For No Apparent Reason (NEO)
Sometimes I do forget what’s simple in my life.
Sometimes I do forget to breathe.
I never break long enough to take stock of who I’ll be when I’m through.
You say “breathe”
And I do.
Sometimes you claim I miss the good that’s in my life.
Sometimes I do almost agree.
Somehow I take it in, then push it all away.
You say I should stay,
You say, you say I’m the very best part of your day.
But there’s dawn and dusk and midnight.
Trust me, lots of times caught in between.
Lazy mornings, afternoons that burn until the world turns green.
I would not compete with sky
Then you somehow made me try.
And now I have been taking you
I’ve been pressing you into my page
Thinking I can’t be breaking through walls
I shouldn’t still have at my age.
So I’m shaken and affected to hear unexpectedly
That for no apparent reason you love me.
I am not faultless. I am no shining, blinding sun.
I am no cosmic display.
You say, “that is what we’ll become.”
In the dawn and dusk and midnight.
And then lots of times caught in between.
Lazy mornings, afternoons that burn until the world turns green.
See, I did not consider sky ‘til you held me,
Taught me how to fly.
I’ve been pressing you into my page
Thinking I can’t be breaking through walls
I shouldn’t still have at my age.
But I’ll breathe and break and stay here
Wondering how I found my way here
Though I’ll ask in each new season that’s to be
Why for no apparent reason
Or at least none I can see
Why for no apparent reason you love me.
You love me.
You love me.