Behind the backstop
And at the breakfast table
On the school bus
And other assorted torture chambers
The temperature drops
The snow falls
The glacier forms
Ten thousand tons of ice
Are crushing you
Into a beautiful, one-of-a-kind
The thaw will come
And you will be
Yosemite
Year by year
Hour by hour
Insults scrape
Lonlinesses scour
Leaving erratics
And striations
A glacial terrain
I’ve seen the brightest sparks
Glowing from the faces
Of my friends whose lives have been
The biggest mess
They don’t make landmarks
Out of ordinary places
Only landscapes that have seen
The most distress
Someday you’ll dare
To open your heart
And you’ll melt one like mine
Because you are worth knowing
Worth loving
After all
Ten thousand tons of ice
Are crushing you
Into a beautiful, one-of-a-kind
The thaw will come
And you will be
Yosemite
Rain Perry’s recording of her beautiful song can be heard on her website:
http://www.rainperry.com/
And is available on her “Cinderblock Bookshelves” album at iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/cinderblock-bookshelves/id277143715
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