Sophia

from Movers and Lovers by Mindy Nolt

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There’s a woman I never met as a child
She was always there, but tame and mild
She kept me awake night after night
No one ever brought her face into light

She stirred my heart like soup in a pot
Feeding my suspicion that what was, was not
I sipped and I tasted and I wanted more
But everywhere I turned I found the same door

Sophia, where have you been all these years
We might have spared ourselves some tears
Oh where have you been all this time
We might have fallen less on this climb

A man once told me about the one way to go
Twice he warned me of the day that we don’t know
And this and that, these and those are wrong to do
Do like this and think these things, life will come to you

But she’s the reason I’ve held out until now
To choose my path and to take my vow
To life, to love, to all those things I left behind
To dreams, to sounds, and to this circling mind

Sophia, where have you been all these years
We might have spared ourselves some tears
Oh where have you been all this time
We might have fallen less on this climb

You aren’t the question or reply
You’re the in between, the children’s “why”
You aren’t the words or what they mean
You are the truth we try to glean

By windows I watched, that’s where I waited
She was calling, calling out to the jaded
Her breeze and wind may never make a sound
Until they’ve reached your holy ground

Like water running, spilling over tired feet
Like the ground that makes a body complete
Like a question with no yes or no
You’re the sacred space between wonder and know

Sophia, where have you been all these years
We might have spared ourselves some tears
Oh where have you been all this time
We might have fallen less on this climb

You’re the yesterday, tomorrow too
Today’s unseen that pulls us through
You’re the song that we feared to sing
The silence to which some still cling
And in that darkness, the quiet night
We are healing, gaining sight

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from Movers and Lovers, released July 25, 2014

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