Every prophet reaches acceptance At a threshold unknown lets go of his exit But you won't accept the long truth You couldn't forgive God for what meaning would cost you Sometimes it's painful thrown into meaning But pain is the painkiller when you're teething We're not so numb are we We just don't know how to grieve the presence of beauty I still can't distill it The most important piece is the one that's missing I know I'm a compromised witness To understand this I've got to forgive it I still don't know what I'm cutting to the core of Maybe the rope to the cosmos is just braided with boredom I'm beginning to trust myself to see From a part that's never been wounded in me Maybe the ocean of enlightenment Was just a slow release of what I could never forgive I've been trying hard to find someone to blame There's a silence that keeps calling my name I'm at the threshold of If to take hold of What I can't be I'm forgiving the giving up of the ground of my being