you got some bad news you took it face first like people often do no matter how advanced an enlightened perspective s no safeguard against a real life with its nosedives its gutter lows its sunrise heights i heard you say i m an acrobat i cheated death now death is cheating back i thought i might hide out become the empty sky but i had to land i couldn t find somewhere unoccupied you sang in ghost notes a second history a pool of broken code i felt the moment slide you were bridging the halves of a great divide i heard you say if there s an architect let s see the plan let s see who gets it next i m sure sometimes except when i m certain otherwise i felt your hand fold into mine and i was preoccupied felt fleeting small completely surrounded by the fates of us all you were the troubled one but you took me on you carried me along i heard you say go be a welcome mat a sign of home an uncomplicated fact outside yourself the whole world is helping someone else an act of grace a clearing mind somewhere unoccupied 