Friday Poems: Absence of Fear

Tonight, for this week's Friday Poems, I'd like to share the lyrics to an old Jewel song from her 1998 Spirit album. This song has always made me stop and pause when I hear it. 

By the way, I've been a Jewel fan for a very long time but check out this story on her site, I've never read this level of detail about her family history before. Don't miss the absolutely stunning black & white photograph!

Absence of Fear

by Jewel*

Inside my skin there is this space

It twists and turns

It bleeds and aches

Inside my heart there's an empty room

It's waiting for lightning

It's waiting for you

And I am wanting

And I am needing you here

Inside the absence of fear

Muscle and sinew

Velvet and stone

This vessel is haunted

It creaks and moans

My bones call to you

In their separate skin

I make myself translucent

To let you in, for

I am wanting

And I am needing of you here

Inside the absence of fear

There is this hunger

This restlessness inside of me

and it knows that you're no stranger

you're my gravity

My hands will adore you through all darkness aim

They will lay you out in moonlight

And reinvent your name

For I am wanting you

And I am needing you here

I need you near

Inside the absence of fear

During different times in my life, the "you" in this song has referred to different things. The latest reference is to my creative spirit, which is compelling me forward on a path with an unknown destination, but follow it I must! 

Is there a song that you go back to over and over and it represents something new each time?

* You can watch Jewel sing an early version of this song and follow her on Twitter.