BEFORE

These are the walls I must leave behind;

The broken path that I must climb;

Beyond the words or my own state of mind:

Before there were rules, or schools of thought;

Before we debated what was, and what was not;

Before there were wars, before the excuses,

Before all the lies, and all Man’s abuses.

Before there was me, before there was you;

Before there was old, before there was new;

Before things were real, before things were true.

Before there was gravity; before there was light;

Before there was day, before there was night.

Before time had anything to do;

When God was an atom, and we were so few.

Beyond the sacred, the holy, everything we knew;

Before there was sun, or skies that turned blue.

Before the concept of sin;

Before we could lose, before we could win;

That’s where I’m going, that’s where I’ve been.

Before religion, infinity, or man.

Before there was anything to understand;

Before any of this ever began.

Before there was time, before there was space;

Before eternity or any other place.

To leave it all behind, without a trace;

Before God was given a face.

To the lover of lovers,

To the soul of my soul, which I must embrace.