Salt of the Earth

We found ourselves indefinately
At the salt of the earth
And when we lit our cigarettes they choaked our throats
So we learned to hate them
Here, where the smoke rose only from the fires that we built
The animals could not be leashed
And we ran with them

When the night came we couldnt take the silence
And so we chattered endlessly
Until our sandy lungs gasped with realization
That no matter what words we tried to fill the air with
This place was still empty

Because here there was nothing to prove
Nothing to even think of
Memories can only last so long
When the very ground we're standing on
Knows too much
And even the sticky air we breath feels self-important
As we became intruders
We were the only real nothing
In this place

Oh and the mornings
Each morning felt like the first
As the sun cracked an empty sky
And so i thought
With each sunrise
"This is the moment I've been waiting for all my life."
It quaked and rocked what was known before
Behold the sun
It screamed "infinite"
It pierced
And there was never any reason left
But the sunrise

We layed on our backs
And gazed and prayed
That the sun would eat our eyes
How I wanted to be blind
But even the sun made us feel empty with the hours of the waning morning
As it blazed down we saw it
To be fading but dependable
Steadfast

And so even the sun stopped its screaming

Far from infinite
We found salvation
As we burried ourselves alive
In the raw earth
Like wild seeds
Desperately
To feel a part of something greater