One Day

Written by: Kristofer Ryan


One Day

“One day” she says, that was her way of ending war
She looks at me worse off than the mind could fathom at this point
Told me she’s addicted to shrooms and even more to me
Told me the death of her was this hallucinogen and her love that had no ending
She said the one thing she couldn’t get was figuring out me
She tried to put herself in my shoes; she wanted to know how I think
Was it belief, was it grief, or was I really just me
Whatever it was led her to never seem to get enough of me
Every time she closed her eyes lightning flew galaxies by
Every time she opened her eyes the floor was rolling
But these hallucinations never answered why
She put down the drugs before they drug her to the grave
And picked up a book and read every page
From then on everything she could find she read
From that point on knowledge had a hold over this Lioness
To put it in her words, to create it in her dreams, she knows
That cobble stone roads weaken the heels and collapse the knees
So to this state of crawling we all return to at some point
The cycle of life ends like it begins, back on all “fours”
Born babes, lived as slaves, dying free men who had breathed
One thing is certain and contains no flaw nor void
The same as entering and leaving, to be birthed and deceased
They both contain only the careless knowing of joy and peace.