The Gift - Bruce Cockburn

    These shoes have walked some strange streets
    stranger still to come --
    sometimes the prayers of strangers
    are all that keeps them from
    trying to stay static,
    something even death can't do
    everything is motion --
    to the motion be true

    In this cold commodity culture
    where you lay your money down
    it's hard to even notice
    that all this earth is hallowed ground --
    harder still to feel it,
    basic as a breath --
    love is stronger than darkness
    love is stronger than death

    The gift
    keeps moving --
    never know
    where it's going to land.
    You must stand
    back and let it
    keep on changing hands

    Hackles rise in anger,
    heat waves rise in sex.
    The gift moves on regardless
    tying this world to the next.
    May you never tire of waiting,
    never feel that life is cheap.
    May your life be filled with light
    except for when you're trying to sleep.

    The gift
    keeps moving --
    never know
    where it's going to land
    you must stand
    back and let it
    keep on changing hands.

    (Toronto, February 9, 1988)
     
     
     

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