Our ancestors grazed cattle
Through these hills and valleys
We moved along with goats, bulls, cows and ducks
I don't know any other job
Neither did my parents
Today
I stand under the tree
It's raining mildly
Tree breathed in heavily
It's lush green gave me guilty thoughts
The velvety skin of the cows had tiny droplets of rain on them
My cloak had the same glittering
They looked like stars in green sky
I was stuck in a summer dream as they would call it
The thing that elders hate
The thing that can form storms in poor hearts
Which makes all the flowers in the world worthy All feelings , powerful
And all people brave but conflicted
Yes!
I had fallen for a monk
At nights I cried out so the love wouldn't eat me
During days I try to meditate
Like how he does
Like how my cows do when they eat thick green grass
I wear faded colours like his other monk friends
We have no gods and goddesses
Our legs are covered in ticks and thorns
Our redemption is these hills
Our salvation is in the milk that the cows produce
My ducklings would follow me like I'm their mother
I don't know anything about nirvana or revolution
But
I think it would be very political
And spiritual
If we both go for walks you know!
All I know is these grass and streams
And that I had fallen for a monk
Through these hills and valleys
We moved along with goats, bulls, cows and ducks
I don't know any other job
Neither did my parents
Today
I stand under the tree
It's raining mildly
Tree breathed in heavily
It's lush green gave me guilty thoughts
The velvety skin of the cows had tiny droplets of rain on them
My cloak had the same glittering
They looked like stars in green sky
I was stuck in a summer dream as they would call it
The thing that elders hate
The thing that can form storms in poor hearts
Which makes all the flowers in the world worthy All feelings , powerful
And all people brave but conflicted
Yes!
I had fallen for a monk
At nights I cried out so the love wouldn't eat me
During days I try to meditate
Like how he does
Like how my cows do when they eat thick green grass
I wear faded colours like his other monk friends
We have no gods and goddesses
Our legs are covered in ticks and thorns
Our redemption is these hills
Our salvation is in the milk that the cows produce
My ducklings would follow me like I'm their mother
I don't know anything about nirvana or revolution
But
I think it would be very political
And spiritual
If we both go for walks you know!
All I know is these grass and streams
And that I had fallen for a monk