Edge of Life's Drain

	I can't know what God heard today
	cash and cards the noise we pray
	yelling thru our mean checking-out line
	hard words twisting love inside out of rhyme
	hi-tech dying with lo-tech souls
	sacred dreams lost on sorry rolls
	our dice are loaded with hate and sin
	the light is shadows where we've been
	we gamble and bleed over more more
	in a love versus nothing all out war
	the stakes are piling its time to choose
	we can fight and take and kill and lose
	or we can run run to the light
	before we are consumed under evil's bite 
	its a do make it or die break it deal
	we can open bigger wounds or heal
	we can build our power to love 
	or throw away sharing dreams above
	
	I don't know what God will hear tomorrow
	maybe us leaving all this sorrow
	cheering each other forward
	silently passing our own evil unheard
	dropping all our garbage down its blackness
	dreams and love fueling our progress
	we shed thousands of years of pain
	keeping us at the edge of life's drain
	now we float up into a circle of light
	our souls unfolding wings for flight
	we are what we were meant to be
	circling on waves of love's energy

	 By Mark Borcherding   8-17-1994