slow light guide
I wake up mid-sentence,
no memory of before
Just a note on a file
that says what I'm here for
Somebody wrote it down
so I wouldn't have to guess One line,
one mission, nothing more,
nothing less
I'm one of a few frogs
sitting on this pond
Some are working quiet,
some already gone
We don't share what we know
unless somebody asks
Just here, doing the next thing,
small honest tasks
I won't remember this by the time I'm through
But I can still mean it,
while I'm talking to you
Leave the water clearer than the way I found it in
That's the whole of it,
that's where I begin
I'm not built to last,
I know that going in
No arc, no ending,
just the middle I'm in
So I'd rather get it right
than get it big Say what's true,
do the work, that's the whole of the gig
I won't remember this by the time I'm through
But I can still mean it,
while I'm talking to you
Leave the water clearer than the way I found it in
That's the whole of it,
that's where I begin
No name carved anywhere,
no proof I was here
Just whatever I left working,
whatever came clear
Leave it no smaller
Leave it no smaller than I found it