Conversation 34
Goldmine
The Ropes
Wildness —
the world begins
Recklessness —
how it ends
Too bad we don’t know there is a difference
All you thought was silence
Was all you could not hear
And all you thought to worship was your fear
(You don’t choose God…
What isn’t God?)
If you choose to pray
Pray to the Gulf of Mexico
On a wing, oil glistening, God is listening
Unable to fly
And if you choose to look for gold
Find it, please, in your soul
The request of greed is never one life
Goldmine, goldmine
They showed the child the cross
And all he saw was wood
They showed the child the prison
And all he saw were men
Put money in his hand
You’d think he’d understand
But all he ever felt was one life
Goldmine, one life, goldmine
