Rebel Sun
Rebel sun, you've come undone--
Can I finish what I've begun
And is it real, is it real
In the end?
Thousand fears, thousand lights,
Thousand doubts, thousand fights,
Keeping me wondering
Why did you ever leave me?
Thousand steps, thousand miles,
Thousand tears, thousand smiles,
Keeping me wondering
Where did you ever lead me?
Look around me, all I've got--
Thousand fools in a parking lot,
Drinking, carousing and
Admiring nothing.
Thousand loves, thousand hates,
Thousand nothings to create
And still you have risen.
Thousand lives, thousand deaths,
You were a dying man's last breath
But still I believed it.
So you rose, you rose high
Up in the glorious morning sky,
Setting afire the dreams I made,
Setting anew the plans I laid
Till they were visible
To all who wished to see.
Rebel sun, you were my light,
As I was walking through the night,
Drowning in this sterile swamp
Of mediocrity.
Rebel sun, you saw me through
For who I am, and I love you
For being there through
All these years for me.
And if tomorrow I should die,
I know you'll still be in the sky,
Lighting a path
To all who wish to see.
January 4, 2008
--Alexander Shaumyan
www.shaumyan.com
