Watching Where You Go

You said, "Watch this kid, there's a trick to these things." As the embers

did a dance and the cicadas started to sing. I was lookin' at the wood,

you were lookin' at the flame. Sayin' character is somethin' that doesn't need

a name. It's what you do in the dark when the cameras aren't on.

It's the way you treat a stranger when the audience is gone. And I saw

you stand a little taller, straightening your back. Like you were checkin' your own

footprints on a muddy track. Because it's easy to be a king when

the kingdom is looking, but the real soup is made by what's quietly