By christopher lake (mojave7299@yahoo.com)
Date: 21 June 2000

wild oats not wild enough

wild oats not wild enough
and fierce reckonings
filled my mind then
when i wanted to embrace
experience
love
or what i thought was love
and all sorts of madness
just have everything
only so
i could throw it away

caring this much is harder
caring at all
is hard
and it burns
like april sun
on pale winter skin

but together we'll fill
the emptiness
with our voices
with music
a starry sufficiency
god
the devil
the deep blue sea
because it's so simple
really
and it comes down to me
to you
sometimes the rare butterfly
i can't catch
but will never
stop trying