Excerpts from a song I wrote quite a while ago.  Somehow seems fitting for this journey. Frustrating how easily my wiring can get crossed, how quickly I can short circuit and self destruct, how quickly I can veer of the path and lose momentum. 

A Fragile machine

Is a human being

Delicate balance

Intricate design

Movement of my soul

Like a gear grinding endlessly

Pressure on my lungs

Harder to pull the air I breathe

Bound by time

I’m a fragile machine

Men pretend there is no sin

No danger where the darkness lies

They stumble into the strange places

Daring not to open eyes

They march as though they know the way

Suck the life out of each day

And turn their heads away from skies

Daring not to open eyes

Daring not to open eyes

The instructions say handle with care

Warning labels everywhere

Yet we crash into our fellow man

Creating static as only we can

We are not programmed for this

To disassemble innocence

To deconstruct our empty lives

Because we have not opened eyes

Because we have not opened eyes

A Fragile machine

Is a human being

Delicate balance

Intricate design

Movement of my soul

Like a gear grinding endlessly

Pressure on my lungs

Harder to pull the air I breathe

Bound by time

I’m a fragile machine