This Lyric is: #053

Visual Awakening
lyrics by Shefik
© 2002. All rights reserved.

I've often reached out
With restrained hands
To grasp discovery.
And, through those times
I retained the sense
All I captured was solitary.
Distance was understanding
Why my mind was far from reality,
Casting a dream beyond those walls,
To ascend away from the downfall.

Then you appeared
Through the midst of it all,
Heeding me without secondary thought,
Knocking down my prism
And all it wrought,
Replenishing my neglected heart.

You induced visual awakening,
My awareness there is light.
Faithfully I will follow,
As it guides me from my sorrow.
And, through the visual awakening,
Sight brought the clarity,
So I could see most visibly
Meaning is inside all of us.

Bearing your own strife
Within your arms,
You were mute to complaint.
When you found the room
To hold my hand,
It drained your strength to carry the weight.
Through you I've rediscovered
My lost life and how to appreciate
The blessings that have been bestowed,
By learning joy needs to be echoed.

But, now you speak
In the tongue of anguish,
Because you once thrived, and now you wither.
I once fell in distress.
Now I prosper.
It took all you had to awake me.

You induced visual awakening,
My awareness there is light.
Faithfully I will follow,
As it guides me from my sorrow.
And, through the visual awakening,
Sight brought the clarity,
So I could see most visibly
Meaning is inside all of us.

There's no cause to have retribution.
There's no need to feel destitution.
So, hold on for just one more minute.
I have love for you.
Let me give it.
I'm here for you,
Like you were there for me.
I'll never forget the sight you gave me.

You induced visual awakening,
My awareness there is light.
Faithfully I will follow,
As it guides me from my sorrow.
And, through the visual awakening,
Sight brought the clarity,
So I could see most visibly
Meaning is inside all of us.

"I have embraced the means behind the meaning. I visualize it to be the ability to sacrifice for another. So, rejuvenate your diminished value, until the means escapes back into mystery. For everything I was given, I place back unto you."

[This message has been edited by Brian Austin Whitney (edited 08-31-2002).]