Mondo Grosso Star Suite III. North Star (07'15")

POET : MONDAY MICHIRU

from MG4 (2000)

The thunder from the other side of the river And a rush of wind sends leaves and wings To scatter And people run for cover As though the rainwater will melt their ruffled feathers Aimlessly she meanders Taking shelter From the rain that pours Into a high end store Which at first she ignores Before she recognizes The shapes colors and sizes Of stones from her own homeland She crouches to read the caption written by hand 'Healing rock' and stands in shock as seeing the price tag Twenty times higher than her leather bag She looks around And realizes she is surrounded by pieces Of her childhood From furniture to books She had taken for granted And now commercialized And tainted A ceremonial shawl Much like her mother wore Makes her heart sore To see it is no more But remade to be a bedspread She shakes her head Then her eyes rest On photograph perched on top of a wooden chest 'sacred skies' it read of the stars she'd known shining from east to west for the first time she sees the leaves she found what she'd missed and kissed her light filled city goodbye. There's a place next to the fire So look up Feel the sun shining on your spirit That you bring And the stars that guide you Into the higher ground Say goodbye One day they'll fall from the sky When it holds the dreams that you and i Have all been wishin When you need that fire So look up Feel the sun shining on your spirit That you bring And the stars that guide you Into the higher ground Say goodbye One day they'll fall from the sky When it calls the dreams that you and i Have all been wishin When you feel that fire! Home. It seems she left so long ago Stepping out to taste the night Alone She sighs in sadness At the lack of insight That everything she needed Was right there. Trying to shed old skin For the new one is too thin Racing towards an unforeseen future Blindly rejecting the old culture The foundation is like quicksand Trying to find some ground to stand With nowhere to turn to but up She searches the sky Until her eyes stop On one star No bigger than a drop Amongst the millions There's no difference But she senses her soul reflected And her spirit so long deflated Begins to fill with the light she had waited for The gate opens to flood her emotions And saturate with the stars she thought had faded. There's a place next to the fire So look up Feel the sun shining on your spirit That you bring And the stars that guide you Into the higher ground Say goodbye One day they'll fall from the sky When it holds the dreams that you and i Have all been wishin When you need that fire So look up Feel the sun shining on your spirit That you bring And the stars that guide you Into the higher ground Say goodbye One day they'll fall from the sky When it calls the dreams that you and i Have all been wishin When you feed that fire!