Woman of the Meadow
Jonny Johnson
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I shake at first touch From a woman I've come to trust My bite's still strong, I still bare my teeth She got past my mask I designed to distract To dissuade the merchant, the traitor, and the thief I can count on her to turn From soft to stern She's got a fire to strike the enemy when I am weak With no instructions given Somehow, she knows within How to clear the space for the mind and the spirit to speak There's woman in the girl Both-and are her world Who's always present, but not always seen She rises with a roar That puts an end to the war All noise suspends and, for a moment, there is peace She has her will and form and nothing else No world to die but make fit for herself A practice in new logics is good health It's nonsense to think There is any meaning If all your mind does is relate to itself In a tired, foggy blur I gave myself to her I slouched beneath a load I thought I could bare She took me in Like any other man She said, "Place your cloak on the back of the chair" She don't give a f*ck I hit a string of hard luck She got the power to unstuck So I'm going below To the Woman of the Meadow I thought she'd contest 'Bout the unrest in her nest She ought to have set my things ablaze with kerosene I can't seem to grasp What she gains from my ass She said it's no trouble as long as my manners are clean I said, "Just one more day I'll have it my way" She said, "You will, and it's gonna be great as such" It's not that she can't relate She just don't see it that way She scans the earth with a gentler kind of touch I haven't seen it yet Any move I would regret If I could do her wrong, she hasn't said But I know she could fire A whole stormy spire And I doubt I'd get a chance to save my head She stands outside my world and looks at time My rhythmic movement through the ringing chimes She knocks away the ladder I did climb To an endless life I obeyed Where I moved, she stayed Where the landscape of thoughts and colors are prime She is crystalline A full-bodied tangerine She stands in her place with open doors She caught a lot of flack For lyin' on her back But I haven't known a man who wouldn't crawl on her floor I undo my ties I face my evil side I go eye to eye With my shadow With the Woman of the Meadow I don't mean to brag But there is no lag She smiles when I tell her my mistakes Whatever drew us near It has kept us here And I believe it's helped both our sakes I begin to sink Into her offerings Each inch gets me closer to bliss Away from order She relaxes the border I transcend conventions that lead me to this I watch her dress And I begin to guess The shapes in which she transforms Her existence is clear But her purpose here Is written nowhere and needs to be explored Out by the straining rim where the lines get dim It might be seen as a fleeting passing whim I've thought this through and waited for the when For the fading lights to spark For the masts of my arc To be built and I can set sail with a grin In every other case I have to claim my space But she and I ain't even actin' on the same plane We are going up We raise our cups To a life that has everything to gain I have my reason This is her season There is one place this one Is called to go To the Woman of the Meadow.
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Written by: Jonathan Johnson, Jonny Johnson
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