Randomly Beautiful was sitting around for at least a year, quite possibly years, before it finally came to fruition.
Expanded from a bit of journal musings, it embodies the melancholy melody of days spent peering into what I didn’t know and couldn’t yet understand to realize the way of the world, the heart of which conveniently lies in all the random beauty around us. It’s a song I can snuggle up with; I hope you can relate.
I enjoy the firelight on my face
A sprinkling of summer rays
The clouds dark with December
And I employ this sunset hour in days of pain
Pouty lips and a wrinkled brow, raised
As randomly beautiful fading light
Gives way to ordinary grey eyes
Penetrating deeper and dying while
Your face still smiles from a rooftop far away
And I look across this space
Holding out to meet your gaze
High above neighbors’ gossip on the street
Where red lights speak to rushing things
I feel more alive
I ignore all else except a hopeful haze
Shrouding this reality
In randomly beautiful fading light
Cho.
I don’t mean too much by waiting
In truth I’m sure it’s lazy
But here I’ll stay
So come find my ordinary grey eyes…
