I'm not heavy

I’M NOT HEAVY (E A D G B E)

 

Hide under the bed sheets. Fill the space next to me. Teach me but don’t tell me.

Melt into the garden. Green across the whole sky. Hold me but don’t touch me.

Towels on the line; what if one day they stop hanging on? Tumbling through the sky and I wish that I could come along. But I’m too heavy and I’m not ready to just float. I’m too heavy and I’m not ready.

 

Roll me down the incline. Uphill takes too much time. Everything I look up to looks down on me.

Show me where you’re going. Stop the sun exploding. But it’s too late and it wouldn’t help anyway.

Something just shifted; the wind just spinning on its back. Somewhere I’m lifting; my body disappearing in the light. And I’m not heavy; my heart is resting after all this time. After all this time. After all this time.