I’ll Sing Hallelujah - bruce silverman

[Lawrence Robinson]

I’ll sing Hallelujah.


Say what you want. I’ll still sing, Hallelujah,
                                                   Even with a body politic inane, humanity in boundless
                                                   pain, a world certifiably insane, I will continue to sing
                                                   because you and I still romp within this cosmic thing
                                                      that’s still in swing. So yes, I’ll sing Hallelujah.

I’ll join in the song, I’ll even play along as so many who 
live in despair and have little reason to care or dare to aim
 their eyes on the prize, I still choose to believe that the force 
that welcomes our gifts and prayers reminds us that
 this cosmic thing is still in swing.
So yes, I’ll sing Hallelujah.
 
Even this body I see, that I believe to be me, as I gaze 
past the haze of what I feel with my hand I understand that 
buried within cells of my being are the ever sacred scribes
 of ancient tribes that are yet writing the tome of my  journey toward 
a home that has yet to be fully known.  The wind song of this 
 truth reminds  me that this cosmic thing is still in swing, 
So I’ll continue to sing Hallelujah.
 
What I think was the past is not really so, the last is first, 
the first is last, and this moment is all there is, as you surely know. 
Now I can rail against the universal tide or hermitize the light
 the light inside, but I’ll still hitch my ride to that cosmic 
thing that’s still in swing and I’ll continue to sing Hallelujah.
 
But for now, let’s put the world’s troubles aside, and let’s be 
 held by the three-quarter time of Leonard Cohen’s rhyme, 
for the music of the universe is comin’ right at us, so let’s 
spread the word that this cosmic thing is still in swing, and
 the great pendulum movin’ through me and you is inviting us 
to sing: 
Hallelu—yeah!

	- bruce silverman
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