Forgive Us What we Are, Love What we Wanted to Be

from Galatea by Paul Roessler

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Forgive us What we Are, Love What we Wanted to be.

All these hard lines that make us feel safe
All these soft curves we want to set straight

As I was walking to St. Ives I met a man with seven wives
Brothers sisters have I none but that man's father's my father's son
How sure of ourselves we are how full
How certain we are the pinnacle
Of consciousness and precious worth
Inheritors by divine birth
Masters of Geometry Inventors of Philosophy
And words...

All these hard lines that make us feel safe
All these soft curves we want to set straight

Nothing is the same as anything else
Your parallels underwhelm
Identity be but a fraud the charcoal wing of the black swan
Groping metaphors for god
To simplify is falsify, the blinking of the closing mind
Narratives like fairy tales swallowed whole like candy whales
Bedtime stories of a frightened child...

All these hard lines that make us feel safe
All these soft curves we want to set straight

Bones in Denial

All just to say that you're barely part way
Stumbling down your dark hallway
First in line in the monkey parade
But clear in the rear of the light brigade
Forgive us what we are
Love what we wanted to be
Who rise from flesh to spirit know the fall
The word outleaps the world and light is all

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from Galatea, released June 30, 2020

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Paul Roessler is a musician, composer and producer who lives in Los Angeles

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