i hope i still find ways

I hope I still find ways
To tell you how beautiful you are
How sincerely happy I am because of you

Like a mountain gathers the rain in her throat
And feeds her young
The rivers and streams
Carving new paths when the old veins run dry
And never fails to send them home
To die of themselves and live another life

If I could be that mountain
And break open to show you
The water table that slithers unseen
Or, better yet, if I could give to you the first warm day of spring!
When the world whines as it turns on a rusty hinge
And slowly opens its mouth to drink
After sleeping like the grizzlies in the dark
Waking, hungry, thirsty
Ready

Sing!
When I say these things you've heard a million times
May my song be like
The rooster whose call
Is bigger than himself
May my call become the morning
That awakens you and reveals
What you couldn't see in the night

That I love you more with every sunrise
That your beauty is my joy
Rise with me!
Hear these words from a new voice

For every morning the world is new
And we are new in it
And I see the world as beautiful
Because of you