Galleon's Lap

Let go of thought
Let go of desire
Let go of reason
And your memory

What do you see?
What have you become?
I see everything...

I see the universe
Everyone
Everything
It's absolutely amazing

I see a man standing in the window
of his apartment
Getting ready to jump          

I see the oncoming collapse of the American nation
After all, we all know it in the back of our heads
Not all civilizations last forever

I see my life laid out before me
Everyone's lives laid out before me
But I can't tell them, it'd spoil the surprise

And no one wants that

I see the lies and deceit
That build human nature
It makes me sad

It's as if the world is becoming another Rape of Nanjing

But in all horror there is light
A silver lining
A single smile in a sea of chaos

I see a little boy
playing with a puppy
That he just got this afternoon

I see a happy mother
Playing with her toddler
Cherishing the moment
In a mental photo album



I see a teenage girl
Laughing with her friends
It's the simplest things that make up our lives

I see a boy who did something wrong
And the small group of people who support him
When the rest have left him to wither away

I see an entire community
Rising against authority
To right the wrong

I see so many people who care
A minority
Among those who don't

But most of all I see a road
An unused road worn by use
And standing stately and proudly at it's side
Is a sign that reads in great bold letters “Nothing”

If you follow this road called Nothing
You'll reach a place called Nowhere
A wonderful magical place
It has no secrets no answers

And if you sit there, quietly
You can hear the sweetest sound
The most beautiful and soothing sound
Silence...

It's a wonderful place, trust me
Just take a vacation and go there
And if you like, that's great!
Go there some more

Just float off in forgetfulness
Like a dream
It all seems hazy
Yet is seems so clear

Lose yourself in bliss
In the absence of lies
In the absence of screaming
The absence of distress




And don't think you can't go there
Everyone can
You've done it before
When you were a child

Go to a place of mystic and wonder
Of thoughts long forgotten
The survives in everyone's minds
In the absence of thought

To Nothing
To Nowhere
To Galleon's Lap