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Change is Everything

by Benjamin James

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Oh Golden world I am so dizzy stumbling on broken feet My love is bankrupt I’ve been holding life like a tired thief But I do not breathe you breathe in me Oh Bone and marrow blossom overhead and underneath footprint of flying wind, one mind spreads throughout all things But I do not see you see in me I’ve been unstable growing up to hate the ground beneath my feet I built a table cut from the roots of some living tree I do not live you live in me I’ve seen a chaos growing, covered up by city streets like an old man screaming, ancient wounds still come up to bleed but I do not bleed you bleed in me I’m standing like a steeple but I’m a shattered cathedral
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Monolith 03:20
I’ve been tearing things down so I can build them up like monoliths way up above I’ve been pouring out water on to dusty ground to quench my thirsty mouth I’ve been thinking things no one around me thinks that no one I know believes and hideous in me my panacea’s scream in the worst kinds of disease But I am not one, I am many I am not one, I am many Life has rushed past me, I cannot hold a single thing its always hiding in between But still the universe is flowing in and out my mind seeing all that passes by my eyes I am not one, I am many
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Luminary 03:28
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The Referent 03:41
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Golden Age 05:43
Oh I once believed in the simplest of teachings for the simplest of reasons I was once a good man I did the work of some god’s hands it was a golden age a golden land I once was controlled by thoughts that no force of will could hold back no simple prayer could combat I once tore a tree from the ground and heard a hundred little sounds of the rotten fruit falling down The sun has set upon the day of eternal youth and its golden age I no longer live in that cage because life tore apart my construct of what was true and what was love was below and what was above I saw a world in motion and let go of those notions that strangled my emotions and like a wave turned in the ocean, no word that I have spoken I’ve been breathing in that motion But I see the way
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Magnetics 04:03
I saw the clouds roll and the falling rain sink into every vowel Pedals grown up like little lanterns opened up to feel the sun’s touch The burning howl of impermanence comes counting down the hours for the light of day gone, gave birth to a dancing star out from a chaos Caught in symmetrics I have oscillated in-between magnetics I shut the door, lit my mind up like a torch, I was writhing on the floor screaming “someone end this war!” Wrote my name on the day of separation But in the decay I saw a seed of realization Caught in the flow, Oh I am thrown within that ocean I learned to hope, I came to know I’m in erosion
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It’s a furious thing to suffer the weight of existence is it savage in frame, a deep chaos roaring at its expense? All writhing in pain all alive in the rage of becoming In all the screaming and praise have the god’s that we’ve prayed to been bluffing? But this World is a Miracle, this World is a miracle It’s a furious sting to find ourselves breathing and naked Hold our lives up by strings till that moment in death we’re invaded So hollow and cold say that pray we’ve been told “Are we forsaken?” All blind we’ve been thrown in that light we all grow to awaken But this World is a Miracle, this World is a Miracle

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released July 10, 2017

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