Verse 1
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To explain my life just now,
would be much too difficult
for I am far too close as me
to the fire to see the wisdom
in the ashes of my time gone.
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Verse 2
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To think of all the things in life
I've learned and talked about;
to remember the precious things
don't weigh as heavy as those
things that are hurtful and hard.
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Verse 3
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Can I give it a little time more
so then I'll remember all of me
and take my time to rebuild
from where the fire destroyed
the building, but left the wisdom.
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Verse 4
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Is it too much to ask of who
I am and where have I been;
or is this the selfish part of all
to seek to see deep within ones
own ashes of their life's wisdom?
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Verse 5
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Thus as I spread them on the floor
to see what is left to do and undone
what will I really hope to fine there
beyond the wisdom that was mine
and now defined by the fire of time.
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Verse 6
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Think what you may of flowers now
and trees in the forest grown tall,
but in these ashes that are mine
I think I'll find a me somewhere in
and there the wisdom will be seen.
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Verse 7
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It did not come from me but others
for I could not teach but to learn.
A me has to be fired and formed
in the refiners fire of time and trial;
and from that fire comes the ashes.
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Verse 8
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Then within the ashes of this fire
when blown by wind and washed
by the rain and cooled by the snow
is the who and the what that is me;
so there may be wisdom in my ashes.
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