Kindness is Solid Stone

from Kindness is Solid Stone Violence is a Heavy Loan to Pay by David Benjamin Blower

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The Way is like a little bird
There perched without worry
The way is like a lily
Clothed beautiful by nobody
The way is like the rain that falls
And waters all regardless
The way is like the sun that rises
Upon enemies and others

O kindness is solid stone
O violence is a heavy loan to pay
And I'll pay for everything I take
And I'll destroy everything I make
When I use the measures and weights of stolen days
The sand's shifting

The way is like a little seed
Lost in the dirt of becoming
The way is like the tree that homes
Roosting birds amidst leaves, singing
The way is like a woman
who forms bread with her two hands
The way is like the child who is
Unseen amidst adults’ plans

O kindness is solid stone
O violence is a heavy loan to pay
And someone pays for everything I break
And the Roman peace blows up in Rome's face
And now another round of futile waste
While mercy waits

Dear ones, there may come a day
And may the day be real
When the gentle shall raise their hands
And the proud will kneel
Dear ones, may there come a day
And may the day be real
When the gentle shall wipe the tears
Of the proud on even soil

O kindness is solid stone
O violence is a heavy loan to pay
And mercy breathes like wild horses
Upon a thousand hills with no fences
And law is a thief who takes no chances
Locks himself in a room with his treasures
Sits watching his cctv cameras
And this here is hell as we built it
And this here is a shell of the real thing
And this is a young ruin

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from Kindness is Solid Stone Violence is a Heavy Loan to Pay, released November 3, 2023

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David Benjamin Blower: 6-string writer, poet, theologian and podcaster from Birmingham in the UK.

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