To Reach You.

I want to be your panacea.
I want to reach inside you and care your thorn away.
I want to touch you, hold you, love you
Until you know you're not alone
Until you believe
What I can't help but dream.

But I can't cure the cancer
That follows as we age
I can't stop the wrinkles
I cannot calm the rage
I can only ebb the flow
When you reach out and say
"I wish I didn't need you,
But now is not that day."

The world is not what I would have
Were I the Lord Divine
If this world were in my hands
I would shatter all my fingers
So I could harm no more.
Small solace are the dreamers
The idealists
The progressive souls that reach and reach and reach
But never seem to grasp
What makes the world go round.

Were I Thy Savior
I would pray away your fears
Devoutly wipe your tears
Until you faithfully believed
That there would come a better day
Than now.

But now is not that day.
Now is not what I would have it be.
Now is not the time when thought and feeling
Are the portrait of each soul.
Now is not when I can hold you in my arms
My head upon your brow
My love around your life
My self within your hands
And all the world at peace.
Now is not that day.

And yet I want to reach
Inside your armored heart
And make you see that one king cannot rule alone.
I want to prove to you I care
Prove that your despair
Is an ailment I can cure.
I cannot hold an iron keep
I cannot kiss a head of stone
I cannot love a castle in the sky.

And still, don't ask me why,
I cannot help but try to fly
To fly, because I only want

To reach you.