What You Take & What You Leave Behind

Between the clear as day and the wonderfully oblique

'Tween the dross in your veins and the treasure you still

seek

The span of years that reaches here to the skies

What you take and what you leave behind

Between what you've seen and what your lips can tell

Between the stuff if the holy and the hard sell

It occurs to you it was all gentle on your mind

What you take and what you leave behind

Between the counterfeit & the mother of all pearls

Just beneath the skin of this tired old weary world

Honey, that kiss of yours that opened up my eyes

What you take and what you leave behind