Weep For the Joy -- Oct 16/03

I will weep for the joy
The joy of weeping at the sound
Of a million hearts that break
As they lie upon the ground
And I will weep for the joy
For the love of sharing pain
As our eyes smile and nod and say
I remember, I remember
I remember how that felt
And I remember, I remember
How I wept
How it smelt in that sadness
How my ears were blocked
Eyes were closed
But my nose remembers still
My isle between the tears
That I wept
Wept for joy
So I will weep for the joy
For the sadness in my soul
That I can touch
I can feel
The sadness I can know and spread and love
And I will weep, weep for joy
I will weep until the tears
Fill my mouth
Drown in tears
That I wept for the weapons
That stung against my skin
That were thrown
Full of painful hate
From hands that are still there
That are hard and soft and warm
Hands that touch
Hands that hold
Hands that wipe
Tears from cheeks
Wet with tears wept for joy
I will weep for the joy
Of the air that's full of sorrow
Full of pain
Full of rage
Full of bad and hate and scorn
Full of wrong, full of death
Full of fullness of the tears
That fall across my face
And fall across the floor
Leaving streaks across the dust
That is left upon the floor
By a million different bodies
Each fallen and ignored
But they were here
On the floor
Where I sit
Weeping tears
Tears I weep, weep for joy
For the joy
Of the sadness
Of skin between our hands
Of hate between our minds
Of fear between our lives
Things we share
Things we touch
Things that never break asunder
For if I am forced to be alone
I will lick dust from the floor
And taste your skin
Taste your tears
Your sadness
And weep for the joy
Of knowing human kindness
I will weep for the joy
Of things between our hearts
That we will ever understand
That to look in your eyes
And seeing hatred there
Know in my heart
It is hatred we can share
For if there is but dust
That is left upon the floor
It will enough for me
Enough to weep
My tears to mix with yours
It will be enough
For me to weep for.