As One Watches the Rain

Out, breath of Eden, emanate
 Out into the world, separate
 The Sun's forcing into me, nutrients
 Change the color of my skin over years of mutilation
 Engineer of heritage
 Out rose a hammer
 Onto threaded iron breaks
 Construct a hierarchy upon hierarchy
 Under gaze of the watchers
 Goodbye old times, goodbye sunshine
 Goodbye old times, so long sober mind
 I am my own preacher
 Of the catechism of the mind
 Where lies the chief power?
 The question: human imperative
 The Sun makes a change in me
 I guess I've never realized
 When I close my eyes
 I'm still seeing light
 We ends become means
 Our between beginnings
 Between our ends, between our ends
 Out rolls the thunder, struck on cold steel rail
 In gold, In wood, In fire
 Encased in alabaster
 And that's what they'd do to me
 Cut out forces that be
 The color of humility
 Makes a choice to stay or leave
 As one watches the rain
 Goodbye, goodbye, so long
 Make it subtle
 In the rain,
 Two gods in the rain
 Out, out in a whisper
 As one watches rain
 Come edify me
 Life is so damn simple if we let it be