How Do I Let Them In

Lend a hand
Close your eyes
No open them
I don't want to miss them
I've been a fool but that was
a moment ago
I'm here now
I feel you
I'm quiet

How do I let them in
When there are voices
inside my head
How can I love when
I am filling myself with sand
How can I have love when my story's
in a vault
How can I give love when I can't get out
How can I know you
when you fill me up
How can you fill me up when
it only makes me lonely
How can you touch me when
I'm trying to be touched
How can I touch you when
I am out of reach
How can it be all right
when it never is
How can it never be
when it always has been
How can we be alone with
so many

How can I have so much love
And reject myself
How can you love me
When I don't know what I give
How can I know what I give
when you won't let me
How can I worry under
infinite sky
How can I be lonely on holy ground
How will they know me
if I don't take them in
How can a problem change
on the wind
How can the wind be stopped
by a problem
How can a knot be untied if it's hidden
How can something hidden
become a knot
How can I love and defend myself
How can I fight for love
How can I see the worst in those I love
How can the one I love
see the worst in me
How come the shallow prevails
when the deep is ever present
How can the deep prevail when
the shallow is pervasive

Lend a hand
Close your eyes
No open them
I don't want to miss them
I've been a fool but that was
a moment ago
I'm here now
I feel you
I'm quiet