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Closer Now, My Strange Worlds

from Butterflies in Caterpillar Drag by Ric Alba

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Worlds in orbit drift apart, then together, then apart. When they're close enough so the people on them can see or hear each other, together they learn things. Things that can only be perceived during that close pass.

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(Long before the crack of dawn,
Four o'clock and I was gone off to find what called me on.
Something missing, something right.
Another truth, a different light.
A far off glow to end the night.
Another touch, a different sight.

Closer now, as our worlds unfold themselves a crowd begins to grow.
Closer now, we walk beside.
We watch for things not one of us could see walking alone.

I returned from yesterday,
to hang a note and walk away.
You asked me in, I had to stay.
And when I stepped onto the floor
I realized the hand was yours
picking locks and breaking chains.
They're everywhere, let none remain.

Closer now, world to world we tell the truths we learn from how we lie.
Closer now, we change our worlds, we change like everyone must
once or twice, to come back alive.

So now who we were meets who we are.
Who we've been, who we'll become.
Are we not still "From Many, One"?
We read beyond the danger signs.
We sing beyond familiar rhymes.
We color out beyond the lines.
We live beyond familiar times.

Closer now and wide awake, we face the rain and share the wind's embrace.
Closer now, we walk beside, to places none of our many worlds could go, walking alone.

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from Butterflies in Caterpillar Drag, released September 16, 2017

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Ric Alba California

The one who had been in Undercover, The Altar Boys, and now Dead Artist Syndrome, and Moral DK.

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