Heavy Light

Lyrics for Heavy Light

Recollections move through in sudden shifting shapes I release into the unburdening To live here in this unforgiving lightness To hold it all as it is I am all that never and always was I am still a child finding flowers, unfurling forms And falling further into laughter I am still cradling sand, steady in the hand I am the love lasting And there I am, a fragile being in the belly of your body And there we are, mirrored in likeness And shrouded in the shadow of duality Here we are, severed together Where I am finding my way through this barren field with bruised knees And even at the shattered edges I see the ways we loved And the ways we hurt The ways I've always carried the weight of your absence Reaching for you when I needed you And I will keep reaching To live here, in the heavy In the light I am the heart I've needed And I feel it all