Danny Callahan

Green world love the chloroform

Front porch in the thunderstorm

Controlled chaos confused energy

So stop reading the weather charts

Stop counting the playing cards

There's no system there's no guarantees

That the love you feel and carry inside can be passed

But you try and all you do is just talk

to the past

Ask how are you getting on alone?

Some wander the wilderness

some drink cosmopolitans

Some cold science some glean astroplanes

I can't tell where the camera stops

homesick as an astronaut

Just keep drifting but still can't explain

How the love we feel we carry inside can be passed

See a brother in the gutter and reach out your hand

Ask how are you getting on alone?

What guage measures miracles?

Whose heartbeat's electrical?

We feign sickness with our modern joy

But even Western medicine

Bad bone marrow the poor little boy

But the love he feels he carries inside can be passed

He lay still

his mother kissed him goodbye said 'comeback'

Where are you going to alone?

Where are you going all alone?