Be Like Lightning - Seeming

I’ve been told that love is patient

Like a sniper, like a snake

But I know that love is also blind

Asleep when it’s awake

And it’s tricky-love's a hippy

But it’s sure no pacifist

Love’s a storm that comes from nowhere

Black and unafraid to go where

It’ll birth you in an incandescent blitz

Be like lightning

Incidental in your fire

In your striking

Be the chaos love requires

Be like lightning

Love dismisses all the angry boys

It’s bored with the police

It electrocutes them, effortless

No thought of their release

That’s the kind of love that makes you

That’s the raincloud you obey

In the swiftly rising rivers

In the flooding of the gutter

Love will drown the world and wash it all away

Be like lightning

All the water and the fire

In your striking

Be the chaos love requires

Be like lightning (sudden)

Casting shadows in the flash

In your striking (summoned)

All that’s left is love and ash

There was nothing in the world before the spark

No light to give a name to the dark

Be like lightning (forever)

You’re just happening and happening

And striking (whatever)

And unraveling and dazzling