L’audace

Have the miles tamed you? I could change that
 Pick apart the order blind and the former stop
 Pick apart the little lines and the borders drop
 And that's where I am traveling
 To the edges like I'm Shackleton
 Win hard, lose hard, but I don't abandon ship
 Throw the raft away
 Let the roar take place
 Understand that there is no safe
 Just nets in the way trying to hold my shape
 In my wake I want freedom, I want poetry, I want danger, I want sin
 I'm a heretic, I am arrogant, I'm American, now let's begin
 In the core of the storm, when it rips up the floorboards
 And it gets to your forlorn heart
 Yeah we're all war torn
 But I go so lightly, lightly
 And bottle that lightning that's stored up inside me
 To incite those like me
 They're looking for juice, I'm looking for pulp
 They're looking for a purpose, I'm looking for a pulse
 Don't gimme fiction, gimme fire, I won't be pacified
 You feel your chest drumming?
 You feel them strings humming?
 That's blood. Vibrate. Vibrate
 Have the miles tamed you? I could change that
 And we could argue about what constitutes insane
 Who's got the tooth and who is subdued but that is inane
 We could run blame or we could be flame, I'll leave it you
 I'm taking the stairs, lames wait for the lift
 I'm changing the shape, round off the square
 Scared? stand there and stare, or move
 Throw em a rope, we're leaving tonight
 I cannot build in the sand
 There are no lines
 There are no maps
 There is no plan
 We might not make it but damn we'll be gutty, and that'll be something
 I want freedom, I want poetry, I want danger, let's get bloody
 I'm bleaching the bones of each of these old ideas and ideals
 And they're welcome too but they're busy cleaning the throne
 For the same old same old, without backbone
 I'm at the Sedlec catacombs thinking about permanence and ephemeral
 Set it in let it go
 I'm high concept and a few loose brush strokes
 I'm light it up, I'm see what glows, and I'm fully woke
 I dance like dice rolling
 I'm out here tightroping
 I leave that mic broken, your mind open, and that mold broke in two
 Give me bold, give me brave, give me weak
 Build it up, tear it down, take a piece
 Make it loud, make it growl like a beast
 I'm the fire in the belly
 And it speaks like it's wild
 Like it's now, like it's free
 Like it's all that it is, like it's me
 Take the wind or the feet, take the win or defeat
 Have the miles tamed you? I can change that