Back To Standing by Rachel Taulbee

Back to Standing by Rachel Taulbee
written for the Fearless Songwriter Challenge 7/27/2020
Prompt: How the Ground Pushes Back

you were born in the morning
the sun taught you how to rise
into a sky just like your eyes, big and blue
that same sun dips down in the evening
back behind the clouds it wears as a disguise,
full of color and demise until it rises up again
its a natural cycle, so if you start to descend
and it feels like the end, just remember

when gravity gets you down
pushes you on the ground
let the ground push you back to standing

it’s beautiful thing to be alive
even when you have to strive to get by, or get what you want
when you fail, there’s a lesson to be learned
a message to be earned, if you can take it
it can cut deep down into your memory
to something or someone who you loved

when its time to let go of
what you needed to know to get around
let the ground push you back to standing

in the autumn the leaves fall, the flowers droop down,
turn to yellow and to brown, sink into the earth
it’s in that dark damp soil where death becomes life
and its goes around and around and around and around

when gravity gets you down
pushes you on the ground
let the ground push you back to standing

you were born in the morning
the sun taught you how to rise