Owl in the Dark - Jesse Marchant

There’s something missing

Said the owl to the snake

I have been flying

For so long in the dark

That I can’t seem to find

My way around in the day

When I see the sun

Gleaming on the water

It don’t make me feel a thing

Well keep your hope alive

Said his friend in reply

When he was done

There was a time

When I hid so long underground

That a chill set in me

It sank right through

Until the light came peeling

Through the dirt

With the life

Of spring in bloom

Above the ground

When no one was around

In the sun

I was warmed right through

I spent all of this time getting away

From facing my life in the crux

All of this time getting away

So much of the time

I was lost

Swimming to dreams

Towers in the sea

Well worth a lot

But not worth it whole

And I’ve been in trouble

Many times spread thin

Half my life on the horizon

So much to love

All I could see was the end

Only so many ways you can try

To put a rush

Into a river running dry

Still, longer the drought

More blind is the will

When all of your doubt

Of the past lies in pools

Shaped of love

Carved in stone

What line did you fault?