underconstruction

here i am again
and i will play
again
you taught me the rules
so long so long ago
and they felt so easy so clear
here are the walls and here is the steeple
open it up and theres all the people
wall by wall
does a corner make
and of these hundred corners
can you tell me which
is not like the other
these walls meet on foreign soil
and somehow the foundation only
reaches for me anchoring like concrete
but i am nothing more than this
a frail bending of hands
againt the bitter winds
wall and wall and wall
and here are all the people
hear are all the peple
and i keep getting weaker
you taught me the rules
so long ago
how to build a house
but i never found out
how many heartbreaks to make it a home.