Embarrass Me

Embarrass me with your laugh
Show your teeth and strings hanging from your summer dress
Let the holes from your silk stockings bare your skin
The wind beckons to feel you

Do not be afraid to look me in the eyes
Stare for as long as you would like into my thoughts
You will not find them quite amusing
Only that I want you to trip over your proclamations

Tell me what you want
Your dreams and nightmares and how you felt when you woke
Let your fears be only what Roosevelt said they ought to be
Tell me what grips your essence and changes your course

Let emotion wash over you like the waterfall at Greenacre
Remember your seasons and why you came here
Leave at once if you know you can do better
Do not stand for mediocrity and certainly not for me

Find silence in the city
Solitude in your heart
Pain that soothes and comforts
All of the confusing parts

See the mystery in this story
See what reason cannot grasp
See that you are all that is
The answers to the questions that ask

When will be the timing
When will I find love
If present day is only a dream
How can heaven and the kingdom be in those doves

That descend and find our lord willing
Two thousand years and waiting
For a savior to come through these dusty old streets
To see you finally after all of these years, still crazy, that it is finally at my feet

So let your hair down and fall inside your messy soup
I promise to not say a word, and let my eyes not deceive you
For this love can last a lifetime, if only watered once a week
These roots within me, my love, they run into the deep

I will let you under, and I will let you work
The treasure that is asunder
You will find buried and hidden within the earth
You will break through the dark and see the brightest star

Bones of my bones and flesh of my flesh, at last
We are home
And how could have I known?
My letters and postcards are all that are left of me when I am gone

So laugh and cry when you can
At the expense of no one around
You will see that you are the light of the world and could do no harm
Embarrass me with your laugh
I am in the wind