Love for the Pain

Love for the sunshine
Love for the rain
Love, love, love for the pain
The grief of enjoyment that cannot sustain
Love, love, love for the pain

Are your eyes open?
Is your heart hoping?

Love for the backhoe
Love for the crane
Love, love, love for the pain
What's here and what's gone
And what will remain
Love, love, love for the pain

Rigid arms groping
Is your heart hoping?

Love for the faucet
Love for the drain
Love, love, love for the pain
The flowing, the pooling, the slowing, the plane
Love, love, love for the pain

Sediment floating
Is your heart hoping?
Is your heart hoping?

Love for the different
Love for the same
Love, love, love for the pain
All local color lining the lane
Love, love, love for the pain

Is that street sloping?
Is your heart hoping?
Is your heart hoping?

Love for the plow-horse
Love for the train
Love, love, love for the pain
A lifetime of labor reducing by frame
Love, love, love for the pain

The mind-horse loping
Is your heart hoping?
Is your heart hoping?

The mind-horse loping
Is your heart hoping?
Is your heart hoping?