Reality's Virgin Kiss I To understand wonder as An unadulterated child What lightning by thunder has Taught me has brought me to the wild Where instead of frightening This child finds it enlightening Under flashing crashing sky To wonder as the storm goes by No wire can bear its fire though So when it goes by the lights go Too and through it all offline But then the rainbow comes to shine What lightning by thunder said Not frightened enlightened instead Unadulteratedly A child of wild reality II Riding the world flying through the universe It could be better but it could be worse III I remember a conflicted minister Whose pious face masked something sinister That he did not share but we knew it was there Weeping weirdly through his pastoral prayer As if he were speaking to somebody who Knew better and maybe knew what to do But who was reluctant to help him again I was a child when it was awkward then Before I was kicked out of the junior choir I saw his bald head turn red and catch fire As though he were embarrassed to have been Losing my religion maybe that was when My mother said to keep my eyes closed and Wait for it to pass but try to understand But when I could I understood and I Could see the lie he would project on the sky He needed to stop talking and to see If he could start walking if he would be free But he never did as he hid away What thrilled him but killed him and was anyway IV Actually how could it be better than this Moment of now reality's virgin kiss? V I never grew up but knew Who I was and what I would do And here is where to do it Where I am at it and to it When I was left to wonder I saw lightning and heard thunder Then I wanted to know more What became what I came here for Gone to come through the storm here When the stars dance diamond clear On blue velvet over me Unadulteratedly free What lightning by thunder has Taught me has brought me reconciled To understand wonder as An unadulterated child Steven Curtis Lance