Outer Space and Back

Within this fire that you've given unto me
Is the power of the sun or the raging sea.
Yet uncertain is your intent, in doubt I pace;
For fear I hide your gift, fear of disgrace.
Without I turn to pathways of the stars
That lead me further and further still, mars
Comes upon me and I don't even stop
To consider Saturn's rings, around I hop.
Yet while I fly you follow too, without
A trace to be seen in the cosmos at large,
You make yourself fast to my soul in rout,
And into my conscience you barge.
Whats wrong with me that I should flee this sight?
Decadent symptoms of raging delight;
Why do I fight what's truly good inside?
No surety besides my vacant pride.
I stare through space without a single thought,
And wonder vaguely what I"ll do if caught;
But still I don't consider it to be
Any more important than the raging sea,
And maybe that's why I didn't care for it,
For the gift that you gave, that I don't acquit;
Without the sun we'd never live a day,
But I didn't care for it, walk my own way.
I know in time I need to face this thing,
This beauty which you have given to me;
A treasure unused is a gift abused,
A traitor is a name with a heinous ring,
I'd rather climb high, higher than a tree.
But I know I've got to face what's inside,
I know that with you still am I allied;
You were waiting for me on the solid ground,
To hear from me, of my journeys, and found
That I'd become a better man through them,
Had mercy on me, did not my soul condemn.
I understand why it was you gave me
This gift, the power of the raging sea;
And I accept the eternal sun light
As worthy of my life, my cause, my fight!
Within my heart now is a noticed change,
From it's true call is no longer estranged,
I know what I have got to do in time,
And it start today by completing this rhyme.

                 Outer Space and Back, (c) Luke Bennette, Jun 2012