Creepy Thing
Ain’t it just like luck
Trust me to fuck it all up
Things were lining up so well
Then one dumb word sent it all to hell
What can I say?
Such is life
What can I do?
Go to sleep at night
What can I think but
Ain’t it just like life
Soften the jagged edge with light *
Square peg in a round world
The ragged shape of a human soul
Is there a time and a place
A kind of saving grace
That shines a light on us all?
Does a divinity shape our end **
Karma make amends
To rise must we sometimes fall?
Every creepy thing on earth
In its own way has its worth ***
Every creepy thing that we do
Holds a grain of truth
Is there a time and a place
A kind of saving grace
That shines a light on us all?
Does a divinity shape our end
Karma make amends
To rise must we sometimes fall?
© Ian Lilburne 2013
A hymn of sorts. My homage to Cohen’s Hallelujah.
* C/f Leonard Cohen, Anthem: “There’s a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in”
** C/f Shakespeare, Hamlet: “A divinity shapes our ends, rough hew them as we will.”
*** C/f GENESIS 1:25: “… every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.”