Six Degrees Of Separation

These six degrees of separation

Between you and what I have come to be

Bridges crumble with the weight of honesty

I can see it in your eyes

The fear of that which we cannot control

Holding on to the fear of letting go

Respect the boundaries of communication and greed

I again taste what I have pushed to bleed

Nothing seems to remove these truths

No matter what sneaks up under my skin

I have begun not always to try to win

Pushing envelopes of the fears I hold

No blind faith, nor blind fear can hold me here

I'll taste and bleed then separate

Change these fears to love or hate

Create, cooperate, express, stabilize

Open the doors to freedom and to my eyes

This vision awakens and becomes division

Six times the days between something that meant anything

I have learned to let go of me... finally

ⓒ 2001 Shawn Michael Quinn

Spiral out, keep going..

Black then white are all I see in my infancy

Red and yellow then came to be

Reaching out to me, lets me see

As below so above and beyond, I imagine

Drawn beyond the lines of reason

Push the envelope, watch it bend

Over thinking, over analyzing, separate the body from the mind

Withering my intuition, missing opportunities 

And I must feed my will to feel my moment

Drawing way outside the lines

Black then white are all I see in my infancy

Red and yellow then came to be

Reaching out to me, lets me see 

There is so much more that beckons me 

To look through to these infinite possibilities

As below so above and beyond, I imagine

Drawn outside the lines of reason

Push the envelope, watch it bend

Over thinking, over analyzing, separate the body from the mind

Withering my intuition, leaving opportunities behind

Feed my will to feel this moment 

Urging me to cross the line

Reaching out to embrace the random

Reaching out to embrace whatever may come

I embrace my desire to

I embrace my... desire to feel the rhythm

To feel connected

Enough to step aside and 

Weep like a willow

To feel inspired

To fathom the power

To witness the beauty

To bathe in the fountain

To swing on the spiral

To swing on the spiral 

To swing on the spiral of our divinity and

Still be a human

With my feet upon the ground

I lose myself between the sounds 

And open wide to suck it in

I feel it move across my skin

I'm reaching up and reaching out

I'm reaching for the random or 

Whatever will bewilder me

Whatever will bewilder me

And following our will and wind 

We may just go where no one's been

We'll ride the spiral to the end 

And may just go where no one's been

Spiral out, keep going

Spiral out, keep going

Spiral out, keep going

Spiral out, keep going