Excerpt from song SOMETHING PERSONAL album SIGNATURES
performed by Pentazz 1983
written by Rich Waltrip and Cedric Lemmie
Random Pieces
It is difficult to see
Through the pitch of darkness
Through the glare of intense brightness
Through the white fog of illuminated clouds
Past the bombardments
of overwhelming useless information
The forest through the trees....................................
Yet.................................................................
We still image things invisible to eyes
Diviner courses without landmarks
Continue to discover uncertainties
Walking blindly into the unknown
Smile amidst shatters of broken dreams
To reach heights never before imagined.
We listen for vague signs..........................
Of hope in the distant future
Of life in cold dark forbidding places
Of happiness in fallen leaves or...
Flakes of tumbling melting snow
The calm before the storm............................
Yet................................................................
We hear voices from the past
Directives from past lives and dreams
Innuendos from future conversations
Demanding us to continue on
To discover in the distant disturbances
The words and rhythms of revelation
Yet..............................................................
The feelings vanish
As quickly as they materialized
Forcing us to re-examine
Our position and purpose
Bringing new doubts and reanimated fears.
That we might have missed the crucial part
Of the ever changing puzzle of our destiny
But we still return to our box of random pieces
Knowing the needed piece is somewhere
Buried there within our grasp.