Waving - Gong

You ask me what

Makes anger

You ask me why we

Rage

You ask me how to

Kill a fire or turn

Another page

You ask me what

Makes lightning

Strike or

Why the rain brings

Flood

What burns a nation

Down to sand

Why war spills so

Much blood

And just for a

Moment

I thought you saw

Me wave

But you were

Looking the other

Way

You ask me how I

Taught myself to

Turn the force

Around

Look fear & anger in

The eyes & turn it

Into sound

You ask if I can ride

The wave of

Dangerous emotion

And if bitter

Disappointments

Are the measure of

My passion

And just for a

Moment

I thought I caught

Your eye

But you were

Turning the other

Way

When you were a

Young one you took

The road you

Wanted you didn’t

Live to compromise

You took the world

In with yr eyes & cut

Yr portion down to

Size & as you grew

We always knew

That yoo were not

For turning

But when you take

This path in life

Remember that you

Light the fire you

Burn in