Awake at 3am and pacing You were working I was dazed In the kitchen tracing circles slowly With the turning of the fan blades And I left from our apartment To the corner took a right I saw shadows in the darkness casted Intermittent in the flashing light Of traffic signals blinking Somehow backwards in my eyes I saw A stranger in the glass reflected No one near me But it can't be mine And the bible tells of revelations past Sudden visitations come to prophets stumbling on the path And a flash of light alive in night arrives A voice from out of time proclaims Saul on the road to Damascus Had a vision, and the brightness struck him blind And so He changed his name Mine was no man I was nothing Going nowhere I was gone I was naked I was vacant buildings I was blending with the blight I was ghostlike I was hopeless For no reason said a prayer Let some holy spirit moment Come and force in me a change A camera hung to capture On a traffic signal light And a flash on the path to Damascus And a change when Saul went blind I had visions in the city every day Despite it all and what I saw My sight remained And the prophets in town all go on Back and forward nowhere directionless In their blankets bending down Shine and strike Not with blinded eyes, but sight To look around now to see and to notice them To see the smoke cloud climbing high And in the night sky find it An image where the light shines And a sign from up above To see the tent now, burning bright And to hear it crying out The voice of Christ at night When he stumbled all alone and burned alive Under the streetlights when he died Only traffic signals cameras to watch his life extinguished Glowing white down on the corner by the bus stop dead A woman on the sidewalk Narcanned back to life She rose again Walked away When the paramedics came Resurrected by a stranger She disappeared On Easter I was there When they pulled into the turnaround I was standing glowing red at emergency Looked in every window trying to find you inside To find a sign Glowing in the hallways At the hospital at night I can see it now The place where I'd headed since I left Always here you I felt ashamed You'd see me first and know How badly I needed you Now I turned around Heading homebound Every current on the ground Pulled me back to you To stumble on the pathway backwards Both a burden and gift to see Every moment we're alive A disaster A tragedy to be and breathe A curving road a light above The labored veins to funnel us A beating heart and us the blood Thinning by the day A heavy load the weight of love A tongue of flames a welcome flood A beating heart and us the blood A beating heart A beating heart A tongue of flames a light above The voice of God a smoking gun A beating heart A beating heart A beating heart A beating heart A beating heart A beating heart A beating heart A beating heart A beaten dog the snarling teeth The face of God a light above A beating heart And us the blood In all of us a beating heart