You Are Our Cradle In The Water

You are my eyes You are my heaven You are a sunny, distant shore You are a cradle in the water Of a rainbow I've longed, longed for. You are the white-salt spray, You are the tidal whirlpool of my day You are the laurel sea-green waves Leading me ashore Guiding me by these rudderless Means in answer I am but an ever changeling, Adam Drifting, following the wind like flotsam, At the end of a whiskey bar I am an orphan and a Chaplin I am but a broken wreck and more You are a cradle in the water Of a rainbow I've longed, longed for. You are the rain. You are the thunder. You are the anchor at the end of my chain You are the sky Above and below the oceans Pearl black sun You are the one true island-church, Without a weather vane You are the vault that holds a desert in a grain You are a cradle in the water Of a rainbow I've longed, longed for. You are the mask. Behind the stars constellations You are a palm of dust You are a tear turning iron into rust You are the desert sand And the thorn that is a bleeding rose Eternal in my outstretched hand But most of all You are all of these things in us. You are the child that is born Like a star to combust You are the life that is aflame You are the seed, scattered; Divergent, by just one name You are our cradle in the water Of a rainbow we've all longed, longed for.