ARE...
AND STUBBORNLY HELD ONTO...
INSTEAD OF SO EASILY CAST AWAY AS LIES..
IF ONLY A FORTUNE TELLERS CALL...
OR A WITNESSES STATEMENTS...
WERE TRIED BY FIRE...
THEN TRUTH WOULD NOT BE SO EASILY DISMISSED...
AS THE MISTAKEN RAMBLINGS OF ONE...
NOT MISSED.
SMILINCACTUS 2/2001